Blunt: “Just because we’re in a situation now where we vote no doesn’t mean we are the ‘party of no.’”
Blunt: “Just because we’re in a situation now where we vote no doesn’t mean we are the ‘party of no.’”
Yesterday, Republican leaders announced their latest effort to re-brand the party, the National Council for a New America, which will feature input from conservative luminaries like Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). Discussing the need for the new group with CQ, former House Minority Whip Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO), complained about the party being branded as the “party of no,” claiming that just because they consistently vote no on President Obama’s agenda it “doesn’t mean we are the ‘party of no’“:
In addition, they say, they are having trouble breaking through to Americans with a popular Democratic president, Barack Obama , in the White House and the binary choice of yes-or-no votes on Democratic-written legislation.
“Just because we’re in a situation now where we vote no doesn’t mean we are the ‘party of no’ or have no ideas,” said former House Republican Whip Roy Blunt , who is running for Senate in Missouri and signed the letter. “This adds another way of getting those ideas out there.”
Blunt is claiming that they are being forced to vote no, but other Republican leaders have previously argued that consistently voting no is part of an obstructionist strategy. “What transpired . . . and will give us a shot in the arm going forward is that we are standing up on principle and just saying no,” said current House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA). NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions (R-TX) told House Republicans during a retreat that they needed “to get over the idea that they’re participating in legislation and ought to start thinking of themselves as ‘an insurgency’ instead.”
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They are the party of nay.
May 1st, 2009 at 5:48 pmJust because I steal doesn’t make me a thief
May 1st, 2009 at 5:48 pm.
Well, just what have they voted Yea on, then?
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May 1st, 2009 at 5:51 pmYeah and war is peace, strength through stupidity, and no means yes. Dare to be stupid. Ignorance is bless, and torture is enhanced interrogation techniques. Seccession is patriotic.
May 1st, 2009 at 5:55 pmBlunt is claiming that they are being forced to vote no, . . ”
Who was FORCING them? Unless he means Mitchell, Boner, Jindal, Sanford, etc., I can’t think of anyone who would be FORCING them, can any of you?
May 1st, 2009 at 5:55 pmFormer House Minority Whip Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO)went on to say that, “Just because we say stupid things doesn’t mean that we aren’t smart. And, just because we say racist things doesn’t mean that we don’t like anybody who doesn’t look like us.”
May 1st, 2009 at 5:56 pmRoy, as is the case in your sex life: no means no.
May 1st, 2009 at 5:56 pm.
G(no)P…
… NO Principles
… NO Bipartisanship
… No to Steele
… No to Budgets
… NO to Equality
… NO on Rights
… NO Leadership
… NO Logic
… NO on Hate Crimes Laws
… NO to Health Care
… NO on Volcano monitoring
… NO to Pandemic preparedness
… NO on Levies
… NO on Sibelius
O.K. Roy,
Prove me wrong.
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May 1st, 2009 at 5:57 pmOMG! OK – I won’t call them ‘the party of no’. I’ll call them ‘the party of NOT.’
Not one Rethuglican voted yes on the stimulus.
May 1st, 2009 at 5:58 pmNot one time have they offered any viable solutions to fix the economy.
Not one time have they NOT made absolute fools of themselves.
Not one time has any key rethuglican stood up to Lamebaugh.
Not one time has the rethuglican party supported prosecuting the Bush Crime Family for torture.
…we are the ‘party of no’ or have no ideas,”
You don’t have any ideas on how to govern, that is why Repukes are so bad at it.
Fcuk the Republicans
May 1st, 2009 at 5:59 pm.
Just because I waterboard doesn’t make me a TORTURER…
… YES?
What Blunted logic.
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May 1st, 2009 at 6:00 pmThe Republican Party always says yes to racism, hatred, greed, bigotry, inequality, and war.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:01 pm.
Dear Roy,
Stop complaining about the thorns…
… You chose to make that bed out of roses.
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May 1st, 2009 at 6:04 pmjust because you f-ucking liberals have stupid ideas all over doesnt mean the great GOP is the party of no. peons. we need checks and balances.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:07 pmThe “Party of No” probably is a misnomer. After all, “no” to something is just “yes” to its opposite.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:09 pmcut taxes. stop making only 50% of people pay federal income taxes. stop shaping your party in such way that only 18-24 year olds benefit.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:10 pmWhat a load of crap! What’s their health care reform? Oh, and by the way neopardy, Where were you eight years ago when the Repugs ran everything? What about check and balances then?
May 1st, 2009 at 6:11 pmbecause thats what your doing. you liberals are only encouraging growth in fields that benefit women. the highest male unemployment rate came out of this recession. accounting, education, nursing are fields encouraged by liberals to keep males out of the workforce. you guys actually like this recession because its reshaping the social landscape for you peons.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:13 pm.
Hey everybody,
neoparody forgot what happend the last 8 years…
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May 1st, 2009 at 6:15 pmformer House Minority Whip Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO), complained about the party being branded as the “party of no,” claiming that just because they consistently vote no on President Obama’s agenda it “doesn’t mean we are the ‘party of no’”:
Well if it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck and walks like a duck…
S*cks to be you, republicans.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:16 pmLOL! Oh Yeah, That’s what we librals are doing! Keeping the white man down. I almost peed myself reading that tripe! Well, neopardy, you gave my my first chuckle of the night.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:16 pmIf I recall, Obama was elected to get things DONE. Namely, the economy, health care, Iraq & Afghanistan, and the environment and infrastructure.
Every step Obama’s taken has been hindered in some way by the repubs.
And they wonder why their party is less popular than Hugo Chavez.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:16 pmThe party of no — as in dont ‘know’
May 1st, 2009 at 6:17 pmThe gopper obstructionist party IS the party of no. Anyone here surprised they try to lie out of this too?
May 1st, 2009 at 6:18 pm.
Hey everybody,
ConservativeForProgress forgot how Bush spent the surplus he inherited and began digging way before 2006…
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May 1st, 2009 at 6:20 pmOh please Conservative, first of all there weren’t enough Dems, so Bush vetoed everything. Second, the tax breaks for the wealthy and the two wars we are in have contirbuted to this mess. Give me a break, You must think Liberals are brain dead sheep, you know, like Limbaugh’s ditto-heads.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:21 pmXisithrus,
May 1st, 2009 at 6:22 pmThat would be the freeDUMB Party.
ConservativeForProgress Says:
The economy was going pretty well until the Dems took charge of the House in 2006. Are you better off now than you were three years ago?
