But Sandy blew into Blue states. Places that are accustomed to rain. Texas is so dry it is cracked and Red. And not full of a bunch of people who think they are better than everyone else.
Relevant link: Ted Cruz’s rainy day socialism: How a right-wing fanatic learned to stop worrying and love redistribution, Bob Cesca, Salon, May 30, 2015. Includes some choice words about Gov. Abbott too.
It’s old news but here’s a page laying out some beliefs of leading GOP intellectual Rick Santorum.
We learn that he thinks
[ul][li] Social Security is in trouble due to abortion. “. . . we don’t have enough workers to support the retirees. Well, a third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion, because one in three pregnancies end in abortion.”[/li][li] same-sex marriage is “an issue just like 9/11. We didn’t decide we wanted to fight the war on terrorism because we wanted to. It was brought to us.”[/li][li] the American soldiers who charged the beaches of Normandy in 1944 were protecting the American healthcare system. Obamacare is a betrayal of them.[/li][li] “The undermining of the fabric of our society all comes from this right to privacy [which leads to] sodomy”[/li][li] “There’s no such thing as global warming.”[/li][/ul]
Enjoy.
Not to mention: why is a discussion of global warming a “politicizing” discussion, and not a scientific one? sigh. That ship has sailed, and the only way to have that discussion is to win on the political front.
The problem is that it can now sail from downtown Amarillo.
I maintain that the political discussion should be what to do about it, not whether or not it’s real. The reality of it is a settled scientific question.
From the viewpoint of conservatives, it would be in their bests interests to accept reality and then enter the debate about what to do about it. That way, they would at least have a shot at having some say in the solutions (they’d probably be most interested in market based remedies). Of course this wouldn’t be in the best interests of their fossil fuel buddies.
It used to be that the safe topic of conversation was the weather - when I was interviewing (and when I was trained to interview people), it was always, “talk about the weather. You can’t offend anybody.” Thanks, Obama.
I guess the bright side to Republicans denying global warming is they haven’t declared war on it. Because you know that’s what they’ll do once they acknowledge it.
And then we’ll attack the sun or something.
I’m kidding, of course. We’ll attack the middle East, to take the war on global warming away from our shores.
Can Ted Cruz ever open his mouth without being wrong? His latest stupidity
[QUOTE=Ted Cruz]
I would point out that in the 1960s, one of the most powerful, eloquent defenders of tax cuts was John F. Kennedy. As JFK said, ‘Some men see things as they are and ask why; I see things that never were and ask why not.’
JFK would be a Republican today. There is no room for John F. Kennedy in the modern Democratic Party.
[/QUOTE]
Clearly JFK and Ted Cruz would be pals…
What makes it especially silly is that the quote had nothing to do with taxes. It didn’t even originate with Kennedy. It was a paraphrase of a George Bernard Shaw quote. Kennedy did say it, but not in the context of taxes.
The speech where he said it was in Ireland and had nothing to do with US taxes.
The Myth of JFK as Supply Side Tax Cutter
Wow, I guess Ted wants to nearly double the top tax rate!
Wow, I really screwed up the quoting on that post.
It almost sounds like he’s going to do it himself, vigilante style, by dressing in black and sneaking into the prisons and taking out the condemned one by one like a video game
The priest walks the corridor of Death Row, the harmonica stops.
“Billy? It’s time, the executioner is here.”
“No word from the Governor?”
“He is the Governor.”
Im in ur jail killin ur doodz.
Let’s say you’re an older, grandfatherly type Republican. Jovial, smiling, generally personable, but because you’re a Republican you have some batshit crazy beliefs. You want to stand by those beliefs but you also want to maintain that happy bullshit facade you use to stand out from the meaner Ted Cruz types shitheads in the dogpile that is the GOP primary cesspool.
On the subject of Caitlyn Jenner’s recent coming out, do you pick:
A) A measured response that takes into account the difficulty of identity disorder while still impressing upon your constituents that those people are wrong, misguided, and not at all what god intended but reiterate compassion for those sheep who get lost in the herd and a call to come back to god’s embrace?
Or do you pick:
B) Making light of the situation by mocking her, showing complete ignorance on what actual real life people have to go through during transition (you don’t just say you “feel” like a different gender today and get to use a different bathroom), having utterly no empathy in a life-changingly difficult decision, and throwing in some fear mongering to boot?
Why oh why do so many Republicans pick B? I swear, even if I were to fake being a Republican, I could be better fake Republican and a better person at the same time.
“This fall on Fox… Death Penalty Wish!”
The problem is that the solution that the Republicans want is to watch the rest of the world bake and drown from the air conditioned Ocean front high rises that they built in Orlando with short term oil profits. But this doesn’t play very well in the media.
No, I’m thinking that concept can much better be exploited in game-show format: Who Wants to Live? Think of the ratings!
“… and with a record low of only 800 points, Tom, you come in last …” Whereupon Tom drops from site behind his console, treating the viewers to agonized screams that slowly trail off into strange gurgles. In the studio audience, nine people jump to their feet, yelling with joy and high-fiving, as one is heard to shout “finally”.
Santorum thinks that the Pope should stay out of the climate change debate and leave the issue to the scientists. Um, aren’t the Republicans the ones who keep saying they aren’t scientists?