{"id":14045,"date":"2014-11-04T14:19:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T22:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14045"},"modified":"2014-11-04T17:24:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T01:24:07","slug":"last-weeks-republican-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/04\/last-weeks-republican-disasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Week’s Republican Disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 disastrous InsaniTEA can become.  I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week, even the week before a national election, was no exception.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"1104IngrahamHat\"Laura Ingraham crosses the line from meanspirited to batsh*t cuckoo with suggestion that Ebola volunteers are props.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Should we be worried about Laura Ingraham\u2019s sanity at this point? She\u2019s been coming up with some doozies lately, like conspiracy theories about dark-skinned children crossing our borders in order to infect us with diseases. Now, she is questioning the existence of healthcare workers.<\/p>\n

This week, President Obama addressed<\/a> the country\u2019s response to Ebola outbreaks in West Africa, and was joined by several healthcare workers who have recently returned from relief operations and others who are about to embark on them. It\u2019s worth noting that, after getting a slow start on Ebola response, Obama has been fairly exemplary in his leadership on the disease, heeding science (when did this become controversial? Ugghh, never mind) and refusing to bow to hysteria. Witness his hug with nurse Nina Pham, who actually was diagnosed with Ebola and recovered, compared, say, with Chris Christie\u2019s locking up a nurse who was NOT infected.<\/p>\n

Also present was Dr. Kent Brantly, who became infected while volunteering in Liberia and was the first Ebola patient treated on American soil<\/a>. Dr. Brantly, it somehow needs to be said, is a real person. Really.<\/p>\n

But Ingraham thinks all these people may have been stunt doubles, questioning whether or not they were employees of the pro-Obama political group Organizing for America disguised in "white coats."<\/p>\n

Speaking of white coats, it might be time for the people in them to come for Ingraham\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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If the boys in white coats enter Faux Noise to get her, they\u2019d better wear full HazMat gear, lest they become deranged.  This is just the sixth of six Republican disasters from last week alone.  Click through for the other five.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 disastrous InsaniTEA can become.  I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week, even the week before a national election, was no […]<\/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-14045","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\/14045","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=14045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}