Stupid Republican idea of the day

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Starving Artist said:
The people voting against it are simply people who see no need to get the government involved when rape is already illegal. Anyone who is raped can bring charges and have their case heard in court. And if a company interferes or attempts to prevent it for whatever reason, they can be sued.
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Well, yeah. Of course, I'd rather the government didn't subisdize and award lucrative contracts to companies that are trying to cover up crimes and screw over their employees, but that's just me.
 
Okay okay, back to Stupid Republicans...

Jim DeMint, that reliably stupid wingnut senator from South Carolina, implied that the US was on the verge of WWII Nazism or fascism, or something like that.

Demented DeMint said:
They [Iranian immigrants] understand socialism. They understand tyrants. But none of us have ever had it here. We don
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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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A guest on the Rachel Maddow Show last night (yes, yes, I know) said that Gov. Sanford has often made statements about how he dislikes being in the public eye, dislikes having to have a security detail, doesn't want to give out copies of his PUBLIC schedule...

Dude, I've got a solution for that. DON'T RUN FOR PUBLIC OFFICE. Jeez.

It was also reported that a signal from his cellphone was located "near" Atlanta. Hundred bucks says he's got a mistress in Buckhead. Any takers?
 
Liberals are at fault for delusional GOPers:
Eric Cantor Rips Chris Matthews, MSNBC, HuffPo, Liberal Bloggers For Inflating Birther Story
 
acsenray said:
We shouldn't have a first lady. Was Dennis Thatcher Britain's first anything?
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Arne Olav Brundtland wrote a humorous memoir about being married to Norway's first (and so far only) female prime minister. He was expected to accompany his wife on official business from time to time, and found that his hosts had often never dealt with a man in his position before and were doing their best to wing it.

One incident I remember from the book involved a letter from Nancy Reagan, a mass mailing inviting the spouses of heads of government in friendly nations to join in her Just Say No program. Arne Olav opened the envelope to find a letter addressed to Dear Fellow First Lady: :D
 
... wait whut?

"If opossum is the other dark meat, what is the original dark meat he is referring to?" Hensley said. "It is not only thoughtless, but outrageous."
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... black man is dark meat? Soylent Possum is made out of chicken!

Seriously, the racism accusation over that makes no sense.
 
You must keep perspective on this. This sort of persecution is all very well for sordid criminal enterprises, like ACORN. But a fine upstanding organization like this? With only a smattering of minor procedural technicalities to account for? Time and again, KBR/Halliburton has shown its patriotic zeal, their willingness to sacrfice others! Sacrifice for others, slip of the keyboard...
 
legalsnugs said:
The affair started a year ago when Bush was in the White House and Sanford was being considered as a running mate for McCain. Of course, it's President Obama's fault! :rolleyes:
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Candidate Obama, back then. His campaign operatives combed the globe to find the perfect femme fatale to foil any potential challenger, using a proprietary psychological assessment/social networking tool developed by engineers at eHarmony and ACORN. You people don't even know how deep this thing goes.
 
Really Not All That Bright said:
It gets worse - check the results of the poll next to the article.
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And yet, maybe there is hope.
Some of the responses were pretty good.
What an embarrassment. I am so glad I'm not an Arlington resident. I would be ashamed of this gibbering dipstick.
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Of course he has freedom of speech and he should be encouraged to use it, how else will the rest of use figure out what a tool he is.
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When we stop doing the I hate you - and my god is better than your god dance - this world will be a much better - and peaceful - place.
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To hell with Wiseman and his unAmerican, unChristian, and stupid remarks. He ain't shit anyway, just some mayor, of someplace I don't give a damn about.
 
Equipoise said:
Of course you're right. I assume you felt the same way about Palin and her "death panels" bullshit. Right?
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Nope. 'Death panels' was a mischaracterization that actually referred to bureaucratic decisions to disallow lifesaving treatment due to cost considerations. Do you think the government wouldn't do something like that? I know of a woman who had a stroke and was completly paralyzed on the left side of her body. She applied for Social Security disability benefits. After six months of waiting for a decision, she was denied because the government deemed that she was still capable of doing "some kind of work."

The government doesn't give a shit about us. It is concerned with its own monetary considerations and its own convenience. If you fall outside those parameters, tough shit for you. The government will blow you off without a moment's thought or regret.

So why is it so outlandish to believe that a government that would tell a 50% paralyzed woman that she could still do some kind of work would also tell an elderly or infirm person that they weren't worth the cost of saving? (I should probably be clear here that I don't necessarily believe this would happen right away. It might even take decades. But eventually the coffers will begin to run low, and when that happens people needing costly care - and in my opinion, elderly ones with less life left ahead in the first place and the hopelessly infirm - are gonna be told they don't qualify.

Republicans favoring rape, on the other hand, is an outright lie that is clearly not an exaggeration or matter of degree.

Equipoise said:
I take it you didn't read the cites.
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Your cites? Yes, I did. Allow me to quote from the second one the following:

Tuesday, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2 to 1 ruling, found her alleged injuries were not, in fact, in any way related to her employment and thus, not covered by the contract.

One of the judges who ruled in her favor, Rhesa Hawkins Barksdale, is a West Point grad, Vietnam vet, and one of the court
 
brownie55 said:
I disagree. At least not is she is forging public policy. But, hell, I think that Cheney's energy policy meetings should have been public too.
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That's what I was going to ask about. Why should an unelected, unofficial participant in government be subject to more stringent public reporting rules than the vice president? So, what are the requirements about policy groups that elected office-holders take part in?
 
Boyo Jim said:
Republicans, the next Whigs!
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Much as I hate to throw cold water on such a tempting prospect, I remember both Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon. In each case the "pundints" declared the GOP to be RIP, and in each case it bounced back in a few years.

Adding in the fact that each incarnation was more whackadoodle than its predecessor, I'm not taking a great deal of comfort in the present situation.
 
Starving Artist said:
I knew a woman once whose philosophy, if caught red-handed at something she shouldn't be doing, was to deny, deny, deny...under the belief that blatant and continued denials whould eventually cause the accuser to doubt what they'd seen with their own eyes.

That won't work with me.

To wit, from William Safire in the New York Times: [bolding mine]

(1) Foster's body is discovered July 20. White House aides, unobserved, are in and out of his office that night and next day. His possession of the Whitewater file is kept secret. (2) On Thursday, July 22, White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum, with intimidated cops nearby, gives Foster's box of Whitewater files to Ms. Williams (not, as was long said, to the Clintons' lawyer). (3) After talking to Hillary Clinton, Ms. Williams locks the files in a closet in the third-floor family quarters of the White House, to which she had the only key. (4) Not until Tuesday, July 27, are the Whitewater files retrieved by the lawyer, then Robert Barnett.

So, a) Foster had files regarding Whitewater that had been kept secret. b) a box of Whitewater files was given to Williams. c) After consulting with Hillary Clinton, Williams, who had the only key, locked the box in a closet in the White House living quarters. d) The files were finally turned over to Barnett on July 27, a week after Foster's suicide.

Now a box of Whitewater files may be construed as nothing but thin air to you, but to me it's a box of Whitewater files.
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You keep quoting this Safire column as though it's meaningful. Starr found no evidence that any of this occurred. Moreover, there was nothing damaging to the Clintons in any of those files anyway, so there was no motive to move them.

What was "strange" about Foster's death, by the way?
 
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