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MrScorpio

(73,630 posts) Fri Sep 7, 2012, 10:06 AM Sep 2012

In today's edition of Republicans Have Lost Their Fucking Minds...

GOP Rep. Calls Federal Student Loans A ‘Slippery Slope’ That Could Lead To Holocaust

By Rebecca Leber on Sep 6, 2012 at 4:35 pm

According to Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), federal student loans are the start of a “slippery slope” that could eventually lead to a Holocaust. While speaking at Maryland’s Allegany College on Wednesday, Bartlett invoked this horrid comparison while arguing that government loans are unconstitutional:

Not that it’s not a good idea to give students loans, it certainly is a good idea to give them loans. But if you can ignore the Constitution to do something good today, tomorrow you will be ignoring the Constitution to do something bad. You could. There are more people in our, in America today of German ancestry than any other [inaudible]. The Holocaust that occurred in Germany — how in the heck could that happen? And when you start down the wrong road, it can be a very slippery slope.

http://thinkprogress.org/education/2012/09/06/808841/student-loans-holocaust/

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In today's edition of Republicans Have Lost Their Fucking Minds... (Original Post) MrScorpio Sep 2012 OP

uh-oh I've got German ancestry-and student loan debt freeplessinseattle Sep 2012 #1

Just try to keep the goose stepping to a minimum MrScorpio Sep 2012 #2

Is there some sort of commonalitiy in the Repubs... a geek named Bob Sep 2012 #3

They've all been taught "Teh Media" = Soviet Pravda JHB Sep 2012 #11

My wife was figuring... a geek named Bob Sep 2012 #12

They have confuse potato chips with paint chips. hifiguy Sep 2012 #14

It's a reasonable hypothesis! a geek named Bob Sep 2012 #16

Another idiot heard from Angry Dragon Sep 2012 #4

Bartlett also believes few pregnancies result from rape. LiberalEsto Sep 2012 #5

They truly do have some major problems in that party. Frustratedlady Sep 2012 #6

"More people in [...] America today of German ancestry BarackTheVote Sep 2012 #7

Even more correct than you realize. HooptieWagon Sep 2012 #8

There ya go again ... fact-checking !! cr8tvlde Sep 2012 #10

well, at least she's not a witch spanone Sep 2012 #9

I hope someone is keeping tabs on the idiotic statements these people make LeftinOH Sep 2012 #13

Nazi tourettes kicking in again? Initech Sep 2012 #15

freeplessinseattle

(3,508 posts)

1. uh-oh I've got German ancestry-and student loan debt

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Fri Sep 7, 2012, 10:10 AM

Sep 2012

ooga booga

MrScorpio

(73,630 posts)

2. Just try to keep the goose stepping to a minimum

Reply to freeplessinseattle (Reply #1)

Fri Sep 7, 2012, 10:12 AM

Sep 2012

We don't want to frighten the geezers.

a geek named Bob

(2,715 posts)

3. Is there some sort of commonalitiy in the Repubs...

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Fri Sep 7, 2012, 10:13 AM

Sep 2012

Do they all drink the same water, or eat the same food?

I'm really beginning to think there's cases of hysteria, if not outright insanity, in the GOP.

JHB

(37,148 posts)

11. They've all been taught "Teh Media" = Soviet Pravda

Reply to a geek named Bob (Reply #3)

Fri Sep 7, 2012, 11:22 AM

Sep 2012

They've been grousing about "the Liberal Media" sine the 50s and had spin tanks actively creating an alternate culture since the 70s.

By "liberal" they mean anything that fails to actively promote their RW views.

a geek named Bob

(2,715 posts)

12. My wife was figuring...

Reply to JHB (Reply #11)

Fri Sep 7, 2012, 11:23 AM

Sep 2012

Given the long haul drives in the Southwest, and the driving tunes...
Maybe the RW problem is the music they listen to.

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)

14. They have confuse potato chips with paint chips.

Reply to a geek named Bob (Reply #3)

Fri Sep 7, 2012, 12:52 PM

Sep 2012

That's the only think I can come up with.

a geek named Bob

(2,715 posts)

16. It's a reasonable hypothesis!

Reply to hifiguy (Reply #14)

Fri Sep 7, 2012, 03:45 PM

Sep 2012

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)

4. Another idiot heard from

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Fri Sep 7, 2012, 10:13 AM

Sep 2012

LiberalEsto

(22,845 posts)

5. Bartlett also believes few pregnancies result from rape.

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Fri Sep 7, 2012, 10:19 AM

Sep 2012

From Wednesday's Gaithersburg Gazette:

"Two weeks after U.S. Rep Todd Akin rocked the country with his “legitimate rape” comment, U.S. Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett made a similar statement on rape’s connection to pregnancy, which his office says has been taken out of context.

In YouTube videos, Bartlett told a town hall in Frederick on Aug. 30 that few pregnancies actually result from rape.

“If you really — there are very few pregnancies as a result of rape, fortunately, and incest, compared to the usual abortion,” he said in the video. “What is the percentage of abortions from rape? It is tiny. It is a tiny, tiny percentage.”

Lisa Wright, spokeswoman for the Republican representative, said Tuesday that his comments at the meeting were clearly about the proportion of abortions connected to rape, and that his was an accurate statement."

Link:
http://www.gazette.net/article/20120905/NEWS/709059683/1022/abortion-rape-become-6th-district-campaign-issue&template=gazette

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)

6. They truly do have some major problems in that party.

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Fri Sep 7, 2012, 10:25 AM

Sep 2012

It's as though the party leaders had a contest for the most bizarre statements and this is one of the entries...along with Akin and many others.

Bizarre is the only word that I can come up with to describe their ridiculous statements.

Just tell us it's all a bad dream and will go away soon...maybe in Norris' 1000 days of darkness?

BarackTheVote

(938 posts)

7. "More people in [...] America today of German ancestry

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Fri Sep 7, 2012, 10:42 AM

Sep 2012

...is it just me or did he just ethnically insult every single person of German ancestry in the entire United States?! Word to the wise, Bartlett--"there are more people in America today of German ancestry than any other"--you might not want to PISS THEM ALL THE FUCK OFF!

HooptieWagon

(17,064 posts)

8. Even more correct than you realize.

Reply to BarackTheVote (Reply #7)

Fri Sep 7, 2012, 11:13 AM

Sep 2012

Since the Germanic tribes (Angles, Saxons, Franks, Jutes, Danes, Goths, Visigoths, Lombards,etc) took over most of Western Europe between 400 and 1000 AD, anyone of European ancestry has a high likelyhood of Germanic origin.