The dems could not get anything done because of the obstructionist party of no. Last count of record filibuster by the goppers was 75. And they even admitted they were doing this to blame the dems for not getting anything done for talking points.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:24 pm“Rush made me do it”, that is what they’ll say after getting hammered again in 2010.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:24 pmThe stock market was going pretty well and its rallied for the last six weeks. But that, wall street, is a misleading indicator of main street. Job losses under the Bush admin were the worst in 75 years.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:26 pmneoparody Says:
cut taxes. stop making only 50% of people pay federal income taxes. stop shaping your party in such way that only 18-24 year olds benefit.
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Do you make more than $250,000 annually? If not, [I am betting you don't.] Obama already cut your taxes. But unless you have a job, you probably didn’t see the increase in your net pay.
Anyone with a REAL JOB [unlike you] pays federal income taxes unless they want to go to jail. Do you pay your fed taxes?
I have Medicare as my primary insurance as a result of being 65+ and it is GREAT. This is just ONE instance where my democratic party is not SHAPED for the benefit of 18 – 24 year olds. My democratic party ALLOWS me the freedom to CHOSE on major issues – unlike your Republican party which MANDATES each white person [the only people included in your psrty] adhere STRICTLY to their values whether those values are yours or not. There is no comparison!
May 1st, 2009 at 6:26 pmConservativeForProgress Says:
The economy was going pretty well until the Dems took charge of the House in 2006. Are you better off now than you were three years ago?
and to my comment of 31, it is a very sad time when some elected officials – the obstructionist goppers, obstruct the people’s business only to use this as talking points for their benefit later.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:29 pmThe economy was going pretty well until the Dems took charge of the House in 2006. Are you better off now than you were three years ago?
No it was not but nice try.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:31 pmThe ‘no’ voters of the stimulus took the money anyway.
Why not just vote yes?
May 1st, 2009 at 6:32 pmmedicare is break the bank expensive! i say turn that shit over to the dogs!
May 1st, 2009 at 6:33 pmThis guy isn’t really this out of touch, is he? He thinks the problem is that they can’t get through to the AMERICAN People? We saw, watched, and heard their CRAP for eight years. The reason they are now is because we are calling enough of their BULLSH*T.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:34 pmGee, you fooled me, Blunt!
You’re not the party of NO? Perhaps the party of Nein? Nyet?
When your party votes against everything in lockstep; when you obviously put your party over the nation; when your spokesmen are vociferously partisan and anti-Obama and anti-Democrats – sometimes just for the sole reason of being obstinate, what would you have people think?
You have no new ideas (tax cuts for the wealthy have run its course) – yet you vote NO and claim that it’s a venue to get ideas out – how? Your colleague refers to the party as insurgent – insurgent? If a Democrat had used words like that in the pat 8 years, he would have been ridiculed, censured and a poster boy for treason.
You and your party lost in 2008, and you will lose in 2010 and 2012 – you show no will to change, but instead choose to pander to your 21% of racists, bigots, and brainwashed Fox-viewers.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:34 pmGee, you fooled me, Blunt!
You’re not the party of NO? Perhaps the party of Nein? Nyet?
When your party votes against everything in lockstep; when you obviously put your party over the nation; when your spokesmen are vociferously partisan and anti-Obama and anti-Democrats – sometimes just for the sole reason of being obstinate, what would you have people think?
You have no new ideas (tax cuts for the wealthy have run its course) – yet you vote NO and claim that it’s a venue to get ideas out – how? Your colleague refers to the party as insurgent – insurgent? If a Democrat had used words like that in the past 8 years, he would have been ridiculed, censured and a poster boy for treason.
You and your party lost in 2008, and you will lose in 2010 and 2012 – you show no will to change, but instead choose to pander to your 21% of racists, bigots, and brainwashed Fox-viewers.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:35 pmThe economy was going pretty well until the Dems took charge of the House in 2006. Are you better off now than you were three years ago?
About the same — and thanks for asking.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:35 pmneoparody Says:
just because you f-ucking liberals have stupid ideas all over doesnt mean the great GOP is the party of no. peons. we need checks and balances.
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Unlike the phucking Pugs, when your king W was our dictator, the democrats have checks and balances because we have many Dems [blue dogs and others] who vote independently. Or did you forget that W was your ‘DEAR DICTATOR’ over the past 8 years? Talk about stupid ideas – W had the most incredulous idea of all – “let’s privatize social security”. How would that have gone over since the Pugs stole all our tax money for their friends ‘the bankstas on Wall Street’ and the industry tanked?
May 1st, 2009 at 6:36 pmJuly 23, 2002 7702 Low close of break below post 9/11 low.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:37 pmSept 30, 2002 7591 New 2002 low – All treasury yields (except 30-year bond) at 2002 lows.
Oct 9, 2002 7286 New 2002 low – Dow down 37.8% from Jan 14, 2000 all time high.
Oct 31, 2002 8397 Dow up 806 points (10.6%) for Oct. First “up” month since March.
Nov 6, 2002 8771 Fed cuts rates for first time since Dec. 2001 – 0.50% – Fed Funds 1.25% – Discount 0.75%
Dec 31, 2002 8341 Dow down 16.8% for 2002. First three consecutive year loss since 1939-41
May 23, 2003 8601 Senate passes bill raising the Treasury debt limit by $US 984 Billion to $US 7.384 TRILLION
June 25, 2003 9011 Fed cuts rates by 0.25% to a post 1958 low of 1.00%
Dec 31, 2003 10453 Dow up 25.32% in 2003 – Dollar down 14.67% in 2003
October 3, 2006 11727 Dow exceeds its January 14, 2000 high of 11723
October 9, 2007 14164 New all time high on the Dow
neoparody Says:
medicare is break the bank expensive! i say turn that shit over to the dogs!
A program that you claim is expensive, should be turned over to dogs? Wouldn’t that be even MORE wasteful?
May 1st, 2009 at 6:37 pmUn huh, yeh, market was doing great before 2006
May 1st, 2009 at 6:38 pmsorry – unintended double post.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:39 pmWell gee Blunt, you can’t blame it all on Ted Stevens.
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May 1st, 2009 at 6:39 pmneoparasite says
Nothing coherent. Just because you are such an ignorant brainwashed punk. Just because YOU have the IQ of a dustbunny and dont even understand the CONCEPT of a good idea doesnt mean the GOP hasnt turned into an obstructionist party in fact their leadership has admitted they have. Just because you are too stupid to understand that just like you are too stupid to understand virtually ANYTHING only means YOU are a moron and doesnt say ANYTHING about liberals. The next time you “understand” something other than what Rush told you to think get back to us until then just STFU
May 1st, 2009 at 6:39 pmConservativeForProgress Says:
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The economy was going pretty well until the Dems took charge of the House in 2006
That’s far from true. The Rethuglicans were obstructionists then and they’re obstructionists now. They’re the party of NOT,NO,NOTHING!
