Stupid Republican idea of the day

[Buck_Godot]

Libraries lead to knowledge which is like kryptonite to tea-partiers.

[running_coach]

@Buck_Godot

Libraries lead to knowledge which is like kryptonite to tea-partiers.

This is Kentucky. I hear few go to the library because the book is checked out.

[crowmanyclouds]

No True American™ has any need for any information in any book that isn’t the Bible or the Constitution!

CMC fnord!

[silenus]

@crowmanyclouds

No True American™ has any need for any information in any book that isn’t the Bible or the Constitution!

And they haven’t read either one.

[YogSothoth]

@Ograbme

Herman Cain: the “middle class” is a liberal media hoax that keeps us from unlocking the power of The Secret
http://www.caintv.com/there-is-no-such-thing-as-the

@rogerbox

How DARE those liberals try to determine the demographics of and needs of the poor in order to better serve their needs and try to help them out of poverty with social programs, that is TELLING THEM TO THINK OF THEMSELVES AS POOR AND LESS THAN DIRT unlike conservatives telling the poor how rugged and individual they are as they lead them to the wolves with dignity.

I’ve got it! All we have to do is rename “Welfare” to “Wealth Subsidies” and poof! No more poverty because we’re already wealthy, right?

[yanceylebeef]

Have we talked yet about the GOP retreating further into the bubble it currently inhabits?

The other idea floated was to have Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin to pose as mediators, instead of journalists.

This is going to be a fun election!

and Yogsosoth, that appears to be the new talking point for Republicans. Rick Santorum has also come out against the phrase Middle Class.

[rogerbox]

If there’s a thing such as a “middle class” in the national discourse, then people will expect things like “a middle class lifestyle” which the right wing has been working to destroy with Reaganomics for 30 years. Since they do absolutely everything they can to destroy the opportunities for a middle class lifestyle, it’s actually pretty ingenious to try to relabel things so that we are content with less while being robbed blind.

So in other words, I don’t think this is a stupid Republican idea at all.

[Rhythmdvl]

@yanceylebeef

Have we talked yet about the GOP retreating further into the bubble it currently inhabits?

The other idea floated was to have Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin to pose as mediators, instead of journalists.

This is going to be a fun election!

and Yogsosoth, that appears to be the new talking point for Republicans. Rick Santorum has also come out against the phrase Middle Class.

It’s infotainment and everyone involved–on both the RNC and the network side–are gleefully playing this up to draw attention to themselves. Marketing 101.

[Steve_MB]

@yanceylebeef

Have we talked yet about the GOP retreating further into the bubble it currently inhabits?

The bubble is getting too small to include the leftists at Fox News:

Amid speculation that Megyn Kelly will be taking over conservative pundit Sean Hannity’s time slot on Fox News Channel, a conservative group has decried the potential move as further evidence of the network’s “pro-homosexual” agenda and “left-ward drift.”…

[YogSothoth]

@yanceylebeef

Have we talked yet about the GOP retreating further into the bubble it currently inhabits?

The other idea floated was to have Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin to pose as mediators, instead of journalists.

This is going to be a fun election!

Oh god, please please please PLEASE let that happen! The Republican primaries would be better than pay per view!

@yanceylebeef

and Yogsosoth, that appears to be the new talking point for Republicans. Rick Santorum has also come out against the phrase Middle Class.

I heard that on the radio. What a lunatic, but its par for the course unfortunately.

[running_coach]

The GOP is going to make the Democrats talk to empty chairs for a change.
Republicans may boycott CNN, NBC presidential debates.

Delegates to a meeting of the Republican National Committee voted for a resolution that included the boycott and said the programs would be “little more than extended commercials promoting former Secretary Clinton.”
The RNC also resolved that it would require that any future debates have “appropriate moderators and debate partners.”

[BrainGlutton]

@Rhythmdvl

It’s infotainment and everyone involved–on both the RNC and the network side–are gleefully playing this up to draw attention to themselves. Marketing 101.

Well, they won’t get much attention for their primary debate, if nobody but Fox covers it.

[BrainGlutton]

@Steve_MB

The bubble is getting too small to include the leftists at Fox News:

Megyn Kelly is homosexual? She’s had two husbands and three kids.

[BrainGlutton]

@yanceylebeef

Rick Santorum has also come out . . .

Why don’t we all agree to stop reading that sentence at that point.

[computergeek]

@BrainGlutton

Megyn Kelly is homosexual? She’s had two husbands and three kids.

No, if you read the article, that group thinks Megyn is apparently in support of gays or at least the homosexual agenda, or at least tolerant of them guys. And you know that’s totally wrong for a conservative to be.

[TonySinclair]

@BrainGlutton

Megyn Kelly is homosexual? She’s had two husbands and three kids.

Your link says she played field hockey in high school.

Where there’s smoke…

[bup]

@computergeek

No, if you read the article, that group thinks Megyn is apparently in support of gays or at least the homosexual agenda,

Oh. I thought “pro homosexual” meant she gets paid.

[BrainGlutton]

@computergeek

No, if you read the article, that group thinks Megyn is apparently in support of gays or at least the homosexual agenda, or at least tolerant of them guys. And you know that’s totally wrong for a conservative to be.

Well, apparently this is the complaining organization:

Mission of America’s Survival:

Our mission is to educate the American people and to expose the influence of global institutions, including an International Criminal Court, on their lives. Our president is veteran journalist Cliff Kincaid.

What they’re saying:

“Cliff is our U.N. Monitor.”
– Beverly LaHaye, Concerned Women for America

“Cliff exposed the racket about the U.S. owing ‘back dues’ to the U.N.”
– Phyllis Schlafly, Eagle Forum

“The U.N. is playing America like a fiddle, and Cliff Kincaid, author of the U.N. expose Global Bondage, shows how that global body is coercing the U.S. into funding the subversion of its own sovereignty – right under our very eyes… The U.N. has plans for you and your children, and, as author Cliff Kincaid has discovered, the hour is late.”
– Conservative Book Club

“Cliff was banned from CNN’s Crossfire program because he dared to tell the truth…Cliff has emerged as public enemy number one of the United Nations.”
– Stan Johnson, The Prophecy Club

“Although Cliff’s facts make you feel uncomfortable, it’s information every American needs to know.”
– Bill Perkins, Compass International

So, there’s that.

[TonySinclair]

Lamar Alexander’s shady past finally catches up with him:

“Our great nation can no longer afford compromise and bipartisanship, two traits for which you have become famous.”
— open letter to Alexander from a coalition of Tea Party groups who are out to defeat him next year.

Tea party groups tell Sen. Lamar Alexander he’s vulnerable in 2014, should...

[foolsguinea]

I told them that democracy was passé, that fascism was the future, but they said, no, we’re over that Mussolini nonsense! Now you see? Now you see!?

Seriously, guys, when the TEA Party get a working majority in 2/3 of state legislatures and both chambers of Congress in a couple of years, you’ll still be claiming their extremism will be their undoing.

Which, you know, it probably will. It’s just that when your fanatical rulers discredit themselves, it’s usually by leading the country into military defeat.