Here’s a fresh, confrontational new DNC ad telling people (rightly) to expect violent, insane crowds of mouth-breathing wingnuts at their local health care town halls this month unless they call the RNC immediately and ask, “please rein in your violent, insane crowds of mouth-breathing wingnuts at my local health care town halls.” But according to rich telephone-owning operative “RoseAnn,” the RNC number provided in the ad just takes you right back to the lousy gay Democrats: “When you call the RNC to complain … they connect you to the DNC – i called back and pushed const. affairs instead and the lady there laughed about it – and said the dems called us nazis so we have to fight fire w/ fire….” Another exciting Wednesday in Washington! [YouTube]
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Waddle-Mobs
Well, forwarding the calls back to the DNC was pretty clever. That means Michael Steele mustn’t be in the office today. He’d have accidentally forwarded the calls to his own home phone.
…and said the dems called us nazis so we have to fight fire w/ fire.
Expect Panther tanks and Stukas at your next town hall.
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I never realized that Hijink could be singular. I do not care for this very much.
Matt Taibbi says, on True/Slant, that this whole health care fiasco is a ruse designed to fool us into thinking the congress did something for us, when in fact nothing substantive will change, because the political will does not exist for it. Therefore I am giving up and will spend the month of August curled up in the fetal position, crying.
…no, they’re a little short for Stormtroopers.
And flabby.
The ad said, enough of The Mob. The Mob is mostly Italians, not Germans. Italians were Fascists, not Nazis (because, after all, Italians don’t adopt German names for political parties).
Amazing how G(r)OPers know so little about history….
[re=378911]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Oh man up and go poke a birther or a teabagger in the eye with a well sharpened #2 pencil. You will feel much better afterwards.
This phone war is going to be like a “Special Ed” episode of “Crank Yankers”. I’d love to hear the recordings:
“I’m a retarded Republican puppet! YAAAYYY!!!”
[re=378909]gurukalehuru[/re]: ‘Hijink’ is only singular when it’s a really dumb one, viz. a ‘one trick pony’.
How come the Dems don’t erect “free speech zones”, hire thugs to throw people out, or co-opt local police forces to arrest dissenters? That’s would I would do.
Sincerely,
Brig. Gen Arthur Republican (Mrs.)
I’m sure this is straight out of the Republican playbook, probably even more out of the corporate playbook. Nevertheless, does a nation of vulgar rubes so easily manipulated actually, say, deserve good healthcare or anything else nice?
Wonder if the Dems could set up something where any calls that get forwarded to them from the RNC number automatically go to a recorded message that says “You’ve reached the RNC. If you’re a crazy bigot screaming about socialism, we will return your call. Otherwise, get bent.”?
So to recap: the DNC is using its mob to tell the RNC to stop using its mob. Got it!
The GOP’s new slogan: “There may not be many of us left, but holy Jesus are we fucking loud.”
I have been coming here for several years, and let me just say based on casual observation, we have plenty of our own violent, insane crowds of mouth-breathing wingnuts. I say, let’s go get ‘em. And remember, swinging a folding chair can be very effective, or at least it appears that way on Springer.
Let’s see– doing nothing about a bunch of paranoid whack jobs who think the President isn’t legally born to be President, cheering on a bunch of stupid idiots acting like thugs to disrupt town hall meetings, and playing prank calls on the DNC. Well played, GOP, well played.
Echoing the birthers, these braid-ehead opponents of healthcare reform should bring stool samples in plastic bags, and hold them up at town hall meetings. That’d get them some attention!
Or they could STFU and let democracy work. But what fun is that?
Dems called us “nazis” which caused us to mobilize THE ARYAN NATION…
Laughing at the mob is always fun. That doesn’t mean they’re not still as dangerous and unpredictable as an angry bear.
[re=378956]Bypartizoa[/re]: No! What would happen if the Dems set up something where any calls that get forwarded to them from the RNC number automatically go to the RNC number again, and so on, and so on, ad infinitum, RNCDNCRNCDNCRNCDNC Phew! That would get everybody dizzy, I bet. Or entropy death of the universe, either one.
Fun fact: Health Insurance (All praise be to them for they giveth and taketh life) policies are made at a STATE level. Maine already banned denial of coverage for pre-existing conditions. So, in a nutshell, no matter what happens.
WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE OF PIG-AIDS/EBOLA/RABIES!
I went to a health care town hall in rural Ohio with vulnerable Blue Dog Rep. Zack Space the other day. All those factors made it a prime target for teabaggers. All I got was a very nice snack table, an informative yet vague question and answer session, and a few minutes to talk directly to the congressman with whom I helped replace Bob “Abramoff” Ney about the F-22. I was very disappointed, mostly because I wanted to see some crazy wingnuts and only partly because Space doesn’t understand defense issues.
[re=378960]norbizness[/re]: These people are why we can’t have nice things anymore. Like doctor visits.
[re=378985]GreatOldOnesParty[/re]: Yes and the health insurance companies like to have it regulated at state level, because they can pack the board with lackeys and lobbyists who do their bidding. Meantime companies like Anthem are gobbling up Blue Cross/Blue Shield franchises state by state, so they can use their national-level muscle against state regulators.
