Republican Party Donates $100 per U.S. Citizen to the Democratic Party

[iconoclastic cat]

Let's say you're walking down the street and you spot a greenish bit of paper lodged under a shrub. Your curiosity and intuition get the better of you, and you double back to pluck it out. Bending down, you touch the silky, dry fibers and realize that you are not simply beautifying your environment by picking up stray trash: You have found a dollar bill. You slowly smooth it out, pinching it on both ends and pulling it taut, and there you see him: Ben Franklin, grinning his big, green, $100 grin.

You glance around furtively, wondering what poor person has dropped this sizable chunk of change--but no one is in sight. Freed from your guilt, you begin a process of elimination: Specifically, how will you eliminate this $100? Think about that for a moment. Will you squirrel it away in your savings account? Pay off a credit card bill?

Be honest. You're buying beer.

Whatever you do, you're most likely going to be frivolous.

I would like to propose the option of malicious frivolity.

If these condescending, lying, evil creeps that call themselves Republicans do, in fact, give everyone $100 rebates to placate the pain of $3 or $4 gas, donate it directly to your local Democrat.

See yourself doing it. Feel the weird mixture of vicious glee and hope.

Then write letters specifically thanking the Republicans for this $100 dollars that you are donating to your local Democrat. Write to them, the editors of your local paper, blogs, and forums. Call in to radio talk shows. Deadpan it. "I'm just calling to thank President Bush and the Republicans for this $100 gas rebate which I am donating to ____'s campaign. Thanks!"

Take that $100 and stuff it back in their faces.

How 'bout it?

If you like this idea, spread it around.

And don't think about beer.

[PDittie]

1. Hie thee to the Greatest Page

post-haste.

[calimary]

6. I was thinking this same thing, myself.

A hundred bucks? Sure! Thanks! I'll be sending it to Howard Dean. Post haste!

YAY! Five votes!

[DanCa]

2. You know I don't drive

but would I get a part of that one hundred because I depend on public transportation?

[lwcon]

3. Actually, it's going over like a lead balloon with conservatives

But for some reason Chuck Schumer is humoring the idea:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12521259/

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Hey, the liberal light is always on at the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy. Please stop by and say "hi!"

[serryjw]

4. $100 bribe to drill in ANWR?

F*CK EM..........I don't want their money!
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=axx3UygJULLE&refer=top_world_news

[iconoclastic cat]

10. No, of course we resist, kick, and scream.

But if they DO it, well...

[Doctor_J]

5. $100 wouldn't even cover this winter's HEATING increase

for ONE FUCKING MONTH. The $100 bride they want to give us has already been spent many times over.

[iconoclastic cat]

7. Agreed.

Which is why I say give 'em the old fork in the eye.

[abelenkpe]

23. 100 dollars is such a joke

It wouldn't buy more than two weeks of gas for a family in los angeles, if that. And the money would still go to the same price fixing oil companies. Congress needs to get off it's butt and enact some meaningful legislation to either tax windfall oil profits or regulate the energy industry so that consumers aren't taken advantage of.

[calmblueocean]

8. Kicked and recommended.

Let's put that $100 where it can do some real good.

[bluerum]

9. Now you're talking!

[Fridays Child]

11. k/r

Love it!

[Old and In the Way]

12. Outstanding idea!

5MM people sending that to the DNC to fund a Democratic Congress and ads exposing these bastards. Hell, I'd do it...just to see unintended consequences. They really hold the American people in suh low contempt that they think they can buy us off with a C-note.

[ClassWarrior]

13. I'm taking this idea to my county Dem Party and my state Dem Convention.

Thanks. Beautiful. :patriot:

NGU.

[iconoclastic cat]

14. And be LOUD about it.

Maybe the idea will kill the ANWR bill in the process.

[ClassWarrior]

17. Who? Shy, demure, little ol' me?...

:sarcasm:

Believe me, people WILL hear about it if this happens. B-)

NGU.

[ellenfl]

15. done! but i sure hope we don't get that $100 if it means

acquiescing to drilling in anwr.

ellen fl

[iconoclastic cat]

16. Well, I'm saying if we lose, and the $100/ANWR thing happens,

then we make the Republicans choke on their own blubber.

[Progressive4Life]

27. Actually, I'd give my cut to Defenders of Wildlife

and tell them to earmark the money to fight ANWR drilling.

[ginnyinWI]

18. It might not go anywhere,this idea.

Just an empty gesture. Even David Brooks tonight on Newshour said it was "stupidity on stilts". :rofl:

But if I do get the money, it's going to www.keepingamericaspromise.com

[Grown2Hate]

19. So lemme get this straight...

These assholes are offering me MY $100.00 back (because I'm assuming it's coming from tax revenue) so that I can essentially pump it right back into my gas tank (giving me MAYBE two full tanks), which in turn sends that money RIGHT back to the oil companies? So this is just YET ANOTHER direct loot of the treasury into the oil companies pockets? These mother fuckers are just being BLATANT at this point. Holy god.

[bluerum]

21. That about sums it up.

[Grown2Hate]

20. That being said, the above plan is GENIUS. :)

I'll have $100 going straight to whoever the hell is running against J.D. Hayworth here in AZ. GOD, I can't stand that guy.

[ClassWarrior]

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[iconoclastic cat]

24. Thanks for the kick!

[ClassWarrior]

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[guidod]

25. THE $100 BRIBE IS A JOKE.

The money they're giving you is your own tax money that you will have to report as income. So they would be taxing your taxed money again. The $100 would have to be borrowed money so you'll get to pay it back plus interest. It's an absolute joke! Plus they shouldn't drill in ANWR ever be cause of the enviroment, also it wouldn't get to the pumps for 8 to 10 years. IT'S ALL A REPUBLICAN FAILURE!

[Jacobin]

26. GOP is BORROWING $100 per taxpayer

Guess who has to pay the loan back? Guess. Think about it.

We are in a major deficit, so those $100 bills, are loans that WE have to pay back.

What a clusterfuck

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

28. $100 is a joke; won't even put a dent in the amount we have to spend

for gasoline any more. $100 to bribe us to let them destroy ANWR. Feh.

I don't think it will fly. But if it does, you damn betcha that money is going for some Democrat's campaign, and I hope everyone else that can afford it will do the same -- and let the Republican idiots know where the money went. Thanks, fools.

[Greyskye]

29. I told my neighbor about this idea today

He thought it was a great idea, and also was incredulous that they were even contemplating this $100 bribe.

:kick: & R!

[Mr_Spock]

30. I was going to send it to my local congressman "fuck off" - I like this

idea better!! Instead of simply telling my local (Repuke) Congressman to "shove the $100 joke up your ass", I'll gladly forward it to my local Democratic opponent of the evil Repulican lying machine.

Great idea - kicked & recommended!

[Auntie Bush]

32. Good Idea...that inspired me with another one too.

We could do something (?) along the lines of printing $100.00 bills
on one side and our propaganda (actually the truth) on the other side.
Then drop them along the way for people to find. Much cheaper and effective. We should actually do both because word would get out that the fake bills contained propaganda. If me also had real bills too... people would continue to pick them up...then put them back and fool someone else...especially if they were Dems.