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U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers just spoke briefly. The high point of her speech was her "Top 10 reasons it's good to be a Republican in 2008." Here you are:
10. We believe federal judges should follow the rule of law, not the latest episode of "Law and Order."
9. We remember the old adage about change - Be careful what you wish for.
8. Republicans are improving our communication skills - we're stoppping speaking in terms like (insert $10 words here).
7. Compared to Democrats, we finally look like fiscal conservatives.
6. We don't have to worry what our presidential candidate is doing at 3 a.m.
5. We recognize the obvious: Hydropower is a renewable resource.
4. We're not asking what our country, what our government can do for us, but what we can do for our country.
3. We believe Al Gore deserves an 'F' in science and an 'A' in creative writing.
2. Dino Rossi and one vote for every voter.
1. We are the only group that Christine Gregoire can't unionize.
Right now, U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert is up. He repeated a joke I first heard him tell at the Pierce County Republicans' Lincoln Day breakfast earlier this year. It involves an airplane that's going to crash, one fewer parachute than passengers and, ultimately, Hillary Clinton dying.
COMMENTS:
"Congressman Reichert's so-called 'joke' today at the state Republican convention involving Senator Clinton falling to her death from a disabled airplane is offensive, tasteless and completely inappropriate. At a minimum, he owes the Senator an immediate public apology, especially since this is not a momentary lapse of judgment but rather something he has repeated publicly on at least two occasions before Republican audiences. When Congressman Reichert goes before non-partisan audiences he likes to bemoan the loss of civility and lack of bipartisanship in Washington, D.C. Apparently he does not really mean it, because when he gets before his fellow Republicans he takes a very different tone -- this is a truly unfortunate example of that."
If there's one thing more immature than telling a dumb joke, it's making a big deal out of it. Grow up.
But as filthy as Reichert is, Rodgers is worse. The whole GOP needs to put on medication for schizophrenia, because obviously they're not living in the real world. "Judges should follow the rule of law"?!? You mean, like the Constitution, which says absolutely nothing about abortion or gay marriage, but has a LOT to say about freedom and rights, which the bushdicks violate pretty much every minute? "Fiscal conservatives"?!? You mean like the hundred million dollars we're borrowing from China every HOUR to pay off Halliburton and Blackwater? "What we can do for our country"?!? Last I looked, there were NO repukes with ANY family members on the front lines. "Al Gore deserves an F in science"?!?!? This broad's degree is in 'pre-law' from an unaccredited religio-whacko school. She wouldn't know the difference between water and sulfuric acid, much less what the effect of hydrocarbon gases on trapping infra-red radiation is.
Oh yeah, and what your never-legally-elected resident is doing at 0300 is sleeping off his beer and xanax, and what his five-time-draft-dodger keeper is doing at 0300 is fondling himself while watching torture videos.
But hey, that's "just a joke," right? Grow up and get over it.
Nope. You don't.
As to fiscally conservative, I don't know her own voting record on it, but while the GOP in general in DC has definitely eschewed fiscal conservatism, they have done so to a lesser degree than the Democrats, so this isn't much to brag about.
Also, it has NEVER been the case that there are no Republicans with family members on the front lines. Never. Indeed, two of the Republican presidential candidates -- Duncan Hunter and our nominee, John McCain -- both had sons on the front lines.
As to calling her a "broad" and attacking her "unaccredited religio-whacko school," yes, this is the kind of bigotry, hatred, elitism, and logically fallacious argument we have all come to expect from certain segments of the left wing.
Also, you only make yourself look stupid when you say Bush wasn't legally elected. The law was followed. He was elected. Twice. And his election wasn't nearly as close, nor nearly as fraught with errors, as Gregoire's. Of course, she was legally elected too, but if you're going to say Bush wasn't, then certainly Gregoire wasn't, either.
And since when is more government, ballooning debt and a crashing economy [not to mention the suspension of individual rights] fiscal conservatism?
Sounds to me like Republicans aren't even taking science or economics classes. If these are the 10 best reasons to be a Republican, and half of them are lies, this is why that big changes you fear are coming.
Al Gore says "the debate is over." But the IPCC says that it is merely "likely" that man is causing any climate change that is having a significant impact on many biological systems.
The debate is far from over, and saying it is over is demonstrating a keen lack of scientific understanding.
And please don't speak of suspension of individual rights while the Democratic party stands against both the Second and Tenth Amendments, let alone for significant abridgments of the Ninth and Fifth Amendments. And don't even get me started on "more government." The GOP, on its worst days -- and its worst days are pretty bad -- doesn't want half the government that the Democrats want.
As to the economy, no serious and politically unbiased economist would put the blame on one political party for our economic problems, whatever they may be. Our ballooning debt is primarily due to the representatives of BOTH parties spending money on pork and other useless programs, but if you are going to blame one party, shouldn't it be the one that was in control of Congress -- which passes the budget and writes the laws and controls the regulations -- for a full year previous to the economy actually heading downward?
Nah, that would be too reasonable.
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