{"id":13942,"date":"2014-10-20T00:14:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T07:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13942"},"modified":"2014-10-20T00:14:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T07:14:33","slug":"last-weeks-dumbest-republican-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/20\/last-weeks-dumbest-republican-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Week&#8217;s Dumbest Republican Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Every week, Republicans join a competition to see who can say the most outlandish things, and in the process, every week they push the envelope on just how dumb InsaniTEA can become.&#160; I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week was no exception.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2026<strong>Scott Brown: Ebola would never be happening if Mitt Romney were president.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Romney2Face\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Romney2Face\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Romney2Face.jpg\" width=\"360\" align=\"left\" height=\"310\" \/>Former Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown has already greatly added to the Ebola conversation by cautioning Americans about <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/election\/2014\/10\/14\/3579690\/scott-brown-immigration-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ebola-infected terrorists<\/a> coming over the Mexican border.<\/p>\n<p>Now the New Hampshire Senate hopeful wants to remind America that Ebola would never have happened if his boy Mitt Romney were president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGosh can you imagine if Mitt was the president right now?\u201d Brown asked. \u201cHe was right on Russia, he was right on Obamacare, he was right on the economy. And I guarantee you we would not be worrying about Ebola right now and, you know, worrying about our foreign policy screw ups.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gosh! That is so true! Because nothing ever bad happens when Republicans are in the White House. 9\/11 attacks don\u2019t occur (under Bush,) we don&#8217;t start stupid wars in Iraq (Bush), and AIDS doesn\u2019t become an epidemic (under Reagan). Because Mitt would have waved his magic Ebola wand, and everyone would be safe\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/tea-party-and-right\/6-dumbest-right-wing-moments-week-ebola-stupidity-rages?paging=off&amp;current_page=1#bookmark\" target=\"_blank\">AlterNet<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Surely Little Lord Willard would have Etched his Sketch and poof! Ebola would have disappeared from history, iust like everything inconvenient that he ever said or did. This is just the last of six dumb Republican moments from last week alone. Click through for the other five.&#160; Then\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">GET OUT THE VOTE!!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every week, Republicans join a competition to see who can say the most outlandish things, and in the process, every week they push the envelope on just how dumb InsaniTEA can become.&#160; I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week was no exception. \u2026Scott Brown: Ebola would never be <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/20\/last-weeks-dumbest-republican-moments\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}