Why God Invented C-SPAN

It’s simply embarrassing. How’s it feel to be from Texas these days, cowgirl? And did you see that 48% of Texican repugs want to secede? Lots of unpatriotic Texans want out of the union.
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Dad Gum it, where will it all end, I asks ya?

KT
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I got one MUCH better than this, and the great thing is it was posted by the guy who actually should be embarrassed.
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Okay, SG. I give up. You win.

Napolitano has said some pretty stupid things over the past few days. She irritated Canadians with her, um, ridiculous comments about 9/11 conspirators. Her comments that border crossing isn’t illegal was risible. And this on top of the granting of work visas to illegals swept up in a raid.
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But of course, Janet Napolitano’s idiocy doesn’t make Swampland.

sg, how did I know you would pick that one? I did, but really there has been so much stoopid of late that it is hard to pick.
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I might have chosen Clinton schooling Pence yesterday. Not a neo-secessionist Texican, true, but just as stupid as they are.
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btw, did you see my proposed Cognitive Dissonance bumper sticker the other day?

SG, you have your own embarassment in here. Your the twit that thinks that the assault on Justin Barker was kosher. Not surprising, of course, that your commentary is given thoughtful consideration in Swampland.
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By the way, you got pwned on Austria.

“Your” should be “You’re”

KT, did you hear that Barton thought he got the better of Chu, and twittered about it? From Benen: Shortly thereafter, Barton tweeted, "I seem to have baffled the Energy Sec with basic question – Where does oil come from?" Indeed, when Barton’s office posted the clip to YouTube, they included a message at the start of the video: "Where does oil come from? Question leaves Energy Secretary puzzled."
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This is what I meant by “misplaced arrogance.” Barton seems awfully pleased with himself for having asked a foolish question and not understanding the answer. Chu paused before answering the question, not because the Nobel Prize winning scientist was “baffled” and “puzzled” by the Republican’s inquiry, but because Chu quickly realized he was responding to a lawmaker with the sophistication of a junior high-school student.
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This isn’t something Barton should be proud of; it’s something he should be embarrassed by. Barton’s confusion is predictable. It’s his smug pride, driven entirely by ignorance, that’s annoying.

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“the sophistication of a junior high-school student” sprt of defines the entire party now, doesn’t it.

wvng
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Yeah I did. I swear man these people are making it too easy. Its almost like they are doing dumb sh*t just to make us give them any attention. Of course there was another CSPAN diatribe that was just…well…crazy
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And it goes great with the whole “Why God Created CSPAN” theme lol

Joe is on Hardball.

Josh has a couple of relevant deep thoughts up right now:
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We need to get back to bedrock American values like torture and secession.
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Does it make for a wobbly message to have the entire GOP program based around support for the government doing something which they simultaneously insist the government has never done?

Guys, you have Corrine Brown (functional illiterate would be a charitable description), Maxine Waters, Slow Joe Biden, Sheila Jackson Lee and Patty Murray, not exactly brain surgeon material (although Sheila Jackson Lee seems to be an aspiring rocket scientist, given her thoughts that Armstrong planted the American flag on Mars). I wouldn’t be tossing around insults about an entire party. And at least our party leader doesn’t think they speak Austrian in Austria.
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And Chu did look pretty dumb explaining his flip flop on $8.00 per gallon gasoline . . . .

sgw: Its almost like they are doing dumb sh*t just to make us give them any attention.
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I don’t know. I am increasingly of the opinion that these folks were all weaned on Rush’s teat, and it’s all they know.

wvng
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It really blows the mind that these fools even got elected. I mean who is proud of Congressman Burton or Congresswoman Bachmann?

wvng, I am not a Rush Limbaugh fan. I don’t listen to him, unless it’s a clip link in a bigger story. I have read some transcripts of his. “Dumb” is not an accurate descriptor of him. (I know you didn’t say that he was dumb, but if his followers are, then you’re probably saying that Rush’s message isn’t that erudite. If you’re not, then fine.) Rush Limbaugh is a bright guy.
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Conservative judicial observers can make the same mistake. Judge Stephen Reinhardt is an awful judge who gets reversed a lot. But it would be a huge huge mistake to say that he is dumb. He’s not. He’s a bright guy, and his stuff is very well thought out.

sg, given that you were dumb enough to try to defend Austrian in Austria, you don’t really have any business calling anyone dumb. You’re the moron.

sgw, clearly wingnuts are proud of them. I’m still astonished that Bachmann was re-elected despite that trainwreck of a campaign. About 20-25% of this country lives in wingnut la-la land (maybe losing a few as the torture story unpacks).
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That’s a lot of people.

