CSPAN callers blast Rep. Jeb Hensarling
By John Amato Thursday Jun 05, 2008 11:00am
It's not nice to be a Republican these days. Heather made up a mash up of callers that blasted Republican Jeb Hensarling from Texas <corrected> after he blames every problem this country faces on the Democratic Party.
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Caller: I think that it's politics as usual. It's time for you to tell the truth.
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Republicans want to kill everybody on Earth except babies. They don't need to ask our opinion, they're republicans, they can do anything they want to and when things go awry blame a DEM.
OMG LOL... "Is it going to come from the sky? If so, tell us where." So good.
HA!
Jeb Hensarling is not from South Carolina, is he?
When I think how many years the Republican hounded the Democrats and blamed all the evils of the world on them.
Jeez, Jeb, payback's a bitch ain't it?
And what IS it with this Repug and that ugly comb-over rug on his head? Looks like a dead beaver pelt.
OUCH!
My my my. Somebody got taken out behind the woodshed and got a good tanning on his behind. Looks like a few of our fellow consumers have gotten fed up with that label and have decided to return to being citizens. Good on them.
I'm surprised that plastic life-like toupée didn't fly off.
This is heartening. Perhaps enough people from both parties are waking up to reality. The only way things will change is if enough people truly understand what really is going on. I'm so unimpressed by many of our so called leaders. These aren't thinkers they are scoundrels. The sooner they are exposed the sooner we can rid ourselves of them.
I think people are just plain fed up with these leeches.
People waking up yet? I could only hope so because its gonna take a good 20+ years to clean this mess up.
Jeb, unfortunately, is from Texas - wish he was someone else's problem...
Mike @ 5:
Yup. Pretty close.
the republicans are in for a rude awakening this election. its funny how all i have been hearing on the news is how hillary supporters are going to jump ship and vote for mccain when the truth is about as far away from that as possible. i know quite a few republicans who are switching sides and voting for obama, and i know even more who aren't going to vote at all. its time to take out the trash, america. we have let it get piled high for too long.
Nice to see that at least some Republicans are finally -- finally!! -- starting to wake up and see the GOP spin for what it truly is. No, Republicans are not victims and Democracts are not villains. If the Democratic Party held a huge majority in one or both houses of Congress, then perhaps Hensarling's criticisms might have some (and only some) validity -- but it doesn't. The truth is that both parties have a roughly equal share of responsibility for the problems plaguing this nation.
Wow.
No, really. Excellent commentary, emotional yet detailed and in-depth. We need to hear more from Americans of all backgrounds, not the insane rantings of the loons the regular media want commentary from.
Very well done, C-Span. And thanks for the link.
Hahahahahahahahahaahhahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who said American's are clueless?
Can O' Whoopass @ 1:
Not babies; fetuses. Babies who were unfortunate enough to be born too close to our oil are expendable.
Mike @ 5:
You can see where he puts his head at night!
Could it be that we have come to a point where you can't fool all of the people all of the time? No I doubt it.
Why doesn't anyone every mention that inflation also has a lot to do with high gas prices? What am I missing here? Why do we continue to let this unconstitutional Federal Reserve system do whatever the hell it wants with our money?
cold dead eyes, like a shark. i was somewhat expecting them to roll back in his head as he took a chomp outta the cspan lady.
sh-sh-shark!!!! (with a bad toupee)
One thing that always amazes me about the rightwingnuts is their robotic nature.
This fella's head barely moves from its frozen posture the entire time.
John Boehner and Gary Bauer blink, maybe twice in a minute.
Just like their politics they are frozen in time - 1862.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Best mash-up to wake up to!!!!! Thanks Heather. And thanks CSpan callers...
Repukes and Truth should never be used in the same sentence The Repukes have absolutely no idea what truth and honesty means.
Here's an incidental clue: If the full-grown man who seeks to represent you in Congress has a little boy's haircut, move on to the next candidate. Haircuts are an expression of a person's decision-making process. This guy has bad judgement.
And do something about that dead possum on your head.
God, I watched it twice. That lady from Chicago is awesome. I just want to hug her. "Where is this money going to come from? Is it going to fall from the sky?" Classic.
I don't think the American people are going to let these guys get away with demonizing democrats for all of America's problems anymore.
The chickens are coming home to roost.
Repugs just dont get it.
