– Do you want to heckle the President during his address to the nation?
– Do you want to suggest that smacking around your wife doesn’t really count for assault, and neither does killing homosexuals?
– Do you want to tell foreign governments the United States can’t be trusted?
– Do you want to refute scientific research by quoting biblical prophesy?
– Do you want to declare that wives should be submissive to their husbands?
– Do you want to pass laws to establish the Bible as the word of God for all Americans?
– Do you want to scare women with a false link between breast cancer and abortion?
– Do you think stiffer penalties for anti-gay violence are a threat to your freedom?
– Do you believe that same-sex marriage is a purely socialist concept?
– Do you want someone to call Michelle Obama “uppity”?
– Did Obama’s election send you looking for a “great white hope to save the GOP”?
– Do you want to push your political agenda by exploiting the fears of senior citizens?
– Veterans?
– Parents of disabled children?
“We’ve got a Rep for that.”
{kudos to robtish, h/t to jesus’ general. Manly!}



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Do you want to appear like a totally deranged jackass? Boy do we the reps for that!
Good evening, everyone.
hahahahaha – i love that forking video
I know, right?
Do you think he could have found an announcer who sounds more like the iPhone guy in their ads? I don’t.
Thanks to the General for turning me on to this one today, but I guess it’s been around blogtopia™ this weekend, eh?
To paraphrase Obelix, “These Republicans are crazy!”
So wadda we gonna do about it?
Great video, thanks Teddy!
The only thing they do not have a rep for is getting things done to benefit the vast majority of Americans.
Yep. When I queried Barlett yesterday about the ability of the U.S. govt to do anything to alleviate the common bad, he punted. Host, Gailbraith’s son, did not demur.
Sometime check out the link — he’s documented every single claim with backup YouTubes. It’s too much GOP for one sitting, but worthwhile.
Pointing fingers and laughing is a good start. We also need to point out that they are officially the the party of whackaloons at every opportunity and do all we can to keep them exiled int the wilderness for as long as possible.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Man I’m laughing so hard the house is shaking.
I gotta watch it again!!!
No kleptocracy ever does.
Good.
i hope the apple folks have a sense of humor about this video — it really does deserve to go totally viral
Just what does a GOPer have to do before Nancy votes to censor or expel them from the House?
I say we use the Homeless test if we dress Rep Michelle Bachmann up as a homeless woman put her on a busy city street and then asked her what she thought of Obama would the local police detain her until she could get a psyche evaluation?
As far as I remember, none of them have actually tried sacrificing Girl Scouts to Mammon on the House floor. But I could be wrong.
I hope they leave this one alone, they’d be kind of silly to bother the guy. But who ever met a non-silly copyrights lawyer, anyway?
yet — who the hell knows what they are gonna try tomorrow
They only do that over on C Street.
Or a corporation with a sense of humor.
Yes we must discredit the values of the ruling class we must openly laugh at them because they excuse what they do with the thought that we want to be like them and if we were in power we would do exactly what they are doing.
But while Power Corrupts we are not powerful yet. That and Power does not corrupt all at once so just because we have power now does not mean we automatically became as bad as the GOP.
We will know when we are corrupt when we put money and ourselves over helping people.
These GOP ‘critters feed the loony base and drive real Americans away from their party. I don’t think you’ll see Nancy Pelosi do to much to turn any of them into martyrs until they actually come to fisticuffs on the House floor.
Boy, I’d sure like to see a Jane Harman/Michele Bachmann smackdown one afternoon on C-SPAN, though. Metaphorically speaking. With jello.
or pies….metaphorically speaking of course
Don’t be giving Newt any ideas:)
You want to see Jay Rockefeller in a catfight with Harman and Bachmann…?
Have to agree. At the moment they really are powerless (or would be if Harry Reid acted like a Democrat), so it behooves us to let them show the world just how stupid and crazy they really are.
Cage match jello wrestling!
J-Rock (new nickname!) saw all the netroots love Chris Dodd got last year during the FISA smackdown, and decided to get some of it for himself during health care “reform” this year. I’m not convinced by Rocky’s pretty VISTA talk during the FinComm hearing (done at Max’s behest to stall things, anyway) but I’ll take this kind of support when I can get it.
