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| | Great Moments in Republican Rule, 1994-2006 | |
I've had the idea of putting together the 52 most head-shaking moments in the Republican rule of 1994-2006, each with a photo. These could be used for a deck of playing cards, or printed on stickers to place all over as a reminder of what dumb-f%^&s the Rethugs have been. Thanks to the good people of DU, we're already way past 52! In no particular order:
- Mission Accomplished!
- "It's been pretty well confirmed that he did go to Prague and he did meet with a senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service in Czechoslovakia last April, several months before the attack. "
- The 20(?) minutes of "My Pet Goat"
- Foley resigns
- "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
- Bush plays guitar while Katrina destroys NOLA
- "Heckuva job, Bownie"
- Cheney shoots a guy in the face while hunting captive quail, drunk
- "Freedom's untidy"
- Bush holding hands with Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (funders of the 9/11 attacks)
- Tom Delay's mug shot
- Abramoff pleads guilty.
- Cunningham pleads guilty.
- Ney pleads guilty.
- Frist diagnosis Terri Schiavo from the Senate floor
- George and Laura stand on the flag for phot op
- Bush falling off the Segway
- Bush's Pretzel war wound
- Bush and the plastic turkey
- The non-event of Sadaam's statue being torn down (the fake, non-existant crowd)
- The Gropinator fondling the British newscaster/interviewer
- Gannon
- The Swiftboating lies
- Allen's macaca
- Trent Lott stepping down as Senate Majority leader after racist comments supporting segregation
- Bush's backrub of Angela Merkel
- Ashcroft covering the naughty bits of statues
- Powell at the UN
- Rummy shaking hands with Saddam
- Rummy's "kung fu" thing with his hands
- Ted Stevens' clogged Internet Tubes
- Sam Brownback's pictures of talking fetuses
- The repeal of habeas corpus
- Torture!
- Kerik's nomination
- Miers' nomination
- Gingrich shuts down the government because, on his own admission, he was mad that Bill Clinton wouldn't hold budget negotiations on the way to a funeral
- OxyRush gets busted a few times and yabbers about civil liberties
- Jeb Bush gets dissed by police who refuse to storm a hospice facility.
- Scalia tells a reporter "vaffunculo" in a church
- Speaking of church, "Justice Sunday"
- Cheney explains how he'd tell a senator to f himself all over again because it made him feel good.
- Trent Lott pines for the Thurmond presidency there never was.
- After retirement, Jesse Helms confirms what we've all suspected all along by saying that the black people were too pushy in trying to get civil rights before white people were ready.
- "Last throes"
- "they should watch what they say"
- A Bush administration DOD lawyer argues that bombing a Pacific island would be good for birdwatchers since rare birds generate more interest than common birds.
- arsenic in the drinking water
- WH officials go to Ashcroft, high on morphine in the ICU, to try to get him to sign papers authorizing an illegal spying program.
- Lester M. Crawford, former FDA Commisioner, pleads guilty to lying and conflict of interest
- Don Sherwood (R-PA) gets caught trying to strangle his mistress
- "If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, as long as I'm the dictator"
- "Stop throwing the Constitution in my face, it's just a goddamned piece of paper!"
- "There -- it's -- you know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror."
- Adam Clymer was a "major league asshole" in front of an live microphone. Cheney replies. "Yeah, big time."
- Cheney's "F*** You" on the Senate floor.
- Helen Chenoweth (R-Idaho) holds an endangered species cook-off.
- Helen Chenoweth gives a speech on the House floor alleging that "black helicopters" are buzzing the ranches of her constituents.
- Merrill Cook (R-Utah), on the night of the election with returns coming in showing him easily being re-elected, babbles aimlessly all night saying he is losing and "they" are out to get him - even when the returns say otherwise. Cook proceeds to fire his entire staff and spends his entire second term voting "no" on everything. Two years later he is challenged from within his own party. Cook loses the primary to another Repug, who loses the general election to a Democrat.
- Sen. Bob Smith (R/I/R again-New Hampshire) gives a long-winded speech on the Senate floor, mostly lifted verbatim from "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington", announcing he is leaving the Repugs 'cuz they aren't far right enough for him. A year later he comes back begging to be let back in the club. He loses a primary challenge from his own party next election.
- Steve Stockman (R-Texas) announces that a reporter trespassed in his house and, quote, "terrorized his wife", whatever that means. The reporter sued for libel and slander. Stockman also announces on the day of the Oklahoma City bombing that he received a fax about the bombing in his office *before* the bombing occurred. Stockman loses his seat next election to a Democrat.
- Following Newt Gingrich's resignation as Speaker of the House and announcement that he would leave Congress altogether, Bob Livingston (R-Louisiana) is chosen for the job. Larry Flynt promises forthcoming information about Livingston's adulterous affairs. He resigns and leaves Congress altogether.
- Rick Renzi (R-Arizona/Virginia) proposes to solve the controversy over hauling nuclear waste through Arizona by chartering chinook helicopters to airlift it over the state. Around the same time he proposes renaming Walnut Canyon National Monument and changing its focus - making it the National Park of the American Flag.
- Right after being elected to Congress, the house Rick Renzi bought in Arizona and never moved into is foreclosed by the bank, because he wasn't making payments. Renzi does not have a house in the Arizona district he represents, and has not lived in that district since going to college there in the late 1970s.
- Rick Renzi (R-AZ) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) get into a fight on the floor of the House over stem cell research, widely reported as a fist fight although both deny it.
- Bush talking with his mouth full at the G8 summit - while treating Blair like his poodle
- Poppy Bush blowing chow on the PM of Japan
- US submarine carrying Republican joyriders kills 9 Japanese when surfacing
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