They break, break, break everything in their paths, then just blame, blame, blame every one else except THEM !
They think this tired old story will work forever...
NOT !
Maybe if people ONLY got their news from the MSM then maybe, but it's a different landscape now. Dont misunderestimate the blogosphere and the many other media outlets that now exist.
It's getting harder and harder for politicians to get away with blatant LIES. This can only be a good thing for this country.
We need 'Change we can believe in' but more importantly, we need a "Leader we can BELIEVE" !
Jeb Hensarling should have stayed at home the poor man. I almost felt sorry for him. Sniff...sniff!
mmmmm.... satisfying.....
wow, people that actually pay attention and have a brain to come to their own conclusions. The Republicans ran the car off the road while at the wheel and want to blame the backseat Democrats when they finally get behind the wheel after we are already in a ditch, well this is a fine mess you've gotten us into.... Republicans campaign theme is, "we can get you out of the ditch we got you into."
Hensarling and his sweet toupe are from Texas.
Worst case of Republican hair I have ever seen.
I'll be in SC next week so I will try to find out how cretins like him continue to get elected.
I'm glad you pointed out. Still, it's long past time that someone took C-SPAN to task for being a quasi-public access version of fox noise channel.
Day in, day out, it's an endless parade of washington times/weekly standard/nro/wsj-ed cites of lunatic-fringe columns by krauthammer, kagan and kristol punctuated with appearances by gop slime like Hensarling and whatever neocon nitwit du jour right outta central casting they get from the heritage/aei/hudson/hoover institute asses of evil.
Eighty percent of their callers are from the 21 percent of coalition of the clueless crackers that still buy bush's act and that's just WJ.
If Congress isn't in session, it's an endless loop of Heritage Foundation Symposiums where the lunatic-fringe likes of brain-dead fred barnes, podhoretz, goldberg, kristol and kagan take turns making factually-challenged presentations to each other that they find to be compelling.
It's a complete disgrace. Today they had that nitwit Peter Schweizer on hawking some book he's written called "makers and takers - why conservatives work harder than liberals."
Fridays are the absolute worst. If it's Friday, it's Fascist.
Samson- @ 21:
lollers
That was the most life-like robot I've ever seen. It's a wondrous modern age we live in.
I think Harry Whittington said it best when he said "OUCH!!!"
You heard it it hear first. Republicans and fiscal responsibility looks like CASH from the SKY!
LMAO!
Bluestocking @ 14:
Seems to me the problems of this country boil down to this: economic meltdown due to 28 years of Republican fiscal policies and backlash tribalism as a result of Republican reaction to civil rights initiatives in the sixties. Perhaps also the rabid militarism caused by the reaction of Republicans to the dirty fucking hippies. Now please tell me what problems have been caused by Democrats, aside from those that collaborate with Republicans.
pinot drnkr @ 33:
The chickens are coming home to roost.
I watched the Journal this morning and it was like return of the right wing cranks as if we hadn't just lived through nearly 6 years of hell (devastated economy, endless war, ballooning budget) under republican rule. Following this jackass was Peter Schweitzer telling us how selfish, uncaring, and greedy LIBERALS are. WTF?!?!?! Did I fall through the looking glass in my sleep last night?
hey Republicans . . . the country is on to you now. Don't let the door hit you in the ass as we shove you out it.
Not that there's anything wrong with it, but this guy sounds like he needs to exit the closet soon.
That last caller who was a Republican pretty much summed it up.
"We have 300 million people in this country and the best candidate Republicans came up with was John McCain ??"
Who was it that said ... OUCH babe !! ?
njprogressive @ 13:
Absolutely! The Hillary supporters I know (quite a few) are unhappy but of course they will vote Obama. And I have none of my republican friends are going to vote Republican. So let the MSM sing it's song because the Repugs are too dumb to do anything except think that the MSM is how people in this country think. The party is over Rethugs. Your party is doomed.
This needs to be sent to SNL as is. The only thing that could make it funnier would be if they brought back Martin Short to play that cigarette smoking, sweaty faced sleazy guy, you know, the one who responded to embarrassing and incriminating facts by saying "I knew that."
(To give this Repubican his due, we don't get to see the way in which he responds to the callers insights and accusations. Maybe he is really a charismatic speaker who just looks dumber than a horse turd when he's listening!)
