Today in Insane Republican News
Posted: August 1, 2012 Filed under: 2012 elections, religious extremists, Reproductive Rights, Republican politics, Republican presidential politics, right wing hate grouups, Surreality, Tea Party activists | Tags: insanity, Republicans 38 CommentsHere’s why you can’t possibly vote Republican any more without being thought insane yourself. These are today’s examples of insanity, paranoia, bigotry, and 
imaginary conspiracies that seem to be the normal MO for all Republicans these days
Kelly Keisling, Tennessee Legislator, Mass Emailed Obama ‘Staged Assassination’ Rumor (HuffPo)
A Republican member of the Tennessee state legislature emailed constituents Tuesday morning with a rumor circulating in conservative circles that President Barack Obama is planning to stage a fake assassination attempt in an effort to stop the 2012 election from happening.
Rep. Kelly Keisling (R-Byrdstown) sent an email from his state email account to constituents containing a rumor that Obama and the Department of Homeland Security are planning a series of events that could lead to the imposition of “martial law” and delay the election. Among the events hypothesized in the email is a staged assassination attempt on the president that would lead to civil unrest in urban areas and martial law.
Keisling appears to have forwarded a more widely circulated email from Joe Angione, a Florida-based conservative blogger. Angione prefaces the rumor by saying it has not been confirmed but likewise notes it has not been denied. Angione also writes that people need to work to prevent the rumor from becoming reality.
Republican likens contraceptive mandate to Pearl Harbor, 9/11 (NBC News)
A House Republican lawmaker likened the implementation of a new mandate that insurers offer coverage for contraceptive services to Pearl Harbor and the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks against the United States.
Pennsylvania Rep. Mike Kelly (R), an ardent opponent of abortion rights, said that today’s date would live in infamy alongside those two other historic occasions. Wednesday marked the day on which a controversial new requirement by the Department of Health and Human Services, which requires health insurance companies to cover contraceptive services for women, goes into effect.
“I know in your mind you can think of times when America was attacked. One is December 7th, that’s Pearl Harbor day. The other is September 11th, and that’s the day of the terrorist attack,” Kelly said at a press conference on Capitol Hill. “I want you to remember August the 1st, 2012, the attack on our religious freedom. That is a day that will live in infamy, along with those other dates.”
Rep. King Goes Birther: Suggests Obama’s Parents Telegrammed Fake Hawaii Birth Announcement From Kenya (Think Progress)
KING: We went down into the Library of Congress and we found a microfiche there of two newspapers in Hawaii each of which had published the birth of Barack Obama. It would have been awfully hard to fraudulently file the birth notice of Barack Obama being born in Hawaii and get that into our public libraries and that microfiche they keep of all the newspapers published. That doesn’t mean there aren’t some other explanations on how they might’ve announced that by telegram from Kenya. The list goes on. But drilling into that now, even if we could get a definitive answer and even if it turned out that Barack Obama was conclusively not born in America, I don’t think we could get that case sold between now and November.
Just in case you don’t think messing around with Republicans leads to insanity, some former so-called Clinton Supporters like this DUDE, just because Princess Dumbass of the North endorsed him. This guy that wants to take Kay Baily Hutchinson’s place served Chick Fil A at his victory party. Nothing says unapologetic homophobia quite like that!
1) Ted Cruz Believes George Soros Leads A United Nations Conspiracy To Eliminate Golf: In 1992, President George H.W. Bush joined the leaders of 177 other nations in endorsing a non-binding UN document known as Agenda 21. This twenty year-old document largely speaks at a very high level of generality about reducing poverty and building sustainable living environments. Nevertheless, Cruz published an article on his campaign website claiming that this non-binding document is actually a nefarious plot to “abolish ‘unsustainable’ environments, including golf courses, grazing pastures, and paved roads.” To top it off, Cruz lays the blame for this global anti-golf conspiracy at the feet of a well-known Tea Party boogieman — “The originator of this grand scheme is George Soros.”
2) Ted Cruz Wants To Gut Social Security: In an interview with the Texas Tribune Cruz labeled Social Security a “ponzi scheme” and outlined a three-step plan to gut this essential program. Cruz would raise the Social Security retirement age, cut future benefits, and implement a George W. Bush-style plan to privatize much of the program. In other words, in addition to forcing them to work longer for fewer benefits, Cruz would place retirees at the mercy of a fickle stock market. Had Social Security been privatized during the career of a worker who retired near the end of the Bush Administration, that worker would have retired with less money in their privatized account than they would have if they’d simply kept their money between their mattress and box spring.
