Is there a Republican who's NOT an asshole or an idiot? (Or a combination of both)....

[marmar]

from thinkprogress:



Rep. Louie Gohmert: Democrats want another terrorist attack so they can pass a new jobs bill.

Recently, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other terrorism suspects will be tried in U.S. courts in New York City, which has prompted outrageous reactions from conservative politicians and pundits. One of the most extreme reactions came last night during an exchange between Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Fox News Host Neil Cavuto. When Cavuto questioned Gohmert about whether we should try 9/11 terror suspects in New York City, the Texas congressman “joked” that Democrats who support bringing the alleged terror conspirators there for trial are hoping for another terrorist attack so they can “create a new jobs bill” to rebuild the city:

GOHMERT: You’ve got millions of New Yorkers that would be put at risk … Unless they’re trying to create a new jobs bill by allowing terrorism back in New York, this is insane. And even that would be insane.

Watch it: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/18/gop-suggests-suspect-nyc/

[Tippy]

1. Is there a Republican who's NOT an asshole or an idiot?

numbers would be one in seventy-five...on most days....they are one of the two

[abluelady]

2. He's Truly a Moron

He was trying to promote a public option baseball team to compete with the Yankees back when the Yankees won the series. How can you talk about a game and a life in the same sentence?

[flakey_foont]

3. do they have to be alive to count?

[NewJeffCT]

4. Haven't Republicans been begging for a terror attack?

so, they can say "I told you so" on torture, indefinite detention, etc?

[ginnyinWI]

5. I can't figure out if they are really

as stupid as they sound, or are just posing as stupid to pander to their base.

They will take partial information and run with it, making all sorts of assumptions along the way in order to make their case. A fair airing of the facts is never part of this process.

Like in this case: this trial is not going to be on TV for godsake. It will be closed to reporters except for the usual artist making chalk drawings. Kind of hard for KSM to drum up any support when what he says or does gets filtered through several layers.

And as for the chance he will be set free--the chance is zero. A prosecutor doesn't bring a case to trial unless he/she knows they will win. That's why they all have such good records of winning cases: if the case is weak they throw it out instead. Holder has looked into this, we can be sure. He will win.

But again, these are facts and realities. The repubs just aren't interested.

[emulatorloo]

7. I call it "Willful Misinterpretation"

Take end of life consultation, willfully misinterpret it, and you have DEATH PANELS.

It is just crazy the stuff they manufacture.

[ginnyinWI]

11. yep

And I don't care, except for the people they scare silly. My dad for example--81, diabetic, depressed--and this kind of crap only makes him worse.

People can just dismiss these people as just asking for it, but to me it's a little like blaming the victim. They can't help the world they grew up in and what has brought them to where they are--whether because they lack education or simply belong to an earlier time when you could trust media figures. They can't adjust to today's political climate. Theirs is a simpler, more black-and-white world and they are vulnerable. To my mom, the ideal world was when she was a teenager in the 40s. (She likes Sarah Palin who is able to create the kind of image that Hollywood did in those years--wholesome and happy.)

[Enthusiast]

6. I suppose it is

possible that there are Republicans, Republicans from birth that aren't interested in the issues so they don't know any better. But mostly Republicans are willfully ignorant, arrogant and assholes-a deadly combination.

[Fly by night]

8. Yes. State Senator Tim Burchett (R-Knoxville)

Here's my DU thread of appreciation when Senator Burchett was the ONLY Republican Senator who voted to uphold free, fair and verifiable elections in Tennessee by keeping the TN Voter Confidence Act intact and on-track for 2010. Senator Burchett's vote prevented the Republicans from delaying the law's implementation until 2012.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5880690&mesg_id=5880690

However, in Tennessee, Senator Burchett is the exception that proves the rule.

[Buns_of_Fire]

9. Sure. Dwight Eisenhower, Teddy Roosevelt, Abe Lincoln...

Oh, you meant LIVE rebubbalickins!
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[LatteLibertine]

10. Currently the party or now group, of greedy psychos

[AllentownJake]

12. I think the last one dropped out of a Congressional Race a month ago

and endorsed the democrat.

[MisterP]

13. Lowell Weicker? nt

[madinmaryland]

15. +1. He was the only one I could think of. The only pubbie that I ever voted for.

88 when he ran against LIEberman, and in 90 for Gov.

[FarLeftFist]

14. NO.

[bunkerbuster1]

16. National level? Currently working as an elected official?

Can't think of any, no.

[iceman66]

17. Lincoln Chafee.