Stupid Republican idea of the day

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Oh lawdy, lawdy, I'm sure grateful I live in the Bible Belt!

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/suit_pickering_chose_mistress_over_senate_seat.php

Ol Chip's office was right down the road from mine. He was my congressman. >sniff
 
Now, now, we haven't even discussed the GOP's alternate budget proposal:
Later, Norah O'Donnell asked Mike Pence to provide basic details, to no avail. Pence continued to talk about details as forthcoming. O'Donnell sort of thought that having continually criticized the administration for projecting a long-term deficit figure, that it was absurd that the GOP couldn't even offer their own projection for the sake of comparison. Pence suggested that the very fact that the GOP plan was getting criticized constituted "progress."

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"After 27 days, the best House Republicans could come up with is a 19-page pamphlet that does not include a single real budget proposal or estimate. There are more numbers in my last sentence than there are in the entire House GOP budget."

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Robert Gibbs offered: "There's one more picture of a windmill than there are charts of numbers. And there's exactly one picture of a windmill."
 
I thought maybe the Republicans were trying to legislate the length of the sleeves on the First Lady's dresses.
 
Who's with me here. Get the fucking pitchforks and torches.

Sorry, can't help you. Too Canadian. But I would, I really would. The anti-intellectualism and fearmongering is getting me down even here. I can't wait until this trend of being stupid moves north like all trends eventually do.
 
In an abstract, theoretical way, I can see his point. I might even have supported it if it came up when First Lady Hillary was being tasked with developing major policy initiatives (Indeed, I've heard it argued that the reason Hillarycare failed was because it was developed behind closed doors, and that a more public process might have helped).

But bringing it up now, when Michelle Obama is engaged only in excactly the kinds of stuff that fall under the "historic role of the first lady" is just asinine.
 
But the best one was:

"Russell is a hero! While many of us bigots realize that we are a dying lot, and that we should keep our old-fashioned and ignorant opinions to ourselves, Russell speaks out loudly, and proudly, for racists and bigots that are in the closet and too afraid to make their opinions known. Go Russell!"

Expect him to be reelected in a landslide next election.

-Joe

:eek:

Proud to be a bigot, eh?

*sigh*
 
I don't know if this is a very, very stupid Republican idea or some expansive and wicked hoax. People have been receiving this survey sent out by this company in the mail.

Real push polling or push polling TO THE MAX!
 
I think all those suggestions count. I enjoy everyone's contributions.

Cynthia Davis just won the thread.
She'd be in the running, for sure. To be fair, she does say:

Miss Compassionate said:
"The right way to solve this is with more education. If parents ... don't know how to serve nutritious meals, let's help them learn to do that."
Right on! But I can't help but wonder if she'd be supportive of government funds spent for education classes. I never heard of this woman, hope to never hear of her again, but she's got that Republican thing down: "Fuck 'em" so I suspect not. It's like those idiot anti-abortion idiots. They're all-fire against abortion, will even kill to stop them, but they're against birth control and sex education, and the split second the baby is born, it's "To hell with 'em."
 
Yes...if you read between the lines - and you are a biased, unthinking hothead - you might come to that conclusion.
Man, you're 5 years behind the times. I'm not a hothead, not anymore. I certainly used to be. You used to call me that and you were right, back then. Before the 2004 election I was angry, seething all the time about what was going on on a day to day basis that should have made any normal person burst multiple blood vessels. Lies, Death, Destruction. Every single day! When Bush won again, all my anger drained away when I realized that events just had to play themselves out, that people had to come to their own realization what a massive, horrifying clusterfuck Bush was, and there wasn't anything I could do to hurry it along, so why be angry? I was just making myself sick.

A couple of years later, give or take, it finally started to happen. People finally started to wake up to a bit of what many of us knew before the 2004 election, though the general public still didn't know a fraction of it. Still doesn't (for instance, ask a man on the street if he knows that billions in cash, pallets of actual American dollars, went missing in Iraq before the election, something that, had it happened on a Democrat's watch, every person in the universe would know about).

