Atrios reports that Repubs will have purple digits tonight

[TayTay]

From: http://atrios.blogspot.com/

In the latest sign that the G.O.P. is intent on politicizing everything Iraq-related, Congressional Republicans are reportedly planning to show up at tonight's State of the Union address with purple ink on their fingers to send the message that they support Iraqi voters.

End of blog story.

So, what else could those purple fingers stand for?

(I sent my country to war, lost over 1400 American lives and countless Iraqi lives and all I have to show for it is this lousy swollen finger?)

[LSparkle]

2. Oh gag me

[elehhhhna]

3. Crushed in a humvee door purple? Or purple-heart bandaid purple?

You'd think they'd stay away from that color.

BTW Purple is traditionally the color of Royalty.

[LSparkle]

7. Their consistency is nauseating

[Just Me]

17. Their excessive use of symbolism is characteristic of fascism.

One of the 14 characterisics of fascism is excessive use of symbolism that advances powerful nationalism.

[Anakin Skywalker]

42. Ahah! Just as I Suspected

all along! Rethugs are secretly monarchists. Well they are no longer bothering to keep that a secret now that they have annointed His Holiness Emperor G.W. Bush to the throne of this most sacred nation.

[BlueEyedSon]

4. The dems should wear white shirts with red ink all over them ,

simulating a fatal chest wound in honor of our fallen soldiers.

[no name no slogan]

5. Oh, from excessive masturbation no doubt. (n/t)

[area51]

32. damn

Damn, you beat (no pun intended) me to it. :evilgrin:

[Connie_Corleone]

6. They can stick those purple fingers right up their butts. n/t

[TlalocW]

8. I remember during the first Gulf War

The republicans all decided to wear those little flag pins on their lapels to show support for Bush, and that sent the democrats scrambling to find some.

I think what someone else mentioned about the democrats all wearing yellow ribbons would be a good response.

Too bad they won't have the backbone to do something like that.

TlalocW

[NewYorkerfromMass]

9. Yes, Iraqis accept everything we give them so lovingly

rejected Iraqi flag U.S. tried to force on them

[blm]

10. I want RED FINGERS to show the TRILLIONS Bush is borrowing from RED CHINA.

TRILLIONS of dollars that OUR children will owe China for decades to come.


Think the Bush family made a deal long ago with the Chinese industrialists Poppy became close to in the 70s and 80s, and with his brother, Prescott, as longtime head of the US-China Chamber of Commerce?

[ktowntennesseedem]

20. Have the dems stick their middle fingers in red ink.

Imagine the possibilities!!!

[mattclearing]

21. I love it. They won't do it, but I love it. n/t

[blm]

22. If only the Democratic party would do as I say. ;)

;)

[Blue_In_AK]

11. This is just wrong.

I don't want to rain on anybody's parade, but I just can't get myself excited by this election. Everybody knows that it's going to be a puppet US regime put in place there, and sooner or later all hell's going to break loose over there. Am I being pessimistic or do others feel the same?

[LSparkle]

13. An election is not democracy

It was held at the barrel of a gun, large segments of the population either didn't or couldn't vote -- and the expected winner is a former CIA operative. This was a total sham and you're right not to be excited about it. Tepid responses overseas ... We haven't turned into heros overnight because of this, or made ourselves any safer.

[rfranklin]

12. Isn't this a symbol of the gay agenda?

What will the children say?

[blm]

23. LOLOL......Tinky Winky alert.

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[President Jesus]

14. Good. I highly doubt this will play in Peoria.

Just like the purple band-aids those idiots were wearing at the GOP convention

[Vinnie From Indy]

15. Democrats Should Ask How Many Times The Rethugs Voted in Iraqi Election?

They should then ask how many blue fingers Ken Blackwell and Karl rove Have?

[frylock]

16. perhaps brown-stained noses would be more appropriate

[Blue_In_AK]

19. LOL n/t

[woodsprite]

18. Then our dems should all show up in orange ties and scarves! n/t

Especially since that election was rigged too.

Edit to add: Orange shows up much brighter on TV than a purple finger would :)

[fooj]

24. I think the Dems should wear I VOTED but it didn't count buttons!

What a bunch of assholes!

[MrSlayer]

25. They really are like a bunch of 4th graders.

Such immature bullshit. Where are the purple heart band-aids? Fucking assholes, the lot of them.

[Bluebear]

34. Perfectly put.

[ClassWarrior]

26. It's to cover-up the fact that they're red-handed...

...from stealing the election.

NGU.

[Vinca]

36. Actually,

it's to hide the brown stains from having their fingers up their butts most of the time. You might spot some brown heads, too, and I'm not referring to ethnicity.

[LittleClarkie]

27. A symbol of the blood on their hands

In the NYT today, as they buried a guy who died while voting, they said his blood just about matched his voting finger.

That sort sorta broke my heart. The quote that one of them said they wanted to have this election so that the Americans would leave. But I doubt we're leaving. Those poor people. If we don't leave, watch the "insurgents" grow. Oh yeah, sure, they're all from outside the country, uh huh. Sure, they're all Al Quida (sp?).

That's actually what a woman who was in the Army told me yesterday. She believes that while the Sunnis are not happy, the ones actually fighting are Saddam's old guard and Al Quida.

[TheWebHead]

28. a better idea for Republican fingers

[DistressedAmerican]

29. If they don't pull their thumbs out of their asses,

How will we see their fingers?

[quinnox]

30. So fukin typically stupid

I can't stand these republican sheep.

[buddysmellgood]

31. Whose ass is purple?

[Obviousman]

33. THE INK JUST COVERS UP THE BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS

That should be our response on all the networks

[rainbow4321]

35. Middle finger more appropriate...

Seeing as how that is the finger shrub seems so very fond of... that way they can show "support" for the Iraqis we are killing AND the person who is killing them!

[paineinthearse]

37. Rethugs plan to dip fingers into purple ink for SOTU

announced on CNNcervative

Gag me :puke:

[Sanity Claws]

I think they're mistaken

The Repubs are going to show up with blood on their hands. Apparently CNN mistook blood for purple ink.

[Pepperbelly]

dupe nt

[denverbill]

Are they going to wear Purple Heart bandaids on their chins too?

I know they like doing stuff like that.

[Pam-Moby]

Yes you are correct

but this is not a new idea of theirs. They have been doing this all along. :evilfrown:

[iconoclastic cat]

Is that to hide the brown on them from pleasuring Falwell?

[deadparrot]

1. Do these people have any sort of boundary on bad taste?

Jesus.

[LisaM]

38. Ha ha ha ha ha

someday they will pull a stunt that will prove their undoing. Why would they want to bring attention to these flawed elections? It will bite them eventually (sooner rather than later if you ask me.)

[laruemtt]

39. nothing like going out

on a limb :eyes:

[NewInNewJ.]

40. Yes

and the media is going to eat this up, especially after they all met today, according to Judy W. on CNN, for lunch with the Pres. to get the heads up on the speech tonight. How can anyone in America believe and of the press?

[Anakin Skywalker]

41. Purple is a Gay Color! Will Rethugs Contradict Themselves?

Well according to CONservatives, purple is a gay color (see Jerry Falwell and his oh-so-insightful analysis of TinkyWinky). How will this jibe with their fundy base?

[The Backlash Cometh]

43. How will we know where they dipped their fingers?

Yuck.