{"id":23105,"date":"2016-07-17T13:20:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T20:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23105"},"modified":"2016-07-17T13:20:16","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T20:20:16","slug":"last-weeks-delusional-republican-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/17\/last-weeks-delusional-republican-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Week’s Delusional Republican Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 delusional InsaniTEA can become.  I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week was no exception.<\/font><\/p>\n

Newt must have thought he still had a shot.<\/h6>\n

\"NeuterNewt\"In a way, we\u2019re almost sad that the Newtster didn\u2019t get the nod in Trump\u2019s veepstakes this week. Think of the dumpster fire around which we\u2019d all be warming our hands by now.<\/p>\n

Gingrich did manage to use his brief moments of recent relevance to good effect, reminding us all how this atrocious idiot needs to be jettisoned to his rightful place on history\u2019s dust heap ASAP. Still apparently auditioning for the job he did not get, Gingrich took to the airwaves before the dead in Nice had even been covered in sheets Thursday night, and called for thought policing Muslims in America. Because that\u2019ll show the terorrists.<\/p>\n

"Let me be as blunt and direct as I can be: Western civilization is in a war. We should frankly test every person here who is of a Muslim background, and if they believe in Sharia, they should be deported," Gingrich told Fox bobblehead Sean Hannity, who bobbled his head in whole-hearted agreement. "Sharia is incompatible with Western civilization. Modern Muslims who have given up Sharia, glad to have them as citizens. Perfectly happy to have them next door."<\/p>\n

Seriously? Do these two idiot boxes really think that will work?<\/p>\n

No less hysterically, Donald Trump confirmed that we are indeed at war, and that blaming innocent people fleeing actual war is the right way to go. "We’re dealing with people without uniforms … we are allowing people into our country \u2014 we have no idea where they are coming from. They have no paperwork, no documentation," Trump told buddy-boy Bill O\u2019Reilly. "This may be the great Trojan Horse of all time."<\/p>\n

This is the calm (but tiny) hand that wants to steer our ship of state.<\/p>\n

By Friday Gingrich<\/a> was acknowledging his idea was a little unrealistic and a little unconstitutional, and tried to assuage the fears of Muslims, saying, "This is not about targeting a particular religion or targeting people who practice in a particular way."<\/p>\n

Huh, really? Sure sounded like it<\/p>\n

Newt hasn’t lost a step, spewing hatred on cue, but otherwise, he would have never had a chance.  This is the first of five delusional Republican moments listed from Last week alone.  Click through for the other four.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 delusional InsaniTEA can become.  I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week was no exception. Newt must have thought he still had […]<\/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-23105","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\/23105","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=23105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}