May 1st, 2009 at 6:39 pmwhat an amazing statement of stupidity. How is it possible?
May 1st, 2009 at 6:39 pmneopardy is a joke, right?
May 1st, 2009 at 6:40 pmNo one can be that stupid.
the rock is a republican just in case you didnt know!
May 1st, 2009 at 6:40 pmone can be that stupid. thats why your posting here marie.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:41 pmneoparasite
In your infinite stupidity you want us to keep doing the very things that CAUSED our economy to meltdown. Yeah lets keep making the same mistake and expect different results. You are unbelieveably stupid. STOP pretending you have the slightest idea what you are talking about while discussing things so far above your head, so much more than anyone as stupid as you could possibly comprehend and just STFU
May 1st, 2009 at 6:42 pmneoparody Says:
medicare is break the bank expensive! i say turn that shit over to the dogs!
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When you are 65 years old, you can say any damned thing you want – you have the right to reject medicare – I personally don’t care what you do at that ripe old age. Obama is going to revisit medicare to make necessary changes and that is just fine with me as I have secondary insurance as well.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:42 pmCFP and neoparody are dito heads:
1. ditto head
Any person who loves the Rush Limbaugh radio show. Ditto heads totally agree with Rush’s opinions and stand behind him without question. The word ditto was first used by a caller on his show who agreed with the accolades given Rush by a previous caller. The praise Rush was given by callers was becoming too long winded and Rush promoted the use of ditto by his callers as a means to be brief and to show their approval at the same time.
2. ditto head
A person, usually of low intelligence, that has been programmed or brainwashed by political activist Rush Limbaugh into believing that the fallacies created on his show are real.
So sorry …..
May 1st, 2009 at 6:43 pmHelen Rainier Says:
what an amazing statement of stupidity. How is it possible?
All the toxic fertilizer run-off from Iowa has to end up somewhere.
That would be my guess.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:43 pmEugene atrax robustus Debs – oh blah BLAH blah just shut the freak up for once you whiny bum.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:43 pmneoparody Says: 53
YOU are a moron just in case you were too stupid to know EVEN THAT.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:43 pmneoparody Says:
the rock is a republican just in case you didnt know!
That explains everything! Too much blunt force trauma will make you do strange things.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:44 pmIts failed ideas like this, trickle down tax cuts, that are hurtng the GOP, and yet they want more of the same.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:44 pmNot all republicans are stupid; but most stupid people call themselves republican.
Just look at state public school test scores. Blue states like Minnesota, Wisconsin, et. al. always score higher than Alabama, Georgia, Texas, et.al.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:45 pmliberals think they own intelligence yet they cant even manage our economy and national security. how two years has made a difference. they go around telling people they can or can’t succeed. they’re very cliquish and material people. obsessed with money.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:46 pmNeo, your fake troll act is wearing out. Get some new material.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:46 pmneoparasite says:
Is that the best ya got? I expected more someone of your VINTAGE stupidity. You are stupid NP. A plague rat of stupidity. A high level moron. You stink up this site because you KNOW you are far too stupid to contribute to it. That is YOUR burden to bear and trust me you will bear it to your grave stupid is your defining characteristic. So since you are wasting electrons why not just go pour yourself a nice cool glass of STFU
May 1st, 2009 at 6:46 pmgovernment school test scores! what a measure of intelligence. when you liberals stop finding ways to pit one group against another, including legislating the cutting off of success to people you feel are below you, let me know.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:48 pmjust wait until the liberals advance science and technology – that means it’ll be easier for a mother to find a fault with her baby and abort it!
May 1st, 2009 at 6:49 pmneoparasite:
I am not sure anyone said we OWN intelligence but it is without QUESTION you DOMINATE stupidity. It is YOURS. You define it. After 8 years of Bush ruining the economy, in office during the worst terrorist attack in US history you want to talk about OBAMA after a scant 100 days and what he cant do because he hasnt cleaned up Bushs catastropies immediatly? Well ok that was a very good demonstration of how stupid you are. Also that you have no sense of irony. That is to be expected it takes higher brain function to recognize and higher brain function simply isnt in your future.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:50 pm64 neoparody
very old and worn out talking points… will not work here.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:50 pmnobody gives a shit about wasteland blue states by the way. people are flocking to the south just in case you didn’t know.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:50 pmincluding legislating the cutting off of success to people you feel are below you, let me know.
I think Neoparody has slipped into neo-rehash.
You’re seriously not funny, dude.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:51 pmIs it too late to abort neoparody?
May 1st, 2009 at 6:52 pmpeople are flocking to the south just in case you didn’t know.
It must be the bar-b-que.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:52 pmI dont get it, everything that President Obama does they say no. Repugs dont care if its good for our country or not, its allways no,no,no. They are the party of no and thats one of the reasons why they are becoming irrelevant. GOOD RIDDANCE!
May 1st, 2009 at 6:52 pmneoparasite if your agenda was to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt how brainwashed and stupid you are you have succeeded. Wasteland blue states like California with the sixth largest economy in the entire world all by itself the number one agricultural state in the US? Or New York? Yeah you take Mississippi, I will keep California and we can watch you morons re-enact the Lord of the Flies. You are the most astonishingly clueless and ignorant poster imaginable
May 1st, 2009 at 6:53 pmTo the trolls, (you know who you are) do you remember the term – jobless recovery?
May 1st, 2009 at 6:53 pmi’m going to be here tomorrow and the day after and the day after because you know in your heart, with every fiber of your being, with every decibel of your laugh that you adore my presence. you cherish me. in fact, you would probably pay to hold me in your arms on a breezy night!
May 1st, 2009 at 6:54 pmsscncturn64 Says:
I dont get it, everything that President Obama does they say no.
It’s the Terrible Two’s Party.
No! No! No! No!
May 1st, 2009 at 6:55 pmThe GOPers remind me of this Monty Python sketch.
Knights Who Say “Nee”: Nee… nee… nee… nee.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:55 pmArthur: Who are you?
Head Knight: We are the Knights Who Say “Nee.”
Arthur: No… not The Knights Who Say “Nee!”
Head Knight: The same.
the blue states are actually on track to lose reps in 2010.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:56 pmIt’s NOT “just because” of something you came up with, moron BLUNT. NON-SEQUITER!
May 1st, 2009 at 6:57 pmNo neoparasite. We pity you. We are sorry for anyone so stupid and pathetic they think they are clever posting the pitiful bilge you post. We pity the fact your life is so sad and dismal that you think it fun to come here to try to annoy us and we pity you that you are so stupid you dont GET that you are too pathetic to even pull that off. Get help. Posting here, getting slapped around like the punkass troll you are deserves wont help you face how stupid and pathetic you are and are always going to be.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:58 pmAnd yes you do vote NO, now that you mention it, in your self indicting defence of being the party of NO.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:59 pmThe GOP should change their name to NOP.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:59 pmneoparody Says:
the blue states are actually on track to lose reps in 2010.
