Stupid Republican idea of the day

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Does the stupid idea have to come from a federal Republican? If not, here's my contribution.

"Hunger can be a positive motivator," says Missouri State Rep. Cynthia Davis, R-O'Fallon, who chairs the State's House Special Standing Committee on Children and Families.

The mind wobbles. (/Kelly Bundy)
 
Biggirl is from New York City where there are many Black and Puerto Ricans mutts around. I've never heard negrito/a used in the same way nigger is. Perhaps in the sense of 'that black one' but never like 'that nigger".
 
Captain Carrot said:
Saxby Chambliss of Georgia ran ads that morphed Max Cleland's (a triple amputee from Vietnam) face into Saddam Hussein's and Osama bin Laden's. He won, and was reelected last year. Good job, Georgia.
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Well Alabama keeps electing Sessions. What is in the water down there.
 
It's just political nonsense. If this is the Burning Issue, if this is the most serious "danger" there is, all I can say is:



hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah giggle hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah snort hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah wheeze hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
 
Equipoise said:
Must be.

Lordy knows, I'm an Obamabot, but damn, what is he thinking to want this bimbo anywhere near his administration? She's obviously not grateful.
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The board is required by law to be bipartisan...it must have both Republican and Democratic members. When it came time to name a Republican member, Obama apparently went to the Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, for recommendations, and McConnell recommended Perino.

Meh. Nobody pays attention to who's on those kind of boards, anyway...they're mostly lost in the alphabet soup of the executive agencies. Not something I'd get worked up over.
 
GIGObuster said:
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


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?
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There have been many times in my life when I may have wanted to do something, but thought a different approach may be better. Then I may have decided on a different approach than that, and then I may have gone back to the original plan after all.

All your memo shows is that Bush felt different ways at different times, no doubt influenced by the hundreds or thousands of bits of information coming in with regard to events transpiring either in or with regard to events in Iraq.

The big lie propagated around here is that Bush, knowing full well that Hussein didn't have any WMD, lied and told the American people that he did and that going to war against Iraq was therefore justified and necessary.

To date I have seen no probative (i.e., proving) evidence that he knew or did any such thing, and barring personal one-on-one confession to the contrary from Bush himself or unquestionable mind-reading ability, there is absolutely no way for anyone to say with certainty that Bush lied about WMD to get us into war with Iraq.

Dio claimed that without evidence the presumption was toward innocence, and I merely used the opinion of so many like you (and him) around here with regard to Bush to show that such a presumption is hardly de rigueur around here. :)
 
So... he's saying that Republicans are quitters. They abandon their country/state/whatever when things aren't going their way. Country First and all that.
 
Boyo Jim said:
Today, apparently the Republicans are backing off of this stupid idea. Instead of voting that the Democratic party adopt a new name, they will merely condem its "march toward socialism".

Pitiful that this counts as their smartest move in months.
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Perhaps the Democrats could adopt a resolution that congratulates the Republicans for their "march towards irrelevancy"
 
legalsnugs said:
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!
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How sad, how very, very sad. He's making his case because she's convinced her son wouldn't have been born? And who convinced her, asshole? Fucking pathetic.

No, wait, what's truly pathetic is his response of "don't talk to me, talk to her!" Sickening.

Fear mongering demagoguery: 1 Democracy: 0

:(
 
EddyTeddyFreddy said:
Yup. Anyone in this day and age who doesn't see why those terms would be racially offensive is so willfully blind as to be by default a racist. I very much doubt that ol' Zell, given his age and background, is anything but a fossilized relic of a time when such thoughts were mainstream and just fine.
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Bullshit. Given that "globetrotting" is a quite often used descriptor for the sort of out-of-country diplomatic work the President is doing, using that descriptor cannot possibly be seen as intentionally racist by anyone other than someone who always casts things in terms of race, regardless of context.

And Gorilla Glue is also a well-known adhesive so jumping to the conclusion that Zell meant to imply the President is a "gorilla", specifically to make a disparaging reference to his putative "race," is more of the same. Gets quite tiring after a while.
 
Biggirl said:
Biggirl is from New York City where there are many Black and Puerto Ricans mutts around. I've never heard negrito/a used in the same way nigger is. Perhaps in the sense of 'that black one' but never like 'that nigger".
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Its not as offensive as "nigger" (I suppose since I've never seen somebody saying that outside a movie). But is IMHO extremely despective, I could not believe he really said that.
 
That's not quite what they said.

However, their argument is utterly inane. Private insurers will still exist to provide that extra .01% of care that UHC won't provide, just as they do elsewhere.

Will we still have 50 private insurers? Probably not.
 
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