DISQUS

Steve_in_CNJ · 3 months ago

great irony as well as buffoonery. the dude just gets done talking about how we're one red white and blue nation and then leaves out "indivisible" because he was too focused on dividing the nation with his religious bullshit.

nicho · 3 months ago

What I find most disturbing is that a handful of Fox-addled loonybirds are treated as an important political group with a coherent point of view. They simply don't make any sense. All you have to do is talk to them for three minutes. They are insane (and this includes my teabagger sister and brother-in-law).

Naja pallida · 3 months ago

Insane, ignorant, misinformed, and uninterested in listening to anything resembling the truth... but they vote. :)

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 3 months ago

And they loves them their Medicare and Social Security. Socialism for them: good. Socialism for others: bad.

Brent · 3 months ago

How fitting that he would omit "indivisible" right after saying the phrase that divides us as Americans.

AnnieR · 3 months ago

I can't remember ever seeing an anti-government rally organized by elected government officials. It's disappointing how slow the Dems in congress move, but the possibility of Republicans ever gaining control again scares the hell out of me.

GusII · 3 months ago

Rep. Boehner did not make a mistake. The combining of the Declaration of Independence and The Constitution has been going on in Ohio Republican circles for decades. Scream it is un-Constitutional and then quote the Declaration. I used to cater a monthly Republican county meeting in Ohio, I was always taken aback when they did this.

They also don’t like the fact The Constitution does not mention God. They have to insert the deity by using the Declaration.

Laur · 3 months ago

These people are doing a good impression of filth.

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 3 months ago

John Waters' "Pink Flamingo": the Filthiest People Alive.

teammarty · 3 months ago

I was thinking more "Mortville" from Desperate Living

piltdown · 3 months ago

I just don't understand how these dummies can think that "providing health coverage to all" somehow equals "turning the whole lot of ya into Soylent Green!".

I just don't get it.

tsuki · 3 months ago

So, the Republicons don't know the difference between the Declaration and the Constitution, and cannot recite the Pledge.

And, they think it is so clever to make fun of the holocaust at Dachau. I've been there and still remember it 40 years later. There was nothing funny about it.

To be that stupid. Have they no shame?

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 3 months ago

Rachel Maddow last night showed the US flag blowing down off the stage and touching the ground. Symbolic of their whole M.O.

larryv · 3 months ago

As pitiful as the President and the Democratic controlled congress has been....there is no way these fools should or can govern this country.

MoonDragon · 3 months ago

That wasn't a mistake. He left out "indivisible" because the intent of teabaggers is to divide this nation into those to whom the nation belongs and those to whom it doesn't belong. And the former demand the latter give it back. NOW. And go away and die. In a painful manner.

shell · 3 months ago

It was no surprise that doofus left out part of the pledge. I tend to disagree with those who say he did it on purpose. He couldn't even recite what he did know, without looking at his cheat sheet several times. Watch the video again.

cire60 · 3 months ago

Some interviewers of these tea bag supporters let them get away with claiming no responsibility for the hateful signs at their rallys.
At the big Sept. 12 rally there was one man who walked among the crowd with a pro-public health care sign. He needed a police escort (of several officers) close by just to protect him from being attacked by violent shouting hate filled teabaggers.
There is no such reaction by any teabaggers to the vicious hate expressed on the signs at any of their rallys.

JohnNation · 3 months ago

The Repug party is run by truly evil people. And their followers are easily led half wits. They say religion is the opiate of the masses... so I guess Fox News is the crack.

Asterix · 3 months ago

The Pledge of Allegiance was intended as something for schoolchildren, who, it was thought, could not comprehend the subject matter of the Constitution. The Founding Fathers would probably have been appalled with the wording not even mentioning the Constitution, just "flag" and "republic".

Far better would be something patterned after the Constitutionally-directed oath of office, that states one's support for the Constitution.

Of course, one would have to have read the Constitution first...

Owl_and_Rabbit · 3 months ago

It's funny that the pledge of allegiance is a socialist's invention and these guys hate socialists, so they say.

brian · 3 months ago

What is the Republican alternative? I looked at their site and they have some generalizations but nothing solid, except to not cover abortions, which I believe is not in the House bill, and not to cut Medicare. Other than that there is nothing on how they actually attempt to cover everyone.

The bill that they have on the their page was drafter on Nov 3. A little late in the game when the Congress has been talking about it for at least 8 Months.

Also, the BS about allowing companies to compete across State lines will only result in what we have in the banking sector. Wellpoint owns insurance companies in many of the States and would probably just consolidate them into one company. So would the other large providers. How does that offer competition.

What the Republicans want is lawsuit regulations and that is about it. They could care less about anything else. Funny, reports that I have read say that only 1.7% of the cost of insurance is for malpractice.