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Since Merc and Classic are always posting stuff from right wanger blogs and heavily biased ARTICLES from conservative fairy tale collections designed to keep baby tea baggers up all night searching for liberal boogy men in their closets, I have taken it upon myself to present the Cellar with a humorous view from the liberal/commie/anti-patriotic LEFT WING! :eek:

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One aspect of American politics that receives insufficient attention is that a significant percentage of self-identified Republicans—around half—are complete idiots. And the candidates who wish to be elected by them must pander to them, either by being idiots themselves—see “Bachmann, Michele”—or pretending to be. Nobody in the MSM is empowered to say this aloud. Indeed, the very act of pointing it out brands one a “liberal elitist” who is biased against proud, patriotic conservatives.

More absolute truth from the Liberal Front to Overthrow Democracy as "we" (meaning Sarah Palin &Co.) know it: http://www.thenation.com/article/161...ublican-idiots

:lol:

Speaking of Bachmann.

From Bruce's site:

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Bachmann is a religious zealot whose brain is a raging electrical storm of divine visions and paranoid delusions. She believes that the Chinese are plotting to replace the dollar bill, that light bulbs are killing our dogs and cats, and that God personally chose her to become both an IRS attorney who would spend years hounding taxpayers and a raging anti-tax Tea Party crusader against big government. She kicked off her unofficial presidential campaign in New Hampshire, by mistakenly declaring it the birthplace of the American Revolution. "It's your state that fired the shot that was heard around the world!" she gushed. "You are the state of Lexington and Concord, you started the battle for liberty right here in your backyard."

Where in the world does the conservative bunch find these people? Everyone knows that the American Revolution began in Lexington, Kentucky and was spear-headed by Daniel Boone on his famous midnight ride over the Cumberland Gap. :rolleyes:

thanks, SamIAm, for this - but aren't you afraid the gruesome twosome will disparage your parentage, insult your physical being, lambast your intellect and generally say meanie-bo-beanie stuff to you for voicing your opinion or at least a differing opinion?

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Originally Posted by Brianna (Post 741728)

I was so scairt, I had to sleep under the bed last night. I have lined the edges of my monitor with tin foil and am braced for the worst - sort of like waiting for Hurricane Katrina to strike. :p:

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lambast your intellect and generally say meanie-bo-beanie stuff to you for voicing your opinion or at least a differing opinion?

Kettle: Hi, you're black.
Pot: No, you're black.

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Originally Posted by SamIam (Post 741707)

From Bruce's site:

Where in the world does the conservative bunch find these people? Everyone knows that the American Revolution began in Lexington, Kentucky and was spear-headed by Daniel Boone on his famous midnight ride over the Cumberland Gap. :rolleyes:

Honestly they are a fucking idiots, just like Obama, Pelosi, and Reid. :p:

Who said this:

"There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many with Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design."

Right. Michelle Bachman.

Cite or stfu.

Ron Paul in one of his finer moments: "Boy, it sure burns me to have a national holiday for Martin Luther King. I voted against this outrage time and time again as a Congressman. What an infamy that Ronald Reagan approved it! We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day."

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Originally Posted by SamIam (Post 741707)

Where in the world does the conservative bunch find these people?

It's early yet. Right now it's just the nuts getting shaken out of the tree, while getting to the hardwood. Later on, they'll come up with a more reasonable candidate, and like him/her or not, everyone will breath a sigh of relief.

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Originally Posted by SamIam (Post 742045)

As I recall, Merc is firmly against Martin Luther King Day.

"Everybody knows in my district that I didn't write them and I don't speak like that... and I've been reelected time and time again and everyone knows I don't participate in that kind of language. The point is, when you bring this question up, you're really saying 'you're a racist, or are you a racist?' The answer is no, I'm not a racist. As a matter of fact, Rosa Parks is one of my heroes, Martin Luther King is a hero, because they practiced the libertarian principle of civil disobedience and nonviolence. Libertarians are incapable of being a racist because racism is a collectivist idea: you see people in groups. A civil libertarian as myself sees everyone as an important individual."

— Ron Paul, CNN, Jan 10, 2008

Maybe we should re-title this thread to Put quotation marks around anything and attribute it to anyone.

As in:

"Yeah baby, I shagged her rotten, yeah." Former President Bill Clinton upon being asked if he had sex with Monica Lewinski. --Journal of Politicians with Intact Integrity, Aug. 2003

Link

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Originally Posted by Undertoad (Post 742062)

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Originally Posted by Foot x3

Maybe we should re-title this thread to Put quotation marks around anything and attribute it to anyone.

OK, UT and Foot. Here’s more info than I bet either of you ever cared to know. :p:

My quote of Ron Paul came from the entry about him in Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul which states in part:

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Controversial claims made in Ron Paul's newsletters, written in the first person narrative, included statements such as "Boy, it sure burns me to have a national holiday for Martin Luther King. I voted against this outrage time and time again as a Congressman. What an infamy that Ronald Reagan approved it! We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day."

The source Wikipedia cited for this quote is a blog here:
http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane...ters-revealed/

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There has been controversy over Ron Paul’s ties to racism for some time now. Many people have pointed to Ron Paul’s Newsletters as proof of his racism. Paul has previously admitted to* writing the newsletters and defended the statements in 1996, then blamed them on an unnamed ghostwriter in 2001 and then denied any knowledge of them in 2008. He has given no explanation, for how the racism entered his newsletter. If we are to take Paul at his word, he is guilty of at least promoting racism on a large scale. Paul earned almost a million dollars a year from the racist, conspiracy theorist newsletters. Here [is] an excerpt that I’ve found.

