Giggling Rethugs are left speechless

[zebonaut]

Ashley Banfield grills some giggling rethugs about whether they are willing to give up _their salaries during a shutdown:


So how funny do YOU find these smirking cretins?

[mtasselin]

1. how

How do the people in these districts keep electing goofs like this, is that the best their district has to offer? I say no, we as Americans are better than that. Good job Ashley by holding their feet to the fire. They will go back to their districts and lie about everything and know will question them, absolutely disgusting.

[MythosMaster]

10. They live in a bubble

and the bubble insulates them from reality. Fox news tells them what they want to hear. And any information that does not complete their thin world view is ignored or dismissed as liberal spin.

They insulate themselves from anything not conservative.

Progressive legislatures should put the word "conservative" in front of every one of their bills.

The Conservative Health-care Act.

Conservative = Good.

Liberal = Bad

[Heather MC]

2. WOW Ashley Banfield was trying to hold them to the fire impressive!

Of course they hem hawed
But at least she dug in!!

[madamesilverspurs]

3. Shmucks.

And Blackburn is one of the GOP's most reliable "overtalkers" -- she just keeps talking over everyone else as if they aren't even in the room. She does this in just about every interview on any network that isn't Fox.

[yuiyoshida]

4. Spitting out the Party Line, She may as well have been

talking to a tape Recorder.. These people have absolutely no concept of what will happen after a government shutdown. To them, they are just trying to drown Government in a bathtub.

[Iliyah]

14. Actually, I don't think they care.

I've tried listening to GOPers being interviewed on tv and the journalist (I use that lightly) who do ask pertinent questions are always YELLED down by the gopers. They talk over people and never answer the questions and of course as always blame the Dems and Pres O. Never fails with them.

[yuiyoshida]

18. Those grand old FOX NEWS talking points...

They will keep saying them over and over, as if you are either deaf or don't understand what they said, and say it as though it were not just an idea, but a fact. IF FOX NEWS were to say, the SKY is green today, you could not convince Tea Party people otherwise. Infact, they probably would not even bother to get up and look outside.

[yesphan]

5. I don't often

feel deep revulsion for people, but these folks get me there. Answer the fucking question !!!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

6. Wanna bet they didn't even HEAR the question?

It would be a case of "in one ear and out the other" but sound can't pass through a vacuum.

[Iliyah]

16. LOL lol lol lol

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

7. Dana Roherabacher is goofy bastard

And Marsha is a crowing magpie. Fuck them both.

[Hubert Flottz]

22. And a liar and a crook.

The entire republican crew in congress should be deported to Iraq.

[sulphurdunn]

32. We've already caused

those poor people enough suffering. How about Saudi Arabia?

[Hubert Flottz]

39. Okay!

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

30. Hahahahaaaaaaaa,

Goofy and a magpie. I love the cartoon references.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

31. Who was the character whose eyes and mouth would roll in a circle at the same time

I recall it somewhere....but every time I see Rohrbacher that's what I think of.

[BB1]

8. I'll take that as a 'no'. That's all.

[cui bono]

9. Seriously, is there a training camp Rethugs go to for evasive tactics?

Cuz every single one of them does it.

[MythosMaster]

11. When facts are not on your side.

Obfuscate.

[Link Speed]

12. Actually, they stole it from the Mormon playbook

LDS calls it Lying for the Lord.

You answer the question that you think should have been asked. The Romney camped worked it to death. The pubs picked right up where Romney left off.

Take three minutes and watch this clip, you'll see.

[toby jo]

15. 'Lying for the Lord'

Yeah, that's it. Conservatives: lyin' for the lord for 2,000 years.

Palin must've been schooled in it - she had that 'answer what you think should have been asked' thing down pat.

[cui bono]

28. I guess the Rethugs call it Lying for the Overlords. n/t

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

24. Here's a tape of Marcia's training

[QuestForSense]

36. She was a poor student.

The crow makes more sense.

[sunwyn]

13. Many of the Congress people don't need a salary...

They have plenty of money.

[SunSeeker]

17. I just called and emailed Rohrabacher (I live in his district).

Today I emailed and called (at both his DC and local office) my idiot Republican House Representative, Dana Rohrabacher. I told him that the ACA will save 45,000 American lives each year and he needs to stop trying to defund it. I told him to pass the budget and the debt ceiling increase without any conditions.

I know he won't listen to me, but my calls and emails get tallied, and if we all did this, it would be very clear the Republicans don't speak for their constituents. They won't be able to argue they speak for the American people.

I will never forget when Senator Heidi Heitkamp defended voting against the Senate gun background check bill, that 90% of Americans support, by pointing out that the calls to her office were "at least 7 to 1 against the bill."

[young_at_heart]

19. I have never understood why he keeps getting reelected!!!

Some of the people in his district must be 'brain dead'! Or are they die-hards?

[SunSeeker]

20. There's a lot of rich white people in his district.

It hugs the coast from Palos Verdes Estates down to Huntington Beach. It looks pretty gerrymandered if you asked me...

[young_at_heart]

27. So....if youre rich, you're automatically a Republican?

Unfortunately, that seems to be 'the law of the land'. Do rich people lose their cognitive skills?

[SunSeeker]

29. Of course not. But rich whites are overwhelmingly Republican.

This is not breaking news. As to why they are Republican, I believe it is the standard "I got mine" attititude coupled with general greed and lack of empathy. Why do you think it is?

[young_at_heart]

34. Being Republican = having money and status for many people

Poor people are typically Democrats and minorities are usually Democrats. When I think of one of the worst of notable Republicans and all that this label stands for I think of Donald Trump with his immeasurable arrogance. He could care less that there are people suffering because they don't have a job or health insurance. His demeanor and actions show this with every word he utters. How many more think like him?

[stonecutter357]

21. K&R

[The Wizard]

23. When the law is on your side

you pound on the law. When that facts are on your side you pound on the facts. When neither are on your side you pound on the table. Republicans pound on the table like Khrushchev at the UN.

[MADem]

25. I have always found Banfield to be one helluva journalist. She was the only person reporting from

NYC on 9/11 and she did a superb job.

I believe she is discriminated against. She's not one of those inexperienced morons who are all fluff and no stuff, and easily pushed around.

[IrishAyes]

26. I find them about as funny as the plague they are.

[TACFIRE13]

33. Smirking?

Look at that smirking maggot.
He's getting his taxpayer funded salary and healthcare and laughs at other Americans that are going to take a hit.

We have over 10 years of combat hardened Vets, some are going to pay the price for this crap.

I know a lot of those Vets would be happy to blow that smirk off his face!

[drynberg]

35. It's time to loose that smirk when your pay is halted like 800,000 federal employees, this is real

What is so hard to understand about reality?

[QuestForSense]

38. It's multi-layered.

Have you ever heard that old one about the monkeys in the tree? Those at the top look down on a sea of bright, shining faces. Those at the bottom look up and all they see are a mountain of assholes.

[KansDem]

37. F*cking scum!!

Republicans...always wanting someone else to sacrifice!