"George Bush makes Bill Clinton look like a physical conservative!"
Even when they have the right idea, people who vote republican, can't control their stupidity
It's a bird it's a plane no it's Jeb Hensarling's toupee! I suspect not too many repubs will be on that show any time soon. Ha Ha!
The best thing about this video is the fact that some of the callers identified themselves as lifelong republicans, and still wanted to kick his A**
Not all americans are brain stems like the repugs believe!
Beaver needs a new hair piece.
Good job, Republicans. This morning, here are the headlines.
Remarks by Israel's transport minister that an attack on Iranian nuclear sites looked "unavoidable" and a Morgan Stanley report predicting oil could reach a record high of $150 by July 4, also sent crude prices roaring upwards.
The dollar fell further after figures showing the U.S. economy lost jobs for the a fifth straight month and the unemployment rate shot up to its highest in more than three years.
What is happening could not be more obvious.
The Fed is lending money to the banks to keep them from going under because of their mortgage ponzi scheme collapse.
Instead of uing that capital to help people restructure their debt, they are using it to invest in the commoddities markets, driving up prices.
Then Israel says an attack on Iran is unavoidable, and poof, all the money they lost in the mortgage market is made back in the commoddities market.
The rich keep their wealth, everyone else pays for it.
you can't argue with that hair.
This should be watched by every American. It gives insight to how truly fucked things are in your country I'm so sorry.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=OS2fI2p9iVs
Bluestocking @ 14:
Although the Dems, for a large part, have been standing around like an idiot bystander - It's the repugs who have shredded the Bill of Rights, revoked Habeas Corpus, and murdered over a million Iraqis. It is Repugs who have exempted billionaires from their share of taxation and enriched Halliburton and others from the public treasury. Mortgage crisis? Phil Gramm, Republican. Torture? Republicans! There have been Dem collaborationists, I'll grant you, but it is the Repugnicans who took out a contract on America, lied us into a slaughter and seek to eliminate the middle class and victimize the poor. It is Republicans who have lowered our standing in the world.And it is Republicans who have bankrupted what was once the world's remaining superpower - to think of so many opportunities we could have exploited to benign ends - gone forever now...
It just plain warms my heart to see evil tools like Hensarling get a small taste of what they deserve!
Why are Repugs politicians still wearing the same hairstyle as they did in 1958? I could swear fashion has changed since then. They all look like they use Brylcream and comb their hair with a 5 cent plastic comb. Do they use Hai Karate too?
Seems the legacy of Strom Thurman will never die while these knuckle draggers are still around. They could at least have the decency to leave the Klan Meeting talk at the meeting and not bring it into the public domain.
But just like chimpy, they won't be happy until we are all dead from the "rapture" or the 17th century comes back.... scary...
Wow...just wow.
That was unpainful. But not undeserved.
I can't wait till Congress goes on summer vacation and they catch an earful from their constituents. They're gonna have to put the GOP representatives on suicide watch.
Brutal. Well deserved, but brutal.
Thats Clearly a wig.
Who is this detarted hack? 18 months of Dems and the voters are tired of the same old politics? And McCain is going to do something to save the next generation?
Does this guy know how to read? WTF? Watch the whole thing on Cspan's website and see this guy spiral into Bill-O style BS spin. "people don't expect Democrats to be fiscally responsible but they do expect that of Republicans"? I'm sorry but it's time for this guy to take a long, and I mean long hard look in the mirror!!
This isn't even laughable it's disturbing.
Nice rug, Jeb.
Tim @ 20:
Because people think it's too "crazy" to head back to the gold standard. Not enough people woke up on that one. Personally, I think it's crazy to let a select few elites control the economy in place of actual valuable tender-- but hey, what do I know? (Besides a lot more than your average American)
The Republicans should just start calling themselves the Decepticons. I mean, look at this robot in disguise.
It looks like a large black cat curled up on the guy's head. Hilarious.
"Cruel...but fair."-Monty Python
Even his hair is a lie.
Mick Fowler @ 54:
a certain segment of the dems are more than 'idiot bystanders', all the dems (like clinton) that bought into the market populism of the 'new economy' and pushed for the economic and foreign policy initiatives that have left us drowning are just as guilty as the GOP for the trouble the US is in.
there are some truly great dems out there, and it is too bad a certain segment of the centrist/market fundy dems are giving them a bad name.
