Stupid but dangerous

Written By: - Date published: 11:10 am, January 28th, 2011 - 25 comments
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The Republican Party may be entering its death throes. In an unprecedented move, there were two competing Republican response speeches to President Obama’s State of the Union address. One from Paul Ryan, the powerful Chair of the House Budget Committee. The other from a Teabagger who looked into the wrong camera the whole time.

I’m not sure what’s harder to believe:

  • that the strongest voice for change in the US are a bunch of reactionaries with distorted 19th century values, who funded by billionaires, and were inspired by a reporter’s rant on the floor of the Chicago Stock Exchange;
  • that there’s no Leftwing counterpart in sight;
  • or that the GOP is getting its arsed kicked by these morons.

Fun facts about, Michele Bachmann to remind us that, while the Teabaggers are morons, they’re dangerous morons:

  • She fears a plan for a global currency, which is the same conspiracy John Laughner, the Tuscon shooter, is so worked up about
  • She calls climate change a hoax, just like John Key
  • She called for Minnesotans to be “armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back.” and said “having a revolution every now and then is a good thing.”
  • Opposing Obama’s introduction of near-universal healthcare she said “What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn’t pass”
  • She introduced a bill to repeal the ban on incandescent lightbulbs because she says CFLs have too much mercury, despite the National Electrical Manufacturers’ Association telling her they produce less mercury than the coal burned for incandescents.
  • She’s called for a McCarthy-style witch-hunt of ‘un-American’ congress members
  • She has said a nuclear strike on Iran should be an option

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  1. Scott 1
    28 January 2011 at 11:52 am

    The Republican Party may be entering its death throes.

    The party of Abraham Lincoln (not that you’d know it) has been around since 1850s and survived a civil war and numerous other crises. I suspect it isn’t finished yet.

  2. mickysavage 2
    28 January 2011 at 11:55 am

    Eeew, this isn’t from the Onion is it?

    She says that Barack has been telling Americans which light bulbs to buy. Where have I heard this before?

    Capcha confused!! Damn right

    • Olwyn 2.1
      28 January 2011 at 12:05 pm

      Yes. I am always taken aback by the internationalised sloganeering: just as we were cheered into corporate thinking by “the kiwi can-do attitude,” and our ability to “punch above our weight,”so the Icelanders were cheered on by “the viking spirit.” Furthermore, the Queenslanders after the floods were described by their premier in near identical terms to West Coasters after the mining disaster. Just as there was once a tin pan alley filled with clever young people writing songs for musicals, and a room somewhere full of clever young people writing one-liners for Bob Hope, so there must be a bullshit central somewhere, where clever young people are paid to come up with instant slogans.

      • Zorr 2.1.1
        28 January 2011 at 9:01 pm

        Fun fact: the legislation governing energy requirements for lightbulbs was introduced by Bush Jr.

        Also, she has called for a “repeal of the President”

  3. joe90 3
    28 January 2011 at 12:00 pm

    Michele Bachmann, welfare queen

    Bachmann’s family farm received $251,973 in federal subsidies between 1995 and 2006. The farm had been managed by Bachmann’s recently deceased father-in-law and took in roughly $20,000 in 2006 and $28,000 in 2005, with the bulk of the subsidies going to dairy and corn. Both dairy and corn are heavily subsidized — or “socialized” — businesses in America (in 2005 alone, Washington spent $4.8 billion propping up corn prices) and are subject to strict government price controls

  4. deemac 4
    28 January 2011 at 12:12 pm

    thanks joe90 – that should be widely publicised. I thought the most bizarre part of her response was claiming the Founding Fathers fought slavery!

  5. big bruv 5
    28 January 2011 at 12:52 pm

    My god the Kenyan must love those Tea Party idiots.

    Palin and the rest of the bible bashing, gun loving idiots are going to secure him a second term, sadly that is something the western world cannot really afford.

    The golf courses will love it though.

  6. SHG 6
    28 January 2011 at 1:14 pm

    The USA may be entering its death throes.

    Fixed that for you.

  7. Gosman 7
    28 January 2011 at 2:46 pm

    “She calls climate change a hoax, just like John Key ”

    Ummmm…. do you have any evidence for this claim?

  8. Bill 8
    28 January 2011 at 4:11 pm

    Why there is no leftwing couterpart in sight

    1. Her observation that Obama promised a stimulous package that would reduce the unemployment rate and that the stimulous was a waste of money is fair enough. Many on the left said the stimulous was a misdirected crock of shit. But the analysis and criticism was marginalised and shut down.

    2. Many on the left opposed the mandatory health insurance and the final shape of the ‘Health Care Bill. But that analysis and criticism was marginalised and shut down.

    And so it goes. The concerns raised are common enough. But since the arguments from the left that focussed on the corporate welfarism inherent to the Democrat’s policies were shut down by the Liberal Left, the Right has an open opportunity to peddle the ‘big government is bleeding us’ line instead.

    Interpretations of situations are predicated on available information. The Liberal Left, by participating in the marginalisation or complete silencing of any left criticism of the Obama Administration…and in burying the information that went hand in hand with that criticism…is utterly culpible with regards the rise of the unabashedly pro-corporate agenda that the Tea Party is a mere part of.

    And the rhetoric is pretty good. Unlike the shallow sounding mealy mouthed nonsense coming from the Liberals as they desperately try to ‘square the circle’ of being the ‘Party of the Worker’ (or whatever) while they rush into the arms of the corporates, the rhetoric of the Tea Party et al is inclusive and is wrapped in language that smacks of self empowerment. Which will resonate with the swathes of the population who feel excluded and disempowered.

  9. johnm 9
    28 January 2011 at 6:57 pm

    Sooner these retards die the better! They have totally f*cked up a once great Nation. E.G. 43,000,000 americans living on pet food called food stamps!!! 50,000,000 with NO! health coverage!

    • Colonial Viper 9.1
      28 January 2011 at 10:26 pm

      But you can’t argue with 700 US billionaires, many having made their money through offshoring their neighbours’ jobs, moving American factories to China and Mexico, and placing other neighbours on the mousewheel of catastrophic interest bearing debt.

      A brilliant and innovative system for those few hundred people, and a few tens of thousands of their closest allies and lieutenants.

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