I’d like a YouTube of Rocky banging on the door to Harry Reid’s office while the Merge is going on: “Let me in….!” Apparently he’s quite pissed at being excluded, considering he chairs the FinComm’s Health Subcomm.
Somebody say pie?
And we have to have Michael “What Up!” Steele as one of the managers.
i’m trying to figure out which would have the advantage: lime green jello with pineapple chunks or a banana cream pie
I’m going with the chunks. Those things are killers.
If it is a food fight go with the jello, I couldn’t bear to see banana cream pie wasted.
but there are those nilla wafers in the banana cream….
‘Specially if by “chunk” you mean a whole pineapple.
Ok I understand why Nancy won’t do anything but the GOP has pollsters keeping the Crazy 20%er base excited scares away Women, Gays, Minorities.
I’m sure all the GOP talk about more troops for Afghanistan is costing them the votes of the troops and their families.
The GOP can’t win elections with 20% of the vote. The GOP is blaming Obama for unemployment and that could work but no Hispanic will vote for the Party of Lou Dobbs. After 30 GOP Senators voted for rapists as discussed on Lisa’s thread the GOP won’t be getting many women votes.
The GOP has the unemployment issue so why piss off the voters you need to get to 51% and win an election.
The 20%ers have no place else to go the GOP should ignore them and get the other 31% they need to win.
Well, it is “Thick Skull” Bachmann we’re talking about. It may take a whole pineapple before she notices.
I do not understand why the GOP is acting so irrationally sure they are mad they lost but its been almost a year now when will they calm down and get a real plan to win? Or must they lose another election?
I don’t think they can keep their 20% happy by saying the sensible, sane things they need to win the other 31%. Karl Rove thought he had “the math” but they had to steal Shrub’s first term, and maybe his second one as well. I really hope the last eight years go down in history as entirely illegitimate. We need to get onboard with the rest of the world in denouncing what America did those eight years.
I think thick begins to describe it, we’re looking at a solid bonehead there.
I don’t think anything short of a 2×4 will make any kind of impression there (not that I am recommending any such course of action – I kind of enjoy the sick comedy of her current derangement).
They really have become committed to this course of action. They assiduously courted the knuckle draggers until they drove off the sane constituencies (except the rich) and have no one left but the 20%ers and the 1%ers. Guess who is driving the electoral process right now. People like George Bush Sr. are starting to get nervous, but they don’t know how to take back what they see as “their” party.
GHWB was elected using the Willie Horton ad, developed by Roger Ailes. He, as much as anyone in politics, is responsible for the discourse being as raw and tawdry as it is. It’s a terrible shame to see a spymaster warmongering former President attack responsible commentators like Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow as “sick puppies” but there you are.
He oughta know.
Agreed, but IMO Obama isn’t helping with that AT ALL when he says we’re going to “look forward and not backward” and thus not hold those responsible for the bullshit of those eight years responsible. Not to mention, it seems Obama may even be continuing a lot of it.
I’m pretty sure rendition has “officially” been continued, I’m very sure indefinite detentions (without habeas corpus) is being continued, and Obama himself even voted for the FISA bullshit that basically…
well, you know. Sorry to get going again.
The GOP is not capable of devising real plans. Not sure the Dems are either. One result of the perpetual campaign mentality is that both parties have forgotten how to govern, another is that they think in only terms of 24-hour news cycles. Attention Deficit Disorder is in… sorry, I appear to have lost my train of thought.
Do you think Poppy has ever actually watched KO or Rachel?
iirc he canned rove from working on his campaign? or am i misremembering that – that there isn’t a line that poppy would not cross?
Poppy had Atwater, he hardly needed Rove.
It really starts with Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” (which is all about race), which Reagan also ran with as has every Republican since. Since their economic policies really only benefit the wealthiest 1%, they realized that they could not win elections on economic issues and seized on race and “social values” as the key to mobilizing electoral support of losing policies. The “social values” crowd includes the misogynists, homophobes, forced birthers, and the talibangelicals.
