Archive for the 'Republicans' Category

Sen. Alexander: Using Reconciliation To Pass Health Care Reform Would ‘End The Senate’–Think Progress headline, 2/28/2010

Monday, March 1st, 2010

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“I think if we’d abolished the IRS back when I first advocated it, he wouldn’t have a target for his airplane.”–United States House Representative Steve King (R-IA) quoted in Think Progress, 2/22/2010.

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Do you think Steve favored collecting these
during his younger days?

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People actually elected this guy!

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

What about birth defects among children born to women who had not had an abortion? 
Was it Satan? Or, did God make a mistake?

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THINK PROGRESS.com
“By Amanda Terkel at 1:45 pm
Virginia lawmaker: Children with disabilities are God’s punishment to women who previously had abortions.

Bob Marshall On Thursday, Virginia State Delegate Bob Marshall (R) spoke at […]

Massachusetts voters should be very proud.

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Politician would like to see daughter get another shot on ‘Idol’
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (CP) – 23 hours ago
WASHINGTON — Sen.-elect Scott Brown says he’d like daughter Ayla to have another crack at “American Idol,” where judge Simon Cowell once described her performance as robotic and empty.
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I almost forgot. They have a CD to hawk.

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SC Lt. Gov. compares people getting gov’t help to ‘stray animals’ who ‘breed’ because they don’t know better. –THINK PROGRESS headline

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

By Amanda Terkel on Jan 23rd, 2010 at 3:02 pm
South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, who is running for the Republican nomination for governor, held a town hall meeting yesterday where he argued government should be tougher on families whose children receive free and reduced-price lunches.

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The Lieutenant Governor in what could be an
unguarded moment of […]

(Dick) Armey’s View Of Americans With Pre-Existing Conditions: Someone Who ‘Eats Like A Pig’ And Has Diabetes–THINK PROGRESS headline, 11/09/2009

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Dick Armey has always been one of my least favorite Republicans. During his halcyon days of Kenny Starr & the Stained Blue Dress, I shall never forget reading that Dick’s wife wanted to sue her retail landlord because her McLean dress shop folded.  That doesn’t sound too free-market to me.
 
What truly amazes me is the […]

Rep. Phil Gingrey, MD, shows off his bedside manner!!

Friday, September 18th, 2009

09-17-09 09:02 PM   |   Updated: 09-18-09 12:42 AM
Media Matters catches Republican Congressman Phil Gingrey (Georgia) in a pretty insensitive moment during a speech on the floor of the House. At one point during his long speech railing against health care reform, Gingrey found the idea amusing that 14,000 Americans losing their health insurance every day […]

Only 51 percent of Kentucky residents believe Obama was born in U.S. –Think Progress headline

Monday, September 7th, 2009

A new Research 2000 poll released by Daily Kos shows that only a slight majority — 51 percent — of Kentuckians believe President Obama was born in this country.

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100% of  Kentucky Residents Have These Two Birds As Senators.

Jim Ignatowski-Bunning & Red Queen McConnell
–David Barillari pere headline.

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Remember, Iggy is the man who misspelled Ginsburg in his […]

Vincenzo Kolchak comments.

Friday, July 17th, 2009

Op-Ed Columnist
She Broke the G.O.P. and Now She Owns It
By FRANK RICH
Published: July 11, 2009
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I have been saying that the party is hers for the taking . . . I think I was wrong. It’s more likely she’ll be given it on a plastic platter. But, it would be fun to watch Steele and […]

GOP Leader Says Sotomayor Ruling ‘Troubling’–MSNBC.com headline

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

A WEASEL WORD FROM THE C0-KING OF THE WEASELS

BOEHNER IS OUT SICK BECAUSE OF TEAR DUCT ISSUES.

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McConnell hints at racial bias; Bar association rates her ‘well-qualified’
NBC News
updated 2 hours, 14 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The Senate’s top Republican suggested Tuesday that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor lets racial bias cloud her rulings, even as a national […]