Now that’s funny! See, you just need to go over the top, to get the parody right. That lame crap you were peddling before felt contrived, but this is fresh wingnuttery!
Kudos.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:59 pmNeopunk spews: people are flocking to the south just in case you didn’t know.
For NASCAR and WWF. I must admit, the weather is nice in the south.
May 1st, 2009 at 7:00 pmbarfly, you will be loved.
May 1st, 2009 at 7:00 pmneoparody Says:
barfly, you will be loved.
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And you will still be stupid and pathetic
May 1st, 2009 at 7:01 pmpeople really are flocking to the south for the lower taxes and sunnier whether. not to mention, to get away from clogging regulations that make it tough to do business.
May 1st, 2009 at 7:02 pmThese Republican’ts all need a psychological evaluation.
May 1st, 2009 at 7:03 pmyou can knock on nascar and wwe all you want. the fact is that you dont run these companies nor do you prosper like they do. theyre above you.
May 1st, 2009 at 7:03 pmeugene, you will always be a copy and paste brat.
May 1st, 2009 at 7:03 pmneoparody Says:
barfly, you will be loved.
If my black girlfriend read your mash note, she would kick both our asses, and then she’d want me to have rough sex, again. And after last night, I just don’t have the strength, so I’ll pass.
May 1st, 2009 at 7:07 pmneoparasite
eugene, you will always be a copy and paste brat.
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I do very little cut and paste except when sourcing an argument but then why would I expect you to make sense now? You are stupid. You are nothing but an ignorant punkass troll. Your ignorance is a stench on the board. Do us all a favor and just STFU
May 1st, 2009 at 7:14 pmAs for being GOOD ON SECURITY, where are those WMDS and BIN LADEN?
Bush had to have known that OBL was on dialysis, and when he said “We’ll git him, dead or alive,” he was counting on liver failure to do his dirty work.
May 1st, 2009 at 7:14 pm“Just because we’re in a situation now where we vote no doesn’t mean we are the ‘party of no’ or have no ideas,” said former House Republican Whip Roy Blunt. “This adds another way of getting those ideas out there.”
Hence, explaining why his name is Blunt, and not Sharp!
May 1st, 2009 at 7:17 pm‘The Council for A New America’ ???
May 1st, 2009 at 7:19 pmAre you kidding me? The GOP needs a lot more than rebranding if they can’t even figure out IT’S ALREADY A NEW AMERICA!!!
It became a new America when the arrogant, ignorant, obstinate reich wing LOSERS were voted out last November!
The only way to rebrand the GOP will be to end it!
barfly at #98 asks, “As for being GOOD ON SECURITY, where are those WMDS and BIN LADEN?”
But the Bushies knew where OBL was:
“Two months before September 11 Osama bin Laden flew to Dubai for 10 days for treatment at the American hospital, where he was visited by the local CIA agent, according to the French newspaper Le Figaro.
The disclosures are known to come from French intelligence which is keen to reveal the ambiguous role of the CIA, and to restrain Washington from extending the war to Iraq and elsewhere.”
May 1st, 2009 at 7:22 pmhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/nov/01/afghanistan.terrorism
in fact, you would probably pay to hold me in your arms on a breezy night!
Maybe for a second, just before you do a header over the railing…
May 1st, 2009 at 7:25 pm“Just because we’re in a situation now where we vote no doesn’t mean we are the ‘party of no’ or have no ideas,” said former House Republican Whip Roy Blunt , who is running for Senate in Missouri and signed the letter. “This adds another way of getting those ideas out there.”
And what “ideas” would that be Mr. Blunt? All your ideas to date have been nothing but recycled old ideas. And if you aren’t the party of “no” then why have you voted “no” on everything that President Obama tries to do.
May 1st, 2009 at 7:29 pmDid you hear the latest? Almost have a Georgia voters want to SECEDE… The RUBES shall RISE AGAIN!!
Right after the stimulus check is direct-deposited…
Dixie Chickens, is more like it.
May 1st, 2009 at 7:29 pmsecede to where?
May 1st, 2009 at 7:35 pmAre there any real right-wingers in here or is everybody just responding to neoparody? Y’all realize he’s just pretending to be a conservative, right?
May 1st, 2009 at 7:36 pmas soon as climate change brings the dengue and the malaria and the hotness and the assorted other unpleasantnesses…Than of course it will be the we wanna join you Yankees. Fickle mofos aren’t they…
May 1st, 2009 at 7:37 pmY’all realize he’s just pretending to be a conservative, right?
May 1st, 2009 at 7:39 pm—
How is it possible anyone could not realize that?
republicans hate facts Says:
Did you hear the latest? Almost have a Georgia voters want to SECEDE… The RUBES shall RISE AGAIN!!
Actually you don’t have that right RHF. It’s a majority of Republicans in GA that would like to sedede. Personally, I think it would be a great idea if GA seceded. That would eliminate two Republican’t Senators.
May 1st, 2009 at 7:40 pmneoparody Says:
the blue states are actually on track to lose reps in 2010.
And what facts do you have to back up that claim? Facts…Republicans don’t need no stinkin facts. You think if you say something enough times, it will automatically become true. What a serious waste of space you right wingers are.
May 1st, 2009 at 7:43 pmSorry, but when you idiots (Repubs) vote NO on everything, even things that will help the country enormously, you totally deserve to be the Party of No. You are obstructive, divisive, racist, anti-government (now that it’s Democrats in power) and, to be really honest- lying ignorant traitors. Don’t try to tell us you aren’t, because you prove every day, with every hateful, racist, ignorant comment that you are. Go away, regroup, come back with honesty & love of country, & maybe someone will believe you. But can you ever do that? Unlikely, because it calls for apologies & forgiveness, something the Repubs cannot comprehend.
May 1st, 2009 at 7:43 pmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…
May 1st, 2009 at 7:45 pmNO!
NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO,……….
I have a question. I haven’t been around a lot lately, but, has neoparody ever backed up any of his inane statements with facts to support what he is saying. You know, like a link to a credible news source or something like that.
Does he really think that just because he says something, it must be true?
May 1st, 2009 at 7:46 pmneoparody Says:
“liberals think they own intelligence yet they cant even manage our economy and national security. how two years has made a difference. they go around telling people they can or can’t succeed. they’re very cliquish and material people. obsessed with money.”