I agree the GOP needs their 20% base to win but better to lose the 20%ers who have nowhere else to go and get the 51% you need to win elections elsewhere. Unless…the GOP 20%ers control their Primary Elections new candidates with new ideas can’t get elected unless they toe the line. You can’t ge the GOP nominee for President unless you appease the 20%ers.
Pat Robertson and Ralph Reed have destroyed the GOP until GOP election losses get to big to be ignored.
Yet the Media thinks we will lose the next election? Have the Media looked at the number of GOP Senators retiring next election?
He did can Rove, from what I’ve read.
Of course, they never actually deliver anything the “values voters” want, knowing they won’t vote for the other guys. Kind of like the way the Dems treat progressives, give them a little lip-service every four years and tell them to go fuck themselves the rest of the time.
Time for me to toddle off. Take care all.
Wish I read your comment before I wrote my 51 the GOP has been car jacked by people who value belief over election, war or economic reality.
The exception that makes the rule: Hormel.
They (wisely) took the spam thing with grace and humor.
Exactly, but now the whackjobs have taken control and are electing their own candidates.
Nighters.
g’nite dr (pause) dick
Maybe a blog ocracy is the next step everyone educates themselves on issues and adds their expertise to the group. We do need more long term follow through on stuff though.
Nite Dr Dick
You remember right Rove got canned for something stupid and crass can’t remember what though.
There does appear to be a trend to try to get more progressive Dems elected. I think it will continue and grow, people are sick and tired of being courted before elections and ignored or insulted the rest of the time.
I’m sure Jennifer tells him all about it.
That was what drew W to Rove, iirc.
Karl’s giant noggin spooked Poppy.
This is funny, a few minutes ago I googled “widow hen son” to find a picture of the bespectacled genius chick from Foghorn Leghorn and one of the hits was a picture of Karl Rove.
Calling it a night. See y’all.
g’nite rat
these are just elected people ? palin isn’t included? or is she?
Who are we to argue with Google:) Nite Rat
Kinder. Gentler.
Just the lower House, dude. Not even Senators, Governors, or ex-Governors.
A Thousand Points of Might Makes Right
Evening, all-
IIRC, Rove was canned from Poppy ’92 for leaking smear stories to…wait for it…Robert Novak.
Shades of future past.
Bush caught how much flack for that lame speech but somehow Peggy got a newspaper gig out of it GOPers only fall upwords so they never notice when they are wrong.
Good Catch:)
or ex Governors and party chairmen, I guess. So this is really only a limited sample. That’s scary shit.
ding ding ding — thanks rond
Poppy was such a lame candidate.
Wasn’t Rove W’s keeper for a while during Poppy’s regime?
Memories….
Thanks, RonD
And if you read Rove’s account of first meeting W, it’s a little, um, sticky. He goes on and on about this virile outdoorsy young man with cowboy boots and a leather flying jacket, with a twinkle in his eye and a Texas accent. Sounds like the beginning of a gay p0rn0.
ewwww
of course, every time i think of republican sex i have an ewwww reaction
ewwwww!
Teddy, this was very clever! Thank you so much.
howdy teddy, suze & pups … i’m almost afraid to show up being that bachmann’s from my state. but then, most of us have an embarrassment or two in congress.
Hi Christine!
It’s been around since Thursday, with some play in the ‘sphere, but when I saw it this afternoon I knew you all would need to see it….
ndfg!
Hey ndfg!
Sit by me…
Totally just jumping in with something that hit me from the DirtyThirty: Is McCain’s mother still alive? I wonder what she thinks of her son’s vote to de-criminalize gang-rape?
I’m mildly curious what Victor Ashe is up to these days.
hey CE! *pulls up a chair, ready to dish!* seems like we haven’t been on the threads at the same time in too long!
She was alive during the Campaign if we can get her on tape with her reaction!!!
What Rove said sounds allot like what Tweety said about Bush looking so Manly with the Cod Piece and flight suit during Mission Accomplished do you doubt Rove wrote that bit for Tweety or is Tweety also in the closet?
Rove’s dad was a big gay underground guy into the bondage scene, then later in life appeared in magazines with his large collection of cockrings and other fun bondage equipment.
I never knew about Karl. Never really cared!