My God! How freaking STUPID are these republicans????

[ncteechur]

I swear they have no sense--none at all. They would not know economic stimulus if it but them in the ass.

Lindsay Graham STUPID

Lamar Alexander STUPID

Dick Shelby STUPID

Mitch McConnell STUPID

on and on and on and on


I cannot actually believe they even have the seats they do have. The designer of the Titanic must have been a republican.
Most winners of the Darwin Award--republicans.


Stupid stupid stupid

[Skittles]

1. just a correction

the designer of the Titanic, Thomas Andrews, was an amazing, brilliant man. The stupidity was with the guy who wouldn't let him put all the lifeboats he wanted on the Titanic - for "aesthetic" reasons - Bruce Ismay (probably a conservative). Andrews went down with the ship; Ismay got in a lifeboat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Andrews_(shipbuilder)

[ncteechur]

5. point taken -i was on a roll like Bluto in Animal House.

[Jennicut]

7. Yup. The designer was portrayed accurately in the Titanic movie with Leo and Kate

He was a very intelligent man. Ismay was a coward.

[Skittles]

8. yes

Andrews spent the last couple hours of his life getting as many people into lifeboats as he could while Ismay got into the first lifeboat he could find. An extreme contrast in character, for sure.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

21. And I dig Victor Garber!

I first noticed Victor Garber when he played Mr. Andrews. He seems like such a nice man.

He played Mayor Moscone in MILK and looks very much like the person he played, as does Sean Penn.

[Wednesdays]

11. Also, IIRC, Ismay talked Andrews into designing the compartments to lower decks

The inner walls of the watertight compartments were originally designed to be much higher, like up to B deck or something.

Then Ismay had Andrews lower the walls considerably because it interfered with pedestrian traffic on the 1st and 2nd class decks. (Once again, putting profit ahead of safety.)

Think of the Titanic as a great big ice cube tray. The water filled the front compartments and then overflowed into the next, and so on. If Andrews was allowed to keep those higher walls, the ship might not have sank.

[nolabels]

18. I was also under the impression the ship's Hull split because of shoddy rivets

Low-grade rivets sank Titanic, claim scientists
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/apr/16/usa

[Rhiannon12866]

27. I remember hearing that on one of the countless documentaries I've watched on Titanic.

Thanks for the link! This is a tragic story that's going to haunt us forever... ;(

[Zodiak]

51. Wasn't there a matter of the bulkheads, too?

The bulkheads were not all of the way to the deck, so water could easily rise from one compartment to another was made much easier? I think I remember hearing that they did not want the bulkheads that high because it would cost a lot more and make the ship look less luxurious.

Fuzzy memory, though...maybe I should do some Wiki reading.

[ShortnFiery]

2. They know how to press those wedge issues and keep their constituents angry.

It's tragic. I hope the good people of their states wake-up and join with us. :shrug:

[Cha]

52. Precisely. If they weren't so dangerous

I would actually feel bad for those constituents who get bamboozeled and hoodwinked by lying wedgies.

[TheDebbieDee]

3. And you forgot ugly! They're very, very ugly, too!

And also, they're filled with hate. They're stupid, ugly douchebags.

[liberal N proud]

4. They think partisan politics will win Congress back in 2010

They didn't get the message last fall. The GOP is going to use the media to blast their obstructionist propaganda in an effort to bring the Democrats down.

[gordianot]

6. There is a storm brewing out there.

Eventually they will all say "NOT ME".

[AtomicKitten]

9. They are ignorant partisan hacks. n/t

[chieftain]

10. Pretty freaking stupid. Castellanos and Rollins agree

that this is the ground Republicans are comfortable fighting on. They're right, of course. They're happiest when attacking FDR. Their voters in their 70's appreciate the GOP tenacity. Most folks under 60 are just scratching their heads, wondering why in the hell these old fogey politicians are re fighting the ideological battles of the 1930's.

[pansypoo53219]

12. butbutbut its what reagan said they should do!

GOVERNMENT BAD!

[falcon97]

13. Very. n/t

[chollybocker]

14. It's like they're proud to be ignorant.

I heard that somewhere.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

15. they are not stupid. they are immoral. its much worse than stupidity

[acmavm]

33. Combine their immorality with greed and you have a walking, talking waste

of skin and oxygen.

[4lbs]

16. "Stupid" and "Republican Senator" is a redundancy in terms.

n/t

[obiwan]

17. The Repubs are more stupid than you can possibly imagine.

Danger, danger!

Run, Will Robinson. Run!

[opihimoimoi]

19. Reduced to MOOT and MINUTIAE....they continue their Partisan Attacks with

whining and nit picking....How small of them....

"GOP FIRST...Fuck Country" is their real motto

[Juche]

20. Racial tension

No matter how bad the GOP fucks up, as long as they are the party that opposed civil rights 50 years ago they will carry 60-90% of the white vote in the south, and as a result get reelected every time.