SG, WVNG
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It’s not that all of the wingnuts are as dumb as a 5lb box of rocks. It’s just that too many find their way to a microphone and get exposed. Then when the questions comes like they always do whenever stupidity is exposed, they force themselves to follow the 11th commandment, not to talk ill of a fellow Republican. So either they say nothing and just look stupid or they open their mouths and defend the bizarre, the absurd and the down right ridiculous and confirm their affliction.

” I mean who is proud of Congressman Burton or Congresswoman Bachmann?”
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Don’t kid yourself sg the republicans in Bachmann’s district have the emotional development “of a junior high-school student”.
“I bet this will make them mad! Burn on the Democrats!”

When can we expect to see Time magazine post the video of dingbat Napolitano declaring that the 9/11 terrorists entered the United States through Cananda?

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Napolitano: “Nonetheless, to the extent that terrorists have come into our country or suspected or known terrorists have entered our country across a border, it’s been across the Canadian border. There are real issues there.”

When asked if she was referring to the 9-11 terrorists, Napolitano added: “Not just those but others as well.”

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When can we expect to see Time magazine post the video of dingbat Napolitano declaring that entering the United States illegally is not a crime?

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Napolitano: “crossing the border is not a crime per se. It is civil.”

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This fool is running the Department of Homeland Security. Predictably, she’s a huge darling of Time magazine ….

spob: He’s a bright guy, and his stuff is very well thought out but he’s an awful judge who gets reversed a lot.
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“Bright guy.” I don’t think that phrase means what you think it does.

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But, more seriously, too many on the right seem to live in an alternate reality that doesn’t mesh well with the real thing. Thus he get’s reversed a lot.

I have no doubt that many of the neoconservatives truly thought Iraq would be a cakewalk, and the historical evidence is that they excluded dissenting views from people who just might disagree with them. Many of the neoconservatives are “bright guys” as well. Also delusional and totally resistant to anything but the “reality” they choose to believe in.

PNNTO, who is proud of Al Sharpton, Corinne Brown, Sheila Jackson Lee, Dennis Kucinich, Cruz “N-word” Bustamante and the list goes on and on.

wvng, his stuff is unanimously reversed very very often. Thus, it’s pretty hard to blame conservative ideologues.

Dee: It’s not that all of the wingnuts are as dumb as a 5lb box of rocks.
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True, they are as dumb as ….
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Contest time?

PNNTO
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Honestly many of the wingnuts say stuff nowadays that just make people laugh at them, not get mad. Hell they have even caricatured the word Socialism, something that I thought couldn’t be done. Im not going to break Godwins law but here lately they have also been making a mockery out of another group of people who were some of the worst of the worst in history. How is that for a legacy? “We made Stalin funny”

Barack Obama put it best — “It’s like these guys take pride in being ignorant.”

wvng your on…
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wingnuts are so dumb that if it wasn’t for stupid there would be no brain activity at all.

here’s a fartbubble for you wingnuts to chaw on!
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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/23/meghan-mccain-i-wish-karl-rove-would-just-go-away/

You know mine wvng.
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…warm rocks on a windowsill.

My prayers have been answered. Contest time.
Wingnuts are so dumb that they think that little thing they kiss is Limbaugh’s ring.

Dear Nancy Pelosi is announcing; “We were NOT told that water-boarding was part of the interrogating process”.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Talk about a WINGNUT, but I prefer calling the Dems, NUTBALLS!
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http://brendancalling.com/2009/04/07/how-to-make-speaker-pelosis-staff-flip-out/
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“Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, who in 2002 was the ranking Democrat on the House committee, has said in public statements that she recalls being briefed on the methods, including waterboarding. She insists, however, that the lawmakers were told only that the C.I.A. believed the methods were legal — not that they were going to be used.”
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She believed the methods were legal, but didn’t think there were actually going to use them? This is NUTBALL DUMB!! Pelosi style.

