Republican: I only have to remember two things. 1. Don't be the "stupid party." 2. Don't be the "scary party." Now what were those two things I was supposed to remember?
Funny, I am probably as liberal as they come and I totally agree. Improve the ACA, and fix the illegal immigration problem, are both worthy things to do. On the other hand “seal the border” is just plain stupid. No more imports or exports, no more travelers in or out? Even North Korea does not have completely sealed borders, thought it comes closer than anywhere else. So perhaps you only mean prevent things and people from coming into the country without permission. Considering the history of cross-border drug trafficking in the last century or so, I don’t see much hope of being able to do that, unless we spend a whole hell of a lot more money on it, to make sure that no boat, no plane, operates without being stopped and thoroughly searched. Not to mention the fact that a very large portion of illegal immigrants come her legally, but stay illegally. But maybe it isn’t the western European exchange student who overstays his visa that you are worrying about. Just a certain class of desperate poor people fleeing wretched conditions, the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of some teeming shore, it is only against that sort that you want the golden door slammed. Well, no doubt ways can be found to make it even harder for them to get here and become part of us.
I thought item 1 was to pass a bill calling for the Keystone XL pipeline to be built. This from the party that proclaimed government should not be in the business of picking winners and losers in the world of commerce.And “killing the middle class” by forcing them to buy medical insurance – nice turn of phrase. Fits right in with the general cluelessness.
Having medical insurance is a good thing. Letting pharmaceutical companies charge what ever they want is a bad thing. Let Medicare bid competitively for drugs and the drug companies may have to cut back on private planes and all the perks they provide the medical profession to push their products. It would be nice if the US had the best medical system in the world.
The ACA “fix” that conservgov wants so badly, according to economic analysis by the CBO, will move 500,000 to one million employed Americans from employer-sponsored private insurance to Medicaid, increasing the budget deficit 70 billion over ten years. Are they planning to pay for that debt? Don’t be silly.
Ted Lind: There is a perfectly good example of that. All that is needed is to change a couple of words: province to state, and Canada to United States of America. My GP there had his office lined with medical journal articles he had written; does yours?
Those two things would be new for 2015. Up to now, the two things Republicans/Fox “news” viewers had to remember were hatred of Obama, and more hatred of Obama.
It appears that the post that others have commented on, including “seal the border” has been removed for some reason.
No matter; it is still a subject for discussion.
Anyone who believes that a border fence will solve the problem with illegal immigration (and who wants to pony up the money to build and maintain it), please make a note of this:
GWB has one supporter in Texas who loves him so very much that he was able to convince SMU to install GWB’s presidential library on their campus. So, we can assume he’s wealthy and powerful. Indeed, so much so that he has had his roughly 1000-acre ranch, which borders Mexico, exempted from any border fence construction. After all, who wants to look out their window and see a border fence with guards and all that stuff?
So there will be holes in the fence that cannot be filled by law. And I imagine he’s not the only one who managed an exemption.
One more reason why a border fence is a losing proposition.
Bobby Jindal said the Republicans have to stop being “the party of stupid.” I would counter that it was precisely stupid appeals to stupid voters that put them in the position they are in today. Mitch McConnell told the people of Kentucky that he would get rid of Obamacare but the 300,000 Kentucky citizens who got coverage under Obamacare could keep their coverage — and they bought it. And that was far from the most egregious appeal to stupidity that the party engaged in in the last election cycle. There’s lots of stupid people out there and they need representation. God help the GOP, though, if people in the Stupid States ever wise up.
Can you imagine how much contempt Teddy Roosevelt would have for the imbecility of the modern Republican party? Of course, he was probably the only genius in its history, which is setting the bar way high, yet that doesn’t let dunces off the hook and out of the corner.
“…who just aren’t enough people, only the stupid will vote for them.”.So people who don’t like recessions are stupid? I don’t think stupid means what you think it means.
Teddy Roosevelt would have shot the elephant between the eys to put it out of its, and his, mysery. Lincoln never would have joined the party of today.
There’s already one stupid party(Wasserman-Shultz, Wendy Davis, Alan Grayson, Amanda Curtis, Al Sharpton, Sheila Jackson Lee, Harry Reed, Hank Johnson, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, Charley Rangel, Diana De Gette, and a cast of thousands) and I think the American people have figured out who they are.Stupid is when a Congressman says MILLIONS are killed by automatic weapons each year(Rangel)(FBI figure: 78), when a Congresswoman demands strict gun control but can’t explain how a gun works(DeGette: her press spokesman tried but couldn’t either), thinks Guam is about to tip over(Johnson), when a Congresswoman asks NASA if the Mars Pathfinder is going to take a picture of where Neil Armstrong planted the flag in 1969(Jackson), when a Senate candidate announces her run for the Senate and then AFTERWARDS deletes pictures of her with a mohawk, wearing an anarchist jacket, and ridiculing the free enterprise system(Curtis), when a candidate airs a political ad slamming her opponent’s disability, and is audiotaped making fun of it(Davis)….time fails me to note the rivers of stupidity coming out of Grayson, Sharpton and Kerry’s pieholes. Look it up. You’ll be astounded. No, Tom Toles, we got the stupid party pegged.
manteo16nc:Since they are prohibited by law from collecting statistice, the FBI figures on guns are about as realistic as their figures on murders by FBI agents.
