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What is wrong with the Republicans in this country?

Posted: November 15, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: open thread | Tags: , |37 Comments

Okay, here’s more news that has me asking wtf is wrong with this country?  Well, more specifically what’s wrong with the Republicans in this country.  Actually, a lot of it seems to be wtf is wrong with old white republican white guys?

This is shirtless fbi guy.  Just be glad his pants haven’t dropped any farther.  Is this really supposed to be a turn on?  Men … do not send any of us unsolicited pictures of your junk or naked chest unless we ask for it.  Please!!!  It’s creepy!!!!  We like controlled access to male nudity, okay? (i.e We control the access.)

  Then, there’s this story where the Maine GOP chairman freaks out over “dozens” of black voters.

Charlie Webster said he has suspicions about voter fraud because hundreds of first-time voters registered on Election Day. He refused to say what towns he was talking about or reveal other specifics, but he said the allegations aren’t racially motivated.

“It doesn’t matter to me whether they’re black or Chinese or Indonesian. The issue isn’t that. The issue is that people have come into vote that no one had seen before,” he said.

And … a “TOP” Georgia GOP lawmaker accuses the President of leading a Mind Control Plot in something that sounds like it’s straight out of some bad 1950s cold war movie.

President Obama is using a Cold War-era mind-control technique known as “Delphi” to coerce Americans into accepting his plan for a United Nations-run communist dictatorship in which suburbanites will be forcibly relocated to cities. That’s according to a four-hour briefing delivered to Republican state senators at the Georgia state Capitol last month.

On October 11, at a closed-door meeting of the Republican caucus convened by the body’s majority leader, Chip Rogers, a tea party activist told Republican lawmakers that Obama was mounting this most diabolical conspiracy. The event—captured on tape by a member of the Athens-based watchdog Better Georgia (who was removed from the room after 52 minutes)—had been billed as an information session on Agenda 21, a nonbinding UN agreement that commits member nations to promote sustainable development. In the eyes of conservative activists, Agenda 21 is a nefarious plot that includes forcibly relocating non-urban-dwellers and prescribing mandatory contraception as a means of curbing population growth. The invitation to the Georgia state Senate event noted the presentation would explain: “How pleasant sounding names are fostering a Socialist plan to change the way we live, eat, learn, and communicate to ‘save the earth.'”

Meanwhile, my right wing religious freaky looking and speaking Governor  Piyush “Bobby” Jindal is trying to convince the rest of the nation he’s the voice of sanity and ‘education’ in the party.  This is the same governor that’s forcing creationism in our school and draining public education funds to whacky schools that do not have to have any standards.  Does the governor who is famous for kidnapping and abusing a young woman in college in the name of “spiritual warfare” in an exorcism then wrote about it the Oxford school newspaper really think people will believe him?

“And, secondly, we need to continue to show how our policies help every voter out there achieve the American Dream, which is to be in the middle class, which is to be able to give their children an opportunity to be able to get a great education. … So, I absolutely reject that notion, that description. I think that’s absolutely wrong.”

I’ve written over and over how the governor has wrecked education in my state.  Does he think no one’s going to look into it?

And, Karl Rove explains it all to us in the WSJ yet again!  Hasn’t this man proven he is irrelevant and incompetent enough that we don’t have to hear from him any more?  Between Rove, McCain, and Lady Lindsey oooh and Lady McConnell, I’ve just about had it with full frontal, public, breakdowns by angry, mean and bitter old white dudes.

“Mitt Romney had what I scientifically call a butt-ugly primary,” Rove told a crowd gathered to hear him speak at Northwest Pennsylvania Collegiate Academy, according to the Erie Times-News. He went on to explain that the lengthy contest featured “way too many debates” and became overly focused on social issues instead of the economy.

Here’s my rational and objective response to all this butt ugly white man angst. (Oh, Bobby counts cause he’s a serious wanna be …)

37 Comments on “What is wrong with the Republicans in this country?”

  1. bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
    November 15, 2012 at 6:13 pm

    I was just about to post something about Mitt Romney’s fantasy that Bill Clinton thought he (Romney) was going to win the election except for Sandy and that Clinton wanted to join the Republican Party after hearing Ann Romney speak.

    But the theory that Sandy is accountable for the president’s victory is questionable. Little evidence in both national and swing state polling supported the idea that Romney had sustained the momentum he gained following the first presidential debate.

    A spokesperson for Clinton did not immediately return a request for comment.

  2. bostonboomer's avatar bostonboomer says:
    November 15, 2012 at 6:17 pm

    Remember when Romney embarrassed the Australian Foreign Minister by putting words in his mouth?

