Stupid Republican idea of the day

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I see the RNC is petitioning Nancy Pelosi to stop federal funding for ACORN.

That should go over real well after this week's attacks on Pelosi.

Maybe the re-education camps will get funding this year.
 
Punoqllads said:
Representative Lynn Jenkins (R - Kansas) said that the GOP is searching for a great white hope. But she didn't mean that in racial terms.
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Maus Magill said:
Punoqllads said:
I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. But it was a really, really dumb idea.
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I think I'll have to give her a pass, too. It wasn't until I had read the linked article that I knew where the phrase came from. I knew it had to do with boxing, and that was it.
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Apparently we were too quick to ascribe simple naivety to Ms. Jenkins. A month before she made this statement, she "supported a resolution that included the very phrase 'great white hope' in a historical context that made clear its origin."
Link. The resolution stated in pertinent part: "Whereas the victory by Jack Johnson over Tommy Burns prompted a search for a White boxer who could beat Jack Johnson, a recruitment effort that was dubbed the search for the 'great white hope.'"

She later explains this away by saying she did not read the resolution she was supporting. So she's either dishonest or incompetent. Or both. Definitely stupid.
 
jayjay said:
I wasn't aware that she was in charge of anything. My impression has been that she's been mostly Obama's PR stand-in, which IS a traditional "First Lady duty".
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I honestly do not know. She is certainly highly qualified to do more than PR. First Ladies used to be known as PR / ribbon cutters (funny - that is what VPs were too in many administrations - they get funeral duty).

Hillary's work on health care raised the question of what IS the First Lady in terms of Federal Government oversight (from the OP's link):

Issa’s amendment would have effectively overturned a 1993 federal appeals court decision which held that First Lady Hillary Clinton could be considered the equivalent of a federal employee. The court ruled that Clinton’s involvement in a presidential Health Care Task Force was not enough to render the group an outside advisory panel which had to meet in public and disclose its records. After the health reform effort cratered, the Clinton Administration gave up the legal fight and released the records.
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In a perfect world, Issa would be helping to clean up the uncertainty of the role of the First Lady, as we begin to get more First Ladies that are qualified for policy work. He would be trying to make sure that if Hillary were elected, Bill would have a clean role to undertake without running afoul of Constitutional and other Federal Law concerns in regards to status. Issa would even be looking forward to the day when a Republican goes back into the White House and has a spouse ready for action as well.
 
If something like that had been in place during the Reagan years would the public have gotten access to the readings from Nancy's astrologers?
 
Equipoise said:
Holy shit, that's pretty stupid! Love that "We marry other species" bit. What other species would that be, Brian? Who is he talking about? You'd think those couples would be interviewed on Jerry Springer, at least.
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As a person of mixed racial heritage who married a Scandinavian, I would like to apologize to the rest of the world for having married to a member of an inferior species.

Or something.

Can somebody find out what brand of coffee they serve to Fox's employees? I also need to know if it comes from Colombia.
 
All pornography is homosexual pornography. because it makes you have sex with yourself! Get it?

Unlike all the other republican ideas in this thread, this sort of makes stupid sense. So all you jack-offs who read this-- you're GAY!
 
Apropos of nothing, but reading Issa's name always makes me think of a drunk Discworld inhabitant.

"Issa, issa, wossname."
 
I'm getting a bad feeling with all the talk about Pelosi knowing about torture and all the Bush programs and regulations that Obama is leaving on the table, that the Democratic momentum is slowing down. It's nothing really happening yet, but I just get that feeling. I'm not terribly comfortable with that.
 
Yes, just like ALL Argentine women are legendary singers? :D (I love her, btw, she's amazing!)
 
Probably not very many. Only 16% of the population identifies with a religion other than Christianity, and 13% of those are atheist/agnostic.

Still, they've got hospitals, which means they've got doctors, which means there are some Hindus and Muslims around there somewhere.
 
Starving Artist said:
In a court of law, yes. In the court of public opinion, not so much. For example, how do you feel re 'Bush lied' to get us into Iraq? There is absolutely no way to know what Bush's thinking was, and there was evidence, believed by most of the world's intelligence agencies and Bill and Hillary Clinton themselves, that Iraq possessed or was developing WMD. But none were found so the overwhelming attitude around here is that "Bush lied". Where's your forensic evidence there?
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Things like that is what make me suspect that Starving Artist is really a plant trying his damnedest to make right wingers look bad. :)

The choice regarding what Bush was thinking is still between being a liar or an incompetent fool. You are trying to convince us that there is an advantage on the poison selected.

However, the Downing street memos tell me that:

http://downingstreetmemo.com/memos.html
There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. The NSC had no patience with the UN route, and no enthusiasm for publishing material on the Iraqi regime's record. There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action.
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So, there were many times from there when Bush told lies to the American people, a few weeks before the war he said that "we'll call for a vote." (for the second UN resolution, it never took place even though he remarked that it would take place no matter what) and "I've not made up our mind about military action."

But the decision to go to war was already made. A liar or an incompetent? Does it have to be a choice?
 
Oh, and here's another Republican talking out of his butt about healthcare:

Link.

At a Texas townhall meeting, Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX) uses the story of Britney and her unborn child to say that the baby would not have been born under the proposed public option. When attenders point out that the insurance company made her search for a doctor more difficult, Mr. Olson abruptly ends the meeting.

I lolled! They can dish it out, but they sure can't take it!
 
One wonders whether the order specifically prohibits him from disposing of prophylactics on the victim's property.
 
But the Lockheed Whizbang is more important than poor people. You can always get more poor people when the needy sick ones die, but those Whizbangs, they're one of a kind usually.
 
I think we should also require Sentate confirmation of the First Lady. Why does the president get to hand-pick who he wants in that position? We really need to vet candidates to be sure they're fully qualified.
 
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