“He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of th[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Stupid Republicans’
June 16th, 2022 - 1:35 pm § in Politics
Being stupid isn’t lying
Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) isn’t necessarily a liar. He just lacks “a fundamental understanding of how television works” (see story here). On Thursday, June 17, 2022, Steube “confidently blared on Twitter that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi allowed CNN to broadcast its Jan. 6 commit[...]
Where is this deathly ill GOP state senator?
Washington state senator Doug Erickson is MIA. Erickson was last reported to have been medevacked from El Salvador to Florida for Covid-19 treatment. That was three weeks ago. Not a word about him since. At the time, he was seeking Regeneron, a last-ditch drug therapy used to save critically ill Cov[...]
December 24th, 2018 - 12:16 pm § in Donald Trump
“Oh my God, they’re worried about the banks!”
A panicky Wall Street just wrapped up the worst Christmas Eve trading day in human history. The Dow dropped another 650 points. Why? Because Trump did something stupid: He attacked the Federal Reserve again. The Fed is right, he’s wrong, and he needs to back off. Low rates encourage excessive [...]
February 17th, 2015 - 12:54 am § in America
Radical Republicans
David Brat .. the TPer who beat out Eric Cantor for Representative form VA has novel ideas abut education: The greatest thinkers in Western civ were not products of education policy. Socrates trained Plato in on a rock and then Plato trained in Aristotle, roughly speaking, on a rock. So, huge fundin[...]
Bibi’s Political Trip to Mourn Charlie Hebdo
Bibi is an awful diplomat. According to Haaretz, Bibi Netanyahu was asked not to attend Paris’s rally to honor the fallen cartoonists and other victims of last week’s terror attack on Charlie Hebdo. President Hollande made the request to keep the affair a European affair and avoid bot[...]
December 1st, 2014 - 12:17 pm § in Politics
Congress creates its own science
If you don’t like what science says, just pass a law that makes the earth flat. Then it’ll be flat, it’s as simple as that. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/28/1347731/-Steve-Stockman-demands-our-nation-s-scientists-investigate-the-Stockman-Effect?detail=email# [...]
Clueless GOP Candidate Wonders Why Military Doesn’t Oust Obama
A Republican running for re-election to a county office in the St. Louis area posted this on her Facebook page: “I have a question for all my friends who have served or are currently serving in our military … having not put on a uniform nor taken any type military oath, there has to be […[...]