We should all be dad-gum mad. Serving in the armed forces doesn’t make a person a domestic terror risk. She deserves to be fired. Read the report, it is riduculous http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/041609_extremism.pdf This is what happens when the government politicizes national security!

PS, just because the FBI has 180 ongoing eco-terrorist cases and eco-terrorists have engaged in 1800 acts of terror in recent years doesn’t mean that liberals need to be targeted either.

DHS is supposed to be finding terrorists, not criminalizing the opposition party. What was that about “ending petty grievances”, I guess that was another “false promise”.

This is on Fox Nation.com; Listen to Jeffrey Immelt side step and dance the Barack Obama “shuffle and electric slide” when Janeane Garofalo calls those who participated in the Tea Party protests, a “bunch of racist rednecks” on MSNBC.
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Oh my, this may get real interesting!
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http://www.thefoxnation.com/politics/2009/04/23/fox-nation-exclusive-ge-ceo-confronted-shareholder-meeting

Somebody should come out with a Jeff Foxworthy version of wingnut jokes.
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“You might be a wingnut…”
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“If you are living on social security but you rail against socialism you might be a wingnut”

If you believe the movie “Wolverines” or any episode of “24″ could actually happen, you might be a wingnut.

Dumb as a sack of spob?
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Dumb as a bucket of rusty returns?
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Dumb as a box of textee?

If you either don’t believe dinosaurs ever existed OR think Jesus and dinosaurs lived during the same time, you might be a wingnut.

If you bring up ACORN in every political conversation you engage in, you might be a wingnut.

I do think we need to point out that the report was commissioned by the Bush Administration. As was the one about left wing extremism released in January.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/15/extremism.report/

Quotes the article “The Obama administration in January issued a warning about left-wing extremists. Both reports were initiated during the administration of President George W. Bush.”

If you worshipped Jack Bauer (24) but now wish you followed Jack McCoy (Law & Order) you might be a wingnut.

Speaking of the wingnut nation, I have to say that for all of the RW clowns that Texas is responsible for, Minnesotta has trumpted them all with Bachmann. The Texas clowns, including Carter, are kind of commical dadburnit. Bachmann sends a cold, fearful blast through my spine.

If you speak slowly and on your shoulder carry a big chip you might be a wing nut.

If you respond to every fact with “well we kept the American people safe you might be a wingnut.

love some of the commentary here. wings with nuts or bolts just what are they. lack of anything constructive to say would be my venture. janet probably overstepped her bounds with the report. she isn’t use to such spotlight glare. the sheriff in a little county in her state was more well known and popular then she was so what do you expect first rattle out of the box. as for the texas comments here they seem out of place. texas has always had the right to divide itself and to renounce the statehood deal.its old history here and is only bantered about by republic of texas wackos from time to time. perry did not say and even cnn admitted that he did not say directly that texas should secede from the union. whats all the fuss politics is suppose to be interaction of ideas, kinda of like sports is a substitute for war or an aggression outlet so to speak. push and shove till you get a consenses that is and will continue to change overtime. quit taking yourselves so seriously and enjoy the struggle.

If you think “I know you are but what am I” is a viable argument, you might be a wingnut.

If you have never had an original thought in your life, but like to parrot what you hear from the most simpleminded sources, you might be a wingnut.

If you think partiotism means wearing a flag lapel pin, you might be a wingnut.

If you have never served in the armed forces, but consider yourself an expert on the military, you might be a wingnut.

If you make your kids watch FoxNews, you might be a wingnut.

If you can’t tell the difference between Palestinians fighting for a cause, and al queda, you might be a wingnut.

I don’t want to wear out my welcome, so I will stop. It could go on forever.

If you didn’t realize that peaceful protesting was protected by the Constitution until President Obama came into office, you might be a wingnut.

If you trash the constitution in order to defend it you might be a wingnut.

If you think Sadam Husein or any Iraqi had anything to do with international terrorism, you might be a wingnut.