At least he's takin' it on the chin! Hahahah. I could listen to those kinda comments about the Obstructionist Republicans all day! Just wonderful.
Chico Hussein @ 28:
The one and only good thing that could come out of the 8, long, miserable, years of sadistically incompetent chimpy McFlightsuit's reign of error would be the implosion of the fiscally irresponsible, socially retarded, intellectually challenged repukelican party. Hopefully, they can be relegated to the permanent and impotent minority status they justifiably had for decades.
At first I felt sorry for him but his smugness took that sympathy away.
reThugs are feeling the hate, that's a good thing
"Yes, we've been in charge, we are the ones that demand that we continue to have wars, we have set the policy, we have spent the money, we have controlled the media and the talking points....but, it's the those darned LIBRUL'S FAULT everything has gone to crap!!!"
~typical reich-wing whiner
Hensarling is not a South Carolina congressman...he's from the 5th district in Texas.
[Thanks for the heads up. I've emailed the people who can correct it-Sitemonitor]
Soo much
LOVEeh Jeb?The people WILL eventually get things back under control.
And There WILL be accountability.
Anyway, it's almost midnight here and I need to get up early to catch a plane or I would stay and laugh with the rest of the good people here at C&L.
Good Folks at C&L ... Enjoy this moment and the ones that will follow in the coming months.
Why is this guy taking all this tongue lashing so blandly? Simple. Its like chastising the fox AFTER its raided the hen house. He's fat and happy and had his turn at the public trough, so why should he care what people think of him afterwards.
Oil and defense industry profits are through the roof, so the Republicans accomplished what they were sent there for, they were smart enough to pull it off, and they're smart enough to know it wouldn't last forever (well, most of them). Some of them got caught with their pants down, literally, but most of them will leave their offices with big smirks on their faces as they check into their 6 figure K-street jobs, and bide their time. When the current reform cycle is over, after we've had 4-8 years of progressive rule, they'll come out as the "new" guys and pull the same shit all over again.
We know now that we can't trust the MSM, particularly the Washington DC press flunkies, to remember the score, since they've proven they'll trade their integrity for access in a heartbeat. So we'll just have to remember ourselves, and keep having days like the Friedman Suck on This Day, and Whittington Peppered Pretty Well Day, and Mission Accomplished Day here on C&L.
Chuck U @ 55:
Maybe the majority of elected Republicans suffer from a secondary mental disorder that we can name Eddie Haskell Disease, or EHD. Other symptoms include using exclamations like "Lookit!" and phrases like "You want I should...?" when called out on their chicanery.
MR Bill @ 65:
it's the southern preacher look and it's fake as their faith.
Pu-lease, could someone tell him that calling the Democratic Congress the "democrat Congress" isn't a disparaging remark on Democrats. It just makes him sound un-informed and trite.
Thank you Texas!
I want to see just about every single Republican politician behind bars, and about 30% of the Democratic politicians in their with them.
john c @ 71:
The people of SC thank you !
It was refreshing to hear some commonfolk republicans speaking against the party line and seeing through the bullshit. The koolaid drinkers can't vary from the party line since them they would have to admit that they have been lying all along. Boy, are they going to be in for a surprise in November. They are desperate, and repeating the old and worn talking points ain't going to work.
When you long term republicans blaiming the party for the state of affairs, they are in deep shit. McBush is wasting his time, and I am the only one who can see the desperation in his eyes?
Dr. Hussein Matt @ 70:
We controlled the legislative, executive, and judicial branches; and we're not going to take it anymore! To loosely quote Jon Stewart.
Oh that felt so good - especially watching this guy take it.
♠Bangkok-Bob♠ @ 72:
Safe travels, BB.
Yeah, lets just forget that we have had a Republican in the WH, a Republican Congress majority, and conservative appointees for most of the last 8 years.
Damn Democrats overcoming all that and still fucking up the country.
Maybe Jeb is a big Devo fan?
His hair reminds me of the plastic JFK hairpieces that Devo wore on the 'New Traditionalists' album.
Just play 'It's A Beautiful World' while this moron gives us his spiel!
Whoa....Snap!
Poetic justice for all those years of having to defend myself for my beliefs and feeling like I was living in Crazytown.
