{"id":22261,"date":"2016-06-05T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=22261"},"modified":"2016-06-05T15:26:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T22:26:00","slug":"last-weeks-republican-doozies-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/05\/last-weeks-republican-doozies-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Week&#8217;s Republican Doozies"},"content":{"rendered":"<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 painfully horrid 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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"20120519_zaf_w66_009.jpg\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"20120519_zaf_w66_009.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/0605Pratt.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former head of gun rights organization thinks it\u2019s a good time to threaten democracy.<\/p>\n<p>The NRA held its annual national confab this week: lots of heavily armed people discussing guns and where to store them. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/civil-liberties\/nra-advises-storing-guns-childrens-bedrooms\" target=\"_blank\">In the kids room!<\/a> One expert suggested. No one will think to look there!<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, making it abundantly clear whose political side the gun crazies are on, Larry Pratt former head of Gun Owners of America announced on \u201cGun Owners News Hour\u201d radio show that if the Republicans don\u2019t win the White House and appoint pro-gun judges to the Supreme Court, there could be hell to pay.<\/p>\n<p>If the Supreme Court makes rulings that aren\u2019t rabidly pro-gun, conservatives just might have to resort to the \u201cbullet box,\u201d the ballot box having failed them, he suggested. We might have \u201creassert the proper constitutional balance,\u201d Pratt said. \u201cAnd it may not be pretty.<\/p>\n<p>This must be an example of those good guys with guns we\u2019ve heard so much about.<\/p>\n<p>h\/t: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/larry-pratt-if-conservatives-lose-supreme-court-they-may-have-resort-bullet-box\" target=\"_blank\">RightWingWatch<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/right-wing\/5-right-wing-doozies-week-katrina-piersons-insane-defense-her-boss-trump\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Once again we have mainline Republican advocating the violent overthrow of the US government, it Republicans don&#8217;t win in November.&#160; Can you imagine what America will be like, if they do win?<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\" face=\"Arial Black\">Vote Blue No Matter Who<\/font><\/h1>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is only the fourth of five Republican doozies listed for 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 painfully horrid InsaniTEA can become.&#160; I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week was no exception. Former head of gun rights organization <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/05\/last-weeks-republican-doozies-4\/' 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-22261","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\/22261","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=22261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}