If you think terrorists are crossing the deserts on the Mexican border, you might be a wingnut.

If you are not sure of the citizenship of President Obama, you might be a wingnut.

If you think Fox News is the best source of information, and that Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck are our current Walter Cronkites, you may be a wingnut.

If you have nothing better to do but play Jeff Foxworthy ridiculing ignorant wingnuts on Swamp, you are probably not a wingnut, but need to get a life.

Not to be a spoiled sport, but;
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You’re a liberal if you can’t see the irony in your own beliefs.
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Good night swamplanders, it’s been fun!

Formerly wins the thread!
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and sgw wins for suggesting a better contest than mine.
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If you can’t see the irony in your own beliefs about liberals, you might be a wingnut.

And, finally, It’s not that all of the wingnuts are as dumb as a 5lb box of rocks.
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True, they are as dumb as the scum under a 5lb box of rocks left out in the rain for too long.

If you can still support any national Republican, YMBAW

Wingnuts are so dumb, they think they know.

You are a wingnut if you think teabagging is something you do at tax protests!

…if you claim you never listen to Rush Limbaugh.

…if you have something else in mind when you say you would ‘defend’ our country.

If you think a million armed militia men marching on Washington is a good idea, you might be a wingnut.

Quite narrow-minded to make fun of someone for the way he speaks based on where he grew up.

Is this a mature political blog, or a comedy club held during elementary school recess?

Do you guys really think the teabagging jokes are worth it?
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Honestly, before the buildup to April 15th, teabagging was relegated to Xbox Live, and now look what happened.
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The teabagging jokes are lamer than an eighty year old, three-legged mule. I’m serious.

^ besides the fact that the word “teabagging” was never used by the organizers/participants, just the opposition. I did not participate in the tea parties but know dishonesty when I see it.
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I think it would be funny if Rick Perry’s name was “Hugh Jass”, but it’s not.

If you think the constitution is just a goddamned piece of paper ymbawn_

If you have no sense of irony or hypocrisy YMBAWN

Do you guys really think the teabagging jokes are worth it?
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Every syllable.
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yoshi, if they didn’t want to be made fun of, maybe they should have picked something specific to protest. Maybe they should have raised up a fuss at the $3 trillion moneyhole in Iraq, or when Congress start handing out piles of money in October.
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But no, they choose to bitch and moan when the government tries to spend money on worthwhile things, and this is coming from the crowd that refused to eat “French Fries” in 2003. So I’m going to make fun of them.

Do you guys really think the teabagging jokes are worth it?
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Every syllable.
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yoshi, if they didn’t want to be made fun of, maybe they should have picked something specific to protest. Maybe they should have raised up a fuss at the $3 trillion moneyhole in Iraq, or when Congress start handing out piles of money in October.
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But no, they choose to cry and moan when the government tries to spend money on worthwhile things, and this is coming from the crowd that refused to eat “French Fries” in 2003. So I’m going to make fun of them.

SG: re your comment #2. The awesomest thing about that Barton / Chu clip is that Barton obviously thinks plate tectonics is some wacky leftist theory invented by hippies.
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“So it just drifted up there?” (smirking)
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Next up: Are you saying that tiny little bugs I can’t even see cause diseases like the flu?

AP: After that he’s going to tackle molecular theory:
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“Now what you’re telling me is that nothing is solid, that we’re all just a buncha little tiny balls of electricity bouncin’ offa each other? How in tarnation do you expect me to believe that? Especially when I cain’t even see these little electrocons or whatever you call ‘em.”

^ besides the fact that the word “teabagging” was never used by the organizers/participants, just the opposition. I did not participate in the tea parties but know dishonesty when I see it.
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I think it would be funny if Rick Perry’s name was “Hugh Jass”, but it’s not.

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REALLY?

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http://www.google.com/search?q=tea+bag+the+whitehouse&rls=com.microsoft:*:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7DKUS_en
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If you are going to make such statements at least use the google next time. Right now you just come off looking like an idiot. Your fault, not mine.

Claims that use the words “never” and/or “always” USUALLY can be ignored or easily disproved.

