Top Ten Conservative idiots of the week

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]NO CNN/NBC ALLOWED Edition[/font]

We're back again chronicling the dumb things Republicans and conservatives do and say. Our perennial favorite, Louie Gohmert (3) drums up Alex Jones-ish conspiracy theories, Tom Coburn (5) get a hardon talking impeachment, Ron Paul (6) doesn't check the people he will give speeches to (most people in politics for the money don't care) and and Tennessee county sheriff (8) has interesting ideas how how to enforce immigration laws. And as always, don't forget the key.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]RNC[/font]


It is amazing what the name Clinton does to Republicans. They hate that name. Some unwashed hick from podunk Arkansas whipped their Washington Insider/former chief Spook in 1992 and they haven't gotten over it yet. They impeached that man for getting oral sex (sure, lying. . .whatever). But while the man Clinton can never be president again, the female Clinton can and she looks stronger than ever now, even though she has not committed at all.

Overgrown man-child and person-in-desperate-need-of-a-timeout Reince Priebus has decided that the Republicans need to take a stand against the Clintons. Well. . .not reall the Clintons. . .just two networks in the works of making a documentary on Hillary Clinton's life, staring Diane Lane. So what did they do to show their displeasure? Probably the dumbest, most immature and self destructive thing a political party can do: Banned CNN and NBC from broadcasting their '16 Republican comedyfests. . .I mean debate. Take it away, Boy in a Man Suit:

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Ooo, that will show 'em. Watch it from the comfort of the CNN and NBC studios so the smell of Republican bullcrap doesn't waft up the nose, blocking logic and intelligence. You sure showed them, Man-Child.

As for that outreach thing. . .the people that drool and watch Fox Nooze will always vote for you. Those CNN and NBC viewers, however, might not. Please proceed to spite your face, RNC.

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You mean Fox Nooze doesn't do that? John Kaisch was a former anchor there and is now governor of Ohio. . .Fox Nooze gave him all sorts of operative good-tidings in their broadcasts.

Anyway, CNN was not impressed. Their response was candid, straight-forward and very succinct.

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Haven't you morons in the mainstream media realized this is the SOP MO of the modern teabagger overrun Republican insane asylum. Make conclusions, lie to back them up, get catch, lie about lying then run to Sean Hannity to wipe and clean them. The only people this should surprise are. . .wait, no one.

Doesn't matter though. What you are watching are the beginning death throes of a major American political party. There isn't enough popcorn in the world to eat watching and enjoying this show.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Louisiana Republicans[/font]


August 29th, 2005. That's the day Hurricane Katrina made landfall and pretty much flatten three states, including the major city of New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina was one of the worst, if not the worst, meteorological event in the history of recorded weather.

We all remember Chimpy “strumming” a guitar with Mark Willis in San Diego while New Orleans was getting leveled. We all remember Ray Nagin going nuts trying to salvage his city. We all remember the Horse Whisperer/FEMA Chief Michael Brown being told “you're doing a heckvua job.”

Pretty obvious to me that Bush dropped the ball. So, when PPP did a poll and asked Louisiana Republicans who was responsible for the poor response, 28% said Bush. 44% said not sure (because their heads are in the clouds). . .the other 29%? Take a guess.

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Umm, what? The unsure people have their head in the clouds. These people seem to enjoy wearing their asshats. Maybe the question was worded weirdly.

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Rather straight-forward question. The people who answered it are idiots. But what you will also notice are two things: 82% identified themselves are conservative. . .and 37% are over 65, while only 28% are under 45. Those death throes keep coming, Republicans.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Louie Gohmert[/font]


Louie Gohmert (R-Mars) is a DU staple. Lunatics of this type are so hard to find. I mean, seriously look how much on DU there is about this guy.

Ask him about anchor babies. . .terror anchor babies. . .baby anchors. . .if there is a conspiracy theory that would make Alex Jones happy, Louie Gohmert believes it. Let's look at the first thing the Redneck Loon has to say.

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"They think if we have a shutdown, or a big showdown, we may lose the majority, and they will lose their leadership positions," Gohmert said at an event in Longview, Texas, according to the Longview News-Journal.