I Am A Banana @ 67:
He's thinking...hmm....www.monster.com
j swift @ 83:
We've had GOP majorities in one or both Houses for quite more than the last 8 years, and only one sitting Democratic President in the last 27+.
The Republican Party has proven itself worthy of nothing less than electoral euthansia.
Somewhere Jim Traficant is steaming that someone has a better toupee than him.
Can O' Whoopass @ 1:
Don'tcha mean blastocyst, embryos and foetuses?
Babies are fair game.
Could it be that Americans are finally getting smart?!
Sweet Jesus, what an ugly haircut. He needs to visit John Edwards $400 barber, or even my $10 barber.
I think I had a ventriloquist dummy with that hair.
I used to drink water throwing my voice
Fortunately, I had my dummy doing an imitation of wet-boarding at the time.
Finally, after 40 years, a few republican voters are starting to wise up.
Yeah, nice beret, Jeb. Do you have any expressions other than "bowl of oatmeal"?
Dayum!
Tim @ 20:
Ron Paul was going to do away with the "Fed". Jeez' I wonder why he never got any air time on his policies?????
Anyone? Beuler? Beuler?
For the last 25 years, the Republican playbook has always been:
1) blame the Democrats
2) divert attention from real issues with moral outrage at trumped up scandals.
In 2000, political "genius" Karl Rove resurfaced and took them to new heights (or lows, depending on your point of view) by adding:
3) use multiple wedge issues to co-opt various geographic and socio-economic sub-groups and
4) use the Christian Right when expedient.
Republicans, for the most part, are "inside the box," herd-mentality thinkers. This made them extremely effective (when in the majority) in terms of voting in the Bush agenda. This is also what will doom them in the next few years to loss after loss in political races across the country, until another Rove comes along or American's memory of Iraq and Bush mellow and diminish with age and spin.
For the moment, though, being inside the box thinkers, they will continue to cling to the basic playbook because coming up with new, fresh ideas that address political and social problems in a realistic and equitible fashion is distasteful. And difficult.
Gumby69 @ 53:
Thanks for the link. I remember seeing that segment when it came out. This country has been in a daze for far too long, and reality is getting ready to smack us in the face. Like someone said above, it's going to take 20 years to get us out of this mess.
Paul @ 77:
YES!!!!
This is actually really sad. You can hear the pain and anger and frustration in their voices. People are really hurting right now man.
Chico Hussein @ 28:
I hope Obama uses this line to fire back at McCain. Not only have his lies and flip-flops shown that we can't believe him from one day to the next, but he's proven that he's a follower (his party's right wing) and not a leader. We've already seen how that works out.
nice, quality toupee. held all the steam in.
You know, the most upsetting thing about this is you have to imagine there was a moment in time where Jeb said to himself, "Damn, this toupee looks totally natural. Nobody will know I'm bald."
Says a lot about his judgment.
All Rep. Hensarling needs is some hair sticking up in the back and he would look just like Alfalfa from the Little Rascals.
With that being said, I have to hand it to the callers. They really gave Rep. Hensarling an ear full and its well deserved.
Coop @ 34:
Truth About CSPAN Conservative Leanings
You are a real truth sayer. It is so confirming to hear someone outside of myself willing to take CSPAN to task for their right-wing propaganda machine. Although they have never made claim to being an un-bias network, shows like Washington Journal make it impossible for them to ever make such a claim.
My first exposure to this network was a positive one. I thought I found the golden network that would be the model for all that media should be. Nothing could be further from the truth. The very structure of their call in format favors the Republicans by giving them equal status among the viewers. You would think half the people in the US are for Democrats and half are for Republicans. That is the biggest misconception reflecting our countries political preference. Day after day, they I watched with unbelief the Republicans viewers benefiting from this false representation. The days when Republicans had that much representation is over.
To see CSPAN get this representation of being the only fair and balance network in the cable news arena really angers me. They are, in my book, ultra conservative and they try to hide it, so the viewers get the impression they are creditable in any news they propagate.
Joseph
you people never stop to think that maybe the republican party attracts the sociopaths out there for their own power wants and don't feel any emotional empathy towards people. Hence making fun of them will do nothing to hurt them or stop them and simply is an ineffectual way of bringing them down amongst their fanbase of stupid people of low IQ. I don't know a better way of doing it, but this way of demeaning them doesn't work too well. The reason the red party is is in the toilet right now is because americans are being hurt personally by the republican party's policies, not because they care about anyone else being hurt by them. Americans are too selfish to care nowadays. Maybe at one time they were compassionate, but not anymore.
