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How are you guys not all over that WaPo editorial about how the Tea Party isn't racist it's just really hard for them because they find mixed-race children sickening?

It's in the other thread.

11-20-2013 , 01:47 PM

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fredd-bird

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Trey Radel, Busted On Cocaine Charge, Voted For Drug Testing Food Stamp Recipients

Maybe more appropriate for the food stamps thread, but still worth posting in here for the LEL Republicans.

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In June, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) made that very suggestion when he questioned why recipients of crop insurance and other government benefits weren't also targeted for drug tests like people on food stamps.

"Why don't we drug test all the members of Congress here," McGovern said shortly before the drug-testing measure passed. "Force everybody to go urinate in a cup or see whether or not anybody is on drugs? Maybe that will explain why some of these amendments are coming up or why some of the votes are turning out the way they are."

gottt eemmmm imo

11-22-2013 , 03:10 PM

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The GOP needs to reach out to African Americans in Chicago. How do they do that? Put famous whitesplainer and defender of storekeepers who are forced to serve black people Rand Paul in charge of the African American Engagement Office.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/4319239?utm_hp_ref=tw

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Both the name of the office and the outreach strategy are already attracting their share of detractors. One Republican strategist told The Huffington Post that it sounds like Michigan Republicans are opening a "'separate, but equal' office in Detroit."

"The party should have an office in Detroit, but calling it the 'African American Engagement Office' is absurd, offensive and pathetic," the source told The Huffington Post on background.

Paul may be an unusual choice for Detroit. Though he has said he would have marched with Martin Luther King Jr., Paul has also criticized the Civil Rights Act and said the government shouldn't force businesses to serve minorities. His views have appealed to several white separatists who donated to his campaign, according to the New York Daily News.

11-22-2013 , 04:20 PM

#7655

rjoefish

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Detroit isn't Chicago?

11-22-2013 , 04:40 PM

#7656

Huehuecoyotl

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My bad.

11-26-2013 , 11:59 AM

#7657

Huehuecoyotl

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Michigan wants women to buy "rape" insurance.

Cliffs: it makes abortion insurance coverage a separate rider and doesn't have the exceptions of rape or incest.

http://www.freep.com/article/2013112...pe-incest-life

11-26-2013 , 12:19 PM

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Benholio

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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

Jesus Christ.

11-26-2013 , 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

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The legislative ballot initiative has been used four times in the past, including three abortion-related questions: prohibiting the use of state funds to pay for “welfare abortions,” unless it would save the life of the woman; requiring parental consent for abortions on minors, and defining legal personhood. Another initiative repealed the single business tax in 2006.

Wow.

11-26-2013 , 02:10 PM

#7660

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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

11-26-2013 , 04:53 PM

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Stage two, I assume, is to mandate the abortion coverage is something crazy like $10'000 a year.

11-26-2013 , 05:08 PM

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Benholio

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The next step is the required ID for women with abortion coverage.

Spoiler:

11-26-2013 , 05:40 PM

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Huehuecoyotl

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You would think Dinesh D'Souza would know you can't just delete things from the Internet.

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11-26-2013 , 06:46 PM

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Don't worry though guys, there is no War on Women.

11-26-2013 , 07:09 PM

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Republicans!

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A couple of minutes after 9 p.m. on Saturday, word crossed the news wires that negotiators in Geneva had reached an agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. Then, at 9:08 p.m. — before any details of the pact were known — Ari Fleischer delivered his opinion on the agreement, via Twitter.

[...]

But Fleischer’s instant and reflexive response — even knees don’t jerk as quickly as he did — set the tone for Republicans. Three minutes after Fleischer’s tweet came one in agreement from Ron Christie, another veteran of the Bush administration. “Precisely,” he wrote, also without the benefit of knowing what was in the agreement. “A disgraceful deal.”

An hour later — still before Obama detailed the accord in a statement from the White House — John Cornyn of Texas, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, had analyzed the administration’s motives in reaching the deal.

“Amazing what WH will do to distract attention from O-care,” he tweeted at 10:15 p.m., 19 minutes before the president spoke.

[...]

But Republicans were being reflexive, not reflective. They went right to 1938. Rep. John Culberson (R-Tex.) tweeted the message “Worse than Munich” and a link to a Breitbart News article with that headline and images showing Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart juxtaposed with Hitler and Chamberlain.

“America just had a modern-day Neville Chamberlain moment,” former congressman Allen West (R-Fla.) declared. Hawkish elements in Israel embraced the analogy, too.

All the great minds of the Republican foreign policy establishment joined in:

“Placing your trust in #Iran is like betting on a blind horse on a wet track,” tweeted Rep. Vern Buchanan (Fla.).

Rep. Michele Bachmann (Minn.) called it a “total surrender by Obama administration.”

Rep. Ted Poe (Tex.) determined it to be a “bum deal.”

“In addition to domestic debacle of Obamacare,” wrote Rep. Tom Price (Ga.), “now POTUS and Dems accelerate crisis in Middle East.”

Sen. Mark Kirk (Ill.) said the administration won only “cosmetic concessions.” House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (Va.) quickly branded the pact a “mistake.” Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) said it “makes a nuclear Iran more likely.”

And Cornyn kept right on going, sending out links to articles titled, “Abject Surrender by the United States” and “Our ‘Suckers Deal’ with Iran.”

In the stampede to judgment, Sen. Jeff Flake (Ariz.) risked getting trampled. He actually waited until hearing Obama speak before issuing a statement, and then declared that he would “look forward to studying details.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...7cc_story.html

11-26-2013 , 07:22 PM

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Huehuecoyotl

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Lol

11-26-2013 , 08:21 PM

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It's pretty comic they **** on everything and bitch about getting **** on back

11-26-2013 , 09:40 PM

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In a sane world Dinesh D'Souza would be a permanent fixture in the village stocks, having rotten fruit and eggs hurled at his idiot face.

For some reason D'Souza tilts me a lot more than your average Republican. People like Palin and Bachmann are brainless and/or were born into indoctrination, people like Ted Cruz are power whores, but D'Souza had a liberal arts education and has chosen to devote his life to promoting idiocy for no discernable reason at all. He's one of the few people to have achieved the difficult feat of writing conservative books so abjectly stupid that they get called out for stupidity in the pages of National Review.

11-26-2013 , 10:21 PM

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FlyWf

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Originally Posted by ChrisV

Have you seen this?
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democ...ement_syndrome

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I don't have any trouble understanding how Barack Obama thinks, I have a lot of trouble understanding how Dinesh D'Souza thinks. And if I were to try to understand his thinking using the same methods he uses to interpret Mr Obama

11-26-2013 , 11:20 PM

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I wish both sides of the aislecould just agree to use the sober, issue-based Ecomist as an arbitrator. Of course that would suit no one's interest - well except the majority of American citizens. But **** them.