@Cliff & Art: Amen! Burton’s smug ignorance should earn him a Wiki-entry next to “YMBAWN”. (PS: Loved “electrocons”.)
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After Burton chuckled that there “wasn’t a pipeline” going from Texas to Alaska to move the oil, I wish Chu had replied that it was a “series of tubes”.
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AP: Burton’s next hearing: How does Gravity work?
“Lemme git this right, Mr Hawking: yer sayin’ that the reason my pen falls and hits the floor is that Spay’s time is curved. Now, c’mon, any ijit can see that this pen is straight, even after I drop it again. And just who is this “Spay’s” guy, and what kind of a watch has he got?”

Attaturk this morning: Today Joe Barton will outwit the Surgeon General by asking "Where do babies come from?"
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Another contest?

“The teabagging jokes are lamer than an eighty year old, three-legged mule.”
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…if you were able to hand it out with smug superiority in 2005, but simply can’t take it in 2009.

…when you do something disasterous and or flagrantly in violation of the facts but pretend nothing ever happened.

…if you time antitax protests just when taxes are being cut.

Yoshi:
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I could link to about siz godzillion websites where the word “teabagging” were written. Instead I’ll post just one.
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http://rustyidols.blogspot.com/2009/04/teabagging.html

…if you can’t accept the choices the American people made, and want to take the country back.

…if you think the Second Amendment was for this election.

But no, they choose to cry and moan when the government tries to spend money on worthwhile things, and this is coming from the crowd that refused to eat “French Fries” in 2003.
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Actually, there was at least one GOP legislator who got cut down over his vote for…TARP. (Most of these people are mad about bailouts in general)
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…if you were able to hand it out with smug superiority in 2005, but simply can’t take it in 2009.
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Translation: since the opposition often makes puns unfit to be raised at a junior high birthday party, I can and will do so too. How did I know you were going to say that?
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I wouldn’t care as much if the pun was funny. That’s why I watch the Daily Show, when I can. Sadly, it is just pathetic.

“I wouldn’t care as much if the pun was funny.”
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Yoshi, here is another translation, probably more correct:
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Since the joke is about my peers, it’s not funny.
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But even then, Yoshi, you are perfectly entitled to your opinion and I don’t really want to impugn it. I think it is just as funny as you think it’s not.
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Since we are both venturing opinions, both are correct.
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I will say this:
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Your peers walked into that particular wall with open eyes. The numbskulls. And also, please remember that I was around in 2005 and I know the political atmosphere that existed, particularly from 2001 to 2006 as far as “librul dissent” is concerned.
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It’s disengenuous in the extreme to deny it.

“Is this a mature political blog, or a comedy club held during elementary school recess?”
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Both. And, of course, neether.

finally got around to listening to the Barton / Chu thing, and hecks, I can’t believe it.
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Yoshi, I put this to you:
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Given that Barton is dumber than a warm rock on a windowsill when it comes to plate tectonics and even some of the coarser points about “how the oil got there”, do you think that we shouldn’t crack jokes at their expense.
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Oh, I’m sorry, I get it now. I should have read Linzy2′s post.
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It’s rather tastless to make jokes about those who are a bit slow!

Er, I have no clue what you’re talking about. And you love to assume. Is it too much to ask that Maddow curtail her poor imitation of Jon Stewart before it starts? Or that MSNBC should stop mentioning a testicles-in-mouth S&M practice for, I guess, its own sake?
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I guess it is. That’s okay, you can lap it up.

You might be a wingnut if you think that having a black man in the White House is torture.

“Er, I have no clue what you’re talking about.”
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You wouldn’t, Yoshi. After all, the connection between those two instances is the relentless stupidity of your peers.
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But of course, your pro-GOP stance blinds you to this…

A little easier to understand:
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Barton walked into a wall, eyes open.
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The organizers and sponsors of the tax protests also walked into a wall, eyes open.
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There. See the connection now?

“Is it too much to ask that Maddow curtail her poor imitation of Jon Stewart before it starts?”
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The very same moment that Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, and Glenn Beck apologize to Obama for incitement and the promotion of hatred, and then shut up.
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When that golden moment arrives, we can maybe talk…

Between you and me, I don’t see alot of evolution going on in Texas.