GOP GOOBERHEADS IN ACTION

[Playinghardball]

Time for another Gooberhead Award – presented periodically to those in the news who have their tongues running 100 miles an hour... but forgot to put their minds in gear. Today, I've got a mess of GOP goobers for you – three politicos who keep stumbling over things... like facts. ...First, Jon Kyl, the Arizona senator who tried to kill a bill in December that would finally provide medical benefits for those firefighters, police, and other heroic 9/11 rescuers who're now horribly ill because of the toxins they absorbed at ground zero. ...Next come a couple of stumblebum governors. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota recently blasted Obama for bloating the public payroll by 590,000 government jobs since 2008. Uh, governor, Obama didn't take office until 2009. In fact, in Obama's two year tenure, the number of public employees is down by 300,000. ...Then there's Rick Perry of Texas, who says he hates "Big Government." Echoing the noted historian, Glenn Beck, Rick says that big bad government started when Woodrow Wilson pushed the 16th Amendment into the Constitution, creating the income tax. That's a punchy political anecdote – only, it's false. The 16th Amendment was approved under a Republican president before Wilson took office.
...Goobers, you see, never let facts get in the way of a good story.


Friday, January 14, 2011
Posted by Jim Hightower
http://jimhightower.com/node/7347

[gratuitous]

1. Oh Jim!

Everyone knows that reality has a liberal bias. I mean, if you start using facts, you can prove anything that's even remotely true! There's no room for that in our contemporary political discourse. It's all about how you feel about an issue, not the facts. So if dimbulb Governor Scott wants to believe that the income tax was instituted under a Democratic president nearly a hundred years ago, and still hasn't quite come to terms with that development, he's not going to let an inconvenient fact get in the way of his demagoguery. Get with the program!

[Jester Messiah]

2. It's an insidious and effective strategy.

1. GOP pol tells lies that sound plausible, is believed by his supporters and those without access to the facts.
2. Clued-in people point out the error of fact, overturn accusations predicated on the "error".
3. GOP pol complains about being "attacked" by the opposition, decries "negativity"
4. GOP pol's supporters rally around the pol and defend him.
5. Clued-in people wash their hands of the whole affair, fatigue increases, other lies are let to stand.

[butterfly77]

3. Kicked&Recommended!

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