An unbelieveably, brutally good smackdown of the GOP

[dave123williams]

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/a/m/americandad/2010/03/an-open-letter-to-conservative.php?ref=recdc/Superb

Really well sourced and linked, worth the read:


Excerpt:


You can't flip out -- and threaten impeachment - when Dems use a prlimentary procedure (deem and pass) that you used repeatedly (more than 35 times in just one session and more than 100 times in all!), that's centuries old and which the courts have supported. Especially when your leaders admit it all.

You can't vote and scream against the stimulus package and then take credit for the good it's done in your own district (happily handing out enormous checks representing money that you voted against, is especially ugly) -- 114 of you (at last count) did just that -- and it's even worse when you secretly beg for more.

You can't fight against your own ideas just because the Dem president endorses your proposal.

You can't call for a pay-as-you-go policy, and then vote against your own ideas.

Are they "unlawful enemy combatants" or are they "prisoners of war" at Gitmo? You can't have it both ways.

You can't carry on about the evils of government spending when your family has accepted more than a quarter-million dollars in government handouts.

You can't refuse to go to a scheduled meeting, to which you were invited, and then blame the Dems because they didn't meet with you.

You can't rail against using teleprompters while using teleprompters. Repeatedly.

You can't rail against the bank bailouts when you supported them as they were happening.

You can't be for immigration reform, then against it .

You can't enjoy socialized medicine while condemning it.

[Blue Owl]

1. Kick 'em when they're down

I like your style, dave123williams...

[Turborama]

2. Wow, that's a really comprehensive list with a massive amount of bookmark worthy links embedded

That must have taken ages to put together!

Thanks a lot for posting this.

:kick: & R

[howaboutme]

3. Executive order

Now let's have Obama do an executive order and decree single payer health care. Rush Limbaugh and his dittohead lemmings would have a stroke.

[JohnWxy]

25. tried to recommend but it was beyond time period. Bookmarked. great article!

[taught_me_patience]

4. Gladly kicking this to the top.

This is AWESOME.

[spartan61]

5. What an excellent read.

I have it bookmarked. Thanks for posting this.

[CatWoman]

6. kick

the entire letter is outstanding :applause:

[MissMarple]

7. .

[Juche]

8. Yes you can

You can because the media sucks and the public don't pay enough attention to figure this shit out. Its only a lie if you get caught. Nobody is catching them or calling their BS.

[samsingh]

9. also add

you can't be pro-life and against health-care that will keep people alive.

[cascadiance]

10. And...

You can't claim to be religiously aligned with Jesus's teachings and the Ten Commandments and advocating assassination of foreign leaders you don't like.

Nice page on that link... I'm sure I can come up with more too, but its tough to find stuff he already doesn't have.

[Enthusiast]

23. Good point. nt

[Martin Eden]

11. Yes you can.

You can do all those things and get approving nods from your base of support -- if you are a Republican.

[dem mba]

12. well sourced

well written. kicked.

[quiet.american]

13. Bookmarked. Every damn thing is in there - didn't know about the "affair w/the mother-in-law" thing.

"...replace a guy who cheats on his wife with a guy who cheats on his pregnant wife with his wife's mother..." -- holy camoly:



Meet newly minted Rep. Daniel Stout.

His campaign Web site touts his conservative, pro-family bona fides. "I believe Paulding County wants someone who will stand strong for the conservative principles we've always believed in ... lower taxes, limited government, personal responsibility, and valuing Life from the womb until natural death," he says.

But, as the writer Tom Crawford of Capitol Impact noted this week, Stout "has been compelled to address a personal incident from 10 years ago: he had an affair with his first wife's mother while his first wife was pregnant with their daughter. Stout and his first wife subsequently divorced."

In a statement to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Stout apologized and said, "This humbling experience changed my life dramatically."

He also said the relationship with his mother-in-law "was stopped short of 'sex.'"

[JDPriestly]

19. You mean Tom Crawford didn't have sex with that woman -- his mother-in-law.

I have, in all my life, never heard of someone caring that much about their mother-in-law. Well, I learned something new today. How absolutely depraved.

[Enthusiast]

24. Maybe they only had

oral sex.

[anachro1]

14. Kick them when they're down?

Better yet to just rip open their sores and pour salt on them.

[Bobbie Jo]

15. K&R

:kick:

[calimary]

16. Kicked, rec'd, and bookmarked!

Both here on DU and on my own computer. This one is a KEEPER-beyond-all-keepers. All the smackdown/hit-'em-back talking points WE need.

A MUST read for every DUer, progressive, liberal, Democrat, AND ESPECIALLY, for all independents.

For the record:

An unbelieveably, brutally good smackdown of the GOP

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/a/m/americandad/2010/03/an-open-letter-to-conservative.php?ref=recdc/Superb

[CLANG]

17. Did the dems use "deem and pass"?

I though there was a full roll-call vote on the Senate Bill? Am I confused, or what?

[mudplanet]

18. Well, to be fair, you CAN do all of those things if you preface it by saying "I'm a lying hypocrite"

[BlancheSplanchnik]

20. Dang, I'm too lat to Rec

but I'll kick.

This is SUPERB!!!

[thereismore]

21. Isn't the mouth kissing photo a photoshop? If so, it is a blemish in an otherwise brilliant

summary.

[Enthusiast]

22. That is excellent.

But they simply ignore reality. It really doesn't matter how wrong they are, they just keep insisting they are right. Read the comments to see examples.

They say "Democrats do the same thing." As if we could even begin to approach the level of hypocrisy that is their very lives.