OH NO - Its the attack of the Veggie Socialists!

[kpete]

"They want to give all the power to the federal government to force you to eat more fruits and vegetables. This is what the federal, CDC, they gonna be calling you to make sure you eat fruits and vegetables, every day. This is socialism of the highest order!"

-- Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), quoted by Think Progress, discussing some of Washington's "big problems" at a town hall meeting.


http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/30/broun-govt-calling-healthy/

[FSogol]

1. I'm a big guy, maybe I can get a job forcing Republicans to eat their vegtables?

Will they give me a Taser or will I get to carry sidearms?

[Contrary1]

The job is yours...

I hereby name you the vegetable-boarding czar. You may practice on Mr. Broun.

[FSogol]

14. Just let me get some jackets, shirts and hats with VSA printed and we're good to go.

[SammyWinstonJack]

2. Bat shit insane.

:crazy:

[MineralMan]

3. Stuff a zucchini in it, Broun!

[gratuitous]

4. Don't you want to kick him right square in the ass?

Everyone agrees we have all kinds of problems in the country: Schools that don't teach, kids that don't learn, obesity and its attendant medical problems, and on and on. Most of those problems are pretty big, and don't yield to a simple, one-size-fits-all remedy. So you have to start somewhere. On obesity, it would be nice to have some guidance from professional nutritionists. More fruits and vegetables, less red meat. More whole foods, less processed stuff. But as soon as you start coming out with the recommendations that people need to help them live a healthier life, idiots like Broun turn it completely upside down in a cynical maneuver to destroy trust and community.

Motherfucker deserves to have something wasting and debilitating and completely avoidable happen to him.

[StandingInLeftField]

5. I think anyone not living in the South can't comprehend

just how many people there are down here who ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY believe e-ver-y word that spews from these cretins' lips. But then again, it's the digital age, so maybe they can.


It's enough to make a body cry.

edited for emphasis

[arbusto_baboso]

6. Yes, HOW DARE anyone want Americans to be healthy!

I mean, if they're too healthy, then Medical Insurers won't be able to make shitloads of money off them...

Oops, did I say that out loud?

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. I did not know we had that many people at CDC

he does realize that they don't have enough employees, right... RIGHT?

Oh logic is not their strong suit.

RUN FER DEM HILLS!!!!! THEM SOZIALISTS ARE COMING!!!! HIDE WOMEN AND CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!!!

[MH1]

8. where do they find these people?

and who votes for them?

[get the red out]

9. Why are they vege-phobic?

Or are Republicans ashamed of their Big Macs?

[sinkingfeeling]

10. Another Repub that has zero idea of of socialism really is.

[flvegan]

11. The CDC is vegetarian black ops.

What? It's equally ridiculous.

[KamaAina]

12. He's absolutely right. We eat too many fruits and veggies.

Especially Georgia peaches and Vidalia onions. :P

[Bigmack]

13. How about you eat shit, instead, Paul? nt

[Iterate]

15. Sorry I couldn't post sooner, but the CDC was on the phone.

Evidently some mischievous neighbor had informed on me, but I assured them that I wasn't having deep fried butter with cheese sauce.

[arbusto_baboso]

17. Dude, it's bad form not to share.

[old mark]

16. When we herd the Right Winger Fundies into re-education centers, I want them

to eat broccoli. A LOT of broccoli. That seems to be the republicans most hated vegetable, since Bush I.

BTW, "Think Progress"? what kind of a fucking joke is that?

mark