Stupid Republican idea of the day

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FoieGrasIsEvil said:
Don't these blowhards in Congress have anything better to do than draw up some stupid censure-type resolution because the President said something mildly regrettable?

It's no wonder these hacks waste taxpayer money. And that's where politics is truly bi-lateral.
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McCotter is the rep from a district in the suburban Detroit area. Heavily auto industry country. You're damned right he has more important things to worry about than this. Yet this is what he's spending his time on. I can't wait for the opportunity to vote against this guy yet again. The only reasons he squeaked through last time are 1)incumbency and 2) it is a largely conservative district.
 
I can tell they really struggled to omit any possible bias in the phrasing of their questions.

Should bureaucrats in Washington, DC be in charge of making your health care choices instead of you and your doctor?
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Should Republicans unite to block new federal government bureaucracy and red tape that will crush future economic growth?
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Actually, it sounds like a precis of a Democratic campaign platform.

Access to healthcare for all Americans. Job creation. Equal opportunity for education and affordable secondary education.

It's a rhetorical towel toss.
 
I can't decide if these particular conservatives are Stupid or Very, Very Smart. Who knows? It could work.

A Christian civil liberties organization on Thursday asked centrist Virginia Rep. Tom Perriello (D) to move his home district office to a location more favorable to protesters.
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Cite.

Seems these tea partiers found Rep. Perriello's office way too inconvenient a location. They felt impeded in their attempts to "speak out publicly and address their government representatives on the important issues of the day" as guaranteed by the First Amendment, although nothing was stopping them from protesting and rallying on a nearby sidewalk. And they could have actually gone into his office and talked to him, but it appears that's just not how the tea party rolls.
Another cite.
 
OK, my question is: are they whipping up the wingnut base to acts of terrorism or even revolution? A primary purpose of terrorism is often to drive a government into increasingly draconic measures to keep the peace, driving more people into sympathy with the rebels. In the US now, we have a bunch of people who didn't make a peep when the administration was tapping into all of their electronic communications and monitoring the books they checked out from the library, but is now in a frenzy because a Congresswoman wanted to change the hold music on her telephone. And these people overlap hugely with the segment of the civilian population who are armed.

I'm afraid. I really am.
 
Sen. Ensign Admits Parents Paid Mistress, as New Details of Affair Emerge
The Nevada Republican, through a written statement by his attorney, admitted Thursday that his parents paid the family of his mistress nearly $100,000 last year.

The admission came shortly after Doug Hampton, his mistress' husband, first told a Las Vegas reporter that the senator paid his wife a hefty severance. Hampton also said that Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and others originally had urged Ensign to pay the Hamptons "millions."
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Steve MB said:
Aww... I was hoping for a story...
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Karl Rove case witness killed in plane crash, sisters want answers
Web guru was potential witness in Ohio voting fraud case

04/30/2009

Shannon Connell of Madison says her brother Michael rarely talked about work. She knew he ran an Ohio company called New Media Communications that set up websites for Republicans including former President George H.W. Bush and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. But it wasn't until after he died last December, when the small plane he was piloting crashed, that she learned via the Internet of his tie to a voter fraud case and to allegations that presidential adviser Karl Rove had made threats against him.

"At first, it was really hard for me to believe Mike was dead because somebody wanted him dead," says Shannon, a buyer for a local children's resale shop. "But as time goes on, it's hard for me not to believe there was something deliberate about it."
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Equipoise said:
And poor people will get their health care from...I'm sorry, missed that...where?

Never mind, of course, they'll go to the emergency room for minor problems, and then won't be able to pay for it. I'm sure you don't mind paying extra for your health care to cover that, right?
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Correct. I would much rather have the current system vs. a government-controlled system. With a government-controlled system, costs will increase and quality will decrease.
 
Robot Arm said:
Yeah, I'd more or less got that far. So the picture is saying, in essence, "the funny thing about black people is, their skin is darker! Get it? Get it?"
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And the punchline that you're supposed to "get" is that our president is a nigger spook.

You'd think that a joke that's been making the rounds for 400+ years would be a bit stale by now. Apparently there's a lot of neaderthals who still think it's as funny as that time that Og Jr. threw the bear femur in the air and it came down on his head.
 
elucidator said:
Sorry, Starkers, but the quotes suppled are damning. Well, darning. Clearly, you are trying to make innuendo and suggestion accomplish what fact will not. While it is true that a merciless interrogation of the wording will not support a charge that you made a direct accusation that Hillary did Foster, you tired to suggest and infer such a scurrilous thing. An inference that you know as wll as I is a staple of rightard nuttery.

I am embarassed for us both. Go lay down by your water dish. Bad Starkers! Bad!
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"Aides to Hillary Clinton were investigated for the removal of unidentified files from Foster's office before the Secret Service or FBI could secure the premises"

and

"As it happened, how the White House and Hillary Clinton in particular handled Foster's files and documents immediately after his death became an issue of much investigation itself."

Both of the above are from Wiki on Vince Foster, and they say essentially the same thing I said (though admittedly with less animus :cool:). Even Equipoise has conceded that upon closer examination my words do not imply Hillary's complicity in Foster's death.

Hillary Clinton is a sneaky, slippery, underhanded, dishonest person...just like her husband. The fact that the files disappeared only to be mysteriously located afterward in the White House living quarters is what I was referring to.
 
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