Yeah, they are scared to death! They voted forty times to repeal it. . .forty times it was DOA upon reaching the Senate. So, your party goes all funhouse mirror and screams defund. The teabag jihadist clique (which you are a part of) now throws your leadership under the bus because your leadership has cold feet about throwing the country under the bus.
But, the Redneck Loon wasn't finished with that turd of wisdom. More drivel came out of his mouth in the form of giving reasons why people encourage vaccinations. First, let's look at what the host said:

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HOST:“They’re preaching that doctrine because they actually believe we’re a blight on the face of the planet, we human beings. And we should, therefore, be put on a path toward our own semi-extinction. I often try to get people to see that if you think about it, if we actually get back to the levels they’re talking about, it would just be these elitists and the people needed to service them. That’s all that will be left in the world.

He said this all from the safe echo chamber of Alan Keyes's intellectual vacuum on Fox Nooze. So how did Gohmert respond to this mindless fearmongering by on mouthpiece of those elite?

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Yes, it would be scary. . .in Soylent Green. In “To Serve Man.” In “The Andromeda Strain.” You know, works of fiction. This is real life Gomer. . .the only scary thought is that there are enough braindead people in your party of Texas that keep re-electing a sub-human to Congress named Louie Gohmert. Those death throes are getting bigger.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Sean Hannity[/font]


Sean Hannity, Fox Nooze's answer to a howler monkey, has gone on the air and said, over the years, just some of the dumbest things in the world. When he interviews people he agrees with, he tosses them softballs (George Bush? Love him or worship him?) while through questions at his political opponents that cannot be answered, similar to being asked “do you still beat your wife,” or “the president is the leader of America. Why do you hate America?”

His SOP is pretty standard. Now, along with Mike Lee, Marco Rubio, Louie Gohmert and the rest of the clique in the GOP's war on common sense, Hannity has drawn a line in the sand.

While Rep. Trey Gordy (R-SC) was talking about some magical GOP “come to Jesus moment, Hannity did to his guest what he knows to do best. . .interrupt.

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Really? That's all it will take? What will it take for you to leave the country, Sean? Single-Payer and free higher education for all people. . .as well as everyone having the right to vote without producing ID.

What will it take for you to leave the human race? Wait, you were never part of that to begin with.

So, Sean. . .the door is there. Don't just leave your Republican Party. . .leave everything! Since you're being thrown off the air in a short while anyway.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Tom Coburn[/font]


Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn has made many dumb statements in the past (this seems to be a theme this week. Returnees coming back with more idiotic bull burping from their oral orifices.

Senator Colburn is no exception. Remember in August 15th's edition of the Top Ten, Blake Farenthood (he's #7) said they have enough votes in the House to impeach Barack Obama. It's only a matter of time.

This is just before another congressman, Kerry Bentivolio (R-MI) said impeaching Obama would “be a dream come true.”

What does Tommy think about this? Does Tom Coburn think his “personal friend” warrants all this http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/tom-coburn-obama-impeachment-95822.htmlimpeachment talk?

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According to Tulsa World, at a convention in Muskogee, Okla., Coburn said Wednesday that the president was “getting perilously close” to the Constitutional standard for impeachment.

Never leave it to a Republican to throw people under a bus. Louie Gohmert is doing it to the House Leadership. . .and Coburn is doing it to his “personal friend.” And with friends like Tom Coburn, what enemies does Barack Obama truly need?

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Ron Paul[/font]


Politics and religion will always have a home in the modern Republican Party. It's just a fact of the world. Republicans pander to guns, God and the Upper 1%. The last one is a group of people that uses the rubes that only believe in guns, Gods and keeping minorities in check so the Upper 1% can keep milking the country dry.

Ron Paul, during his numerous failed presidential campaigns worked a little on the hard side to be not as extreme as this fellow Republicans by being more moderate on religious ideas, as opposed to Sam Brownback, Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee. This is good because he wanted to lead a White House with libertarianism (that sucks) without religious interference (that's okay).

So, please, Mr. Paul, explain this!

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For those who do not know the Fatima Center, here they are listed as a hate group on the wikipedia page of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Most have been shunned or ex-communicated. Most of their ideas have been rejected. Even the Vatican doesn't acknowledge them.

Another one of their speakers at this conference is John F. McManus. Let's look at who this guy is.

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Right-wing and racist. Why would Ron Paul be part of this? Pandering? Ignorance? Showing his true colors finally?


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Phyllis Schlafly [/font]


Wicked Witch of the Past Phyllis Schlafly returns to the forefront again, walking from her ugly nap and poking her head out of the pit she calls a home to write a rather interesting article for World Nut Daily.