Hey right-winger, take a deep breath and think over what you just wrote. Your dear president Bush jr. inherited huge surpluses and a robust economy and gave 90% of it to the multi-millionaires and billionaires and in the process ran our country into the ground, where even conservatives admit
that we are facing our worst financial crisis since The Great Depression.
Regarding national security, I’ll remind you that it was on Cheney’s and Bush Jr.’s watch. Then National Security Advisor Condolezza Rice didn’t even know what al qaeda was. This was according to terrorist expert Richard Clarke. They ignored terrorism prior to 9-11, slashed counter-terrorism funding by 75 million dollars and on September 10th, 2001 proposed slashing counter-terror funding in half. If you think it is wise to blame President Clinton for 9-11, think again!
President Clinton actions and initiatives:
1. Developed this nation’s first anti-terrorism policy, and appointed the first national coordinator of anti-terrorist efforts.
2. The Clinton Administration stopped cold the Al Qaeda millennium hijacking and bombing plots.
3. President Clinton tried to kill Osama bin Laden and disrupt Al Qaeda through preemptive strikes (efforts denounced by the G.O.P.).
4. The Department of Justice under the Clinton Administration brought the perpetrators of the first World Trade Center bombing and CIA killings to justice.
5. President Clinton did not blame the Administration of George H.W. Bush for the first World Trade Center bombing, even though it occurred 38 days after Bush left office. However, he worked indefatigably, even obsessively – and successfully – to stop further terrorist attacks from occurring in the United States.
6. President Clinton named the Hart-Rudman commission to report on the nature of terrorist threats and major steps to be taken to combat terrorism.
7. President Clinton sent legislation to Congress to tighten airport security. (Remember, this is before 911) The legislation was defeated by the Republicans because of opposition from the airlines.
8. President Clinton sent legislation to Congress to allow for better tracking of terrorist funding. It was defeated by the Republicans in the Senate because of opposition from banking interests.
9. President Clinton sent legislation to Congress to add tagents to explosives, to allow for better tracking of explosives used by terrorists. It was defeated by the Republicans because of opposition from the NRA.
10. President Clinton increased the budget of the FBI for counterterrorism by over 350%, and tripled overall funding for counterterrorism.
11. President Clinton created a national stockpile of drugs and vaccines including 40 million doses of smallpox vaccine.
12. Robert Oakley, President Reagan’s Ambassador for Counterterrorism stated of the Clinton Administration and their efforts against terrorism, “Overall, I give them very high marks” and “The only major criticism I have is the obsession with Osama bin Laden.”
13. Barton Gellman in the Washington Post put it best, “By any measure available, President Clinton left office having given greater priority to terrorism than any president before him” and was the “first administration to undertake a systematic anti-terrorist effort.”
When people say, “Elections don’t matter” they should remember the fact that 9-11 did not occur on President Clinton’s watch, and it had nothing to do with being lucky, it had everything to do with a president who recognized threats to our National Security and prevented attacks from occurring. President Clinton recognized the danger of Al Qaeda and was proactive rather than reactive.
When a president recognizes a threat to our national security and is proactive in dealing with such a threat, the president can work with and push intelligence and law enforcement agencies to cooperate, in order to a prevent a potential national tragedy such as the 2000 millennium hijacking and bombing plots.
President Bush’s reaction to the August 6, 2001 warning, Bin Laden determined to strike the United States. Bush stated, “you’ve covered your ass.” Then continued his vacation and never asked one follow-up question nor even held a meeting with the principles in his cabinet to discuss this threat to our national security.
By the bin Laden is still alive and plotting attacks on us.
May 1st, 2009 at 7:51 pmBETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA
In order to gain the political control they’ve enjoyed over the last ten years, Republican moderates and fiscal conservatives made a pact with the devil (faux Christians, bigots and misanthropes) to achieve the numbers they needed to defeat Democrats. They made a strategic decision to manipulate and exploit the ignorance, fears and hatreds of dysfunctional and vulnerable voters in order to win elections rather than lose them by being intellectually and morally honest.
Today, those who conspired with the devil are caught between wanting to disassociate themselves with and or casting out the devil they empowered and the karmic reality that they don’t have the numbers to hold on to or regain power without continuing to accept and “advocate” the immoral values, hypocrisies and corruptions that are dividing and destroying their party.
The survival of today’s shrinking Republican Party has become so dependent on extremism that they have no significant power left WITH or WITHOUT the support of America’s increasingly pernicious lunatic fringe.
The idiom “caught between the devil and the deep blue sea” is certainly appropriate as Republicans are facing the dilemma of choosing between two equally undesirable alternatives that both result in Republican impotence in mainstream American politics. They are suffering the consequences of their treachery.
Their irresponsible propping up of George W. Bush cost them their credibility, and their disgraceful and shameless licking of Rush Limbaugh’s storm trooper boots is costing them their viability.
May 1st, 2009 at 7:56 pmREPUBLICANS ARE AMERICA’S ENEMY WITHIN
Republicans ARE practicing seditious DEMAGOGUERY and insurrectionary OBSTRUCTIONISM intended to destabilize our economy for purposes of political exploitation.
Republicans AREN’T making a sincere effort to STOP the bleeding THEIR incompetent leadership and failed policies created. Instead, they’re using conflicting economic theories as a smokescreen to conceal their subversive agenda, which is to cause President Obama and America to fail so they can blame Democrats for the consequences of THEIR calamitous mismanagement.
Republicans ARE preposterously professing that THEIR disgraceful political WHORING had nothing to do with the banking, real estate, stock market and employment catastrophes that resulted.
Republicans ARE trying to hamstring Democrats to prevent them from exposing the damage caused during a Republican presidency.
Republicans ARE offering controversial arguments they know no one can agree on to disrupt and prevent progressive change. They’d rather divide America and create political gridlock than endure the political consequences of effective Democratic governance. That’s how they gained power and that’s how they’re trying to retain it.
Republicans AREN’T the LOYAL OPPOSITION; they ARE the ENEMY WITHIN whose personal priorities have eroded their moral and ethical standards to the point that duplicity and betrayal are their preferred modus operandi.
It’s one thing to advocate their conservative beliefs; it’s another thing entirely to willfully sabotage America’s government because a successful Democratic presidency would not be vulnerable to the greed, fears and hatreds that have produced and sustained the radical Republican corporatism and extremism that have poisoned and crippled America.
May 1st, 2009 at 8:01 pmActually, I wasn’t. Funny that you jump to conclude I was saying something negative there. I like watching NASCAR for the crashes. WWF for the drama and ladies on display.
Seriously, you aren’t here to discuss anything. You’re just a troll – go away please.
May 1st, 2009 at 8:02 pmneoparody Says:
nobody gives a shit about wasteland blue states by the way. people are flocking to the south just in case you didn’t know.
