{"id":14724,"date":"2015-02-15T11:40:36","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T19:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14724"},"modified":"2015-02-15T11:40:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T19:40:36","slug":"last-weeks-insane-republican-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/15\/last-weeks-insane-republican-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Week&#8217;s Insane Republican Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Almost every week, Republicans join a competition to see who can say the most outlandish things, and in the process, they push the envelope on just how insane InsaniTEA can become.&#160; I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week was no exception.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Fox-News-purpose\" 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=\"Fox-News-purpose\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Fox-News-purpose.png\" width=\"360\" align=\"left\" height=\"360\" \/>Faux Newsian says Obama is \u201cbuying votes\u201d with food stamps.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dogs everywhere were barking and howling in response to obvious whistles from Faux Newsians Stuart Varney and Brian Kilmeade this week.<\/p>\n<p>Kilmeade, trying to counter the narrative of the economy bouncing back, lest Obama get any credit for it, pointed out that more than 46 million Americans receive food stamps. \u201cSo is this a planned strategy by the White House to keep the handouts on high levels?\u201d Kilmeade dumbly asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is deliberate,\u201d said Varney. \u201cThis is redistribution. This is the administration taking from this group, giving&#8230;to that group. Essentially buying votes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook at what else we\u2019re just handing out,\u201d Varney said, listing Obama phones, housing assistance, earned income tax credit, social security and Medicaid.<\/p>\n<p>Varney didn\u2019t use the words \u201cCommunist,\u201d \u201cblack people,\u201d \u201cMexicans,\u201d or \u201cimmigrants,\u201d but it\u2019s pretty obvious we\u2019re supposed to add those ourselves\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Insaerted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/news-amp-politics\/5-insane-right-wing-moments-week-rush-doles-out-idiotic-advice\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/T-mFfTAuZPE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This class warfare is only the fifth of five insane Republican Moments from Last week alone.&#160; Click through for the other four.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost every week, Republicans join a competition to see who can say the most outlandish things, and in the process, they push the envelope on just how insane InsaniTEA can become.&#160; I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week was no exception. Faux Newsian says Obama is \u201cbuying votes\u201d <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/15\/last-weeks-insane-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-14724","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\/14724","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=14724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}