Republican compares shutdown to the Civil War ... and they're the Confederacy

[ProSense]

Republican compares shutdown to the Civil War ... and they're the Confederacy

by Joan McCarter

A Republican congressman gives his version of history to explain how the Republican leadership blundered into a government shutdown.

The congressman began with an anecdote from the Civil War. "I would liken this a little bit to Gettysburg, where a Confederate unit went looking for shoes and stumbled into Union cavalry, and all of a sudden found itself embroiled in battle on a battlefield it didn't intend to be on, and everybody just kept feeding troops into it," the congressman said. "That's basically what's happening now in a political sense. This isn't exactly the fight I think Republicans wanted to have, certainly that the leadership wanted to have, but it's the fight that's here."

Shoes??!!!??? "Oh, don't mind us, we're just invading this bit of Pennsylvania, trying to get to Philadelphia, because that's where the shoes are. Sorry for all the dead people along the way."

And of course, the GOP is the Confederate army in this mis-historical analogy. This anonymous congressman is proving that tea party Republicans have about as firm a grasp on history as they do economics. And they're controlling John Boehner. With these people leading the House, can the nation long endure?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/07/1244879/-Republican-compares-shutdown-to-the-Civil-War-and-they-re-the-nbsp-Confederacy

Shoes found:



h/t http://www.dailykos.com/comments/1244879/51536892#c2

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[NuclearDem]

1. Spoiler alert:

The Confederacy lost.

[Fawke Em]

7. Alerting.

Broad-brushing a region is just as bigoted as some of the choice words others use to describe women and homosexuals.


P.S. It's also patently false. The mid-West is far more red than the South and, if this is a "rectum," then you must have a high opinion of asses.

[roguevalley]

10. this is a big part of their psychology. losing the

war was a dent in their manhood that they still struggle with. We will defeat them again, the ones who want to enslave us. Fuck them.

[ProSense]

2. Kick! n/t

[libdem4life]

3. They get to resurrect their crusade against these uppity black folk named Barack and Michelle.

and the people that "freed" them to be their "betters". I call it Racist Derangement Syndrome.

[ProSense]

4. Another candidate for the clown shoes: Rep Yoyo

Oops, correction: Rep. Yoho.

We'll all need a bottle of rum if this House Republican gets his default wish

by Laura Clawson

Florida tea party Rep. Ted Yoho has a novel theory of what failing to raise the debt limit, forcing the United States into default, would accomplish. Where economists are in agreement that it would be catastrophic, according to Yoho:

"I think, personally, it would bring stability to the world markets," since they would be assured that the United States had moved decisively to curb its debt.

Yoho-ho and exactly how many bottles of rum did he have before coming up with that one?

For the record, the world markets disagree. Strongly.

Then again, Yoho is a guy who sat in front of a Washington Post reporter telling a constituent who'd called to oppose the shutdown that "we’re working on getting something resolved here, as fast as we can," then got off the phone and assured the reporter that he didn't actually mean he was working on getting anything resolved in any way other than encouraging Democrats to cave. Clearly, concepts like basic accuracy are not ranked high on his agenda.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/07/1244852/-We-ll-all-need-a-bottle-of-rum-if-this-House-Republican-gets-his-default-wish

[ladjf]

5. Lee blundered into battle at Gettysburg with almost no information about the size and location

of the Union Army. And, despite the fact that that battle basically showed that the Confederacy had no chance to win the war, Lee continued to fight for another two years. His decisions were
catastrophic for both sides.

[ProSense]

8. Well,

"Lee blundered into battle at Gettysburg with almost no information about the size and location of the Union Army. And, despite the fact that that battle basically showed that the Confederacy had no chance to win the war, Lee continued to fight for another two years. His decisions were catastrophic for both sides. "

....three things:

1) The Republican Congressman is an idiot.

2) Blowing up the U.S. Government is not going to be "castastrophic" for just Republican terrorists.

3) The comparison earns this Republican clown shoes.

[ProSense]

9. Kick! n/t

[Populist_Prole]

11. And we all know how well THAT turned out for them

[spanone]

12. and would bring back slavery in a heartbeat.