We is one family who left the south [Central Florida] because we couldn’t stand the constant WHINE of you neocons with all the bigotry, racism and outright hatredwe observed. We love being in Northern VA where most people here are open-minded about all the issues. No more blatant hatred, bigotry or racism. Haven’t encountered any uneducated, inbred or white trash so it’s wonderful. You all can have the south – it’s hot, dry and stinks.
May 1st, 2009 at 8:13 pmSo actions DO NOT speak louder than words?
Got it.
May 1st, 2009 at 8:55 pmBlunt is playing semantics with the word “no”. This reminds me of the “We want country to fail”. The Republicans are enlightening the rest of us of a deeper meaning of the English language. Torture is not really torture, weapons of mass destruction means Iraq freedom. Think of a vibrant economy for 8 years with unparallel growth, this was the results of Bushes’ tax cuts.
This is what you get when the Republicans get divine inspiration from their god (money).
I’m not buying it!!!!!!!!
May 1st, 2009 at 9:32 pmWhat is about the concept of “NO” don’t these airheads in the Republican caucus understand? When you vote “NO” on a consistent basis just because you want to play games and don’t care about this country one iota….You are the obstructionist party…THE PARTY OF NO!!! Mr. Blunt!
May 1st, 2009 at 9:43 pmosage Says:
BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA
In order to gain the political control they’ve enjoyed over the last ten years, Republican moderates and fiscal conservatives made a pact with the devil (faux Christians, bigots and misanthropes) to achieve the numbers they needed to defeat Democrats.
The only thing this “pact” has gotten them is that only 21% of Americans identify with the Republican party. They lost 4% last month alone. I guess it isn’t working.
May 1st, 2009 at 9:49 pmMadasHelinVA Says:
We love being in Northern VA …You all can have the south – it’s hot, dry and stinks.
Welcome from a native, but I fear once you experience our hot and humid you will gain a new appreciation for dry.
May 1st, 2009 at 9:56 pm“Just because we’re in a situation now where we vote no doesn’t mean we are the ‘party of no’ or have no ideas,” said former House Republican Whip Roy Blunt , who is running for Senate in Missouri and signed the letter. “This adds another way of getting those ideas out there.”
Their ideas were what again? I don’t believe they have anything that hasn’t already been tried and failed spectacularly. Memo to Blunt: when we call you “the party of no” we’re just pointing out that you always vote “no.” If you cop to always voting “no,” then you’ve got to wear that shoe.
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flight Says:
Blunt is playing semantics with the word “no”.
That’s the only tactic they have, on every issue. Notice how everything they do just comes down to redefining words? That’s not the same thing as having an idea.
May 1st, 2009 at 10:01 pmThe Republican party appears to be opening its rebranding extravaganza by going on the defensive. Beautiful. Keep up the good work guys.
May 1st, 2009 at 10:02 pmRepublicans! WE’RE NOT THE PARTY OF NO.
May 1st, 2009 at 10:19 pmHere is a report providing examples of GOP obstruction.
http://www.ourfuture.org/obstruction
Take a look at the GOP Voting Record in 110th Congress http://assets.ourfuture.org/documents/con-20081009-obstruction-real-story-110.pdf
In just the first year, Republicans filibustered more legislation, and required more cloture votes to break those filibusters, than in any Congress in recent history. By the time this term ends, Congress could well more than double the number of cloture votes of previous Congresses — including the ones that Republicans controlled and complained of Democratic ‘obstruction.’
This is the result of a deliberate effort by the Republican minority to undercut the will of the majority of the American public, expressed when voters placed a Democratic majority in control of both houses of Congress. The filibuster, a procedure unique to the Senate to block an up-or-down vote on legislation unless a 60-vote supermajority agrees to proceed, has been historically used by both parties. But it has never been used as routinely as it has been by Republicans since January 2007.
“The strategy of being obstructionists can work or fail…and so far it’s working for us. Democrats are the ones taking the blame for not getting anything done.” – Trent Lott in Roll Call April 18, 2007
May 1st, 2009 at 10:20 pmThe Gas Oil Party Says NO!
Yippie Ky YaY!
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May 2nd, 2009 at 12:33 amTranslation of what Blunt just said: Just because we walk like a duck and quack like a duck and look like a duck doesn’t make us a duck.
May 2nd, 2009 at 12:33 amBlunt says that they are forced to vote no.
Will Rush Limbaugh criticize him for playing the victim card ? Oh boo hoo, they made me do it. I’m a victim without any personal responsibility. Boo hoo.
May 2nd, 2009 at 12:46 amThe new GOP “zero net gain” contract“the National “Torture” Council for a New America”,which is a derivative the GOP borrowed right off of the Obama-Biden campaign?
My contract is with the US Constitution!!
May 2nd, 2009 at 1:34 amthat should be the National Council for a New America
May 2nd, 2009 at 1:36 amYou say you have “new” ideas do you Mr. Blunt? Hmmm… Well would these “new” ideas involve TAX CUTS maybe? Could these “new” ideas have any focus on cutting back on spending for social programs and the like? Do your “new” ideas in any way involve excessive military funding? Yeah, that’s what I thought. You’ve got no new solutions just the same old crap that’s screwed us time and time again.
May 2nd, 2009 at 2:04 ammilitary spending*?
there fixed
~I’m fine with spending on our troops and veterans of course.~
May 2nd, 2009 at 2:05 amWhat I don’t get is why do they insist on just changing their wording on old, pale, staled, failed ideology? Why do they brag about changing their wording instead of changing their ideology? what is their purpose in life? How can they change mankind for the better…?
They LiE so much that anyone would be a fool to believe their crooked a22es.
Every freakin week they run with some random bu-lshit. their answers don’t fit common, sensible questions. they don’t care, they keep rambling on.
They look like imbeciles but they keep on coming, as if they don’t look stupid.
IDIOTs
Everyday I’m proven right. It’s never fails, anyone can figure them out except themselves. It’s easy to do too; I’ve got them down pat.
0n any given situation just imagine the stupidest outcome.
teabaggers are I Love Lucy on meth.
May 2nd, 2009 at 2:43 amG2U Says:
The GOPers remind me of this Monty Python sketch.
I’d say it’s more the The Argument sketch:
Look. I came here for an argument!
No, you didn’t.
Sorta like Neoparody’s non-parody.
May 2nd, 2009 at 3:37 amSo… men can’t do these jobs? O.O WOW! Here all this time I thought men could do those jobs too. OMG! Well imagine that! So, math, finances, higher learning, and patient care just don’t fit men very well?
