Snap Shots of YOUR Republican Party, 21st Century Style - Page 163

Chicks · #1 03-07-2018, 08:10 AM

Based just on the few pics I’ve seen, Beto has a sort of Tom Petty vibe. Cruz has a pile of dog poop vibe.

Chicks · #2 03-12-2018, 07:33 PM

Iowa Senate majority leader, caught on video messing around on his spouse, resigns. A Repube, natch.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/st...ext/417784002/

Rajoo · #3 03-12-2018, 08:14 PM

Quote:

"We're sending 18-, 19-, 20-, 21-year-olds over to Afghanistan, and they're dying and sacrificing their lives for our freedom," he said. "They ought to be able to vote, they ought to be able to have a beer, and they ought to be able to buy a gun to hunt with as well."

Johnson's comment came in response to a question about whether the minimum age for purchasing a gun should be raised from 18 to 21.

Guess he could not memorize the NRA talking points.

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3...e-is-18-not-21

finnbow · #4 03-13-2018, 04:06 PM

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — A Republican Maine House candidate has used Twitter to attack two students who survived a shooting at a Florida high school, calling one of them a "skinhead lesbian" and the other a "bald-faced liar."

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/201...-shooting.html

Chicks · #5 03-15-2018, 03:30 PM

Jeff Flake: "If we are going to cloister ourselves in the alternative truth of an erratic leader, if we are going to refuse to live in a world that everyone else lives in ... then my party might not deserve to lead," the Arizona senator said in a speech at the National Press Club.

An honest man.

barbara · #6 03-15-2018, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Chicks

Jeff Flake: "If we are going to cloister ourselves in the alternative truth of an erratic leader, if we are going to refuse to live in a world that everyone else lives in ... then my party might not deserve to lead," the Arizona senator said in a speech at the National Press Club.

An honest man.

Great quote. There are some honorable politicians.

donquixote99 · #7 03-15-2018, 03:54 PM

So why didn't Flake vote to stop the tax cut?

Rajoo · #8 03-15-2018, 04:03 PM

Bigger question is if the Dem's take control of both houses, will they attempt to roll back the tax cuts? I would not bet on it.

Chicks · #9 03-15-2018, 04:26 PM

Regarding the Lamb victory, which idiot Repube leaders have been casting as a win for Trumpism, lol. As if.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politic...sylvania-18th/

This was the last gasp of 10 years of successful electoral chicanery in Pennsylvania, and the Republicans couldn’t boot their candidate home even with $10 million pumped into the district from the national party and from its vast reservoir of PACs and dark money. They couldn’t organize it. They couldn’t buy it. And they couldn’t steal it. That pretty much eliminates all possible ways Republicans generally win elections these days, and bringing in the president* for a last-ditch manic episode didn’t work, either. Not even the crazy was enough.

finnbow · #10 03-15-2018, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Chicks

Regarding the Lamb victory, which idiot Repube leaders have been casting as a win for Trumpism, lol. As if.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politic...sylvania-18th/

This was the last gasp of 10 years of successful electoral chicanery in Pennsylvania, and the Republicans couldn’t boot their candidate home even with $10 million pumped into the district from the national party and from its vast reservoir of PACs and dark money. They couldn’t organize it. They couldn’t buy it. And they couldn’t steal it. That pretty much eliminates all possible ways Republicans generally win elections these days, and bringing in the president* for a last-ditch manic episode didn’t work, either. Not even the crazy was enough.

And to think that this was in a heavily gerrymandered district.