SCHIP Must See: GOP Really Does Think Poor Kids Are Funny

x-posted from SquareState

Finally!  

After all the tap dancing they've been doing for, well, forever, the GOP let the booze flow early this Friday, and gave the kiddies the keys to the House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans website.

One can only assume that this post today was an attempt at humor, using well known Republican C. Montgomery Burns:

Republican Senate hopeful Montgomery Burns today joined with Mayor Joe Quimby, D-Springfield, to support the Senate's gazillion-dollar SCHIP bill.

"If the poor children can get a piece of the action, why can't I?" explained Burns at a MoveOn.org rally in Capital City. "The little darlings are needy? Me, too. I need somebody to pay. Quimby here says he knows a bunch of low-income nobodies who are ripe for the picking. Excellent."

The "funny" conintues below...

"You need this?" wondered the mayor. "Well, why not. I’ve got needs, too. Why, I’ve got 27 paternity suits pending and to quote the Speaker, ‘suffer the little children.’ The Quimby Compound is overflowing with those little sufferers. Vote Quimby."

Inexplicably, the mayor then leaned toward a comely MoveOn organizer and whispered in her ear, "Ah, if anyone asks, you’re my niece from out of town and you don’t get SCHIP."

"But Uncle Joe, I am your niece from out of town, and I do get SCHIP."

"Good Lord, I’m a monster!" exclaimed the mayor.

Mr. Burns shrugged and pressed on with a stirring call to arms: "Truth and fairness, these are the demons we must slay if we wish to save the tykes."

His patience was tested when a ruckus arose from a restive crowd of backdrop-toddlers who’d been rented by MoveOn for the photo-op. "Get these props away from me," Burns hissed.

"Kids? Who needs ‘em? Rahm, release the hounds!" added Quimby with a spreading grin. "Ha, I’ve always wanted to say that, Burns."

The 37 rental children fled and were not seen again, but the arf-arf-arfing of their pursuers could be heard well past sunset.

Paul Krugman nailed in in his Oct 5th column:

Today's leading conservatives are Reagan's heirs. If you're poor, if you don't have health insurance, if you're sick -- well, they don't think it's a serious issue. In fact, they think it's funny.

Isn't that funny!  Poor kids being chased by dogs!  Hahahahaha!  Serves 'em right for not pulling their bootstraps hard enough.

This wasn't Michelle Malking, nor Rush Limbaugh, but the elected leadership of the GOP.

How longer before we learn this was either

a) Disgrunted former employee

or

b) Mistake by an intern.

•  hahaha

  oh wait...

  by pacified on Fri Oct 12, 2007 at 05:39:15 PM PDT

  •  I believe that's properly

    "Ha-ha"

    by Frankenoid on Fri Oct 12, 2007 at 06:02:55 PM PDT

•  and we have a lovely screen capture

  http://i106.photobucket.com/...

  by pacified on Fri Oct 12, 2007 at 05:41:56 PM PDT

  •  Can you capture the bottom of the page, too?

    which has the name of the committee and their address.

    Take note, too, at the bottom right, it says:  Majority Website.  They must mean the majority of psychophants.

    (I would get it, but my screen capture program only captures what I see, and I would need to scroll to get the whole thing.)

    by gooderservice on Fri Oct 12, 2007 at 07:00:09 PM PDT

    •  "Majority Website" is a link to Democrats'

      ... side of the Energy and Commerce Cmte website.

      by RonK Seattle on Fri Oct 12, 2007 at 08:26:37 PM PDT

      •  Duh

        I didn't even realize it was a link.  I'm sorry about that.  Thanks for pointing that out.  I guess you can see where my mind is set...  I put nothing past them.  Thanks again.

        by gooderservice on Fri Oct 12, 2007 at 08:32:00 PM PDT

•  You're right

  What they did to that Frost child represents exactly what Krugman said about the GOP a few weeks ago.

  by oceanstar17 on Fri Oct 12, 2007 at 05:47:22 PM PDT

•  I can't believe that they actually put this up

  on a government website.  Oh, wait...yes I can.

  I love The Simpsons; I loathe this current batch of repubs.  (and, I do believe in karma - that's what gets me through the day.)

  by Ellicatt on Fri Oct 12, 2007 at 05:55:15 PM PDT

•  You have got to be kidding me...

  ... except I went to their site and there it is still.

  Wow. So this is part of the output from our legislative branch.

  Has Olbermann taped his show yet? It's a Friday, but someone should be able to raise a ruckus about this...

  by highacidity on Fri Oct 12, 2007 at 05:58:53 PM PDT

  •  And has Matt Groening seen this yet?

    by RonK Seattle on Fri Oct 12, 2007 at 06:22:58 PM PDT

    •  oooh yeah...

      ... now it took that long for someone to figure that out!

      Snnnnap!

      Email addresses are difficult to find, but there's one for Harry Shearer who may be able to pass on a message...

      "The Simpsons":
      P.O. Box 900
      Attn: FOX BROADCASTING Publicity Dept.
      Beverly Hills, CA 90213-0900

      You can also use this address for letters to cast members and Matt Groening.
      Bongo Comics Group:
      1999 Avenue of the Stars
      15th Floor
      Los Angeles CA 90067
      Phone: [phone]
      Fax: [phone]

      Harry Shearer:
      [e-mail]

      by highacidity on Fri Oct 12, 2007 at 06:41:41 PM PDT

•  Wait a Minute - That's an Ad

  OMG, an Ad, and actual Ad

  And We the People are paying for it.   I want my money back.

  by gooderservice on Fri Oct 12, 2007 at 06:54:03 PM PDT

•  ha ha ... ha ha

  Mmmmm Absinthe. So what is the goofy kid's name on the Simpson's with the nails on chalkboard laugh?

  by davewolfusa on Fri Oct 12, 2007 at 09:49:51 PM PDT