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xchrom

(108,903 posts)
Sat May 25, 2013, 06:49 AM May 2013

10 Crazy Things the Right Did This Week

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/10-crazy-things-right-did-week

1. Pennsylvania governor can't find any Latinos to work for him. Gov. Tom Corbett (R-PA) told a Spanish-language newspaper this week that he didn't have any Latinos working for him. There are approximately 18,000 Latinos just in the Harrisburg, PA area alone.

2. Pennsylvania governor remembers single Latino who works for him. A day after saying he didn't have any Latinos working for him, Corbett suddenly remembered a single Latino appointee working in his administration.

3. Conservatives freak out over Boy Scouts decision to admit gays. Here'sthe ten best conservative freak-outs over the group's decision to admit gay scouts while maintaining a ban on gay leaders.

4. Tea Party congressman mansplains his anti-abortion views. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), speaking at a hearing about an unconstitutional ban on abortion after 20 weeks that House Republicans are championing, told a witness that she should've been forced to wait and give birth rather than have an abortion even though her fetus had no brain function.
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10 Crazy Things the Right Did This Week (Original Post) xchrom May 2013 OP
Tea Party is synonymous with reality challenged, Right-Wing crazy. RC May 2013 #1
Regarding #1 Faux pas May 2013 #2
 

RC

(25,592 posts)
1. Tea Party is synonymous with reality challenged, Right-Wing crazy.
Sat May 25, 2013, 08:24 AM
May 2013

How can anyone be voting for them into office the first time, let alone after that?

Faux pas

(14,657 posts)
2. Regarding #1
Sat May 25, 2013, 10:45 AM
May 2013

Rev Al gave out corbett's phone number and email address on his show. He (Al) encouraged all qualified Latinos to apply for jobs.
Loved it!

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