How does he shave when he doesn’t cast a reflection in a mirror?
Hedge-fund manager and Republican candidate for U.S. Senator from Wisconsin Eric Hovde is tired of all the sob stories of people struggling in this recession and wants more focus on the debt instead:
Ya! Stop writing about the fuckin’ crybabies who can’t eat, and start writing more about how another tax cut will work this time, and job creators, and how a corporate tax cut will help us all.
Ohio Republican Congressional candidate Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher links Holocaust with gun control:
Godwinned his own campaign.
Godwin aside, I am never all that comfortable with people who like to associate their gun obsession and the Nazis. No, guns would not have helped the Jews, they would probably have been seen as a bigger threat and the Nazi’s would have acted even more aggresivly.
At least this keeps Joe occupied, he isn’t going to win the election and he isn’t screwing up somebody’s plumbing.
Is he still worried about the taxes he might hypothetically have to pay in the unlikely event that he ever becomes successful and earns enough money?
Has he learned what marginal tax rates mean yet?
The Jews in the ghetto of Warsaw were well-armed with captured weapons, air-dropped weapons, smuggled weapons, self-made weapons… small arms mostly, but explosives and petrol bombs weren’t uncommon either.
They got mulched all the same (thanks for all the help, Stalin !). Surprisingly, sub-machine guns don’t help against artillery.
(BTW his premise is a lie, to no one’s surprise. Gun control was implemented in Germany in 1928. The Nazis merely renewed the law when its expiry date came up. Cite)
My faith in Joe the Plumber has been shaken. If he can be wrong, who can I possibly trust?
The best part of this story is the response from the head of the Ozark Tea Party:
Way to show your opposition to bigoted language there, pal.
I have Eric Holder quoted as saying “The notion that this was an operation set up to do something to infringe upon the Second Amendment rights of my fellow citizens is absurd.”
I assume Rep.Walberg had to have asked something pretty stupid to get that answer. Does anyone know where to find the transcript for the oversight comity hearing so Walberg’s can be included in this thread.
The narrative that we sold guns to gangs in Mexico as a means to role back gun rights in America is spectacularly stupid and it would appear at least one Republican has bought into it.
Oh, dear. You are in for a shock. Its worse. Far worse.
If you do the google, you can probably find Rush Limbaugh talking about exactly that, how it was a conspiracy to aggravate gun violence in Mexico so as to make the American public more willing to accept gun confiscation. He’s not alone in this, by any means. Waaaay crazy.
Yeah I’m well away of the crazy out in the right wing entertainment industry but I prefer my Stupid Republican Idea’s to come out of the mouths of elected Republicans.
Well, I can give you Daryll Issa (R-Duh)
Close enough?
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http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/republican_mica_latches_onto_conspiracy_abou.php
Yeah, somehow that became the standard line. The fact that ATF is now apparently supplying weapons to mobsters in hopes they will be used in crime isn’t enough for the GOP, they have to make it about a commie plot to disarm law-abiding Iowa farmers. :rolleyes:
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There you go that’s the good stuff.
Come on now Republicans you’re getting your crazy all over the place, maybe you should consider who you’re voting for.
And here is Rachel Maddow explaining its origin. Totally batshit craziness. A wingnut blogger, who ranted about smashing windows at Democratic Party offices (“Break their windows militia guy”) back in March 2010, started calling Fast and Furious a conspiracy to end the 2nd amendment. The funny thing is, inside the conservative crazy-bubble, he is totally credible.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#47898261