[re=378975]Mr Blifil[/re]: “They called us nazis” and “fight fire with fire.”
The implication here is: “Yes. Yes we are.” Godwin’s Law FAIL.
Solution to stop these “mobs”: New American Gladiator season.
The end.
[re=378997]V572625694[/re]: I’d like to actually start a fake church that openly worships and makes sacrifices to the insurance companies, asking for their mercies and blessings. And doing this REALLY REALLY LOUD…in public…
All these tards are old, I really think the Natiomal Gaurd could take them out very easyily.
A little tear gas then run them over with Hummve’s.
Win
We’ve had enough of The Mob? Will we need the witness protection program?
Why not call them the Waddle-moo-cows? Steak? It’s what’s for dinner (but please slice away the gristle).
[re=379006]El Pinche[/re]: new show on Reality TVs!!1!1
, the GOOP-great old ones party- against the POOP-progresive old ones party.
Teams will cover a multiple choice of subjects for 5 minute shouting matches and chair throwing. Signage and costumes will be judged for extra points.
[re=378917]x111e7thst[/re]: It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye.
I feel like my mother even typing that, but seriously, where is this going to end? Are they going to chase Piggy, I mean Barney Frank, off a cliff? Is anyone making book on which side gets bloodied first?
[re=378923]Roger the Shrubber[/re]: How come the Dems don’t erect “free speech zones”, hire thugs to throw people out, or co-opt local police forces to arrest dissenters? That’s would I would do.
Because, our “librul” media would then start screaming “Police State” and “jack booted thugs” and shit. See (R-Hypocrisy)
Why am I not surprised to learn that the GOP has returned to the schoolyard for strategic inspiration, i.e., “I’m rubber, you’re glue…” They are going in reverse chronological order, apparently deciding that, first sophomoric, then junior high antics weren’t juvenile enough.
At this rate, the GOP will be pooping on their opponents by fall.
It’s like the DNC is standing next to a pile of hand grenades and then they see the GOP coming and they decide to throw a twinkie.
“Original YouTube Birfer” aside, if the rest of this spot represents the craziest GOPs that the DNC’s ad agency was able to find then someone really should fire the fuck out of the DNC’s ad agency.
Beck + Dobbs + Liddy + Rush + the fucking birth cert bill. That took me 7 seconds.
Come on guys, wake the hell up over there. This is kind of serious.
[re=378960]norbizness[/re]: ‘The GOP’s new slogan: “There may not be many of us left, but holy Jesus are we fucking loud.”’
This one made me laugh for awhile.
[re=379031]trickyrick[/re]: I’ve thought from the beginning of this thing that Code Pink should somehow get involved. I’m imagining putting Code Pink on one side of the cage, the Birthers on the other and last group standing wins. Tough call on who will win though– the women of Code Pink are in much better shape what with all the yoga classes they take but the Birthers definitely have a size advantage. And unlike Code Pink, they’re definitely insane.
[re=379049]user-of-owls[/re]: Loser, the insult comic Republican…
I can’t take this shit; just use any of the miscellaneous catty things Republicans have done – fuck it, even the nagger sign – as an excuse to pass health care reform under reconciliation (truly an ironic term in Washington if there ever was one) and be done with the Republicans. What are they going to say, it’s tyranny to pass a bill with the majority? Have Obama say he’s happy and have all other Democrats tell Republicans if they don’t like it to take a flight to Minneapolis to blow off some steam.
Hmph! The RNC hung up on me before I got through “mouth-breathing”. Assholes.
[re=378960]norbizness[/re]:
Oh, please. We need this on a bumper sticker.
The angry anti-health care “mob” looks like “Night of the Living Sick & Fat Ass”
Why does angry Sarah Palin looking lady have Obama’s Kenyan Birth Certificate in a hermetically sealed zip lock bag? Did she find the sealed document floating in the Indian Ocean? Anyone?
[re=378923]Roger the Shrubber[/re]: We had this discussion yesterday.
[re=379211]Nerdalicious[/re]: yeah, and why the hell do we want the younger versions of these Medicare using hypocrits to have affordable health care?
The high fructose corn syrup junkies of the night of the living sick and fat asses drive the cost up for all the rest of us.
Then there’s the story about a federal elected official from the South who held his own town hall meeting back home to find out what his constituents thought of the administration’s health care proposal. A man attending the meeting told him: “I don’t want the government messing with my Medicare!” When the representative tried to tell the informed citizen that Medicare IS a government program, the man shouted angrily that it wasn’t true.
Democracy in action … gotta love it.
Hold on for the rapture. Judging by what my super-wingnut neighbor tells me, most Republicans will disappear one morning, and we godless libruls will be left behind. I cannot wait.
Single payer
Premium free
Medicare for all
Big Pharma on diet
Zero insurance profit
No deductible & no co-pay
Off the table – Just like Impeachment was?!
DNC & RNC have BOTH sold out the country in order to enrich themselves.
Independents agree on more than we disagree.
Beware the divide and conquer.
(intellectual prostitution)
[re=379253]trickyrick[/re]:
Bunch of Borderline Diabetic Hypocrites who could care less what happens to anyone after they shuffle off the planet. I lived around these Grey Panthers for years. UGH.
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