Did some googling on Rep. Jeb Hensarling, yes hes a typical Republican EXCEPT for this.
'Blogger Protection Act of 2008'
House.gov HR____
richmanpoorman @ 2:
Ben Bernanke said if he had too, he'd drop money from helicopters. So yes, it's going to come from the sky.
*sniff*
*sniff*
What's that i smell?
What?
A LANDSLIDE?
What a BURN!!! The lowlife Reslug really needs to invest in a NEW RUG for his head.
That was hilarious.
Does anyone know the direct linke to the video on CSpan? I cannot locate it.
the smackdowns and bitch slaps are going to be epic.
man, is this going to be fun!
This guy is wrong, he knows he is wrong, and he doesn't care. He is just a suit and a wig and an empty shell.
Shit - might as well say the same thing for democrats too, as the results from their policies and politics since 2006 is TERRIBLE ! I tell you, it's politicians that are the problem in general, and also the fact that lawyers are politicians for the most part - where are my plumber, carpenter, etc politicians. If this continues - promises, promises, promises, elected, deception after deception after deception... well, if wars and cronyism continue unabetted, then you can imagine the results (who gives a shit if it's rep/dem, since they've been doing the same crap for years - look at the money they make after ?!!!!!#?$@!$)... this next year might be the beginning of something great or a whole lot of stupid nothing.
Cheers,
k
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Ouch...
"Bill Clinton was fiscally responsible compared to Bush."
Truth stings...
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Mick Fowler @ 54:
No...sorry, but I don't buy it. These days, after having been through my own share of personal tragedies, it's my belief that there are actually comparatively few bona fide victims in this life -- meaning, people who genuinely have absolutely no power to stop or control what other people are doing to them. Based on my own experience and observations, many people play at least some small role -- even if only a passive and unwitting one -- in their own misery. Even a battered spouse is to some extent contributing to her (or his) suffering by choosing to remain in the abusive situation instead of finding some way to get out. I don't mean to say that it's easy for someone to acknowledge the ways in which s/he contributes to his/her own misfortune and to stop doing it -- it's not (I know that as well as any) -- but that doesn't change the fact that s/he is contributing to it. I agree wholeheartedly that the Democrats' contribution to the problem has largely consisted of "standing around like idiot bystanders" -- but their passivity has been damaging enough all by itself. They've reneged on their responsibility to the American people by being spineless and by not rocking the boat for fear of what it might do to their careers when their first and foremost responsibility is to the American people -- and damn it, I doubt that the Founding Fathers ever intended Congress to become a career anyway!
Mark@113
Does anyone know the direct linke to the video on CSpan? I cannot locate it.
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Try this one.
http://www.c-span.org/
goodgirlroxie @ 91:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PK7RSEzP9Q
Oh Snap!!!!
Finally had a chance to watch the clip....in short, that was a brilliant compilation of arse whupping.
Although the Dems, for a large part, have been standing around like an idiot bystander - It’s the repugs who have shredded the Bill of Rights, revoked Habeas Corpus, and murdered over a million Iraqis. It is Repugs who have exempted billionaires from their share of taxation and enriched Halliburton and others from the public treasury. Mortgage crisis? Phil Gramm, Republican. Torture? Republicans! There have been Dem collaborationists, I’ll grant you, but it is the Repugnicans who took out a contract on America, lied us into a slaughter and seek to eliminate the middle class and victimize the poor. It is Republicans who have lowered our standing in the world.And it is Republicans who have bankrupted what was once the world’s remaining superpower - to think of so many opportunities we could have exploited to benign ends - gone forever now…
It just plain warms my heart to see evil tools like Hensarling get a small taste of what they deserve!
Joe you beat me to it I was going to say I thought he looked like Alphalpa.
Good call. I hope this year sends the republicans back to whatever hell they came from!
Now how could a Texas Republican with a good Bible-name tell a lie by blaming everything bad on Dems? I wish Molly Ivins were still alive to share her thoughts.
