Republican retreat kicks off with a rocky start
http://theweek.com/article/index/238983/republican-retreat-kicks-off-with-a-rocky-start
Republican retreat kicks off with a rocky start
January 17, 2013, at 9:55 PM
After a tough election season and an equally tough lame duck session of Congress, House Republicans are regrouping at an image makeover retreat in Williamsburg, Va. this week.
But it's not looking so good.
Reporters quickly noted that a session for lawmakers called "Discussion on Successful Communication with Minorities and Women" will actually take place in the "Burwell Plantation" room at the resort where the retreat is being held.
It turns out, according to NBC News, the room "is named after the Burwell Family, a wealthy family that owned many slaves in 18th century Southern Virginia."
The irony of learning how to woo minorities in a room named after slaveholders was not lost on Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.): "I don't pick the rooms we meet in."
But the missteps didn't end there.
The New York Times reports the panel discussion on how to communicate with minorities and women included three white lawmakers. Walden had to note that the panel would include several women, whom he identified as "a woman from CNN" and "Sean Duffy's wife."
With such obvious image problems, lawmakers probably shouldn't have been very surprised when GOP pollster David Winston unveiled, as Politico reports, the House Republicans' most recent favorable rating: "It came in at a barrel-scraping 27 percent."
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They are their own parody.
SNL doesn't even have to write a script, the Repugs supply it ready made.
So they don't even have their own names and identities?
you really can't make this shit up.
...they'll come back and next week try to pass three bills prohibiting a woman's right to choose and to defund Planned Parenthood...next they'll support efforts to cut funding to more programs that many minorities rely on...followed by a "pep" rally by rushbo singing "Barack the magic negro". Yep...they sure are going to clean up the image.
The damn thing is the rushpublicans don't care what the American people think about them...a majority of us didn't vote for them nor ever will. All they care about is delivering the goods to those who write the fat checks...that's who they always have represented...
More lipstick on the pig, it seems.