Alexander the Good Enough over 9 years ago
How’s about the vacuous, venal and vicious party? I know. Those words are too big…
Doughfoot over 9 years ago
Funny, I am probably as liberal as they come and I totally agree. Improve the ACA, and fix the illegal immigration problem, are both worthy things to do. On the other hand “seal the border” is just plain stupid. No more imports or exports, no more travelers in or out? Even North Korea does not have completely sealed borders, thought it comes closer than anywhere else. So perhaps you only mean prevent things and people from coming into the country without permission. Considering the history of cross-border drug trafficking in the last century or so, I don’t see much hope of being able to do that, unless we spend a whole hell of a lot more money on it, to make sure that no boat, no plane, operates without being stopped and thoroughly searched. Not to mention the fact that a very large portion of illegal immigrants come her legally, but stay illegally. But maybe it isn’t the western European exchange student who overstays his visa that you are worrying about. Just a certain class of desperate poor people fleeing wretched conditions, the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of some teeming shore, it is only against that sort that you want the golden door slammed. Well, no doubt ways can be found to make it even harder for them to get here and become part of us.
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 9 years ago
I thought item 1 was to pass a bill calling for the Keystone XL pipeline to be built. This from the party that proclaimed government should not be in the business of picking winners and losers in the world of commerce.And “killing the middle class” by forcing them to buy medical insurance – nice turn of phrase. Fits right in with the general cluelessness.
Theodore E. Lind Premium Member over 9 years ago
Having medical insurance is a good thing. Letting pharmaceutical companies charge what ever they want is a bad thing. Let Medicare bid competitively for drugs and the drug companies may have to cut back on private planes and all the perks they provide the medical profession to push their products. It would be nice if the US had the best medical system in the world.
Dan1313131313 over 9 years ago
More women and minorities in the 114th Congress than ever before.You lost, proggies.Elections have consequences.STFU.
Cerabooge over 9 years ago
Excellent comments today. Well, most of them.
ARodney over 9 years ago
The ACA “fix” that conservgov wants so badly, according to economic analysis by the CBO, will move 500,000 to one million employed Americans from employer-sponsored private insurance to Medicaid, increasing the budget deficit 70 billion over ten years. Are they planning to pay for that debt? Don’t be silly.
hippogriff over 9 years ago
Ted Lind: There is a perfectly good example of that. All that is needed is to change a couple of words: province to state, and Canada to United States of America. My GP there had his office lined with medical journal articles he had written; does yours?
braindead Premium Member over 9 years ago
Those two things would be new for 2015. Up to now, the two things Republicans/Fox “news” viewers had to remember were hatred of Obama, and more hatred of Obama.
I Play One On TV over 9 years ago
It appears that the post that others have commented on, including “seal the border” has been removed for some reason.
No matter; it is still a subject for discussion.
Anyone who believes that a border fence will solve the problem with illegal immigration (and who wants to pony up the money to build and maintain it), please make a note of this:
GWB has one supporter in Texas who loves him so very much that he was able to convince SMU to install GWB’s presidential library on their campus. So, we can assume he’s wealthy and powerful. Indeed, so much so that he has had his roughly 1000-acre ranch, which borders Mexico, exempted from any border fence construction. After all, who wants to look out their window and see a border fence with guards and all that stuff?
So there will be holes in the fence that cannot be filled by law. And I imagine he’s not the only one who managed an exemption.
One more reason why a border fence is a losing proposition.
krisjackson01 over 9 years ago
Bobby Jindal said the Republicans have to stop being “the party of stupid.” I would counter that it was precisely stupid appeals to stupid voters that put them in the position they are in today. Mitch McConnell told the people of Kentucky that he would get rid of Obamacare but the 300,000 Kentucky citizens who got coverage under Obamacare could keep their coverage — and they bought it. And that was far from the most egregious appeal to stupidity that the party engaged in in the last election cycle. There’s lots of stupid people out there and they need representation. God help the GOP, though, if people in the Stupid States ever wise up.
Godfreydaniel over 9 years ago
Can you imagine how much contempt Teddy Roosevelt would have for the imbecility of the modern Republican party? Of course, he was probably the only genius in its history, which is setting the bar way high, yet that doesn’t let dunces off the hook and out of the corner.
echoraven over 9 years ago
“…who just aren’t enough people, only the stupid will vote for them.”.So people who don’t like recessions are stupid? I don’t think stupid means what you think it means.
Dtroutma over 9 years ago
Teddy Roosevelt would have shot the elephant between the eys to put it out of its, and his, mysery. Lincoln never would have joined the party of today.
manteo16nc over 9 years ago
There’s already one stupid party(Wasserman-Shultz, Wendy Davis, Alan Grayson, Amanda Curtis, Al Sharpton, Sheila Jackson Lee, Harry Reed, Hank Johnson, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, Charley Rangel, Diana De Gette, and a cast of thousands) and I think the American people have figured out who they are.Stupid is when a Congressman says MILLIONS are killed by automatic weapons each year(Rangel)(FBI figure: 78), when a Congresswoman demands strict gun control but can’t explain how a gun works(DeGette: her press spokesman tried but couldn’t either), thinks Guam is about to tip over(Johnson), when a Congresswoman asks NASA if the Mars Pathfinder is going to take a picture of where Neil Armstrong planted the flag in 1969(Jackson), when a Senate candidate announces her run for the Senate and then AFTERWARDS deletes pictures of her with a mohawk, wearing an anarchist jacket, and ridiculing the free enterprise system(Curtis), when a candidate airs a political ad slamming her opponent’s disability, and is audiotaped making fun of it(Davis)….time fails me to note the rivers of stupidity coming out of Grayson, Sharpton and Kerry’s pieholes. Look it up. You’ll be astounded. No, Tom Toles, we got the stupid party pegged.
hippogriff over 9 years ago
manteo16nc:Since they are prohibited by law from collecting statistice, the FBI figures on guns are about as realistic as their figures on murders by FBI agents.