It took the Republicans just three minutes to violate their Pledge to America.

[babylonsister]

The cretins still retained all of their hubris, I see.


The GOP breaks its 'Pledge to America'

By Dana Milbank
Thursday, September 23, 2010; 5:07 PM


It took the Republicans just three minutes to violate their Pledge to America.

In a lumber yard near Dulles International Airport Thursday morning, House Republicans handed out copies of their pledge, which, among other things, promises to rein in an "arrogant and out-of-touch government of self-appointed elites."

Yet moments after taking the stage to face the cameras, Republican leaders appointed themselves arrogant elites. They compared themselves to the founding fathers and likened their actions at Tart Lumber Co. to the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told the reporters he would speak slowly and with clarity, "just as John Hancock boldly signed his name to the Declaration of Independence so even Britain's King George could read it."

McCarthy, who led the pledge initiative, piled on the sentimentality, declaring: "We pledge to uphold the model for our country our founders envisioned, a grander America, the exception among the nations of the earth, where promise of liberty refreshes the hopes of mankind!"

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/23/AR2010092305199.html

[spanone]

1. they are so full of shit even their followers know it

[lunatica]

2. Words drop and drool out of their mouths which bypassed the brain altogether

I wonder how they do that.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

3. Everyone knows lobbyists wrote the Declaration!

Jefferson just took credit for it! Asparagus!!!!

Hiya Sis! :hug: :)

[babylonsister]

6. Hi, buddy!

:hug: Yes, I read that lobbyists wrote this piece of trash. And guess what? I'm not surprised! :P

[SalmonChantedEvening]

7. Taxamafyin without representailism!

And they can't even use S's correctly. They use F's! And if anyone is out to F us, it's lobbyists. :D

[babylonsister]

8. Sharp as a tack so early in the a.m.!

:spray:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

13. Just sharp enough to hire a typist.

;)

[SpiralHawk]

4. Republicons = Violators

[hobbit709]

5. That long?

I figured they'd do that as soon as they started.

[Skidmore]

9. McCarthy was just being interviewed by Todd on MSNBC and

he engages in weasel words. One thing that stuck out was his assertion that they would seek targeted tax cuts for businesses of less than 500 employees, defined as "small businesses." After hearing KO's report the other night, there are a lot of S corps out there with a staff of one which are big business on steroids. Weasel words. Shell games.

[saltpoint]

10. "The Tart Lumber Company."

Wow. That's pretty surreal.

Babylonsister, your reference to the Republicans as "cretins" is, well, totally accurate. !

:thumbsup:

[Erose999]

11. I hear its owned by a whole family of Tarts. I get wood every time I go there.

[jberryhill]

12. That's knotty