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    Purity Balls: Republican Party Proposes Test For Politicians

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    Image of ginseng_you_sing ginseng_you_sing
    11/24/09

    In reply to Purity Balls: Republican Party Proposes Test For Politicians
    More diverse thinking? They've pretty much shut out a lot of people with their views so...what and who are left?
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    11/24/09

    @ginseng_you_sing: I think the diversity of thought they allow for is the range of opinions from "I think gays are disgusting animals" to "I think gays are perverted freaks."
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    11/24/09

    In reply to Purity Balls: Republican Party Proposes Test For Politicians
    all i can think of is REAGAN SMASH!!
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    Image of boobookitteh boobookitteh
    11/24/09

    In reply to Purity Balls: Republican Party Proposes Test For Politicians
    I just said this, but I'll say it again, because it amuses me....

    This is set up like the DSM - they list out symptoms and you have to hit a minimum to be diagnosed as Republican.

    The only question that remains is Republican Axis 1 - a delusional disorder or Axis 2 - a personality disorder?
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    11/24/09

    In reply to Purity Balls: Republican Party Proposes Test For Politicians
    I've said it before and I'll say it again. Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt would not have stood for this shit - FOR ANY OF IT - and for this, the current Republicans should be forced to change their name.

    Any ideas for a new moniker?
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    11/24/09

    @lady_justice: Really, they should just change their name to the Conservative Party. Gets the point across without all that pesky historical baggage.

    That, or the Teabaggers. The Flying Teabaggers.
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    11/24/09

    @vulcanized: I was thinking something along the lines of Evangelical Asshats, but I really like Flying Teabaggers.
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    11/24/09

    In reply to Purity Balls: Republican Party Proposes Test For Politicians
    It's true that love waits--I waited until I was 23 to fall in love properly. But that doesn't mean I didn't have a hell of a lot of great sex long before then!
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    11/24/09

    @queenjulie: Aw, I didn't wait. Not really. I fell in love at 15, and again at 20, but didn't have any sex anywhere in there.

    Drat! I must be doing this thing wrong again!
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    Image of willwriteforfood willwriteforfood
    11/24/09

    In reply to Purity Balls: Republican Party Proposes Test For Politicians
    Um, how many of these checkpoints would Jesus pass?
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    Image of nom.de.guerre nom.de.guerre
    11/24/09

    @willwriteforfood:

    I'm pretty sure they're more interested in the wrathful, scary Old Testament stuff than that hippy Jesus in the New Testament!
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    11/24/09

    In reply to Purity Balls: Republican Party Proposes Test For Politicians
    Well, ideological stress tests certainly make membership a lot easier to figure out. Why bother with cordial dissent, compromise, negotiation or actual, you know, conversation when you can just hand people a clipboard and make them tick off their eight points?

    The world is a lot easier to define when it looks black and white.
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    11/24/09

    In reply to Purity Balls: Republican Party Proposes Test For Politicians
    I'm 0-10. This pleases me immensely.
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    11/24/09

    In reply to Purity Balls: Republican Party Proposes Test For Politicians
    "President Reagan believed, the resolution notes, "that someone who agreed with him 8 out of 10 times was his friend, not his opponent."

    Hence the provision calling for cutting off Republicans who agree with the party on seven of 10 items."

    Oh Republicans, always taking shit too literally.
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    Image of Sarcasmatic Sarcasmatic
    11/24/09

    In reply to Purity Balls: Republican Party Proposes Test For Politicians
    The Republican party on...

    The Economy: "We can fix it by doing nothing."

    Health Care: "We can fix it by doing nothing."

    Environment: "There is nothing to fix."

    Immigration: "We hate Mexicans."

    The War: "Shoot 'em up dead."

    Gays: "Not 'real' humans. No need for rights"

    Abortion: "If the women aren't having babies - whose gonna cook my dinner?"

    Guns: "We need them to shoot Mexicans."

    That about sums it up, right?
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    11/24/09

    @Sarcasmatic: All those sound like scary-ass bumper stickers.
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    Image of Lymed Lymed
    11/24/09

    @Sarcasmatic: You forget

    Labor Relations: "The employer knows best"
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    11/24/09

    In reply to Purity Balls: Republican Party Proposes Test For Politicians
    Isn't this why the GOP lost the Congressional seat to Bill Owens?
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    11/24/09

    @Lymed: That's what I was thinking. They based this on the influence of a race they LOST? ANd didn't they also lose in 2006 and 2008 becausethey moved too far to the right? Oh my god, is it Opposite Day?
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    11/24/09

    @mimigoliath: If they didn't force the moderate Republican out, they would have won that race.
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    11/24/09

    @Lymed: Exactly. And I'd like to apologize for some really atrocious typos.
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    Image of PaintedTrollop PaintedTrollop
    11/24/09

    In reply to Purity Balls: Republican Party Proposes Test For Politicians
    I saw an old friend of my father's yesterday. This guy was a big enough deal in the GOP to be granted private audiences with St. Ronnie whenever he traveled to DC.