You know neoparody you need to realize two things:
1)Those are jobs that NEED to be filled, or more positions for these jobs need to be made available. THEY ARE HELPFUL AND NEEDED! Sorry if jobs that require carpentry, bricklaying, and auto mechanical skills seem to be in short supply! If you haven’t noticed they’re not exactly based upon industries that are flourishing right now! Nevertheless, even if they were you’d never stop to think that a woman could do ANY of those jobs.
2) Don’t you think making it sound like being a teacher or a nurse or someone who might be mistaken for some man’s secretary are jobs that can be classified as “woman’s work” is just a tiny bit SEXIST?
May 2nd, 2009 at 4:00 ammedicare is break the bank expensive! i say turn that shit over to the dogs!
Way2go for that senior vote there repubs! FYI: they are a very reliable voting demographic!
May 2nd, 2009 at 4:05 amthe rock is a republican just in case you didnt know!
So……….. ?????????????? Your point?
May 2nd, 2009 at 4:09 amUmm… funny you should say that I just left the south. LOL so uh no no I think you’re a little confused there.
However, I am more than willing to admit when I’m proven wrong. So, if u can show me the data that proves I’ll accept it. It won’t mean I think it’s for the reason you claim, but I’ll accept it. If you wanted to further prove the reason you’ll need to show proof of that too. I need hard facts. Oh, and mind you FOX News polls and those of partisan pollsters don’t count. Mainstream polls please.
May 2nd, 2009 at 4:26 amneoparody Says:
the blue states are actually on track to lose reps in 2010.
Dang! Let me take a screenie of that so that should you still be trolling this forum I can repost it for your benefit. I’m sure you’ll have some ranting and raving response, but you’re not going to be able to deny that the number of Dems INCREASED and the number of Rethugs DECREASED.
May 2nd, 2009 at 4:31 amGame of Life Says:
What I don’t get is why do they insist on just changing their wording on old, pale, staled, failed ideology? Why do they brag about changing their wording instead of changing their ideology?
They’ve held Congress ‘94 to ‘06 and the Presidency ‘00 to ‘08 entirely on Rovian “control the terminology” tactics. Good for them, bravo. Unfortunately it comes with a downside: they no longer know how to do anything else.
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Game of Life Says:
teabaggers are I Love Lucy on meth.
OK, now I seriously want gay marriage to be legal, because I’m guessing you’re a guy and I want to propose to you for that line. And I’m straight!
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ladybastet Says:
So… men can’t do these jobs?
Clue: occasionally “neoparody” forgets he’s supposed to use that login account to post hateful right-wing rhetoric, and posts a left-wing opinion. I’m convinced that this is someone using multiple accounts so sometimes he can pretend to be a wingnut.
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ladybastet Says:
Umm… funny you should say that I just left the south.
Congratulations!!!
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Just to entertain neoparody’s thesis that “the South” is picking up large amounts of citizens moving there, and thus will have more Congresspersons after 2010 (how does that work with the census?) wouldn’t an influx of Northerners shift “the South” blueward? That wouldn’t be a bad thing, from a liberal point of view. We’d just be infiltrating y’all.
May 2nd, 2009 at 4:48 amGame of Life Says:
teabaggers are I Love Lucy on meth.
OK, now I seriously want gay marriage to be legal, because I’m guessing you’re a guy and I want to propose to you for that line. And I’m straight!
HAHAHAHAHA
May 2nd, 2009 at 6:23 amThe Republicans are only the “party of no” to 95% of the population.
As soon as legislation comes before them that provides inappropriate advantage to rich people, they will start voting yes again.
May 2nd, 2009 at 7:18 amA Party of No member is telling us when they vote ‘no’ they’re not the Party of No? Shocker!
May 2nd, 2009 at 8:50 amThere are at least 25 million Americans who know that Jeb Bush was the most vital link in Cheating them out of their vote in 2000, and putting his big, stupid, brother into the President’s Office.
McCain is the Mother of all political flipfloppers, who we have just seen can’t manage a campaign, and can’t hire good help.
The credentials of the folks the RepoTalbans have put on their “Daddy help us” committee (the second one they have needed recently) are going to come up with the same bad ideas that the Repos have come up with for the last 8+ years.
Good, then I won’t have to worry too much for another year or two.
May 2nd, 2009 at 8:55 amI’m sure that Blunt and the Rethug trolls who contaminate the gene pool with their racist puke will LOVE this:
Pa. teens cleared of serious charges in beating
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM – 10 hours ago
POTTSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — An all-white jury on Friday acquitted two Pennsylvania teenagers of all serious charges against them stemming from the fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant last summer.
Brandon Piekarsky, 17, was acquitted of third-degree murder and ethnic intimidation, while Derrick Donchak, 19, was acquitted of aggravated assault and ethnic intimidation. Both were convicted of simple assault.
The defendants hugged each other after the verdicts were read, and friends and family members clapped and cheered, leading to a rebuke from the judge and sheriff’s deputies.
After four days of often conflicting testimony, jurors were left to sort out the facts of an epithet-filled brawl that pitted popular football players against a 25-year-old Hispanic man who appeared willing to fight.
Prosecutors cast Ramirez as the victim of a gang of drunken white teens motivated by their dislike of their small coal town’s burgeoning Hispanic population. But the jury evidently sided with defense attorneys who called Ramirez the aggressor and characterized the brawl as a street fight that ended tragically.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gtcSK8qaGGVDikaEFhYD_pgjOLrwD97TRV3G0
May 2nd, 2009 at 9:43 amAnd just because they enjoy having sex with other men doesn’t make them gay.
May 2nd, 2009 at 9:50 amConservativeForProgress Says:
The economy was going pretty well until the Dems took charge of the House in 2006. Are you better off now than you were three years ago?
You do understand the concept of a bubble, don’t you. If not, Wiki, 1987 Black Monday and the Savings and Loan Fiasco. Same concept as then. And The Republicans were in charge.
May 2nd, 2009 at 10:26 amAnd just because Republicans enjoy torture doesn’t mean they are the party of torture.
Just because the Republicans enjoy hate doesn’t mean they are the party of hate.
DOUBLE STANDARDS. It’s the Repuke way.
May 2nd, 2009 at 10:26 amAnd just because theirs is the party favored by racists doesn’t mean that they are all racists (ever met a klansman that claimed to be a democrat?). Eventually they are going to have to learn not to stand so close to the brush if they don’t want to be tarred with it.
May 2nd, 2009 at 10:37 amWhile not all republicans are wingnuts, it seems that all wingnuts end up being republicans.
May 2nd, 2009 at 10:54 amBlunt force ignorance.
May 2nd, 2009 at 11:03 amYou’re absolutely right Roy it means you are the party of No Future & No New Ideas.
