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02
May
The RNC has released a new ad featuring President Obama consoling Nicole Hockley, a mother who lost her son in the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting, after Senate Republicans successfully filibustered bipartisan gun reforms that would have extended background checks.
h/t The Maddow Blog
07
Apr
The Republican National Committee conducts the most ridiculous online survey ever and gets promptly skewered by Stephen Colbert.
12
Feb
LOL at the RNC actually using #NotSerious.
18
Oct
Everyone please take your seats, otherwise Clint Eastwood will yell at them.
20
Sep
![2012 GOP: “Empty chair lynchings.”
At least two recent incidents in which empty chairs were hung from trees by rope have critics decrying what they say are racially offensive displays meant to symbolize the “lynching” of President Barack Obama.
In Austin, Texas, a homeowner hung an empty folding chair from a tree branch in front of his house and later attached an American flag to it. He reportedly told a Democratic political blogger who inquired about it: “You can take [your concerns] and go straight to hell and take Obama with you.”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mao0y59wG41qe0jrmo1_400.jpg)
2012 GOP: “Empty chair lynchings.”
At least two recent incidents in which empty chairs were hung from trees by rope have critics decrying what they say are racially offensive displays meant to symbolize the “lynching” of President Barack Obama.
In Austin, Texas, a homeowner hung an empty folding chair from a tree branch in front of his house and later attached an American flag to it. He reportedly told a Democratic political blogger who inquired about it: “You can take [your concerns] and go straight to hell and take Obama with you.”
18
Sep
17
Sep
I figure if somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re gonna have to take what they get.
13
Sep
Ellen sent young presidential experts Atticus and Rainer Muuss to the RNC. Adorableness ensued along with this:
Olympian Scott Hamilton: You guys are really smart. Who’s your favorite president?
Rainer: Kennedy.
Scott: Why? Why was Kennedy your favorite president?
Rainer: Because he gave people hope.
PRICELESS.
04
Sep
For comparison.
“Elections are supposed to help us close the gap between what we want and what we get as a nation because enterprising, competitive politicians are supposed to recognize and seize political opportunity when a policy is deeply, profoundly unpopular, but Mitt Romney is not capable of that on this issue.
So, that means the pressure on this issue, the pressure on the policy makers if there is going to be any will have to come from the people, from us because it seems like we care about this as a county even if some of the people who say they want to lead us do not care about it.”
(Source: MSN)
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