I tend to agree about this.
My main problem with Romney in this case is not what he did as a teenager; it’s the way that he’s handling the issue now.
And that is a huuuuge difference.
It takes a very different level of lack of empathy for someone else to take action on someone you look upon as “lesser being” than it is to just look down on them inside. Whether it’s insulting them, pushing them around or holding them down and forcibly giving them a haircut, for one to go so far out of their own way to degrade another human being betrays a serious lack of understanding of how they might feel about it, or of course simply not giving a fuck.
Actually, it’s worse than not giving a fuck: it’s giving a fuck that they are made to feel smaller.
And not even remembering doing something that traumatic to someone else ? Not remembering you once inflicted that kind of harm ? That’s mondo fucked up, and it betrays the fact that he hadn’t realized what he’d done was a bad thing, not back then, and not in the long years since.
We forget things about our lives, certainly. Names and places, things we’ve done, things we’ve said, good or bad - but never things that made us feel worse about ourselves. The shameful shit - that stays with you forever. That’s what floats back up to the surface, unbidden, on long nights when we’d rather remember how the first time we touched a tit felt like. The things you did that you knew were wrong and you knew you shouldn’t have done but did anyway and immediately regretted doing. Those leaves scars. Those should leave scars.
And if they didn’t, then it must be that they never *really *wounded you, or bothered you.
Republican proposescutting funding for Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965:
Broun was quickly taken to the woodshed by civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), who denounced he amendment from the floor of the House
Broun withdrew the amendment.
Police found a battered body in a local woodshed today. The victim is described as an utter asshole, approximately three inches tall…
Well, so he wasn’t totally stupid. Just mainly.
Absolutely agree.
And I think there are a lot of* far* more compelling reasons to have problems with Romney for president than what he did as a teenager or even how he’s been handling it.
Sure there are. Fortunately, there is room for all of them in Mitt’s permanent record.
Republicans would like to have *less *data on which to make decisions. They’re sponsoring a new bill to reduce the census. No need for pesky facts! They just get in the way.
Who wants to put money on this woman being a Democrat?
Sen. Rand Paul opineson the President’s views on same sex marriage:
I thought libertarians supported same sex marriage?
The Pauls are Christians, so the invisible hand is holding a rosary.
That’s not a rosary~ :eek:
Easy mistake to make. <–NSFW
I am a huge fan of that guy sitting behind her.
Ronulans stirring the shit.
Maybe not a Republican stupid idea but it’s certainly fun to point and laugh.
I offer up this one… The US Navy has had their “Green Fleet” initiative blocked by the Republicans.
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"In its report on next year’s Pentagon budget, the House Armed Services Committee banned the Defense Department from making or buying an alternative fuel that costs more than a “traditional fossil fuel.” It’s a standard that may be almost impossible to meet, energy experts believe; there’s almost no way the tiny, experimental biofuel industry can hope to compete on price with the massive, century-old fossil fuels business.
Committee Republicans, like Rep. Randy Forbes, insist this isn’t an attempt to kill off military biofuels before they have a chance to start. “Now, look, I love green energy,” he said in February. “It’s a matter of priorities.”
But if the measure becomes law, it would make it all-but-inconceivable for the Pentagon to buy the renewable fuels. It would likely scuttle one of the top priorities of Navy Secretary Ray Mabus. And it might very well suffocate the gasping biofuel industry, which was looking to the Pentagon to help it survive."*
“My best friend is a green energy”, he continued. “Still, you have to admit, these energies are not like us, are they ?”
This is a fun one:
Republican New Hampshire state legislator shouts “Sieg Heil” during session, gets thrown out of the chamber, has to have a committee formed to “convince him” before he apologizes appropriately - and the kicker at the end of the article, the party chairman holds the incident up as an example of DEMOCRATS being “partisan.”
So, a Republican House Speaker kicks out a Republican legislator…and somehow the Democrats were at fault?