To paraphrase the B-52s: "What's that on his head? A WIG!" Has anyone ever written about Republicans and the weird affect issue? Katherine Harris does it occasionally. And a few years ago there was a Repub (White House?) spokesperson who had a similar weird expression. She smiled a lot during conversations on troubling subjects. She was a blond, but I can't remember her name.
Memo to Hensarling -- TOSS THE TOUP. It's not fooling anybody, and it does nothing for your appearance (far from it) -- in fact, if anything, it only suggests that somewhere underneath all the bluster is a deep well of anxiety and lack of confidence. In my opinion, a man who's losing his hair is probably better off doing what men like Telly Savalas and Yul Brynner and Jason Statham did -- SHAVED IT.
This is what you hear when the calls are not screened. I listened to Hannity debate a poorly informed guy with a speech impediment one day and realized he is never going to take a call from an intelligent, well spoken adversary. When he accidentally gets one he cuts them off and does a rant of talking points before going to the next caller without any chance for a rebuttal. This is perfect evidence of how our media are sanitizing and spinning the commentary we hear. The town hall meetings for W had to be carefully screened to avoid this kind of verbal abuse he so richly deserves.
Embittered-Max-Hussein-1 @ 117:
No comparison. Clinton balanced the budget...with a GOP controlled Congress fighting him tooth and nail all the way.
k @ 116:
Bush vetoes everything and congress doesn't set policy, the executive does. Congress passes laws and is SUPPOSED to keep a watch on the executive. 18 months of a slim majority is nothing. It's like judging the baseball race by the standings on April 22.
The chickens are coming home to roost.
Gumby69 @ 89:
HA! Now that was a truly awful toupee, lol!
It is clear by watching the reaction that this guy could care less that dumbya's chickens have come home to roost.
He's thinking: "I've got mine."
MR Bill @ 65:
Holy crap, I laughed so hard I fell out of my chair....
Say it loud and say it proud.
BORROW AND SPEND CONSERVATIVES!
Yup, yup...that was a definitely a royal smack-down, right from the mouth of The People. He handled it quite well I must say. I couldn't detect one bead of sweat on his forehead. Then again that's because he probably has no conscience since he has sold his soul to the GOP. Now if that had been Senator Boehner, he may have squirted a few tears. Yup, it's going to take years for the Republican Party to regain any shred of credibility or honor. They have not only destroyed the reputation of their party, also the reputation, credibility and any honor The United States had before they started running the show. Yes, I think the election is going to complete disaster for them. I don't think they could fix this election if they wanted to, too many people just don't plain like or trust them any longer. It would be too much of stretch.
damn that dude never moved his face. seriously, what sort of a person could sit and hear these things said about them without some minor reaction. oh thats right, i forgot, there are still 20 some percent still feeling the effects of the koolaide.
it has been some time since i heard calls like this directed at repubes by repubes.
Tom A. @ 109:
He might as well, the Government been printing it up left and right like it's actually worth something.
PWNED!
Duane @ 126:
Would be fun to ask that girl/woman from Brownsville to phone up Hannity during his program.
Republicans have always been a one trick pony and it looks like people are finally getting tired of the act.
It should be noted that the press hasn't said word one about the unbelievable obstructionism of the GOP since the 2006 congressional elections.
Can O' Whoopass @ 1:
Oh they don't care about the babies. Just blastocysts.
The last caller's comments bode very well for a democratic victory this November. Think about it; a lifelong Republican from Tennessee of all places stating he is DISGUSTED with the republican party...
Samson- @ 21:
...that was a toupee?? Noooo; it looked so natural!
I believe Republicans refer to that color as "heart black".
A man with a bad toupee is not to be trusted. Comb-overs also make me deeply suspicious.
I should add that I am a proud bald man.
Thanks for the video. As a recovering ex-Republican, it made my day.
Looks to me like he should start by telling the truth about his hair.
WTF is that on his head?!
When will the GOP realize that it is unwise to antagonize and alienate the entire gay community if they wish to compete in the age of television?
Oil prices will continually rise as a function of decreased supply and stable or growing demand. Having said that I do believe we are currently being price gouged. We do need to realize that we are running out oil and low prices will cause us to not reorganize our lives for when oil is gone.
He just took it. With that dumb guilty verdict look on his face.
Brutal. If he had any doubts about the gooper brand, they should be gone. Time to brush up the resume bushies.
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