In this piece he criticizes Martin Luther King as a pro-communist philanderer and says the MLK holiday is “Hate Whitey Day.” This is in great contrast to 2008 when he told Wolf Blitzer that Martin Luther King was one of his heroes. When activists suggested naming a city after Martin Luther King Paul suggested other names such as “Welfaria,” “Zooville,” “Rapetown,” “Dirtburg,” and “Lazyopolis”

Wikipedia also cited an article in the New Republic by James Kirchick:
http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/...15-4532a7da84c

Kirchick did a search of the newsletters under the name of Ron Paul that were put out at various times going back as far as 1996. Kirchick concludes:

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But, whoever actually wrote them, the newsletters I saw all had one thing in common: They were published under a banner containing Paul’s name, and the articles (except for one special edition of a newsletter that contained the byline of another writer) seem designed to create the impression that they were written by him--and reflected his views. What they reveal are decades worth of obsession with conspiracies, sympathy for the right-wing militia movement, and deeply held bigotry against blacks, Jews, and gays. In short, they suggest that Ron Paul is not the plain-speaking antiwar activist his supporters believe they are backing--but rather a member in good standing of some of the oldest and ugliest traditions in American politics.

The New Republic, BTW, considers itself a publication which draws upon a variety of viewpoints from both the Left and the Right.

@Dana - Of course Merc would be opposed to MLK Day. Doesn't surprise me one bit. :rolleyes:

My quote of Ron Paul also came from the entry about him in Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul . Three paragraphs below yours.

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Originally Posted by SamIam (Post 742076)

OK, UT and Foot. Here’s more info than I bet either of you ever cared to know. :p:

OK, I retract my earlier post and submit that this thread should be re-titled:
I read it in Wikipedia so it must be true

I read in Wikipedia that footfootfoot believes that he could whoop merc's ass with the entrails of a dead rabbit and invites him over if he reckons not to be scairt.

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 741702)

Speaking of Bachmann.

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Originally Posted by BigV (Post 741913)

Right. Michelle Bachman.

Bachman apparently has the same kind of spirit as John Wayne... Gacy.

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Originally Posted by SamIam (Post 741700)

Since Merc and Classic are always posting stuff from right wanger blogs and heavily biased ARTICLES from conservative fairy tale collections ...

Wow just found this thread - SamI'mnot - I'm calling you out on this. I rarely read, let alone cite "right wanger blogs and heavily biased ARTICLES" unless yuo consider CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, Politico, WSJ, and Huffpo as fitting your description. Please provide some sort of proof or recant.

Here is a great one by Obama.

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“First time I saw the 10th Mountain Division, you guys were in southern Iraq. When I went back to visit Afghanistan, you guys were the first ones there. I had the great honor of seeing some of you because a comrade of yours, Jared Monti, was the first person who I was able to award the Medal of Honor to who actually came back and wasn’t receiving it posthumously,” the president said.

Jared Monti was actually killed in Afghanistan on June 21, 2006.

Well DONE Mr. Commander in Chief!!!! You just earned the respect of a whole Class of graduating soldiers from West Point.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpu...or-winner.html

Where did they find this fool?

Merc, I think your expectations of politicians in general are too high. Not to put too fine a point on it, but aren't an awful lot of them lawyers before they get into politics? :D

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot (Post 743107)

Merc, I think your expectations of politicians in general are too high. Not to put too fine a point on it, but aren't an awful lot of them lawyers before they get into politics? :D

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Not nearly enough missing arms and watches.:p:

haggis again! out loud.

Snippy reporter gets schooled.

And then HAMMERED by, of all people, Al Sharpton.

I love this one: http://youtu.be/9JnDY2Gv5YQ :D:p::D

This one is great!

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The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies.

Over the past 5 years, our federal debt has increased by $3.5 trillion to $8.6 trillion.That is “trillion” with a “T.” That is money that we have borrowed from the Social Security trust fund, borrowed from China and Japan, borrowed from American taxpayers. And over the next 5 years, between now and 2011, the President’s budget will increase the debt by almost another $3.5 trillion.

Numbers that large are sometimes hard to understand. Some people may wonder why they matter. Here is why: This year, the Federal Government will spend $220 billion on interest. That is more money to pay interest on our national debt than we’ll spend on Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. That is more money to pay interest on our debt this year than we will spend on education, homeland security, transportation, and veterans benefits combined. It is more money in one year than we are likely to spend to rebuild the devastated gulf coast in a way that honors the best of America.

And the cost of our debt is one of the fastest growing expenses in the Federal budget. This rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy, robbing our cities and States of critical investments in infrastructure like bridges, ports, and levees; robbing our families and our children of critical investments in education and health care reform; robbing our seniors of the retirement and health security they have counted on.

Every dollar we pay in interest is a dollar that is not going to investment in America’s priorities.

Senator Barack Obama
Senate Floor Speech on Public Debt
March 16, 2006

Harry Reid on raising the debt ceiling in 2006:

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“If my Republican friends believe that increasing our debt by almost $800 billion today and more than $3 trillion over the last five years is the right thing to do, they should be upfront about it. They should explain why they think more debt is good for the economy.

How can the Republican majority in this Congress explain to their constituents that trillions of dollars in new debt is good for our economy? How can they explain that they think it’s fair to force our children, our grandchildren, our great grandchildren to finance this debt through higher taxes. That’s what it will have to be. Why is it right to increase our nation’s dependence on foreign creditors?

They should explain this. Maybe they can convince the public they’re right. I doubt it. Because most Americans know that increasing debt is the last thing we should be doing. After all, I repeat, the Baby Boomers are about to retire. Under the circumstances, any credible economist would tell you we should be reducing debt, not increasing it.Democrats won’t be making argument to supper this legalization, which will weaken our country. Weaken our county.”

lol - just noticed thats from last march. Still very funny.

and here is Beck's followup - for what its worth

Oh and to answer Glenn's question ...
Virtually everywhere.