See, Republicans, according to Schlafly, are really pissed off that voters in 2008 DARED to voted and give their 15 electoral votes to that Marxist, Socialist, Communist, Czar-having Kenyan with a fake birth certificate. So, when they gained control of the government in North Carolina in 2010, they decided to enact [link:
http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/08/26/20197189-how-not-to-defend-voter-suppression-in-north-carolina?lite|legislative revenge]. Due tell, Phil-gly.

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The Obama technocrats have developed an efficient system of identifying prospective Obama voters and then nagging them (some might say harassing them) until they actually vote. It may take several days to accomplish this, so early voting is an essential component of the Democrats' get-out-the-vote campaign.

Technocrats? You mean canvassers? GOTV callers? People campaigning independently for the candidate they support? And they were. . .dear God. . .nagged and harassed until they actually voted. Oh the shame for asking people to do their civil duty, spend five minutes of their live and vote for the candidate of their choice. Don't worry, Phil-gly. Most can't do that anymore in North Carolina now.

One of the things North Carolina did was limited Early Voting. Don't worry. . .Schlafly has a good argument FOR that too. Voting is unconstitutional.
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Daily Kos sums up this bullshit better than I can. All I know is have she was done, Schlafly yelled at some kids to get off her lawn, looked up, saw the sun, got scared and hid back in her pit, signifying six more weeks of silence from her.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Knox County Sheriff Jimmy “J.J.” Jones [/font]


Who is Jimmy Jones? The title explains. Another small down sheriff with big time dreams, like Mark Kessler in Pennsylvania.

Jimmy Jones sees undocumented workers on the street, in grocery stores, under his bed, in his toilet, up his ass. Then blasted furreners are everywhere! How will a good elected law enforcement officer stop the massive flood of illegal immigrations from overtaking and during Knoxville into Cuidad De Knoxville? His solution is rather blunt, racist and possibly illegal,

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"If need be, I will stack these violators like cordwood in the Knox County Jail until the appropriate federal agency responds," Knox County Sheriff Jimmy “J.J.” Jones said in a statement on Wednesday.

You heard it here first folks. Undocumented workers are now pieces of plywood to be shoved into a jail like Jews were shoved into cattle cars to wait whatever the State's decision about them is. How many per cell, Jimmy? 400? About about a 1000? What if they are legal, but do not have their papers on them at the time? What if they aren't bad foreigners (brown, black and yellow) and good foreigners (white) that break law and are undocumented? Come to think of it, you look awfully Canadian to me. Maybe an officers in your Department should arrest you and stack you like cordwood.

What about the laws you will break to do this? Do you care about them?

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Small town redneck sheriffs like this remind me of the joke I posted below.

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Sure enough, soon as Sheriff JJ arrived, the other said “Those are Zuzu flies, officer.”

“Boy, what's a Zuzu fly?”

“Well you normally find them around a horse's ass.

JJ looked at the man and said “Are you saying my face looks like a horse's ass?”

“No,” the liberal smiled. “But you can't fool a zuzu fly.”

rimshot!


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Columbia, SC City Council[/font]


#9 is a very short entry because I do not want to waste the bandwidth on these people. They have forfeited the honor of being called humans.

THE CITY COUNCIL OF COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, JUST MADE BEING HOMELESS A CRIME!!!

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Concerned that Columbia has become a “magnet for homeless people,” and that businesses and the area’s safety are suffering as a result, council members agreed on Aug. 14 to give people on the streets the option to either relocate, or get arrested, according to the city’s “Emergency Homeless Response” report.

Cooperative homeless people will be given the option to go to a remote 240-person bed emergency shelter, which will be open from September to March. The shelter will also be used as a drop-off for people recently released from prison and jail, too.

A hotline will be set up for passersby to “report” a homeless person that needs to be removed, additional police will be dispensed to monitor the streets and vans will escort the homeless to the shelter.

No job training, no assistance, no nothing. Just move or jail. How Christian. Exactly what Jesus would do. And Jesus would always setup a snitch line for people to report a homeless that needs to be removed, more than likely in a black van with a black bag of the homeless person's head.

The War on the poor never ends.

Excuse me, after writing #9, I need to take a long shower.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]George Zimmerman[/font]


And finally, the human herpes virus that is un-CONVICTED cold blooded murderer George Zimmerman has been keeping busy. He's done a lot since the jury told the first degree homicide prep that he's not guilty. And I don't mean putting on a superhero cape and rushing in to save a family from a burning car and then mysteriously disappearing before news media could arrive.

Now, first, Georgie went to visit a gun factory. Specifically, the factory of the manufacturer that made the gun he used to shot a black child in the heart. And lawyers aren't happy.