They can be totally fucking incompetent, it won't matter. They will still carry the south. I think they know this too, which is why they pursue plutocratic policies that piss off the public. They know it won't matter in the slightest wrt reelection chances.

[FatDave]

38. I don't think that will last forever.

Demographics are changing. The republican base is getting very old.

[bridgit]

22. You left out Sessions, between Shelby & Sessions that's a boat load of stupid right there

[TheBigotBasher]

23. Republicans

I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid so stupid that it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. Your writing has to be a troll. Nothing in our universe can really be this stupid. Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. Some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics that we know.




(taken from The Ultimate Flame)

[Enthusiast]

24. There, fixed that for you.

I swear they have no sense--none at all. They would not know economic stimulus if it but them in the ass.

Lindsay Graham STUPID and REPULSIVE

Lamar Alexander STUPID and REPULSIVE

Dick Shelby STUPID and REPULSIVE

Mitch McConnell STUPID and REPULSIVE

on and on and on and on


I cannot actually believe they even have the seats they do have. The designer of the Titanic must have been a republican.
Most winners of the Darwin Award--republicans.


Stupid stupid stupid and repulsive

[Enthusiast]

25. Heartily recommended. nt

[rasputin1952]

26. The very people that orchestrated the current disaster...

are the same ones demanding more of the same. Not only is that stupid, but insane as well.

The R's out here are in NE are begining to wonder why they vote Republican...talk about progress...:D

AFAIC...give them the air time...they are looking more desperate for each 15-30 seconds they are out there. They have nothing but the same ideas that got us to where we are. Each time they speak, they drive people away in droves. It is the death knell of the GOP. I won't be going to the funeral, as I dont like standing in the rain alone...:D

[wroberts189]

28. Stupid enough to still deny climate change ? I would call them big greedy liars myself. nt

[WinkyDink]

29. Not at all. Devious, cynical, greedy, evil. But not stupid.

[mwb970]

30. It depends on what you mean by "stupid".

What I mean by "stupid" is "tone deaf to the concerns of average voters, lacking self-awareness to the point of having no idea how mean-spirited, dishonest and unhelpful they appear to the public".

That's kind of long, so I'd sum it up with "clueless". And that they definitely are!

[WinkyDink]

31. I hope 2010 proves you right. After all, Sarah Palin DID get nominated.

[nxylas]

43. Don't know or don't care?

I think that to them, the peasantry are just useful idiots who they regrettably need since the damn liberals freed all the slaves and allowed non-landowners and even women to vote.

[rvablue]

48. I agree with this assessment. The only way they can weasel their

way back into power is to make things worse and then finger point.

[Vinca]

32. They are the party of "no we can't."

[Solomon]

37. LOL Perfect!

:thumbsup:

[lunatica]

34. They're doing a fine job

of showing themselves to be what they really are. To think that these exact same people used the exact same tactics to smear and destroy Democrats successfully. They haven't changed at all. As a matter of fact they are continuing to act exactly the same way they did when they had the power. We all saw them in action and wondered why media couldn't see them, or how Reid and Pelosi couldn't see them.

So naturally, because they really are unimaginative and because their leaders have left they are rudderless and unable to change with the times. Not change for the better, because that's just impossible, but change in tactics, in approach, in strategy to conform to the new paradigm shift that has happened around them. They don't get it. People have learned and adapted to them by becoming knowledgeable about their tactics and their goals. The majority of the American population has moved way past them. A good analogy is that the Republicans are the kindergarten teacher who keeps trying to teach high schoolers the same way.

[bdamomma]

35. if you notice they seem to be all Southern Senators.

hmm...what could that be all about?

[WinkyDink]

46. Nixon's Southern Strategy.

[Nedsdag]

50. I noticed that as well.

Sadly, 60 years ago, men like Alexander, Shelby, and Graham would've taken Obama to the wood shed for being an "uppity n-word."

Thank goodness times have changed.

[DeeDeeNY]

36. They may be stupid, but

they have the media on their side. That helps a lot.

[bdamomma]

47. we should put the repigs and the media "on ignore".

[randr]

39. If the plan works in the slightest the repugs are dead

and if it fails they will be blamed.
Excellent move my President!

[berni_mccoy]

40. Well, after all, they believe dinosaur fossils were a test of faith; what can you expect?

[Deep13]

41. Dumber than a bag of hammers. nt

[TechBear_Seattle]

42. They are not stupid so much as fanatical cultists

As illustrated here.

[Kablooie]

44. They just remain in Bush mode. Automatically reject anything Democratic without even thinking.

Soon, if they don't get their heads out of Bush's ass, they may not remain in Congress.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

45. That's like asking "how big is the universe?"

There's no real answer - you just know that it's vast and possibility infinite.

[HOLOS]

49. Neanderthals