{"id":22363,"date":"2016-06-12T16:10:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T23:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=22363"},"modified":"2016-06-12T16:10:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T23:10:14","slug":"last-weeks-most-insane-republican-moments-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/12\/last-weeks-most-insane-republican-moments-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Week&#8217;s Most Insane Republican Moments"},"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 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<blockquote>\n<h6><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0612reublican-jesus\" 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=\"0612reublican-jesus\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/0612reublican-jesus.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/h6>\n<h6>Good Christian Republican senator just has a teeny tiny request for God.<\/h6>\n<p>Boy, those evangelicals sure do know how to have a good yuck-fest, with biblical jokes and everything! But we\u2019re pretty sure Jesus Christ would not have been amused by the prayer offered by Republican Senator Frank Perdue, who made a hilarious joke about Obama at this week\u2019s Faith &amp; Freedom Coalition\u2019s Road to Majority conference. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we are called to pray,\u201d the junior senator from Georgia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/sen-david-perdue-pray-obamas-days-be-few\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> those who were gathered. \u201cI think we are called to pray for our country, our leaders, and yes, even Barack Obama.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, he suggested, \u201cwe should pray like Psalms 108:9 [sic] says. It says \u2018May his days be few.&#8217;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, titter, titter, chuckle, chuckle went the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it is the Christian thing, to pray for the death of a president whose politics you don\u2019t like.<\/p>\n<p>The cited psalm goes:<\/p>\n<p><em>Let his days be few; Let another take his office.        <br \/>Let his children be fatherless And his wife a widow.         <br \/>Let his children wander about and beg; And let them seek sustenance far from their ruined homes.         <br \/>Let the creditor seize all that he has, And let strangers plunder the product of his labor.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes, Republicans have plunder in mind.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/right-wing\/5-insane-right-wing-moments-week-meet-trumps-kooky-race-ambassador\" target=\"_blank\">Alternet<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The author made a typo in the verse.&#160; It&#8217;s actually 109:8<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Q317_pPhVPw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This pseudo-Christian purveyor of hatred is only the second of five listed 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. Good Christian Republican senator just has a <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/12\/last-weeks-most-insane-republican-moments-3\/' 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":[5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22363","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=22363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}