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GOP Idiot Round Up!

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  1. Michele Bachmann:  On Meet the Press this weekend she talked about how she was “hopeful” the government shutdown would be avoided, stating “Well, I’m hopeful, I don’t think anyone wants to see the government shutdown.” However, like most GOP clowns, she opposed a bill to extend funding because it didn’t remove funding for Planned Parenthood. Message:  It’s my way or no way and I am trying to appease the Tea Party and Moderates to hold on to my seat. (source)
  2. John McCain:  “I would also point out that if you’d emptied that house there, if you’d left a computer there or an iPad or an iPhone, those are built in the United States of America.” Message: I am a fossil who refuses to admit almost nothing is made in the US any more. (source)
  3. Sylvia Allen and Arizona:  State Representative Sylvia Allen wants to give Jan Brewer permission to create her own personal army at any time and for what ever reason she wants. Message:  We really don’t like Mexicans. (source)
  4. Governor John Kasich: Removes two opposing GOP members to pass SB5 through committee for House vote. Message: What you want doesn’t matter. (source)
  5. Governor Scott Walker:Reducing Medicaid while increasing funeral funding for poor, blackmailing dems to come home by threatening layoffs, and being childish. Message: You need to come home and pass my bill the longer you stay gone the longer people have to look at it and the less chance it will be passed. Also; I am a cry baby. (source)
  6. John “jobs” Boehner:  Helped create the Job and Recovery Killing Act of 2011 (HR1), seems to think that jobs can be found in the anatomy of females and in the gay community, and wants to cut Social Security and Medicare. Message: I’m clueless and I have no intention of creating jobs. (source)
  7. Fred Upton and Jim Inhofe:”So let’s dispel a myth: air quality and public health will not be harmed or affected in any way by efforts to slow and then stop EPA’s expansive global warming agenda under the Clean Air Act. . . . . So we can stop the EPA from imposing cap and tax and the Clean Air Act will continue to make our families and communities healthier places. So let’s listen to the facts: this issue is not about air quality and public health, it’s about jobs.” Message: Right now Koch Industries (among others) is giving up an obscene amount of money and that money is more important than your health. (source)
  8. Representative Austin Scott:  “They told him essentially that if he wanted to argue with them that they’d fine him $30,000 per house; those are Gestapo tactics.” Message: Landlords should have the right to poison you and your children with lead paint. We know you secretly love it.
  9. The Orange County Hate Brigade: Representative Gary Miller said to the crowd of anti-Muslims “I’m proud of you, I’m proud of what you’re doing.” Representative Ed Royce said to the same crowd “multiculturalism has paralyzed too many of our citizens to make the critical judgment we need to make to prosper as a society.”  Message: Yes we are racist, but we are still going to deny it. (source)
  10. Villa Park Councilwoman Deborah Pauly: She didn’t want be out done by the fascist racist representatives at the Orange County “Patriotic Rally”. Her statement to the crowd and the attendees of the Muslim fundraiser; “[The fundraiser] is pure, unadulterated evil. I don’t even care if you think I’m crazy anymore. I have a beautiful daughter, I have a beautiful 19 year old son who is a United States marines. As a matter of fact, I know quite a few marines who will be willing to help these terrorists to an early meeting in paradise.” Message: I am a terrible person and an unapologetic proud racist. (source)

David Koch: Funding for Cancer Research While Fighting Carcinogen Listing

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David Koch

David H. Koch, a former cancer patient (wonder why) and polluter extraordinaire, donated $100 million to build a Cancer Research Center at MIT and gives an additional $211 million to help research efforts. I’m impressed,  but his company and its free pollution scheme are part of the cause of the disease its self.

I posted a few time in the past week  that his company was one of the many who were lobbying against clean air acts, but Georgia Pacific (owned by Koch Industries) has taken a significant effort in to prevent formaldehyde from being listed as a carcinogen. A 2009 study conducted by the National Cancer Institute concluded that it increases the risk for leukemia:

The study tracked twenty-five thousand patients for an average of forty years; subjects exposed to higher amounts of formaldehyde had significantly higher rates of leukemia. These results helped lead an expert panel within the National Institutes of Health to conclude that formaldehyde should be categorized as a known carcinogen, and be strictly controlled by the government.

This seems to be a conflict of interest for David and it is not the only example; earlier this week one of his in the pocket republicans stated that “pollution doesn’t affect the health of humans“; when years of research prove otherwise and common logic tells us that we aren’t meant to eat, drink, breathe factory foulness.

This is simply irrational. If one was really interested in helping the cancer fight; then logic would assume that they would be on the side of eliminating causes of cancer. Additionally, this is the same kind of backward thinking that Walker demonstrates with his cuts to Medicaid and increases to in funding for destitute funerals. People want to avoid getting sick; not maybe have a chance at being more comfortable during their chemo treatments or maybe be saved by this new technology.

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Huckabee: Making Steele Look Like a GOP Wet Dream

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Mike Huckabee

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Michael Steele is known for bucking his party and failing to bend to their will with his “gaffes”, but Huckabee seems to want to up him.

Earlier this week Mike stuck hit foot in his mouth in an attempt to appeal to the birther crowd (even though in February he said  it was “nonsense”) by stating that Obama “grew up in Kenya”:

“If you think about it, his perspective as growing up in Kenya with a Kenyan father and grandfather, their view of the Mau Mau Revolution in Kenya is very different than ours because he probably grew up hearing that the British were a bunch of imperialists who persecuted his grandfather.”

Followed shortly by a statement from his spokes person claiming that he “misspoke” and is “confused”:

“Governor Huckabee simply misspoke when he alluded to President Obama growing up in ‘Kenya.’ The Governor meant to say the President grew up in Indonesia.

When the Governor mentioned he wanted to know more about the President, he wasn’t talking about the President’s place of birth – the Governor believes the President was born in Hawaii. The Governor would however like to know more about where President Obama’s liberal policies come from and what else the President plans to do to this country – as do most Americans.”

Right, and I’ll believe that… NEVER! It is worth noting that this was in an interview with a person who is clearly a birther and Huckabee, like any “good” politician told them exactly what they wanted to hear. He is simply just talking out both sides of his mouth trying to appease every one; this isn’t a new concept and Huckabee won’t be the last to do it. What he believes is an entirely different question.

Additionally, Huckabee seems to have an issue with single mothers; unsurprising for a religious zealot who believes that proper and “most important form of ‘government’ is Is a Father, Mother, and Children”.

This week (twice) he criticized Natalie Portman for her “out if wedlock pregnancy” and for “glamorizing” it and this isn’t the first time he has been caught dehumanizing single mothers as “individuals who pass on costs to the taxpayer.”

And again he walks back the statement as something innocent when the reality is that he simply is a sexist that desires to tell women what they should and should not be doing with their lives and it is the only real position that he has.

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