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Oops. . .sweet lovable Georgie is going rogue now that he doesn't need those stupid lawyers to save his ass.
Next on Zimmer-man's agenda: Using his lawyers and another Florida law to get the state to reimburse him his legal fees.

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Because Zimmerman was acquitted, state law requires Florida to pay all his legal costs, minus the biggest one: the fee that goes to his lawyers.

That includes the cost of expert witnesses, travel, depositions, photocopies, even that animated 3-D video that defense attorneys showed jurors during closing argument that depicts Trayvon punching Zimmerman.

Bravo for the Orlando Sentinel for saying exactly what George did in the first sentence: KILLED TRAYVON MARTIN.

Finally, we get insights into his family life, from his wife, who claims he is emotionally abusive. Surprise, surprise.

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Christi O’Connor spoke with ABCNews.com today about her experience locking down an interview with Shellie Zimmerman as the media focused its attention on her husband, who was acquitted of second-degree murder charges in the death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old, in Sanford, Fla., in February 2012.

Today, Shellie Zimmerman was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and one year’s probation, plus she will have to present an apology letter to the judge she lied to about the couple’s finances. O’Connor said that after months of courting her and her attorney, she was able to secure the interview with Shellie about her life leading up to and since her husband’s trial.

“When I asked her why she was doing [the interview], Shellie said, ‘I want to start my life back.’ George Zimmerman has beaten down her self-esteem,” O’Connor told ABCNews.com, adding that Shellie is using this opportunity for a new start. “She has a moment in the spotlight. She wants everyone to know that she changed her life.”

Okay, I can accept that. George is a bully. We all know that. He beat you down emotionally, controlled everything. Ex-girlfriends put out restraining orders on him.

What about the Martins? Maybe you should begin by explaining your actions to them first. Maybe them you will have a bit more sympathy from people.

Then divorce that asshole and get as far away as you can. He has killed once. He'll do it again.

See you next week.

[DoBotherMe]

1. K&R

[ceeRoy]

2. why isnt Rush on this list...

Rush Limbaugh....has to be the #1 conversative idiot/ hack in the country...

[Nanjing to Seoul]

7. Because the Biggest Girth on Earth didn't say or do anything overly idiotic this week.

give fatboy time

[bermudat]

3. Thanks for the truthful snark.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. "Wicked Witch of the Past" (Schlaffly)

Bravo!

[Initech]

5. Another week, another dose of conservative idiocy!

[flying rabbit]

6. K&R

[B Calm]

8. K&R

[Scuba]

9. Thanks, and a kick.

[Godot51]

10. Thanks a lot...

... while I read the news every day I really appreciate someone deftly summing it up in a top ten list form. There is something about this format that makes it better (or worse, depending upon your point of view) than random snippets from random news outlets. Keep up the good fight.

I also think the DU should make this a "front page" item. Since I'm mostly an observer here and not much of a contributor I'm unaware how to give a page the reads & recommendations it deserves but I hope you receive more.

[LisaLynne]

11. Wicked Witch of the Past ...

OMG, that's awesome! You're awesome for doing these! Love it!!!

[Billy Love]

12. Great list this week. Why not ask Skinner or Elad or EarlG to make this a featured article for the

front page?

As a lurker, I used to look forward to Monday - that fresh release of dung.

[tarheelsunc]

13. To be fair, Cameron Runyan (#9) was backed by Democrats in a nonpartisan election. eom

African-American voters on Tuesday gave Cameron Runyan an at-large seat on City Council, a move that strengthens the hold Democrats have on city government.

Runyan will replace Daniel Rickenmann, council’s acknowledged fiscal conservative who is active in Republican circles and who lent his name to the campaign of Runyan’s opponent Robert Bolchoz.

The overall impact on City Council of Runyan’s election depends on who wins the April 17 runoff for Council’s District 3 seat. At a minimum, Runyan’s selection gives Democrats at least five of the seven seats. The racial makeup stays at four African-Americans and at least two white members. District 3 runoff contender Moe Baddourah is of Middle Eastern heritage, having been born in Kuwait.

Runyan was endorsed by and received significant support from Mayor Steve Benjamin, whom Runyan backed in 2010. From the day Runyan announced this campaign, Benjamin, Columbia’s first black mayor and the former chairman of the Richland County Democratic Party, has tied himself to Runyan.

Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/2012/04/05/2221904/blacks-gave-runyan-victory.html#storylink=cpy

Kind of unbelievable, but I don't think he's a conservative, and apparently the majority of seats in the council as a whole are backed by Democrats.