Stupid Republican idea of the day

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legalsnugs said:
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.
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It doesn't count - we all know no one in Congress reads the bills it passes.
 
I think the Democratic Congressional leadership is and has been completely lame, especially since Pelosi took impeachment off the table years ago. If it turns out she's been lying, it wouldn't bother me at all to see her go. And if it turns out she's been telling the truth, it wouldn't bother me at all to see her go.
 
Frostillicus said:
Can Michael Steele get his own separate "stupid idea" thread, cause he seems to be the gift that keeps on giving.

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/stimulus-package/rnc-pushing-article-that-targets-republican-senator-for-getting-stimulus-pork/
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Well, you have to agree, though, that he isn't wasting his time on the intricacies of health care reform, which is, after all, simply a matter of figuring out who doesn't have access to health care and giving them access. It's not that complicated
 
Captain Carrot said:
The funny thing is, if you analyze the metaphor, Obama was calling Palin the lipstick on the pig of McCain's campaign. It's almost a compliment, if you squint.
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I think "lipstick on a pig" referred to some part of Hil's campaign.

I don't think "Gorilla Glue" was racist, and it never even occurred to me about "globetrotting."

Check back when Zell talks about Obama skizzin' like fried chicken in a skillet cause the new saggin' deuces done come out.
 
Equipoise said:
(ok, White House Press Secretary. I told you I was having a hard time typing it)
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She was obviously referring to any attacks "other than the one our Administration mentioned on an hourly basis".

And the other couple.

-Joe
 
Heads up on the possible next Stupid Republican Attack of the Day*: grumblings about President Obama's asking for a screening of the new Star Trek movie. So far (as far as I know) the whining has only appeared at RedState (which is a slightly more intelligent brand of stupid, which isn't saying much, because they're all a bunch of loonballs too, but compared to the freepers they're geniuses), and I'm not going to link to RedState, so I'll link to the post at DU that referenced it.

I realize that President Obama is the first president to ever screen movies at the White House (well, other than Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush) but really, it's not that big a deal. He is a Star Trek fan, and it's not like he can go down to the local multiplex to catch it without the Secret Service causing a big stir, which would get complained about too. Hey, I saw it, it's a fantastic movie. I can't blame President Obama for wanting to see it too.


*that is, if President Obama's funny and surprisingly pointed barbs made at the White House Correspondents Dinner don't cause a bunch of heads to explode first. By the time his jokes get hashed out and gnashed over (with some vitriol thrown Wanda Sykes' way too), the screening might be forgotten.
 
Some women are so mean. Clearly, he was saving himself for her -- millions and billions of little Republican sperm.
 
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.
 
bup said:
I think "lipstick on a pig" referred to some part of Hil's campaign.
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No, that was definitely a jab at Palin (although, as has been pointed out, she WAS the lipstick and the Republican Party was the pig) because the McCain campaign was the one doing the squealing afterward.
 
Algher said:
The continuation of that train of thought is that if she is not elected, not on the Federal payroll, and has not been confirmed by the Senate, she should not be in charge of anything.
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She isn't. Michelle Obama has no legal authority.

The President can delegate any number of Presidential duties as he sees fit to the First Lady. He could just as well delegate them to you, or Brad Pitt, or his cat, providing he isn't assigning them to do a specific job that Congress has to approve, such as secretary of state or a similar post. There are some things he has to do himself and lots of specific positions that require Congressional vetting but things like "Hold meetings on the pet project of my choice" can be done by pretty much anyone he wants. As Algher's cite points out, the Supreme Court has already ruled on what would seem, at least to me, to be just common sense; that the President is allowed to hire people to accomplish tasks, and that if his wife volunteers to be an unpaid employee doing some of those tasks, there's nothing illegal about it and in fact it's been that way for ages. Ultimately, executive authority as stated in the Constitution is still his. He's on the hook for whatever his chosen agents do.
 
Kolga said:
You know, I just can't sympathize. He ran for the office of governor, TWICE. He ran for U.S. House of Representatives, THREE TIMES. If you don't want a public persona, don't fucking run for public office.

And then don't spend your political authority attempting to deny other people equal rights because of their sexual behavior, and publicly condemning other people for their sexual behavior, all the while engaging in the same behavior.
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But didn't you hear? Sanford's Argentinian adventure is all Obama's fault!
 
kaylasdad99 said:
Actually, I was under the impression that some billing records from the Rose Law firm were discovered in Mrs. Clinton's personal spaces several months after they were said to be unfindable (in response to a subpeona from -- somebody; I don't recall who, or why they were wanted).

Nothing to do with Vince Foster, of course, but it certainly undercuts the accuracy of the overly broad statement Nothing "disappeared" and "reappeared."
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IIRC, an office worker later claimed to have misplaced those specific items, in any case the items were produced and the courts decided that there was no evidence even to accuse them of obstruction of justice, and that IMHO was the point of the accusations of Safire and others. An accusation that was not demonstrated even in a court of law.
 
I got a little chuckle this evening while I waited for my sandwiches at Quizno's. I was leafing through a copy of the Orange County Register, when I came across a little item saying that Dubya was going to celebrate the Fourth of July in a small town in Oklahoma. A woman organizing the event said "This shows his character. He's not too good for the common people."

:D :D

YOU SAID IT, LADY!

:D:D:D:D:D
 
A classic quote from the days of Tammany Hall, a Thomas Nast cartoon.

http://www.csub.edu/~gsantos/img0055.html
 
Jon Stewart Catches Sean Hannity Falsifying Footage To Make GOP Protest Appear Bigger (VIDEO)

The tea party protests continued last week, as Congresswoman Michele Bachmann held an anti-health-care-reform rally on the steps of the Capitol. While she estimated that 20,000-45,000 people attended the event, the Washington Post reported it was actually more like 10,000.
Still, that is a sizable number of Americans exercising their right to free speech and assembly, and that warrants news coverage. But Sean Hannity and his team did more than cover the event. They not only inflated the number in attendance with their words, but actually used footage from a heavily-attended protest this summer to make this health care rally appear more popular. Hannity even pointed out that this was a huge crowd for a Thursday, when the protest footage they used was from a Saturday.
Jon Stewart and his team caught this discrepancy and ran with it, pointing out neither the color of the leaves nor sky in the tacked-on video matched that of the actual footage. They went on to mock Fox by adding more video to the interview, this time from Woodstock and the movie "300."



http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tu...rotest-footage
 
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