Are you tired of your goofy brother-in-law sending you those crazy and false right wing emails? I get my share of them. So I started thinking, why can't I start one and try to send it around the globe, just in time for the November election. Never wanting to sink to the gutteral level of right wing liars, it should be factual.
So here is goes. Feel free to 'fact check", edit, add or remove items. Once completed, off it will go to my sizable email list hoping to have it forwarded and forwarded. It is entitled;
Are you stupid enough to be a Republican?
If you think the Republican great recession economy inherited by President Obama is worse today that when he took office, you are stupid enough to be a republican
If you think the quarterly Gross Domestic Product has gotten worse under President Obama, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you don’t know that almost 90% of today’s budget deficit was inherited by Bush policies in effect when Obama took office, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you think putting republicans back in charge of Congress to re-implement Bush economic policies and expect a result other than another republican recession, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you think the Economic Recovery Act passed by the Democratic Congress and signed into law by President Obama in March of 2009 did not save or create millions of jobs, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you don’t know that a combination of alleviating the financial credit crisis in ’08 in conjunction with passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in '09 did not avert a second Republican Great Depression, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you don’t know the unemployment rate would be much higher without passage of the Recovery Act, you are stupid enough to be a republican
If saving the jobs of American teachers, firefighters, and cops by paying for it by closing tax loop holes used to ship other American jobs overseas is wrongheaded public policy, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you think President Obama and this Democratic Congress raised your taxes, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you don’t know President Obama and the Democratic Congress passed the largest tax cut over any other 2 year period in American history, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you think extending all the Bush era tax cuts will lower the deficit, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you think cutting taxes for millionaires and billionaires is more important than unemployment benefits for unemployed Americans, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you believe the Recovery Act was chock full of Congressional earmarks, you are stupid enough to be a republican
If you think President Obama was born in Kenya and not Hawaii, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you think President Obama is a Marxist, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you believe President Obama is a Muslim, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you believe Congress, the courts or any legislative or judicial body in America is promoting or attempting to impose sharia law anywhere in America, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you think freedom to practice your religion in America does not extend the exact same privileges to Muslim Americans, you are stupid enough to be a republican
If you think a program that drives uninsured Americans into the private for profit health insurance industry for their insurance coverage is a government take-over of heath care in America, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you support the health insurance industry’s profits over providing health care insurance to Americans with pre-existing conditions or coverage for your children until 26, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you believe the Patient Protection and Affordability Act created "death panels", you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you believe the Patient Protection and Affordability Act adversely affected Medicare instead of strengthening it, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you believe the Patient Protection and Affordability Act imposes a 3.8% real estate transaction tax, taxes the value of your employer provided health insurance as income or will lead you to be arrested, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you want government hands off your Medicare, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you think the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) was an Obama initiative, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you think routing some of those TARP funds to rescue the jobs of a million American auto workers and suppliers while allowing the domestic auto industry to return to profitability was a failure, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you think the long-term solution to our dependence on foreign oil lays only in more domestic drilling, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you think the American people need to apologize to BP for the Gulf oil spill, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you think protecting BP by not requiring they be under oath in testimony before Congress on the Gulf spill to get to the truth, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you think taking money out of the Social Security System will strengthen it, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you think re-regulating Wall Street Bankers to protect main street Americans in an act of an overreaching government, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you think the Park 51 project in New York City is a mosque built on September 11th ground zero, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you think President Obama is a racist who hates white people, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you think other African American like Eric Holder, Van Jones, Shirley Sherrod are racists "out to get white people", you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you fear Hispanic babies, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you think illegal immigration has gone up and deportations have gone down under President Obama, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you think Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck and Jim Inhofe know more about climate science than NASA, NOAA and 95% of the world's scientist, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you think evolution is just a "theory" on the same level as "creation theory", you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you think extending the exact right to marriage or legal unions to 2 men or 2 women will put your marriage at risk, you are stupid enough to be a republican.
If you think a republican proposal embraced by President Obama is now a horrible idea that must be opposed by republicans in Congress, you are stupid enough to be a republican.