I pretty much gave up following politics after the 2004 election, and beyond happening to glance at headlines as I passed by a paper box or seeing the odd Subject Line, paid no attention whatsoever to the primaries or the Democratic convention (didn't watch one second of it except by accident when it happened to be on in a restaurant when I walked in. Michelle was speaking. I glanced up at the TV and then walked away, a far cry from recording every single second of the 2004 convention, I loved my Tivo), and why?

Because during the primaries I just assumed Hillary would win, and then up to and during the convention I just assumed McCain would win. I wasn't going to get involved, no way no how. The loss would hurt too much. Better to keep a distance from it all. Then everything changed when Palin came onboard. For the first time, I paid attention! God I love Palin. She got me to open my eyes, and boy I've had fun since. Every day is a new adventure politically. I have such joy and glee watching politics now and I'm sorry now I wasn't part of the process of making President Obama's presidency happen in the early and mid stages. I envy those people who believed from the start and all along, and made it happen. I thank them profusely and apologize for not doing my part (other than donating money).

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. Among the questions raised by the Clintons' skullduggery is what really happened to Vince Foster.
Uh, Vince Foster committed suicide. And, pardon me, but the rest of that paragraph is nothing more than wingnuttery gone wild. "skullduggery" kills me! You're so funny!

This is not the same as saying that Hillary engineered his murder.
Well I guess you got me there. You're right and I'm sorry. Not a lot, but a little bit.

For the record, I have never been of the slightest opinion that Hillary Clinton either killed Vince Foster or had him killed. Further, I would think - knowing my history as you do - that I'd have been trumpeting it to the heavens had I actually believed such a thing.
Good for you then, maybe there's hope for you yet.

So, so much for your critical thinking abilities, eh?
Have I ever crowed about my critical thinking abilities? I don't think so. I'm not exactly one of the most respected members of the Dope, but I have fun. You provide a lot of it. Thank you.
 
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) released a fearmongering video, asking if Americans "feel safer" under President Obama. But one image in the video is Obama meeting with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Way to get the Latino vote!
 
I don't know. I do know that it's quite possible that he simply changed his mind, and possibly changed it on the basis of some of the hundreds or thousands of pieces of information he was getting daily regarding developments in Iraq.
By then the evidence was piling up that the "intelligence" was wrong regarding the locations of the WMD, the UN inspectors were finding nothing on the places the US and England told them to look.

So yes, he lied. He then lied to the American people by not seeking the second resolution because he knew he was going to lose.

The difference between you and me is that because he's my guy I'm willing to see alternative explanations; and because he's not your guy you are perfectly content to jump to the most damaging conclusion and make accusations of lying when any number of other reasons may be the actual explanation.
The other explanation is that he was an incompetent fool, but even that does not exclude the other explanation.

But I'm not gonna quibble over all this all night; I'm in the middle of a very interesting book about William F. Buckley and would much prefer to be spending my time reading it.

So I'm out of here for now. I'm afraid you'll have to call yourselves idiots for the rest of the night.* ;)


*Paraphrased from an insult by Debra Berone in Everybody Loves Raymond. No plagiarizer am I! No, siree!
Meh, like if posts would disappear tomorrow.

You remain mostly an idiot in the ancient Greek sense, and even the son of Buckley decided to dismiss the Bush Followers, so keep up the good work on antagonizing even the reasonable conservatives.


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

Please don't feed him. ;)





Nah, Starving Artist is a great punching bag, it doesn't hurt one and he comes back for more punishment.
 
Has anyone mentioned the special RNC meeting to approve a resolution to rebrand the Democratic Party as the "Democrat Socialist Party?" When even Michael Steele can see that your idea is stupid, it's really stupid.
That is the Stupid Republican Idea of the Century. Actually, it might just be the Stupid Idea of the Century.

I might write to the DNC and suggest that they pass a resolution redesignating the Republican Party as the Republican Douchebag Party.
 
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