Stupid Republican idea of the day

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I have this mental image right now, from a long time ago. I was in Panama. Some people had found a fer de lance out in the open and had surrounded it. When the snake couldn't reach and attack them, it started biting itself in some weird sort of self destructive fit.

The Republican party right now is acting just like that snake. Biting itself to death, injecting poison into its own hide.
Chomp chomp.
 
Robot Arm said:
Which doesn't strike me as inherently racist, just utterly stupid. I don't see the insult there. I don't see anything there.
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It's also placed in a line-up of utterly normal pictures of all the other (white) Presidents. Were the 'depiction' of Obama in isolation, I might agree with you, but it's clearly meant to imply "He's different and so doesn't get a normal picture like the others; we're going to reduce him to a caricature."

I mean, hell, it's arguable that this picture is somewhat racist, too, but the depiction of Obama is no different from the depictions of the other Presidents. It doesn't attempt to remove the humanity from Obama, just points out the fact that he's the first black President.

It's the difference between saying "He's our first black President" and "He's our first spook President."
 
G. Octo-

There is a law that covers this, but the law has not kept up with the facts. For example, when Vice President Cheney formed a (non-FACA) committee to discuss energy policy, his reasoning was that they were not a FACA committee because they did not form a consensus opinion.

So there is a law, but the law could use some refining due to skillful interpretation from both the Clinton & W. Bush years. But I don't think Mrs. Obama is your boogeyman for why this needs to happen right away.
 
Dick Armey sez Jesus will let us pee in as many ponds as we can find:
Let me say I take it as an article of faith if the lord God almighty made the heavens and the Earth, and he made them to his satisfaction and it is quite pretentious of we little weaklings here on earth to think that, that we are going to destroy God
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dhkendall said:
Yeah, I was entertining the possibility that this was sarcasm, but I also wasn't ruling out the possiblity that this was completely truthful.

"Never underestimate the stupidity of the American public" is my motto. I will bet you $100 there are people out there who are genuinely proud to be called a "bigot" "because, dang it, whats I believed back when I was a young 'un just isn't proper nowadays. And if that makes me a bigot, suh, then I'm a bigot."
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I've been away for a bit.

Yes, it was sarcasm. No, it was not sarcasm when I said that Russell will likely be reelected in a landslide.

-Joe
 
I haven't been paying too much attention to Stupid Republicans, but I just came across two more.

Jim "We could learn a LOT from the Taliban!" DeMint, the Crazy that Keeps On Giving:

Dumbass said:
DEMINT: The problem is, the war in Afghanistan and our economy are our two biggest issues. But he
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Obama and his cult are looking past 2016.

Rush said:
You have to wonder if Obama is just trying to lay a foundation for not being a hypocrite when he tries to serve beyond 2016. . . And I'll tell you folks, this business about running beyond 2016, you know, the thing that when you look at Obama's followers - and we've discussed it here - they are a cult-like bunch and their attachment to him is not political, it's not ideological, it is not issue-wise, it is cultish. It includes a wide percentage of minorities, by the way, who for different reasons, who will come to think that he simply cannot be replaced. Let him succeed with amnesty, for example, and all the illegal aliens who are instantly made citizens. He'll be too important.
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Ya know, the crazy commie librul lefties waited until after the wiretapping, habeas corpus removing, lying to the UN and the American people, 8 months had passed timeframe before they started with the Bush-is-gonna-declare-martial-law nonsense. And they didn't have their own radio show with dittoheads hanging on every word, either.
 
Merijeek said:
At what point do these assholes lose their "I know what Jesus thinks so you should vote for me" cred?

-Joe
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As soon as the target audience remembers that Jesus himself said you shouldn't trust people who claim to know the mind of God.
 
Squink said:
Let's run it through 'a dynamic, forward-looking organization that will amplify the common-sense and wisdom of our fellow citizens through a grassroots dialogue with Republican leaders', and see what pops out the other end.
Surely the National Council for a New America will save us all.
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Is it just me, or did their entire "platform" look like just a mountain of boilerplated jibberish?
 
Biggirl said:
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!
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Can anybody explain to me exactly (or even approxiamately) what a poll like this proves, how the information will be used and if anybody with an IQ over 35 would give any credence to the results?

I know what it hopes to achieve - but by doing it as a poll, they hope to use the results somehow right? Anybody using these results to support an argument or make any decisisons may as well go looking for a gas leak with a candle.....
 
What am I looking for? I mean, it's a bunch of talking points and mealy mouthed platitudes, but I don't see anything that's actually stupid.
 
jayjay said:
Virginia Foxx is the same rep who claimed that calling Matthew Shepard's murder a gaybashing is a hoax.

And the same rep who said that healthcare reform is a bigger threat than terrorism.
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Wait a second. Does that mean HCR is a bigger threat than the KSM trial in NYC?

-Joe, BFF
 
gaffa said:
I wish I could remember who said it: Republican interest in children begins at conception and ends at birth.
I've seen it attributed to Jane Fonda, but I'm sure it's older than that.
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It was the philosopher Carlin who said "If you're pre-born you're fine, if you're pre-school you're fucked."
 
From the RNC Membership Survey:

1. A recent national poll reported that nearly 25% of Americans want the government to pass more socialism. Do you agree or disagree?

Agree
Disagree
Undecided


http://web.campaignsolutions.com/rnc/2009survey/default2.aspx?
 
My personal favorite from this coprophiliac's delight:

9. Should we resist Barack Obama's proposal to spend billions of federal taxpayer dollars to pay "volunteers" who perform his chosen tasks?

Hooo, doggies!
 
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