Embarrassed by the Ignorance of its Base, GOP Removes “New Ideas” from Site (snarker ideas too, lol)

Republicans were very pleased with their technological sophistication as they introduced the Web site, America Speaking Out a ceremony at the Newseum. Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who created the program, said that to get software for the site, “I personally traveled to Washington state and discovered a Microsoft program that helped NASA map the moon.”

Looks like you Dirty F****** Hippies took the House Republicans up on their offer to “send us your best ideas.” Hilarity ensued:

"End Child Labor Laws," suggests one helpful participant. “We coddle children too much. They need to spend their youth in the factories."

"How about if Congress actually do thier job and VET or Usurper in Chief, Obama is NOT a Natural Born Citizen in any way," recommends another. "That fake so called birth certificate is useless."

"A 'teacher' told my child in class that dolphins were mammals and not fish!" a third complains. "And the same thing about whales! We need TRADITIONAL VALUES in all areas of education. If it swims in the water, it is a FISH. Period! End of Story."

House Republicans, meet the World Wide Web.
Oh, the poor dears. Can you tell the fake conservatives from the real ones? I’m guessing the birther was a real conservative, “the child labor/dolphins are fish” commenters were fakes. But hey, you never know.

More suggestions here:
http://sobeale.blogspot.com/

The site is here and YOU can make your own suggestions. It was working the first time I visited this am. Now it says unavailable. Now it's up. Whatever:
http://www.americaspeakingout.com/

Heh!
I just love it when they roll out a new website. Comedy gold!

some of these have to be jokes, right?




right?

It was wall to wall wingnut when it first went up, though. Got this one from yesterday, which shows how the Bible is the book best loved by illiterates:

The United States is a Constitutional Republic, not a Socialist Republic, founded on the free enterprise concepts embodied in the New Testament and enunciated by Our Lord Jesus Christ. As a Constitutional Republic it is imperative that all trappings of socialism be abolished forthwith. Therefore, all government-owned highways, schools, national forests and national parks are to be sold to private enterprise as soon as possible. Further, all "social" programs such as Social Security and Medicare are to be phased out within five (5) years. Finally, restrictions on private property and free enterprise such as those encompassed in Title II of the Civil Rights Act (so-called public accomodations) must be abolished.

in Texas.

Remember, some of these people believe in the 6,000 year old earth, and that the sun revolves around the sun. Some of them BELIEVE Sarah Palin is fulfilling a biblical prophecy...I think she is supposed to be Deborah or some such thing.....

Their actual stupidity is breathtaking.

mark

virtually verbatim, in one of her SNL parodies. I guess she knew better than to mess with perfection.

Breathtaking, indeed!

A snarky bio:
<snip>
The Book of Esther tells the story of the first beauty queen, who is coached to cover up her background, cover her face with cosmetics, and learn how to appeal to powerful men, all as part of a deliberate political plot to replace an uppity, threateningly powerful woman who has just been convicted of a Perceived Whine. Once Esther has thus come from nowhere to gain sudden influence over the male ruler of the world’s greatest empire literally by winning a beauty contest, her elder male adviser continues to coach her on how to use that influence over her new sugar daddy to massacre the perceived enemies of Israel throughout all the nations lying between India and Ethiopia.
<snip>
More analysis and snark which contains more than a kernel of truth about the parallels between the two:
http://aprilalliston.blogspot.com/2008/09/gods-playbook-for-palin-book-of-esther.html

...in between the server crashes and the script errors.

Hey, GOP! How's that moon-mapping technology working out for you?

..it the other day. Suggestions ranged from free unicorns and rainbows for everyone to cutting submarines and aircraft carriers. Not what the Republicans were looking for.

Best part was their promise to not consider any ideas that didn't fit their platform. "Yeah, we welcome any new ideas that echo our old ideas"

I was laughing so hard.

I think the GOP take themselves too seriously.

Bet they are just so pleased with the response.

lolololol

It was the first decent laugh that I've had in a while.

:rofl:

Honest, constructive suggestions for the other half of our government. If the crazies overwhelm and vote them down, GOP's loss.

I think they quietly took down the page after a couple weeks. I don't have time to go search through all my bookmarks right now.

It also reminds me of how much fun we had with the Bush/Cheney Sloganator. Good times.

I keep getting:

"Unavailable
A very high volume of Americans are speaking out right now.
Please wait a moment and try again."

Yeah right.
A very high volume of Americans are speaking out right now?
No, you have a lame-ass website, and people are spoofing it in droves...

"I'm so sick of evolutionists peddling their anti christ agenda. Leading Christian scientists have proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the Jews buried the dinosaur fossils back in the 1920s."

No...Seriesly! My Dad buried lots of fossils...I know he did...he was saying that when he was young it was a good thing for him that they buried that old fossil boss of his, Mr. McCarty.

"We should abolish the FDA because I don't need feds inspecting my meat. The market will punish companies that make food that poisons hundreds of people... and those companies will go out of business! Problem solved! Small government is the answer."

Voted up :)

The idiot is more concerned of smaller government and less concerned about the health or death of the people poisoned?

:thumbsup:

That was an idea phoned in on Mario Solis Marich the other day. I was driving and just about ran into a ditch.

Mario's idea was for listeners to decide on one idea, and everyone vote it up.

Okay then....

put all GOPers on a deserted island and give them knives.

Aramaic as the Official Language of the US. We do this to respect two facts: this is a Christian Nation and Jesus spoke Aramaic, therefore, that should be our language as well. Anyone who refuses to speak the language of our Lord should be deported back to where they came from. This includes the Native Americans.

Institute prayer in public schools. Make students bow down to Cthulu, the All Powerful, at the beginning of each school day. God may have put you into this world, but by golly, Cthulu is going to take you out of it!

Abolish fractions! They make my head hurt.

constitutional amendment to make women not speak out on church topics like it says in leviticus

Creating a new line of hot dog marketing where they create packages of buns equal in amount to the number of hot dogs in the package. This imbalance in American Culture has been destroying us at the heart for decades now.

PEDOPHILES ARE AN EVER GROWING TO OUR CHILDREN, SO I WAS THINKING THAT WE SHOULD CAPTURE ALL PEDOPHILES AND PUT THEM IN CAMPS WITH FREE-ROAMING BEARS. PEDO-BEARS IF YOU WILL. IT WOULD SEND A STRONG MESSAGE TO PEOPLE: DON'T BE A PEDOPHILE.

Only straight people should be able to mess up adopted children!

Ban Twilight. Jesus knows vampires have fangs and don't sparkle. You can't lie to Jesus.

I was going to say that we should stop daylight savings time because every time it comes around I'm confused for MONTHS. But what we should REALLY do is just standardize all American Time, so there aren't different zones. That way, I could call my brother in Louisiana in the early evening and not worry about him already being asleep because its two hours later there.

I don't like how cows are free in where ever that is, in Asia probably. We need to use our military to lock those cows up, like we do it here.