    At a fundraiser Sunday night in San Francisco, Romney recounted his version of a conversation he had earlier in the day with Bob Carr, the Australian foreign minister. Romney claimed that Carr had told him in their private meeting that America was “in decline,” but that the situation could be turned around if an appropriate budget deal is reached….

    Carr took issue with Romney’s characterization of the events, insisting that the former Massachusetts governor got it backward. He said in a statement released by the Embassy of Australia that “his remark that ‘America is just one budget deal away from ending all talk of America being in decline’ was in praise of America’s economic strengths.”

  3. ANonOMouse's avatar ANonOMouse says:
    November 15, 2012 at 6:34 pm

    And don’t forget that Jindal’s post mortem epiphany concerning Romney doesn’t include an epiphany about the State of Lousiana implementing Obamacare. Instead of helping the people of Louisiana to participate in the ACA through State initiatives, Jindal will force the Federal government to come into Louisiana and setup insurance exchanges. The guy that doesn’t want to assist his constituents, particularly his low-income constituents, wants to be POTUS? What a dumbclucker!!!

  4. RalphB's avatar RalphB says:
    November 15, 2012 at 6:44 pm

    Zandar at balloon-juice has a winner in the WTF is wrong with white republican asshole category.

    Not Fascists, Just Number One With Fascists

    Well, the combination of Petraeus’s unpredictable wang and Nate Silver’s extremely predictable awesomeness bought us about a week or so, and now we’re right back to Daniel Henninger and your regular Wall Street Journal dosage of “Obama supporters are a cult of personality, and you know who ELSE ran a country and had a cult…”

    [ Henninger bullshit ]

    Gotta love this combination of “how pathetic that Obama only won because he used his relentless hate speech to forge a dangerous army of thugs” and “the awful blaggart ni-CLANG and his horde of welfare cheats are coming for your bodily fluids!” and stuff. Takes skill to juggle those particular flaming clubs at the same time without setting the tent on fire.

    Hell, we’re only a week and change in and Obama voters are already Godwin: The Darkening. Can you imagine where things will be like, three weeks from now? This is a hell of an acceleration curve these guys are burning through. Actual baby eating! Mass confiscation of personal mobility scooters! Eating the last slice of cake! The soul shivers at the prospect!

    • ANonOMouse's avatar ANonOMouse says:
      November 15, 2012 at 6:53 pm

      “It’s clear why Barack Obama was willing to turn former Wall Street Democrats and contributors like J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon into furious critics of the president with his seemingly compulsive scapegoating of bankers, millionaires and “the wealthiest.””

      Oh boo-fucking-hoo!!!!

      • RalphB's avatar RalphB says:
        November 15, 2012 at 7:15 pm

        my thought exactly. pure unadulterated claptrap

      • ANonOMouse's avatar ANonOMouse says:
        November 15, 2012 at 7:41 pm

        Their problem is they can’t keep us peons under control any longer. Their decades long “rich people are special so they should be the deciders & rulers” indoctrination no longer works and they’re pissed!!

        I remember you writing that you were watching the History Channel 4 part series, “The Men who built America”, I watched that too and I was amazed how the plutocrats viewed and treated the working class and poor in the late 1800’s, It was almost identical to today. If not for labor laws and labor & wage protections, they’d have us working around the clock,in terrible conditions, for pennies, living in cardboard boxes and eating bread crumbs. Romney was the ideal candidate for their intentions, but they lost, and they’ll lose again if they don’t wake up.

      • ANonOMouse's avatar ANonOMouse says:
        November 15, 2012 at 8:11 pm

        I don’t want to sound like I didn’t know that working conditions were bad in the late 1800’s, my amazement is that the mindset of the plutocrats hasn’t changed in the last 150 years. They have to be dragged, kicking and screaming, to do the right thing. They’re certainly not going to do anything for the working class & poor that isn’t required by law. We may have to storm the castle before this is over. 🙂

  5. HT's avatar HT says:
    November 15, 2012 at 7:11 pm

    I’m watching a documentary series on WW11 on netflix and am now on the episode with Pearl harbor. Roosevelt was amazing. Just a short clip, but it makes one wonder what happened between then and now that leaders like him are in such short supply.

  6. pdgrey's avatar pdgrey says:
    November 15, 2012 at 8:24 pm

    I just thought i heard Rachel Maddow say Grumpy McWalnuts wouldn’t be on the Armed Service Com. So I looked it up it gives other names of who might be there and who is leaving.
    http://www.navyleague.org/legislative_affairs/news.html

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