1854 - A group of anti-slavery, anti-ultra-rich, disgruntled folks created the Republican Party, partly in response to Know-Nothings, the Misery Compromise and the racist southern Democratic party.
1920 - The GOP kicks out the last progressives (including Theodore Roosevelt) and becomes primarily a Pro-Business party, instituting policies which directly lead to the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the subsequent depression of the 1930s, which infects the entire globe.
2001 - With a new election, and continuing for the next eight foul, unfortunate years, the GOP regains strength, and institutes the same policies it followed so blindly in 1920. Tax cuts, removal of banking regulations, and pro business appointees destroy a huge budget surplus, bringing the economic system to the brink of disaster.
COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!
"You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans."
- George Carlin
''You know what, evolution is a myth. Why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans?''
-Christine O'Donnell
''I hope that's not where we're going, but you know if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies and saying my goodness what can we do to turn this country around? I'll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out.''
-Sharron Angle
The problem with modern news cycles is that the GOP has apparently made it their goal to say and do as many ineffably stupid things as possible this year. Perhaps by numbing up the general public by inflicting us with countless, almost routine incidents of saying and doing things so stupid, so callous or even dangerous, IF we become callous enough to their multiple acts of insanity, perhaps we will have forgotten most of them by the time the next election comes around.
Consider this a political snapshot (to those boys and girls who don't understand the term, in days before your phone was a camera, a gamepad, a computer, a map, a newspaper, a social water cooler, a record player ((when music came on plastic things called "records")) or a movie player, cameras used to take something you installed called "film" which you would "shoot" and then send out to "develop" so you could see the actual images two weeks later. No, I am not kidding.) of today's GOP. We should do this weekly or monthly, in order to track the descent and future self-destruction of the party.
1. Rush
This walking waste of oxygen, this pathetic, morbidly obese drop-out, this racist, sexist, buffoon, this unflushed fetid piece of excrement, did it again. He wants give abortions by firearms.
2. Michelle
House Intelligence Committee? Seriously? What more can anyone add?
3. Eric Cantor
Having pissed off Big Business, Medium Business, and Small Business, having scared the majority of the rational citizenry of the country (which automatically excludes TeaBuggerers) Eric's brainstorm to fix the Debt Ceiling fiasco is to give it a three month timeframe, so he can repeat all the ineffably stupid things the GOP has done so far, just in 2013.
4. Ann Coulter
Really, there is little more that can be said about her, unless we simply use her own words:
They will not do anything about manifestly crazy people—no, no, no—we have to let [them] walk the streets of Manhattan, defecate in the street, you have the ACLU defending crazy people. All of these shoot-ups, this precious protection for obviously mentally-disturbed individuals, there is certainly no effort to reduce single-motherhood, something that is also a contributing factor in many of these cases. In New York City, you can't take a subway without somebody getting pushed onto the tracks by mentally disturbed individuals. And liberals won't let us go after the criminals, no they specifically go out and try to harm people who by definition do not have criminal records so that their guns can be stolen by criminals!
5. David Barton
Unhappy with all of the factual attacks on his hysterical, pseudo-historical, crayon-based history books, Barton decided to increase the setting on the Ineffable Stupidity dial to 11. On Glenn Beck's program, he claimed that the best way to stop future school massacres is to arm every student.
No, I am not kidding.
6. Rick Santorum
Again, all one needs to do is use his own words:
"If you look at the popular culture and what comes out of Hollywood, if you go to our schools and particularly our colleges and universities, they are indoctrinated in a sea of relativism and a sea of antagonism towards Christianity.
"Abortion is a symptom. Marriage is a symptom. Pornography is a symptom. All of these are symptoms to the fundamental issue that we've gotten away from the truth and the 'Truth-Giver.'"
Teh Stoopid - it burnz. Please feel free to add your own examples. Honestly? there are too many to list in one diary.