Blind Dogs In a Meathouse
on March 20, 2010 at 9:55 am
My late father, Dog rest his soul, used to use the term “blind dog in a meathouse” to describe someone who just lashes out at anything without first getting him or herself better informed about what’s going on.
I can’t think of a better description of the ignorant “teabaggers,” who have nearly all seen their taxes DECLINE under the President, but continue to lash out at him for reasons that are non-existent. He’s on their side, but they are too blinded by their irrational racism to do anything but continue their stupidity.
Their racist hatred of the President has also blinded them to anything else with a “D” next to its name-even those “D”s who are better described as DINOs. These days a dem can be in complete sync with their agenda, and they’ll still rant and rave at him or her. Just ask Walt Minnick, who is discovering just how stupid a lot of his constituents really are.
I swear…. if I represented a District full of these inbred morons, I wouldn’t have to be voted out. I’d go voluntarily.
People with ties to Glenn Beck’s 9-12 Project, Tea Party Boise and other conservative causes plan a protest outside Rep. Walt Minnick’s office this weekend, with the claim that the Idaho Democrat co-sponsored one of the health care bills that Congress is considering.
Their assertion is untrue, however; Minnick never sponsored such legislation.
Minnick, who was one of 39 Democrats in the House of Representatives to vote against health care legislation in November, also has said repeatedly over the past week that he won’t support the revised bill Sunday when it comes up for a vote in the House.
The Republican National Committee, which suggested Thursday that McClatchy look into the story, admitted that its research was inaccurate.
“We are completely wrong, and I apologize,” RNC spokesman Jahan Wilcox said Friday.
The confusion stemmed from how the bill has moved through Congress. In October, Minnick and a bipartisan group of 39 other House members sponsored legislation unrelated to health care: a bill that gave veterans a home-buying credit. The bill passed the House unanimously.
The Senate took the veterans legislation, gutted it of all its content and used the shell of the bill as its vehicle for health care, since all legislation that addresses taxing and revenue must originate in the House. The Senate changed the title of the bill to “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” inserted its version of health care restructuring and passed the legislation 60-29 on Christmas Eve. The Senate then sent it back to the House, with only the bill number remaining the same.
On the Thomas.gov Web site, which tracks all congressional action, the names of the 40 original co-sponsors of the unrelated House bill remained, however. That made it look as though Minnick, along with some of the most conservative Republicans in the House — Ginny Brown-Waite of Florida, Walter Jones of North Carolina and Todd Platts of Pennsylvania — was a co-sponsor of health care legislation.
“This is a very typical procedure that is used by the Senate all the time,” said Katie Grant, a spokeswoman for House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md.
“Using a bill originally co-sponsored by Representative Minnick does not in any way mean that he co-sponsored or supported the new health care bill that took its place, and it’s ridiculous to suggest otherwise. Anyone pushing this story line is deliberately misconstruing the facts.”
Minnick said he was disappointed that people would knowingly misrepresent his position, even though it was clear that he and the others weren’t co-sponsors of health care legislation.
“They’re using that as a way to misrepresent my position on a very important bill,” he said. “I resent it and I think it’s unethical and I think it’s deliberate.”
The rumor took on a life of its own in Idaho’s conservative circles this week, after Bill Turner of Nampa, Idaho, was looking at the legislation and started writing about it. Turner, a blogger and political activist who describes himself as an “angry American” and is active on right-wing, anti-government Web sites, sent an e-mail to the Idaho Republican Party. In it, he suggested that Minnick had sponsored health care legislation, and he sent a link to the bill’s history on Thomas.gov.
Jonathan Parker, the Idaho GOP’s executive director, is on Turner’s e-mail list, and he was intrigued. He passed the information on to researchers at the Republican National Committee.
“I asked if there was any truth to this,” Parker said. “I asked if they wouldn’t mind looking into it.”
Although the RNC and Parker now accept the explanation for why Minnick’s name is listed as a co-sponsor on the health care bill, Turner does not.
There is no lie so great that the GOP will not tell it.
Always kudos when the Pythons are used for anything with me. One of my new signs was borne from the group that was protesting Phelps here in SF a little bit ago. God hates kittens on one side and the other says, I was promised donuts. Gotta love the creativity.
They have taken lying to extremes I did not think possible in the republican party. I guess this morning, they were all out and about protesting at the Capitol building against HCR. Crazy eyes talking about grandma isn’t shovel ready and the likes. John Lewis was called the N word according to Dana Bash and Sam Stein from Huffpo. Barney Frank called faggot. It is not about protesting how big the government is getting, this is all about hate of the other and the fact the old white male hierarchy is being replaced and they just don’t like change.
“I swear…. if I represented a District full of these inbred morons, I wouldn’t have to be voted out. I’d go voluntarily.”
My sentiments too. But you never know. With the salary and perks being so good, you might decide to just keep that terrible job, inbreds and all.
Tom, money can only buy you so much. And dignity isn’t one of the things money can buy you. I’d tell these idiots to their faces that they’re idiots, which would mean that I was doomed in the next election cycle. That’d be fine with me.
How, OH how, are we gonna survive the next 7 years?? I can’t look at another racist teabagger and their hideous hateful signs, I’m exhaused by their ignorance and hate. It’s so true, they have no idea what they are protesting and ranting about. It makes you want to deny them access to ANY benefits of this HC bill! Fuck ‘em!!
Well JR. It is being reported today, on all the major networks that actually do believe in reporting, the lengths some of them went to in protesting HCR up on the hill today. Barney Frank was called F*$$)&, John Lewis was called N*^^&% and someone spit on another congress person from the teabagger group. I guess even the police could not stop them, because they would have turned on them. Barney said something about the republicans have to start disassociating but they won’t. Sad to see it is just now coming to the forefront, what these people are all about in the news cycle. We all have known, guess it takes the media a few cycles to believe it *sigh*
Teabaggers have anal glaucoma. They just can’t see their asses agreeing with anything Obama says or does, even when it’s in their own best interests.
Ok, first of all, kudos for the use of the gumbies…perfect!!
Story time. At my last job (which ended yesterday, with a new one starting April 5), I had this one particular teabagger co-worker. Well, one morning, I heard her on her phone (it was impossible not to eavesdrop, as she had zero personal volume control, and evidently no inner moderator, either). She was telling someone about how her taxes went up. Well, feeling pretty sure she made less than I did, I felt certain that her paycheck went up a bit each pay period, just like mine did, because of a cut in witholding tax. However, despite seeing a larger number on that paystub, she had herself conditioned to believe that her check had gone down due to a tax increase.
It was one of the damndest things I’ve ever seen, next to the guy standing in a rural church parking lot holding a homemade satellite dish, presumably looking for aliens.
It is no surprise, Bee. No surprise at all, unfortunately. These people don’t care about the truth, which is why we must use numbers to overwhelm them.
“Anal Glaucoma.” HAHAHAHA… Sky Girl, I like your way with words
“I swear…. if I represented a District full of these inbred morons, I wouldn’t have to be voted out. I’d go voluntarily.” That says it all right there.
“…and bashing two bricks together!”