May 2nd, 2009 at 11:05 amkasinca Says:
While not all republicans are wingnuts, it seems that all wingnuts end up being republicans.
May 2nd, 2009 at 11:08 am“““““““““““““““““““““““““““““
It’s a disease. One the CDC has no antibiotic for.
As John Stuart Mill observed, while it is true that not all conservative people are stupid, it is most certainly true that most stupid people are conservative.
And stupid people vastly outnumber intelligent people. Since 1980, the Republican Party has stopped trying to come up with intelligent, rational ideas to try to attract people to their party. They made a conscious choice and said, “Hey, no one’s really trying to get the votes of stupid people. Lets go after them.”
More importantly, they have decided to campaign on fear rather than reason because when people are scared, they don’t stop to think rationally. If someone comes up to you and yells, “Get out, the building is on fire,” you’re probably not going to argue or ask questions. Your fear instincts have been tapped, and your need for survival tells you to run. It’s only when you feel you are no longer in danger that you stop to ask questions like, “What happened? What’s actually burning? Was it really necessary for me to evacuate?” The Republicans try to do whatever they can to keep you from taking that moment to stop and ask questions. Because they know that if you did, you would realize that much of what they say doesn’t make logical sense.
So, between deliberately targeting the less intelligent among us and putting out a message of fear and ignorance, the Republican party is trying to get people to vote who would otherwise stay home.
The evangelical conservatives (a/k/a Christian Conservatives) would probably never go out and vote for a Democrat, but if the Republican does not seem religious enough to them, they’ll just stay home on Election Day.
The xenophobic bigots would probably never vote for a Democrat, but if the Republican doesn’t seem anti-immigrant (legal or otherwise) to them, they’ll probably just stay home on Election Day.
The libertarian Second Amendment Absolutists would probably never vote for a Democrat (especially if the Democrat ever uttered a syllable in favor of gun control), but if the Republican doesn’t seem pro-gun rights enough to them, they’ll probably just stay home on Election Day.
The anti-homosexual bigots would probably never vote for a Democrat, but if the Republican does not seem anti-gay rights enough for them, they’ll probably just stay home on Election Day.
The Republicans keep campaigning on these issues not because a majority of the country agrees with them (we don’t), but because if they don’t campaign on these themes, not very many people would come out on Election Day and vote for Republicans. And they do this every two years. They have no new ideas, and the ideas they have will never work. (At least, not if you believe in having a nation that cares about its citizens.) But if they don’t trot out God, Gays and Guns every two years, they would win very few elections.
May 2nd, 2009 at 11:26 amOT
May 2nd, 2009 at 12:02 pmNearly half of Georgia Republicans would like to secede; a large proportion of Texans as well as Alaskans would prefer to leave the union. There is something drastically wrong (looking at the geographic/demographic, I suspect we are hearing from the racists, bigots and the “red neck” population – not well educated, not deep thinking, not willing to accept a Democratic prsident, and certainly not a black man).
Do we have to wait for all these people to die off before we can progress, or will the repugs continue to court them and validate them for the votes they bring?
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Marie Says:
Do we have to wait for all these people to die off before we can progress, or will the repugs continue to court them and validate them for the votes they bring?
Marie,
An informed, thinking voter does not vote Republican. As long as there are ignorant people out there, the Republicans will try to get their votes, and they will say anything to do it. But one thing they will almost never articulate is a good idea. Good ideas only appeal to thinking people, and the Republicans are not trying to get the votes of thinking people.
May 2nd, 2009 at 12:28 pm#164 SanaLBurda Says:
Flagged. Please stop posting multiple links to your own blog while pretending they’re something else. And please stop doing it on every thread. Thank you.
You are welcome to come back when you have something else to say, preferably something related to the thread or another person’s comment.
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May 2nd, 2009 at 12:51 pmThose blue dog demos have been saying NO quite often, too. Here is an example of ignorant nonsense coming from Obama. His stupid hating on “speculators”. Obama has no clue.
Oh, those terrible speculators, hedge funds, vulture funds invested in these bonds. Tell, the messiah, Obama, that speculators are the lubrication to our financial system. Without those willing to make sizable investments in risky credit securities our whole system will not function correctly. These people use investors money, not taxpayer funded welfare, to make a risk adjusted return. They are a much needed part of a capitalist system that has created enormous wealth and innovation in the last 200 years. No other economic system does this. None.
May 2nd, 2009 at 1:42 pmkwsventures,
Where are the capitalist now if they are so great? They’re a bunch of evil pirates with suits and ties with no allegiance to any country. Capitalism unchecked equals financial disaster. That’s what the government is supposed to do. Unfortunately, our political system is corrupt and did nothing. Agreed, that this may or may not change with a new president. But there will be a point where the 95% of the world won’t be able to take anymore abuse. When that’ll be – no one knows. However, when the world pops, I’m sure they have an escape plan. Do you?
May 2nd, 2009 at 3:54 pmGo Freegans… Live simple and let the invisible hand be the one that chokes them…
May 2nd, 2009 at 4:16 pmTo provide a little background, Roy Blunt’s brother, Matt Blunt, ex-gov of Missouri, was reported in today’s paper to be joining the lobbying firm run by John Ashcroft
May 2nd, 2009 at 4:38 pm“Blunt: “Just because we’re in a situation now where we vote no doesn’t mean we are the ‘party of no.’
Ahhh the irrelevance of the GOP…
May 2nd, 2009 at 5:04 pm
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kwsventures Says:
YOU are a brainwashed moron. They play in a rigged game that even after you have been taken at least twice in the last thirty years you are too stupid to understand. RISKS are socialized you idiot. Then the profits are PRIVATIZED. This is what happened in the Savings and Loan Scandal and again in this meltdown. They take risks that are NO RISK that no one playing with their OWN money would take because there are huge shortterm profits and WHEN it all falls apart the taxpayers take the liability. They are able to keep getting away with it because of brainwashed idiots like YOU that put them on a pedestal for exploiting YOU and the rest of the taxpaying public. No other system is as dependent upon keeping people as stupid as YOU as brainwashed as you are. It is so pathetic to watch people so brainwashed kiss the asses of those taking them to the cleaners… AGAIN
May 2nd, 2009 at 5:47 pmNo, no , no more Republicans, please.
The culture of corruption Republican Party has proven over and over again that they cannot be trusted, that they are a threat to our national and economic security.
So, no, no, no more Republicans, please.
(And no, no, no more DINO Blue Dog Democrats either).
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And lying rethuglicans are the cure? Quit listening to Rush Limpball bone head. Liberals are the wave of the future. Get out of America while you still can and don’t let the door of freedom hit you in the a$$ on the way out, pal.
May 3rd, 2009 at 8:49 pm