Stupid Republican idea of the day

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Yes, the Nazi's were known to criticize religions for up to 37 minutes at a stretch! I'm not Penn Gillette's biggest fan (stick to the very impressive magic and leave the opinions on second-hand cigarette smoke to the pros, guy), but I'm pretty sure he'd stop short of emulating Nazis.
 
I utterly cannot fathom that vote. Can't get my mind around it, when I try, my mind hocks it back up like a cat with a hair ball. There's a pro-rape demographic somewhere? What the fuck are they thinking?
 
Hell, give 'em a dose of overkill! Stream the meetings online, with transcripts published daily. They want transparency? We'll swamp them with transparency! Of course, we'll expect the same from them, its only fair, after all....
 
There were murmurs and gasps from the crowd
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This right here tells you all you need to know about the intellect of the crowd. What they should've been saying is "What the fuck?"
 
No need to waste time arguing about Zell Miller...plenty of non-debatable racists to discuss. When will people learn that this just is not acceptable. On the other hand, maybe it's better to be aware of the proclivities of our politicians.
 
Starving Artist said:
Yes...if you read between the lines - and you are a biased, unthinking hothead - you might come to that conclusion.

A more calm and reasoned reading of my posts reveals only that I feel many questions have been raised about the Clintons' behavior and character and curiously missing documents, and that they remain unanwered to this day.
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Only to people that depend on glurge for their information.
 
Biggirl said:
Does this count as an idea? South Carolina Governor takes a hike.

He's gone 4 days before he thinks to tell anybody he was planning to leave. He didn't even tell his wife. Previous stories indicated he was a little miffed at being court ordered to accept stimulus money and having all of his signed bills vetoed. Could this be a part of the GOP's new strategy of Taking Their Ball and Going Home?
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Many of us from South Carolina think that was one of his better ideas.
 
Diogenes the Cynic said:
Still something the GOP needs to be concerned about and try to put a stop to. They've got an uphill battle as it is without having to battle the tag of a majority lunatic party.
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Spoken as if there is as sane GOP to be concerned about anything.
Occam is leaning in the other direction these days.
 
This "gorilla glue" think is nothing to really get excited about, but Zel Miller was fully aware of the ways in which his carefully composed laugh line could be interpreted. He is a veteran of a thirty-plus year political career.

This is actually a pretty clever move by Zell. Get his name out for a few days, make the winking point to his shadow constituency, and most importantly, take his lumps from the "leftist" media and spur conversation about out-of-control PC. The trifecta. But this thread is for stupid GOP moves, so it doesn't really fit. Zell is stupid like a fox.
 
If only the Nazis would use the Swastika and Hitler moustache for good rather than evil...
 
Apparently, Newt Gingrich sees himself as the new outreach ambassador to the Hispanic community.

One itsy-bitsy problem, though:
It was, after all, the former House Speaker who, in giving a speech to a Republican group in 2007, described bilingual education as teaching "the language of living in a ghetto." He's also mocked the idea of printing government documents in anything but English, and promoted English-only measures.

In 1995, Gingrich said bilingualism poses "long-term dangers to the fabric of our nation" and that "allowing bilingualism to continue to grow is very dangerous."

And earlier this year, it was Gingrich who blasted Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor as a "racist," who should be "forced to withdraw" from consideration for the high court. He added that Sotomayor had to be rejected "if Civil War, suffrage, and Civil Rights are to mean anything."

But now that Republicans are worried about losing the Latino vote for the indefinite future, Gingrich is going to help bring the GOP message to the Latino community? Good luck with that.
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D'oh!
 
Starving Artist said:
And may we also not avail ourselves of paying for them?
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Sure. Required them to be deficit neutral. Oh look. That's what Obama has asked for. Too bad there aren't any congressional Republicans in helping ensure that a deficit-neutral public option gets implemented.
 
Starving Artist said:
I be very interested in knowing how you come to this conclusion. I obviously accept that no evidence of chicanery was discovered, and I've said as much. Still, that hardly proves no such chicanery took place, and just like with guys and "Bush lied", I'm free to make that observation. Still, you have seen no call by me to press charges against her, have you?
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Double jeopardy and all that jazz, but that is also my point. You are beating a dead horse. As for Bush, the judgment of history is still coming.

And I'm a Historian

And if not, wouldn't that indicate that I accept the conclusions of the authorities that no evidence of wrongdoing that would hold up in court could be found, despite the fact that I personally believe that evidence tampering either took place or was deemed unnecessary prior to its having been turned over to the authorities.
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As a wise man said, you are entitled to your opinions but not the facts. And the fact is that no evidence of Chicanery regarding Foster's documents was found by the courts, several independent investigations, or by even the investigation by Kenneth Star himself.
 
Oopsie -- looks like Bob McDonnell should have put more spirit gum on his "moderate" mask so that it would hold through the (Virginia gubernatorial) election:

Bob McDonnell, Culture Warrior

On more one occasion, Robert F. McDonnell, the Republican candidate for governor in Virginia, has offered a soporific description of his graduate school dissertation as a "thesis on welfare policy." This is false....

The thesis is a wistful ode to a bygone 1950s America, when, Mr. McDonnell noted, 70 percent of American families were led by working fathers and homemaker mothers, and "every state in the union made sexual intercourse between unmarried persons a crime." Sounding at times like an Old Testament prophet, Mr. McDonnell wrote that government must discriminate in favor of married couples and against "cohabitators, homosexuals or fornicators," for "[t]he cost of sin should fall on the sinner not the taxpayer."...
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Equipoise said:
Stupid Republican idea of the day
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I think the GOP's 19 page* Affirmational Federal Budget (pdf) might count as a second "Stupid Republican idea of the day":
Instead of returning to double digit levels of inflation and the failed
economic policies of the 1970s, Republicans support maintaining the cost
of living after witnessing the booms and busts triggered by loose
monetary policy.
...
Instead of spending money on wasteful
programs under the guise of
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