True Story (My favorite Republican inspired facepalm)

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The House of Representatives has crazy time when everyone goes home except a few people who want the C-Span tape of them reading endless speeches into the congressional record while the poor presiding officer does crossword puzzles.

So they speechify to an empty hall. Pretty dull, but sometimes there is buried gold in their rantings.

One of the 1994 Republican class once read a speech about why English must be our official languge. The language of government is what binds us together and it must be English...

"After all... our national motto is E Pluribus Unim."


Another true story of Republicans saying the darndest things... one of the Republican fossils in the Senate was chair of Foreign Relations. (Thurmond?)

He once read a statement about North Korea refrring to Kim Jong Il. Now granted, the capital I and lower case L are similar, so of course he said, "Kim Jong the Second."

His staff always tried to cover for his encroaching senility, so the next time it came up in a prepared statement they spelled it out phonetically for him. KIM JONG ILL. But they didn't make it all caps so that upper-lowercase problem was still in full effect and he called him "Kim Jong the Third."

Republicans. If there were only a few of them they'd be funny.

Feel free to add your own "Republicans say the darndest things."

Happy new year!

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1. Ronald Reagan: "Ya Seen One Redwood Tree, Ya Seen Em All"

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2. Christmas tree...and Watts "trees cause more pollution

than cars"

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3. omg Watts!!

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6. I'm with you... hadn't thought of him in ages, but

he was a special man. Cancelling the Beach Boys as too radical for America was choice.

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8. Remember Edwin Meese?

Now there was a piece of work. He skated right through his crimes.

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10. Washington DC was covered with

spray paint stencil graffitti that said "Meese is a Pig."

It was everywhere.

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11. Glad to know people tried to shame him.

Too bad they don't have a remorse gene.

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9. ah the good ol days

when the insanity wasn't spun quite as thick

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4. Dan Quayle's career n/t

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5. Don't forget W

He said "Kim Jong the Second" too. There was also this:

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7. Every time they open their mouths.

Willful (and proud) ignorance on every and all subjects.

I miss the days when comedians had to work for the laughs. Now, they can just read the Congressional record for a giggle.