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applegrove

(118,677 posts)
Tue Mar 4, 2014, 10:20 PM Mar 2014

Cato Institue and P.J. O'Rourke joke about lying in politics. Because fooling people

into voting against their own best interest is just hilarious

Satirist P.J. O'Rourke Has Filed The Most Entertaining Supreme Court Brief We've Ever Seen

by Erin Fuchs at Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/pj-orourke-brief-in-susan-b-anthony-case-2014-3

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Here's the money section of the brief filed by the libertarian Cato Institute, and O'Rourke, whom the brief describes as America's "leading political satirist:"

In modern times, “truthiness”— a “truth” asserted “from the gut” or because it “feels right,” without regard to evidence or logic — is also a key part of political discourse. It is difficult to imagine life without it, and our political discourse is weakened by Orwellian laws that try to prohibit it.

After all, where would we be without the knowledge that Democrats are pinko-communist flag-burners who want to tax churches and use the money to fund abortions so they can use the fetal stem cells to create pot-smoking lesbian ATF agents who will steal all the guns and invite the UN to take over America?

Voters have to decide whether we’d be better off electing Republicans, those hateful, assault-weapon-wielding maniacs who believe that George Washington and Jesus Christ incorporated the nation after a Gettysburg reenactment and that the only thing wrong with the death penalty is that it isn’t administered quickly enough to secular-humanist professors of Chicano studies
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The dispute in the Supreme Court involves the pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List (SBA) and Steven Driehaus, a former U.S. Representative of Ohio and member of the Democratic Party.



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