    He told me that there will never be another president as great as St. Ronnie, and I said - you mean all that raising of taxes and tripling the deficit?

    They think we don't remember.
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    Image of HannahBethD HannahBethD
    11/24/09

    @PaintedTrollop: I'm too young to remember much from the '80s that wasn't a cartoon or toy, but I read 'And The Band Played On' and still cannot believe that this man is held up as anything but a complete asshole.
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    Image of PaintedTrollop PaintedTrollop
    11/24/09

    @HannahBethD: Yes. For that and so many other reasons. Whenever I see the picture of the dead nuns in El Salvador, I picture Ronnie burning and twisting in hell. He deserved to die wearing an orange jumpsuit in a cell.

    #tips
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    Image of HannahBethD HannahBethD
    11/24/09

    @PaintedTrollop: Forgive my public school education, but what of the nuns?! What happened?

    And yes, I should have probably learned this at some point, but I didn't and I'm curious now before any 'Kids these days' fingerwagging begins.

    ETA: didn't mean for that to sound harsh or directed at you. There's just so much I don't know and i sometimes get uneasy about it.
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    Image of PaintedTrollop PaintedTrollop
    11/24/09

    @HannahBethD: It's okay - this stuff isn't taught in school. No one wants to remember that Iran-Contra existed, because it besmirches St. Ronnie's halo. US involvement in El Salvador resulted in over 75,000 deaths. Our tax dollars funded/trained the death squads that did the killing.

    [www.laprensa-sandiego.org]

    [en.wikipedia.org]

    [www.commondreams.org]
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    Image of HannahBethD HannahBethD
    11/24/09

    @PaintedTrollop: Ah. For fuck's sake! Thanks, I'll be reading these today. Any books on the subject that might be interesting?
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    11/24/09

    @HannahBethD: When Carter was President, members of the El Salvador National Guard raped and murdered 4 American nuns who were in El Salvador to provide needed aid. The U.S. was providing support to the country during their civil war. Carter suspended aid after the incident, although right wing pressure lead to it being reinstated. But Reagan increased military aid and send military advisors.
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    11/24/09

    @PaintedTrollop: Fewer people still remember that if Reagan hadn't conveniently come down with Alzheimer's, he might have actually been charged with treason. "I disremember" was a highlight Freudian slip from his testimony in front of the Tower Commission. GW Bush and Reagan slipped out of that without a scratch, although in retrospect, it seems highly unlikely that they gave anything less than their tacit approval; let's not forget GW's long reign as Director of the CIA, which would have positioned him perfectly for creating a network of collaboration that would foster this type of deal.

    Sidenote: This was America's introduction to John Kerry, who fought to reveal the truth, in spite of a massive tide of public ambivalence and administration tap-dancing.
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    11/24/09

    In reply to Purity Balls: Republican Party Proposes Test For Politicians
    In other news, Cleanliness is next to Reaganness.

    Reagan, we are the GOP; oh make us one
    Like drops in the trickle-down river
    Oh, make us now together run
    As swiftly as thy shining Gipper.
    Come, Greater Being, Socially Conservative Friend
    Annihilating GOP-in-One!
    We long for you to die, for when you end, Our larger life has but begun.
    NO HEALTH CARE FOR YOU, IMMIGRANT!
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    Image of canthelpmyself canthelpmyself
    11/24/09

    In reply to Purity Balls: Republican Party Proposes Test For Politicians
    The party of NO has spoken. You WILL agree with ALL of their ideas, or they are going to kick you out of the sandbox. Grow up republicans, you can't have a democracy without some dissent within the party. I can't wait to see how Megan McCain responds to this new republican doctrine!
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    Image of samethingwedoeverynightpinky samethingwedoeverynightpinky
    11/24/09

    In reply to Purity Balls: Republican Party Proposes Test For Politicians
    No worries. If they're opposing *all *denial of health care, they're going to spend the next 4 years on hold with Blue Cross anyway, so they won't have time to touch the rest of the agenda.
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