Thread: GOP: now & in the future

Today's GOP is a pack of nut cases & extremists ... just ask a member of the real Republican Party.



Bob Dole Trashes The Republican Party on Fox News:



Source: Bob Dole Trashes The Republican Party on Fox News

^ Ouch!

Bob Dole’s indictment of what his party has become was especially stinging because it hit on both the style and tactics that the Republicans are employing. Dole was essentially saying that no mainstream Republican from the last four decades could survive in today’s GOP. There are few living people who personally understand better how the Senate is supposed to work, so when Bob Dole tells you that the filibuster is being abused, it’s time for a change.

The 1996 Republican presidential nominee made a critical distinction between mainstream conservatism, and what the Republican Party has become. Republicans aren’t mainstream anymore. They have embraced the fringe, and now the far right is the Republican Party. Conservatives like Reagan, Dole, and George H.W. Bush could be reasonable. They understood that the middle was a good place for a Republican to be. In today’s Republican Party being mainstream and compromising is viewed as defeat and weakness.

There is no room in the Republican Party for a Colin Powell or a Bob Dole. The far right has chased all of the mainstream conservatives out of their party, and the rest of us are paying for their folly by suffering through a completely dysfunctional congress that is incapable of passing meaningful legislation.
By: Jason EasleyMay. 26th, 2013

Originally Posted by TonyBKK

Bob Dole Trashes The Republican Party on Fox News:

Time to update the list..

List of People Conspiring Against the GOP, and therefor, America
(LOPCATGOPATA for short):
Liberals
Democrats
Socialists
Community Organizers
Geologists
Biologists
Meteorologists
Climatologists
Atheists
Muslims
Jews
Satan
ABC
NBC
CNN
CBS
PBS
All of cable except FNC
The New York Times
The LA Times
The Washington Post
The Associated Press
Reuters
BBC
The Guardian
Black People
Mexicans
Human Rights Activists
SCOTUS
Europe
Movie Industry
Television Industry
Environmentalists
ACLU
The United Nations
Labor Unions
Colleges
Teachers
Professors
ACORN
National Endowment for the Arts
Gays
Judges
NPR
Paleontologists
Astrophysicists
Museums (*except Creationism Museum)
Colin Powell
WHO
WTO
Inflated tires
The Honolulu Advertiser
The Star Bulletin
Teletubbies
Sponge Bob and Patrick
Nobel Prize Committee
US Census Bureau
NOAA
Sesame Street
Comic Books
Little Green Footballs
Video Games
The Bible
CBO
Bruce Springsteen
Pennies
The Theory of Relativity
Comedy Central
Young People
whatever the hell a Justin Beiber is
Small Business Owners
Math
CPAC
Navy SEALs
The Economist
Reality
Standard and Poor's
Warren Buffet
Lightbulbs
81 CEO's of Major US Corporations
Bob Dole

I notice the Health Care thread seems to have been abandoned by the teabaggers since they have been proved wrong.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I notice the Health Care thread seems to have been abandoned by the teabaggers since they have been proved wrong.

interesting. So loads of money has not been forcibly pushed into the hands of the health care industry then?

Originally Posted by pseudolus

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I notice the Health Care thread seems to have been abandoned by the teabaggers since they have been proved wrong.

interesting. So loads of money has not been forcibly pushed into the hands of the health care industry then?

I suggest you read the last post on the thread and then offer us a meaningful comment?

A new study certainly to be dismissed by Republicans as just another example of media bias.


Study: Media Fact-Checker Says Republicans Lie More


A leading media fact-checking organization rates Republicans as less trustworthy than Democrats, according to a new study by the Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) at George Mason University. The study finds that PolitiFact.com has rated Republican claims as false three times as often as Democratic claims during President Obama’s second term. Republicans continue to get worse marks in recent weeks, despite controversies over Obama administration statements on Benghazi, the IRS and the AP.

CMPA: Media Fact-Checker Says Republicans Lie More


Michelle Bachman had the worst flaming pants of all. The thing I wonder is, does she know she is lying or is it pathological?

^The fact that they lie more is part of a deliberate strategy to deceive. They believe that any tactic is justified no matter how reprehensible or corrupt as long as they can thwart the goals of the current resident of the White House.

^
It's a very old tactic: If you tell the Big Lie enough times, people will believe it. And when you tell the Big Lie, tell it loud. The Bush/Cheney run up to the Iraq War the clearest example of both.

I suppose we can say one thing positive about the current Republican party.


PolitiFact Rates Higher Percentage Of Republican Claims As False, Study Finds

Republicans' claims are far more likely than Democrats' to be rated false by the fact-checking site PolitiFact, according to a study released Tuesday.

Since January, PolitiFact has rated 52 percent of Republicans' statements as mostly or entirely false, compared to just 24 percent of Democrats' statements, the study found. In the first three weeks of May, amid controversies over the attacks in Benghazi, Libya and investigations at the Internal Revenue Service and the Department Of Justice, 60 percent of Republicans' statements were rated as false, compared to 29 percent of those made by Democrats.

PolitiFact Rates Higher Percentage Of Republican Claims As False, Study Finds


The only way is Up.

Remember back when Republicans still cared about our country?

What the hell happened to the GOP?

Originally Posted by S Landreth

Bah bye you crazy tea party bitch. Don’t let the door hit ya in the ass.

