GOP Failure Watch Part III

Yes that's a fair point. The blue states tend to have higher abortion rates than do the red ones. Although there is some noise in that statistic, with Kansas, Texas, Georgia, and Tennessee being red states that also have high abortion rates.

It's always Texas. Most paddlings. Most death penalties. Most school prayer. Most rewritten textbooks. And all those efforts at moral instruction seem to go for naught, because Texas always seems to lead in the sin categories.

 

Based on this finding, shouldn't the bill's sponsor get his pee-pee whacked or something? Or at least pointed-to and laughed at?

 

Perhaps I should for posting in the wrong thread.

 

or me for not noticing and perpetuating it - still a GOP fail, but there is a more specific thread - so not "wrong", just not completely right

 

One of my friends from Nashville sent me this:

http://www.tennessean.com/article/2...sey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE&nclick_check=1

A reminder of why I use to live there.

 

Here is a beautiful screed being sent to voters in Ohio. No one can argue that organized racism isn't a base value of the Republican Party. The GOP is not long for the world

 

I know pretty much anything is fair game in politics, but at some point in the future couldn't Obama sue the shit out of these weasels for slander?

 

[sarcasm]GOP is rooting around for the heretofore quiet racist constituency in the swing states. I'm sure these racists are absent from the polling and are still waiting to make up their mind on who they're gonna vote for. So it totally makes sense to overtly cater to them. [/sarcasm]

Not only is this a losing strategy in the short term in that it doesn't move any votes, it just kills their brand long term. Why would you want these idiots in charge of anything? They're so blatantly incompetent.

 

IANAL, but libel and slander are hard to prove, especially for a public person like Obama, and suits are always expensive (flipside: they're also expensive to defend against).

Plus, celebrities and other public figures generally ignore tabloids and other purveyors of falsehoods because a trial would bring undeserved fame to the defendant. Sometimes, the best course of action is to not dignify the smear with a response. There's very little upside, and huge downsides, for Obama to go after these dickholes.

 

I dunno, per today's WSJ poll Romney's national numbers are improving a bit.

The Republicans are doubling down on angry white male. It still might work. The good part of the strategy is they get 100% turnout. That is not to be underestimated.

 

Two things: One: You have to belong to the "they all look alike" school to see any family resemblance, and two: maybe the GOP isn't long for this world, but this is just a more desparate, and more personalized, version of Willy Horton and of John McCain's black baby. It's worked before, as John suggests, and it's still got a few years before it's demographically unfeasible.

 

as are Red girls (apparently)

 

Private sector job growth under Bush: -646k. Under Obama: +967k

There isn't a Republican in the country who believes that to be true. So, yet another GOP Fail for not living in reality.

 

Today, a typical mainstream republican believes that Obama is too dumb, lazy, or incompetent to operate in the position of President. He or she simultaneously believes that he is shifty and shady and orchestrated a government-wide conspiracy to fake a jobs report by 0.2% or so.

These are mainstream conservative voices. Not fringe ones. John McCain, for example. Jack Welch.

So, GOP consistency fail.

To believe both of these things are simultaneously true reeks of racism, but that's a feature not a bug of the current GOP so we won't call that part of it it a failure here.

 

To believe only the first part is racism, it doesn't need a second part.

 

It's getting so hard to tell the difference between Fox/Rush and establishment Republicans.

 

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2...ies-straight-from-the-pit-of-hell.php?ref=fpb

Republican fails to be post-Enlightenment.

Here's the punchline.

 

"Serves" someone other than the American people, that's for sure.

 

Yeah, but have we seen Kenya's job report numbers? Surely Obama is trying to help them get jobs....don't you know he "hates" America?
My goodness... the GOP completely crosses the line in the ridiculous department.....

 

The real punch line is that the dems aren't running anyone against him.

 

Humanity is doomed.

 

Humanity will survive. But the United States as we know it ... that can be seriously damaged by morons like this in elected office serving on the science committee.

You know, most people I know who worship a lord and saviour don't mind things like medicine, clean water, and things like that.

Oh: I just read the whole article. I missed this part the first time

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Broun — a physician, with an M.D. and a B.S. in chemistry — is generally considered to be among the most conservative members of Congress, if not the most. He drew national attention in 2010 for saying he did not know if President Obama was an American citizen. ​

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How do you become a member of the House Science Committee in the United States?