Been awhile since I checked in on this thread, mostly due to my growing numbness to The Stupid.
But I couldn’t let this quote from Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-CA, on the dilemmas faced by undocumented workers seeing organ transplants, slip by:
“If they’re dead, I don’t have an objection to their organs being used,” Mr. Rohrabacher added. “If they’re alive, they shouldn’t be here no matter what.”
Presumably, he’d also have no objection if we ground them up and used them to make Soylent Green.
4000 posts and still going strong!
And here goes Anita Perry on her and her hubby’s small town values (what is that even supposed to mean?):
http://thehill.com/video/campaign/200805-anita-perry-campaigns-on-ricks-american-story-in-new-tv-ad
waterj2
December 22, 2011, 1:03am
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I’m not about to watch it, but I think it’s a dig at some other candidate who cheated on his first two wives, and who’s current wife feeds on dead babies.
OK, I’m not sure if that last part’s entirely true.
waterj2:
I’m not about to watch it, but I think it’s a dig at some other candidate who cheated on his first two wives, and who’s current wife feeds on dead babies.
OK, I’m not sure if that last part’s entirely true.
You think they might still be alive?!
It means “kill the fags.” That’s what all of these horseshit phrases from Republicans mean, especially when the word “values” is involved. That’s the only value they have.
Rhythmdvl:
I love Mexican food.
That’s it. No more verde sauce for me.
I’m of two minds about Gingrich’s comments. If you read the transcript, it seems like he’s saying he can’t be all things and if gay marriage is your most important issue (pro gay marriage, that is) you should vote for Obama. That actually strikes me as a pretty reasonable thing to say, that you have to figure out what your defining issues are and choose the candidate that fills them.
It’s surprising coming from a pol, but I don’t think it has to be insulting.
Well-parsed, jsgoddess . Still, I’m going to laugh the first time I see Romney’s (or any of that crowd’s) TV ad, where they isolate the footage of Newt saying “you should be for Obama.”
Perhaps, but which one is more readily measured?
A (R) congresscritter is back to critiqing Michelle’s backside:
He is, BTW, an apparently plus-sized gentleman his own self from some of the photos I’ve seen.
Trinopus:
“It takes a village.”
To raise the village idiot.
a35362
December 22, 2011, 9:33pm
4016
I thought you meant Michele Bachmann!
Boyo_Jim
December 22, 2011, 10:47pm
4017
How did we all miss the stupid Republican House idea of failing to extend the payroll tax cut? This is SO stupid that Senate Republicans are calling them on it. Breathtaking in its stupidity!
Even the guy who led the [del]charade[/del]parade knows what he did is stupid.
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After days of wrangling that even Speaker John Boehner acknowledged “may not have been politically the smartest thing in the world,” the Ohio Republican abruptly changed course and dropped demands for immediate holiday season talks with the Senate on a full-year measure that all sides said they want.
](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PAYROLL_TAX?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-12-22-19-37-18 )
And who was the voice of reason, the person who summed it up in a can’t-be-denied kinda way?
Obama, Republicans and congressional Democrats all said they preferred a one-year extension but the politics of achieving that eluded them. All pledged to start working on that in January.
“Has this place become so dysfunctional that even when we agree to things we can’t do it?” Obama asked. “Enough is enough.”
Fair enough, but this thread is more modestly defined, the implication being that it is about mundane stupidity, the sort of everyday, garden variety dumfuckitude. Cataclysmic, thunderous stupid is too grand for such confined circumstances, there isn’t enough room in a mere day to contain that much stupid, without imperiling the very fabric of space and dumb.
waterj2
December 23, 2011, 1:10am
4020
Snowboarder_Bo:
Even the guy who led the [del]charade[/del]parade knows what he did is stupid.
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And who was the voice of reason, the person who summed it up in a can’t-be-denied kinda way?
I prefer [URL=“http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/12/boehners_words_for_the_ages.php?ref=fpblg ”]this bit](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PAYROLL_TAX?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-12-22-19-37-18 ) of probably inadvertent honesty from Boehner:
Shows you where doing what’s right for the American people falls on the GOP’s priority list.