Representative Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota Republican who made an ill-fated run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, announced Wednesday that she would not seek a fifth term in Congress next year.


Representative Michele Bachmann, Republican of Minnesota, in Washington on May 16. Ms. Bachmann announced in a video early Wednesday that she would not seek a fifth term in Congress next year.

She made the announcement just six months after being re-elected in what was her most challenging Congressional campaign since she was first elected to the House in 2006. Her announcement also comes as her former presidential campaign faces inquiries into its fund-raising activities.

Her announcement comes as the Office of Congressional Ethics looks into claims by Ms. Bachmann’s former campaign aides that she may have improperly used money raised by one of her House-affiliated political action committees to help her presidential bid in the run-up to the Iowa presidential caucuses in January 2012. She came in sixth in that race, even though she campaigned heavily in the state. The defeat led her to pull out of the race the next day.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/us...next-year.html

Best news I've heard all day!!! Another Teanderthal bites the dust!

Gawd she does prattle on tho, what an air bag

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I notice the Health Care thread seems to have been abandoned by the teabaggers since they have been proved wrong.

Monday was Memorial Day in the US, given that and the time difference it'll take time for the latest talking points to be issued and trickle down to the baggers.

Good news! http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/us...next-year.html

Maybe tomorrow's headline will be an update on the FBI investigation, or is that too much to ask?

From the Freepers:

"Bachmann gets ready to be nominated as Allen West's Veep in 2016, IMHO "

Maybe Bachman will be Sarah P's replacement at Fox. That, and the nice congressional retirement package, (which I believe she now qualifies for), which is paid for by the Federal Government (tax payer) she dispises.

Originally Posted by quimbian corholla

From the Freepers:

"Bachmann gets ready to be nominated as Allen West's Veep in 2016, IMHO "

Is that the same Allen West that was charged with violating articles 128 (assault) and 134 (general article) of the Uniform Code of Military Justice?

Poor Michelle Bachman, her misdeeds are catching up with her-
Bachmann Court Date Set

A trial date has been set in an Iowa lawsuit alleging that Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) stole and misused an e-mail distribution list during her failed 2012 presidential campaign, the Des Moines Register reports.


Great timing huh? Yesterday she gives her heartfelt retirement speech that had IN NO WAY anything to do with investigations of her sleazy campaign financing and conduct.

And moments later, by sheer coincidence, comes the court date wherein she can explain, and the world will hear, all about her sterling character?



Michele Bachman, Teabagger and delusional egomaniac...

Ah the good old GOP, just when you think they can't go any lower...

Republican Rep Offers Fatherly Advice: ‘Some Girls Rape Easy’


Freshman Rep. Roger Rivard (R-WI) has broken the one rule Republicans have been trying to stick to since Rep. Todd Akin humiliated the entire party by saying that victims of “legitimate rape” cannot get pregnant: Don’t say “rape.”
In the aftermath of Akin’s comments, Republicans including Mitt Romney unsuccessfully tried to get Akin to drop out of the race. Now the GOP has a new problem.
When disussing his father’s advice to not have premarital sex, Rivard told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that “some girls, they rape so easy,” twice:

“He also told me one thing, ‘If you do (have premarital sex), just remember, consensual sex can turn into rape in an awful hurry,’” Rivard said. “Because all of a sudden a young lady gets pregnant and the parents are madder than a wet hen and she’s not going to say, ‘Oh, yeah, I was part of the program.’ All that she has to say or the parents have to say is it was rape because she’s underage. And he just said, ‘Remember, Roger, if you go down that road, some girls,’ he said, ‘they rape so easy.’
“What the whole genesis of it was, it was advice to me, telling me, ‘If you’re going to go down that road, you may have consensual sex that night and then the next morning it may be rape.’ So the way he said it was, ‘Just remember, Roger, some girls, they rape so easy. It may be rape the next morning.’”

Rivard realized that he’d messed up, badly, and issued a statement clarifying his comments within hours.
Rivard’s comments point to a consistent faction of the Republican Party—including his ally Paul Ryan—that believes rape has not been defined clearly enough and is thus often exploited by women who want to claim to be raped. This offensive leap in logic is required to justify a stand that abortion should not ever be legal—even in cases of rape.

This doesn't bode well for the sorry GOP-

What A Shocker: New Study Concludes That Republicans Lie Much More Than Democrats

A new study from the Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University concludes that Republicans are the ‘less credible party.’



Source: What A Shocker: New Study Concludes That Republicans Lie Much More Than Democrats | FreakOutNation

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Boehner says it's "Inconceivable" the Obama isn't lying about the IRS Scandal

Could Boehner be developing a spine?

Boehner: 'Inconceivable' Obama Didn't Know About IRS Targeting - YouTube

Remember, it wasn’t Watergate that brought down Nixon; it was his ham-fisted attempt to cover it up and Obama makes Tricky Dick look like a Piker!

"Inconceivable", eh?

One of the best movie quotes ever?

Inconceivable! The outrage is palpable.

Boehner is starting to sound like Glen Beck. He is the worst speaker in history so he has to try something.

Originally Posted by Humbert

Inconceivable! The outrage is palpable.

Boehner is starting to sound like Glen Beck. He is the worst speaker in history so he has to try something.

Heh...this is his moment. If he can't 'sack up' now, Ted Cruz or someone as articulate as him will have to take over.