If I wanted to, I could post Idiot Quotes of the Day all day long. The right has no shortage of liars and bigots in their cesspool of stupidity to ever fear running short of material. Case in point, Republican Congressman Jeff Landry of Louisiana decided to attack the Obama administration for mandating that contraception be included in health insurance policies by spouting this bit of nonsense.
Down here in south Louisiana this is huge, this is very important to my constituency. I think the biggest problems that a lot of Americans are having out there is the hypocrisy of this administration. Remember, this is an administration who has no problem granting special status or waivers to Muslims as they go through TSA screenings. Look, as they believe that there is a need to grant them special rights as they go through the TSA screening based upon their religion, that’s fine, I’m ok with that. But then don’t turn around and attack Christians when they stand up and say ‘listen, we believe that the policies you’re putting in place violate our religious freedoms as well.
They literally just make this shit up as they go. Glenn Church over at Foolocracy easily handles this one.
If Muslims were really getting exemptions, the Council for American-Islamic Relations would not have issued a press release calling the screenings “invasive” and “humiliating.” CAIR did present a list of recommendation, but it did not seek to have Muslims opt out of the TSA process. Their main emphasis was to avoid the full-body scanners, which are deemed offensive. A lot of non-Muslims would agree. CAIR urged that in place of the body scanners pat-downs could be completed in private for Muslim women who felt uncomfortable with the security procedures.
Ahh, stubborn little facts…but Republicans don’t care. They’ve got their shtick down to a science. The following set of rules is taken from How to Defeat a Black President With a Funny Sounding Name Who Prevented Us From Fucking Up Our Country From Inside the White House For Another Four Years So Now We’re Forced To Fuck It Up From Congress.
- Adopt a position…any one will do as long as it is in direct opposition to the one adopted by Obama and Democrats. Especially sweet are positions that are the exact opposite to what Republicans believed in mere months ago. There’s nothing like messing with progressives’ heads.
- Create a lie…any lie will do. The bigger and more outrageous you make it, the better it is. And feel free to pull it out of your ass if you must. Actually, it is preferable if you do pull it out of your ass for whatever it is, Fox and the rest of the right-wing noise machine will back you up all the way.
- Repeat the lie over and over so that every wingnut within earshot of a radio or television will hear it enough times and come to accept it as the gospel truth.
- Use the lie you created in Step 2. to defend the position you adopted in Step 1. and you’re done.
See how easy it is when you don’t have a shred of integrity to hold you back?
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They don’t even respect their intelligence enough to make up believable lies. If I were a rightwinger that would piss me off.
It’s not about intelligence. It’s about having no political incentive to be honest with Americans. Lying and obstructing is their way to regain power and that is their only goal.
That was funny, true, and personally scares the shite out of me. I venture onto right wing sites, and even get tea party emails and it amazing to see these ass-pulled bits of wisdom repeated over and over and praised as gospel in the posts.
Mario,
You forgot number 5: Repeat Republican talking points over and over, just like they make sense somehow. Eventually voters will begin to believe them.
You’re right on about the lies. They’ve learned that if they lie and repeat those lies over and over, people begin to believe them. I think it’ll be like the boy who cried wolf – after so many lies, people will just stop listening to them.
It would be like if you or me kept telling lies through our blog, eventually people would just stop listening to us because are word would no longer be credible. I think that’s what’s going to happen with Republicans; Americans are going to finally figure out they’re lying and then people will stop listening to them and they’ll stop being viable.
Right now they’re a very desperate party that sees the country becoming a bigger melting pot as white people become a minority.
The party of bigots sees the writing on the wall and they’re doing what they can to try and stop that train from arriving at the station – voter ID laws and the like, trying to keep all those minorites from the polls. They’re only delaying the inevitable. They will need to change to more of what the country is becoming or find themselves left behind and another, new party taking their place.