Wonkette
- STIMULUS DEBATE SAVES REPUBLICAN PARTY: From Gallup: “The American public gives President Barack Obama a strong 67% approval rating for the way in which he is handling the government’s efforts to pass an economic stimulus bill, while the Democrats and, in particular, the Republicans in Congress receive much lower approval ratings of 48% and 31%, respectively.” Republican revolution in 2010! [Gallup]
31% is around the same as W’s last approval rating. Thus, this means that among sane people the Republican’s approval rating is 0%
So even with all this hype about a billion bucks for ACORN, the Republicans STILL can’t draw an inside straight at the card game???
So basically, the country is recognizing the Republicans for the obstructionist loser-monkeys that they are. Awesome.
NoWireHangers: Who are these 31%, and do they all live in Oklahoma and Utah?
I can already hear Newt Gingrich greasing himself up to fit in the speaker’s chair again.
Truly, there is a darkness gathering…
Republicans in Congress are acting like people voted for Barack Obama just so he could say some John McCain shit in a sexier fashion. So for them to continue to attempt to augment bills based on “tax cuts” and bullshit used-up rhetoric just shows you what we are fucking dealing with. Raving dickbags.
So that means the 31% consists of all the right wing, evangelicals, backwards ‘B’ girl & the dumb bitch who asked Barry today in IN why he hadn’t had a beer with Hannity. Brilliant!
HAHAHAHAHAHA. Keep up the good work, Repubs. No, really, keep on doing exactly what you’re doing.
It’s not all that surprising when you consider that due to the flailing economy, Jesus could only afford to reprogram them with the one “tax-and-spend Democrats” talking point.
You shouldn’t hang me on a hook, Barry. My father hung me on a hook once. Once!
Wait, I thought the country hated the GOP because people got mad they abandoned their no tax/no spend (except on military and killing abortion doctors) principles. And here they are sticking to that and still nothing?
At this rate, the whole RNC leadership is gonna have to be black.
They’ve been down so long that cracking 30% feels like victory. Just remember that our recently deposed cybernetic Vice President Dick Cheney had approval rates rivaling that of chlamydia.
WORST PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY
No way is Obama worse than that fat totalitarian bastard, John Adams. I’d rephrase this as “WORST PRESIDENT SINCE ADAMS SR.”
You have to admire the integrity of these Republicans — most people would turn away from the policies that brought us eight years of failure, but not them. They will keep doing the same crappy shit until it magically works.
Sussemilch: Haven’t you ever heard of “reparations?”
The hilarious part is that public support for the stimulus bill is fairly split, and the Republicans are still sucking wind. That is how much people hate the GOP right now.
Ha fucking ha ha. I guess helping W and friends trash the country has consequences.
…more of a reason not to negotiate with these ideological shyt bags. Despite 8 years of fairy-tale trickle down economics, they are coming out guns blazing against an attempt at “trickle-up” economics. I say ignore the crazies in congress and put together a stimulus package that would make progressives have wet dreams and make any deals that are needed in the senate instead. The pressure isn’t on the Democrats to compromise, its on the Republicans to get the fukk out of the way!
AngryBlakGuy: Now now, we’re talking about Obama, not Kucinich.
I actually got one of my friends who tried to tell me that Sarah Palin represented real America (cuz she’s had a retard inside of her; plus this was back in, like, august or whatever), so yeah, I got him to admit that the repubs were being stoopid about this. Progress, you guys!
Colander: “cuz she’s had a retard inside of her”
I assume you’re referring to the First Dood.
Barack Obama: making his opponents look like completely crazed, raving lunatics since 2006.
Ultimately this will work for them. Just like Terry Schiavo, Tire Guages, and privatizing Social Security.
I love that the Republicans can’t catch a break. First they had an opening with the Daschle/Geithner foofaraw, and they just boot it back into their own endzone with Michael “Under Investigation” Steele. OH WHOOPS PARTY OF FISCAL INTEGRITY SAYS WHAT?
Now they’re being all principled about not fixing the damn bridges and potholes, when just a couple of months ago they were writing big checks to bankroll the i-bankers’ bottle service. JUST CHANGE YOUR NAME BACK TO THE KNOW-NOTHING PARTY, DOODZ
Mr Blifil: The Republicans want reparations for being slaughtered wholesale in the elections and reduced to legislative slavery under the thumb of their Democratic masters?
Note to the RNC:
Here is what the poors want: bridges that don’t fall down, roads that aren’t one giant pothole, schools with actual chairs and books and teachers in them.
Here is what the poors do not want: Neel Kashkari buying a new Ferrari.
THIS IS NOT ROCKET SURGERY, YOU GUYS. SERIOUSLY.
I for one simply don’t believe that 31% of Americans are pedophiles or self-hating homosexuals. Maybe 25%, but then who are the other 6%?
OuterBoroughPrincess: I thought he meant Bill Kristol.
What? You know that’s what really happened during that Alaskan sex cruise when Kristol “discovered” her.
You are all laughing now, but just you wait until the Republicans nominate their Palin/Gingrich ticket in four years. Who will be laughing then?
Oh yeah. Us.
Guppy06: …I digress.
IceCreamEmpress: …the Rethuglicans are attempting a “Full Court Press”(excuse the sports analogy). They think if they fight the Democrats on enough fronts they can tarnish the Obama/Democrats before they can get any momentum going. The problem with this is they open themselves up to the “Obstructionist” and “Petty Bickering” labels. The Dem’s need to completely scrap the crappy senate version of the stimulus and try and ram a true progressive package down their throat. At this point the majority of Americans just wants something passed, they know it is not going to be perfect and they don’t expect to be. If the Dems’s come out with a media blitz and call the Republicans exactly what they are(Obstructionist and Ideologues) they will crumble under the pressure.
Lionel Hutz Esq.: …hopelessly brain damaged southern inbreeders?
IceCreamEmpress: HA! My favorite saying which, until now, I thought was MINE ALL MINE.
This is not rocket surgery indeed. Bravo ICE, bravo.
The wheels are falling off the economics, thanks to eight years of George Bush. Now the Republickers great idea to rescue things is to do … nothing. Are they actually enjoying watching the United States go down the tubes? Well, yes, they probably are.
I think most real economists will tell you that it’s just plain stupid to buy a lot of fancy shit or invest in a lot so called emergency pork supplies right after a big ass hurricane hits. There’s a little something experts call the dry season. It’s a natural cycle and, it’s on the way as we speak. We know from experience there will be plenty of cheap, dry straw available to all the seasonally displaced hut people who may need it for repairs or in some cases to rebuild. And I’d hasten to add; if the Surviving Property Tax Clear-Cutting Initiative passes, I’d say there’s a better than fair chance the price of that straw might go down some. But it’s possible the well intentioned D’Rats will screw the poor with porkulus bill that will drive up the price of dry straw and then tax it, but lets hope not. Bottom line, In times like these, you go with what you know, it works when the America that never works, works and that’s change we can believe in. Working for change and liking it.
Lionel Hutz Esq.: Palin/Gingrich? Come on. Clearly it would be Palin/Bolton. Or if they wise up a little, Palin/The Plumber.