It turns out that Stuart Smalley's grandfather, Hoot, with his notorious Hoot Smalley Tariff Act, was solely responsible for the Great Depression, which wasn't nearly as bad as the recession that Silent Cal Coolidge had to deal with in the 1920s, and that commie bastard FDR made the US suffer for ten more years because of his socialist ideas...
Don't believe me? Here's noted expert on American History Michele Bachmann speaking to that very issue:
This would actually be a lot funnier if it weren't so sad and scary. Poor Michele is doing the best she can to parrot the talking points of the Idiot Wing of the Rethug Party (but I repeat myself...), but she just can't get it down. And neither can the American public, most of whom might have been paying attention in HS history class and know that the tariff was Smoot-Hawley (named for its sponsors, both of whom were -- surprise -- Republicans), it was signed by Herbert Hoover (another Republican), that the recession of the early 1920s was mild in comparison to the Great Depression, and that it was FDR who got us out of that depression. But as I've always said, facts are inconvenient things to the Rethugs. In fact, they must think of them as something akin to rattlesnakes, since they take great pains to avoid them at every turn.
How'd you like to be a resident of Bachmann's district (Minnesota 6th, which stretches north and west from Minneapolis-St. Paul) and have a national political clown be the face of your home town?
But it's great for the rest of us. As long as wackos like Michele and nasties like Rusty Limpdick are the public face of the Rethug party, the more strength the Democrats will gain between now and the next election.
[Thanx & HT to A World Quite Mad for the story tip]
How'd you like to be a resident of Bachmann's district (Minnesota 6th, which stretches north and west from Minneapolis-St. Paul) and have a national political clown be the face of your home town?
But it's great for the rest of us. As long as wackos like Michele and nasties like Rusty Limpdick are the public face of the Rethug party, the more strength the Democrats will gain between now and the next election.
[Thanx & HT to A World Quite Mad for the story tip]
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I love you, Farnsworth68, and your words here are perfecto-mundo. I only wish I had written them. Delicious.
Except for these: As long as wackos like Michele and nasties like Rusty Limpdick are the public face of the Rethug party, the more strength the Democrats will gain between now and the next election.Oh, Farnsworth, have you learned nothing?
Thanks, ts.
No, apparently I'm still a slow learner. I'm also apparently still living in la-la-land when it comes to hoping that the Moron-American Voting Bloc will somehow come to its senses...
Dearest Farnsworth,
The 'voter' voted for Barack Obama. I did too, much to my regret. What else was I supposed to do? Oh wait, that's right...
...Once upon a time... http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2008/02/tale-that-might-be-told.html
Clickable: Once upon a timeThanks again, Farnsworth.
Michelle Backmann is really amazing. This woman is not qualified to be a checker at the local Safeway. And here she is, an elected official of the state of Minnesota. I think you are correct in that she TRIES, but fails hugely, to parrot the talking points or maybe come up with new ones on her own. But does she not have some staff that maybe might go do some fact checking or basic research before she goes off spouting this stuff? Or is the far-right of this country so far gone that they actually believe that anything that comes our of their mouths becomes true?
I can understand politicians who are underhanded in trying to get what they want. Or even out and out crooks. But I cannot understand politicians who are flat out dumbasses.
I sincerely hope that the electorate who keep voting in people like Bachmann don't ever get beyond that 30% of the population. 30% is scary enough as it is, but if they ever become a majority voting block, then boy... Rome under Nero or Caligula comes to mind.
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