3) Ted Cruz Wants To Party Like It’s 1829: The Constitution provides that Acts of Congress “shall be the supreme law of the land,” and thus cannot be nullified by rogue state lawmakers. Cruz, however, co-authored an unconstitutional proposal claiming two or more states could simply ignore the Constitution’s command and nullify the Affordable Care Act so long as they work together. Although the Constitution does permit states to join in “interstate compacts” that have the force of law, under the Constitution such compacts require the consent of Congress and can be vetoed by the President. Cruz falsely claimed that states do not need to meet these Constitutional requirements to undermine laws they don’t like.
4) Ted Cruz Is An Islamophobe: At a campaign event earlier this month, Cruz touted another of the Tea Party’s favorite conspiracy theories, claiming that “Sharia law is an enormous problem” in this country. Although it is common for far right politicians to claim that American law is somehow being replaced with Islamic law, these claims have absolutely no basis in reality. Few American courts have ever even mentioned Sharia or Islamic law, and those that have generally only do so in contracts or similar cases where a party before the court agreed to be bound by Sharia law.
5) Ted Cruz Campaigned On How He Helped Texas Kill A Mexican: Cruz’s very first campaign ad encouraged GOP primary voters to support him because he helped make it easier for Texas to kill an “illegal alien.” According to the ad, “Cruz fought all the way to the Supreme Court” after “the UN and World Court overruled a Texas jury’s verdict to execute an illegal alien.” In reality, the case Cruz won had nothing to do with whether Texas had the authority to kill this man. Rather, it concerned whether Texas could defy a treaty requiring it to inform foreign nationals who are arrested of their right “to request assistance from the consul of his own state.” Even North Korea honored this treaty that Cruz fought to undermine
This assortment of nuts plus a presidential candidate that made millions of dollars and probably paid no taxes for 10 years on it are probably the reason for this: Obama Hits 50% In Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Quinnipiac University/CBS News/New York Times Swing State Poll Finds,
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The new birther story is so hysterical I literally laughed out loud watching the YouTube of Rep. King TeaSplaining how it could have been done. I know Rachel Maddow is going to have a field day with this one tonight.
In order to believe this conspiracy you have to be able to convince yourself that two young parents conspired, through the use of a Western Union telegraph sent from Kenya, to make it look as if their newborn baby was born in a hospital in Hawaii, They did that because they knew then he’d need that info to be POTUS. Brghahahahhahaha!!!
How do they come up with these things ? You can’t believe anything they say! It’s like it comes from delusional minds.
I’m thinking they’re sitting in the parking lot of a Truck Stop of America, waiting on some action and in the process inhaling too much Carbon Monoxide, thus causing them to hallucinate these theories.
Shush Mouse with the laughter – you’re shaking the glasses in my cupboard and I’m hundreds (perhaps thousands?) of miles away.
LOL. 🙂
I spilled my wine. And shit is expensive.
But why would they have gone to Kenya in the first place? Obama’s parents were never actually a couple, and in his father was a student at the time. It makes no sense. In fact, Obama’s mother took him back to Seattle shortly after he was born.
TeaSplaining – LOL!
I love that too…perfect.
FYI….Local news reports Keisling is apologizing and Dems in the TN State Legislature are accusing him of abuse of power. Is there no sewer these people won’t swim in?
Republican Presser and New Source:
ROTFL…….I hope no one on the Right Side of the aisle in the TN State Legislature sees that, If they do I’m sure we’ll get an alert from the Emergency Broadcast System.
.And in more TN news: Today is support Chik-Fil-A’s right to be homophobes and TN news stations are reporting that people are standing in line, all over the State of TN, just to buy Chik-Phobe sandwiches. Wow, just wow!
Apparently, the morons are standing in line in Chicago too. Where I live the town meeting has to approve any business that moves into town, and they won’t allow fast food restaurants period. Nothing to do with bigotry, we just don’t want our town full of trashing businesses.
OMG – standing in line? for fast food? The homophobia is strong in these people (insert picture of Yoda here).
I had friends who were gay – unfortunately AIDs took them away from me. I’m still angry and sad because had they lived another 10 years, they would have had the medication required to live a full life. My friends were the greatest gift and thinking now, perhaps it’s as well they died so they would never have to see where the world is going.
Off to my cousin’s funeral tomorrow. Life is too damn short and one should live it without regrets.
It’s probably like the anti abortion protests … the same 20 people show up every day and pray and then behave like mean zombies.
This is the buckle of the bible belt. Tonight our 3 locals were showing videos of lines stretching around buildings at Chik-fil-a-bring-a-christian-to-hate-the-gay-day. It’s so absurd it’s funny.
