John Boehner tore himself away from his mistress, the tanning parlors, the golf course, and the bars long enough to talk about the new Republican contract on America. If you are not as insulted by what he had to say as I am, may I respectfully suggest that you visit your local poison control center for an insaniTEA screening.
Since its release last week, House Republicans have been touting their “Pledge To America” as a bold policy vision to solve the nation’s problems, which they would enact if they gain a majority after the November elections. However, revealing the pledge to be nothing more than regurgitated rhetoric that ignores critical issues, even conservative critics have [wing-nuts delinked] slammed it as “meaningless stuff” that fails on “advocacy of long term sound public policy.”
Today on Fox News Sunday, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) seemed to concede this point. When host Chris Wallace noted that the Pledge does not even address entitlement spending such as Social Security and Medicare, Boehner countered by saying that its purpose is only to “lay out the size of the problem,” rather than “to get to potential solutions.” This, of course, flies in the face of GOP branding of the proposal, but Boehner explained that he doesn’t think the American people can handle his ideas right now, saying, “Once Americans understand how big the problem is, then we can begin to talk about potential solutions”…
…Watch it:
Indeed, Boehner was more than a little off message in saying “let’s not get to the potential solutions.” As his own Pledge states, surveying the proposals laid out in its pages, “We recognize that these solutions are ambitious [GOP delinked].” It concludes by affirming that Republicans will fight to “promote and advance solutions.”… [emphasis added]
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People, what Agent Orange is telling us is that we all need to be good little sheeple and trust Big Brother Boner to take care of us, because we’re not smart enough to handle the solutions. Well I know plenty about Republican solutions. I went through eight years of Republican solutions and I’m still trying to find O rings on sale to repair the damage that Republicans’ tender mercies did to my nether orifice.
What this lying son of a bitch is really saying is that he lacks the courage to tell us what Republican plans are. He does not want to talk about tax cuts for the rich, deregulation for criminal corporations, dismantling the safety net for which we have all paid with our taxes and social security contributions, and cutting back services, except for the rich. America opposes his real plan and rightly so. With all their faults, most Democrats try to represent everyone. Republicans govern exclusively for the benefit of criminal corporations and the richest 1%. Your vote matters!
16 Responses to “Republicans Really Think YOU Are This Stupid!”
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At least many on the right see it as a nothing solution too. Even that jerk, Eric Erickson of Red State condemned the useless old ideas. They didn’t help themselves with this.
True, but they wanted red meat for their dogs.
“We will go back to doing things the same way” Rang loud enough with me to work to get the left off its collective ass.
And I’m most pleased about that, Mark.
Oh god, Boehner is so clueless that its scary.
Clueless, or just lying through his teeth?
“Let’s not get to the potential solutions.”
Uh… Not even solutions, but POTENTIAL solutions, and they don’t want to go there? WOW. Just… WOW.
How anyone could vote republican is beyond me, but then again, I could NEVER see why anyone would vote republican, even back in 1972 when I voted for McGovern…
Nikolai, you pay attention to what’s going on. Most voters, sadly, do not.
Republicans are too stupid to even know they’re stupid. If they weren’t so stupid, they’d realize most Americans aren’t stupid enough to fall for their stupidity.
Those who saw him say it, saw it on Fox, where it is proclaimed as the gospel truth.
Fantastic reframing on “Agent Orange” for this misereduxican BludgeOn Americans!
Thanks Bruce. Whom do you support?
Jerry Seinfeld should sue the Republican Party for plagiarizing his comedy “show about nothin’!”
TomCat,
Your last paragraph says it all. Boner is completely right when he says the country isn’t right yet for his ideas, though. It WAS right back in the 1890s, when those ideas were put into effect failed miserably, and the people have since moved on to bigger and better things, like the Square Deal, the New Deal, the New Frontier, and the Great Society. Boner should crawl out of his 1890s saloon and tanning booth, get into his time machine, and set the controls for 2010, where real people are today.
You know what stinks Tom? They say what they want lie or not and that is the new truth. They could care less what we think as long as they get their way!
Between the excellent response quoted from ThinkProgress and tnlib’s put-down, it’s hard to find more to say.
Maybe in some corner of his vacant mind, Boehner senses that announcing they intend to do away with Medicare, Social Security and Veterans Administration medical care might not play well with a few people, especially when the economy is in a big mess of Republicans’ making.
Then again, he did say they haven’t changed, that Republicans intend to go back to doing to us what they did to us before. So, who knows?