I have a younger cousin, in her mid-50’s, who is like a little sister to me. She called me so upset and angry because the Chik-fil-a groupies had swamped the Chik-fil-a near her husbands business and created a traffic nightmare. Then she went on to tell me that she had been inundated with Facebook requests from people she thought were here friends to join in supporting Chik-fil-a. She commented back negatively to the requests thinking she was defending me and her other gay family and friends and she said she went through a serious facebook backlash. She ended up taking people off her friends list. She told me “I can’t believe you’ve lived with this all these years” All I could say was it’s much better than it was 50 years ago, when being gay in my hometown was illegal. You couldn’t get a job, rent an apartment or maintain custody of your children if you were out of the closet. It was so bad here and in many places in the south that if you were caught while being gay,which included hand holding, kissing or any sort of embrace or caress that appeared sexual in nature, you could and WOULD go to Jail for lewd and lascivious behavior. 🙂 I kid you not!!!!
Ah Mouse I remember that time, and unfortunately I think it may be revisiting us. I wonder what the xian mafia wil do when they find out that people like me have sworn off sex and procreation forever?
I sure hope we’re not going back to those days HT, I’m getting too old to run from the long swift arm of the law.
“I wonder what the xian mafia wil do when they find out that people like me have sworn off sex and procreation forever?”
If you were a 16 year old girl they’d pin a medal on you for swearing off sex because that would mean you wouldn’t need the EVIL contraception. I was raised catholic and told that the only means of contraception that was acceptable and keep me out of hell was The Rhythm method. I found out quickly that the Rhythm method was like tap dancing in a lions cage and believing that if I just tapped loud enough he wouldn’t notice me.
Just woke up from a nap, and took a quick look at Memeorandum. Can I just say that I never heard of Chick-fil-A before the recent publicity about it, and I wish I never had to hear of it again. I have no opinion on the first amendment issue, but what kinds of sick people would celebrate a person because he is a bigot? I just don’t get what makes these people tick.
The cow ads are all over Utah — but I couldn’t figure out what was being advertised.
Really dried out bad fried chicken with nasty greasy fries.
Yep….If you’re going the greasy fried chicken route try the Colonel, he loves the gay
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/01/col-sanders-i-love-gay-people-and-were-open-on-sundays/
I’m very fortunate that the only KFC place around here is about a 40 minute drive from me. I refuse to give any of my money to any of those horrible fast food places.
U are fortunate BB. I could throw 20 darts at a city map and be within spitting distance of 20 Fried chicken restaurants. We have KFC, Popeyes, Chik-fil-a and a host of fly-by-night fried chicken joints. This is the South afterall.
You got that right Mouse…chicken places and baptist churches are the things you see here in Banjoville too.
As you know sometimes the baptist churches are actually in the Chicken places. 🙂
I don’t know about GA, but here in good old TN we aren’t allowed to buy beer or even buy a drink in a restaurant on Sunday until all church services are over, That is generally around 1PM. Back a few years ago I wrote a letter to the Editor saying that I thought the law should be changed to where the church goers couldn’t go to church on Sunday until after we beer drinkers had purchased our Sunday-watch-the NFL Game beer. That letter got a lot of comments, most of them positive. Of course I got a few “you ought to be ashamed of yourself” comments too. I cared, NOT!
Hey Mouse, our county was totally dry up until Jan 1st of this year. No Kidding! The only county in Georgia that was totally dry, but we sure had our share of DUIs especially from the “local” residents. Those born and raised here.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals blocks the Arizona abortion law from going into effect.
For women, the damn fight goes on. I’m so tired of this.
Well there’s one good piece of news on an otherwise shitty day. Worse – tomorrow will be even shittier so find more good news, please.
It is good news. Praise Goddess 🙂
Could you perhaps get the goddess off her damn rumpassss and make this a different world where intolerance doesn’t exit. If she did – I would forgo my years of atheism and worship her.
LOL!
Just one more link and then I shut up about it
http://bottomline.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/01/13074444-same-sex-marriage-foes-celebrate-chick-fil-a-day?lite
BTW. There is going to be a gay-kiss-in at the your nearest Chik on Friday. That should freak some people out. 🙂
Although it’s probably a good thing when one objectively considers the idea, I also think it’s not such a good thing when one considers the “Gay Agenda” that the repubs are constantly spouting off about. I have no problems with seeing two people kiss – actually I see it every day cause I live a heartbeat away from a high school, however I think this might backfire. I hope not of course.
I get your point HT concerning the “gay agenda” meme and the fact that this could backfire causing that notion to be pressed even harder, But I swear, If my partner didn’t have to work a 12hr shift on friday, we’d join in. I have a few old lesbian friends who are saying they’re going to do it. If they do I’m going to go watch them, I never pass up an opportunity to laugh. 🙂
Just want to say that the comments the past few days have been wonderful.
I agree JJ.