50 Easy Questions to Ask Any Republican...

[chefmike]

50 Easy Questions to Ask Any Republican....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert...-_b_24815.html

LMAO...will one of you repugs enlighten us...please...

Anyone can ask tough, intricate, confrontational questions. But all that ever does is start an argument, and it gets people nowhere. On the other hand, these are...well, easy. These are friendly questions. These are questions that allow another person to actually explain their thoughts, and explain fully. And to do so in as comfortable, as simple a way as possible.

Without feeling attacked. Without feeling pressure. Without feeling no one cares what they have to say. Friendly. Easy.

Print them out, carry them around in your pocket, and the next time someone begins quoting from a Republican talking points memo, take the list out and ask.



1. What are the Top Seven best things that the Bush Administration has done?

2. Is the Iraq War is going well?

3. After three years thus far, when do you think Iraq might be able to "stand up" so that America can "stand down"?

4. For his part in the event, how would you rate the job the President did protecting New Orleans from devastation?

5. How do you think the rebuilding of New Orleans is going?

6. When Dick Cheney and the oil company and energy executives met in private to plan America's energy policy, how much of their goal was to benefit consumers?

7. Do you believe in the President's call for an Era of Personal Responsibility?

8. Since Republicans control the White House, Senate and House of Representatives, how personally responsible are they for conditions in America today?

9. Why do you think they haven't been able to find anyone who can verify that George Bush ever showed up for National Guard duty in Alabama?

10. Would you want Donald Rumsfeld to plan your daughter's wedding?

11. Are you aware that no government in the history of civilization, other than the Bush Administration, has lowered taxes during a war?

12. Are you married?

13. Do you personally feel threatened by gay marriage?

14. Since getting elected, do you think the President has been more a uniter or a divider?

15. How do you explain the President's approval rating going from a high of 90% to the current mid-30%?

16. Do you like the government collecting personal data on you without a warrant?

17. How much money do you have in your bank account, stocks and investments?

18. What's your partner's favorite sex position?

19. If you have nothing to hide, why aren't you answering?

20. Should we build a wall along the Mexican border?

21. Why isn't anyone building a wall along the Canadian border?

22. Does that terrorist gang arrested in Canada count as a threat?

23. If you shot someone in the face while drinking, how fast would the police show up to arrest you?

24. If Donald Rumsfeld had planned your daughter's wedding three years ago, would the guests still be there?

25. Even if no laws are broken, do you think it's okay to reveal the name of a covert agent?

26. During your lifetime, approximately how often have you changed your mind?

27. Why shouldn't people dismiss you as a flip-flopper?

28. Where do you think the Weapons of Mass Destruction might be?

29. Where do you think Osama bin Laden might be?

30. Is it fiscally responsible to cut taxes, increase spending and create a $9 trillion federal debt?

31. Are you glad liberals passed such programs as Social Security, Medicare, the Civil Rights Act, women's suffrage, federal deposit insurance, unemployment compensation, rural electrification, child labor laws, minimum wages and the 40-hour work week?

32. What are the Top Ten best things that conservatives have given to America?

33. If you were on life support, would you want a doctor you'd never met making a diagnosis about you via remote television?

34. Do you think man-made greenhouse gases have anything at all to do with depleting the ozone layer?

35. If Donald Rumsfeld had planned your daughter's wedding three years ago, and guests were still there, how many factions would they now be split into?

36. How good is it that the terrorist Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi was killed?

37. Are you aware that in 2002 the Pentagon knew where al-Zarqawi was and presented three separate plans to kill him, but the Administration refused to act each time?

38. Is George W. Bush the kind of guy you'd want to sit down and have a beer with?

39. When he started talking about being a Born Again Christian, would you want to stay or leave?

40. Is Ray Romano the kind of guy you'd want to sit down and have a beer with?

41. Would you want him to be President?

42. Does the Administration have an environmental policy that benefits the environment?

43. Since George Bush campaigned for President strongly against nation building, in what ways are our actions in Iraq not nation building?

44. What's the maximum amount of time you'd want to spend alone with Dick Cheney?

45. After dismissing Saddam Hussein's old Iraqi army, was it a good idea to let them keep their rifles?

46. Would a policy that allows torture be something that makes you proud as an American?

47. Has the Mission been Accomplished?

48. Do you feel comforted that Dick Cheney is a heartbeat away from being President?

49. If Donald Rumsfeld had planned your daughter's wedding, and guests started fighting and were killed, would you expect to be allowed to view the caskets when they were returned home?

50. How glad do you think George Bush is that he's no longer active in the National Guard?

[Jamie Michelle]

50 Easy Questions to Ask Any Republican....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert...-_b_24815.html

LMAO...will one of you repugs enlighten us...please...

Anyone can ask tough, intricate, confrontational questions. But all that ever does is start an argument, and it gets people nowhere. On the other hand, these are...well, easy. These are friendly questions. These are questions that allow another person to actually explain their thoughts, and explain fully. And to do so in as comfortable, as simple a way as possible.

Without feeling attacked. Without feeling pressure. Without feeling no one cares what they have to say. Friendly. Easy.

Print them out, carry them around in your pocket, and the next time someone begins quoting from a Republican talking points memo, take the list out and ask.

1. What are the Top Seven best things that the Bush Administration has done?

To show us the hubristic face of naked power, so that a few intelligent people may wake up.

This counts for all seven places in your question.

2. Is the Iraq War is going well?

Yes. It is going exactly as planned. The plan all along was to create an unending war in order to break up the country of Iraq and in order to provide a pretext to stay there indefinitely. Read the PNAC document.

3. After three years thus far, when do you think Iraq might be able to "stand up" so that America can "stand down"?

Never. That was never the plan. Iraq cannot remain in U.S. hands forever. Eventually it will be handed over to the U.N.

4. For his part in the event, how would you rate the job the President did protecting New Orleans from devastation?

FEMA did their job absolutely wonderfully. They cut communications lines, they blocked water, food and medicines from getting to people. They blocked private companies and foreign countries from delivering aid. They confiscated peaceful people's guns. They intentionally made the situation as bad as they could possibly make it. It would be no exaggeration to say that New Orleans would have been better off had no branch of government taken any part in it.

So now, because of FEMA's intentionally "bad job," they will get more funding, power and control in order to solve this "problem."

Isn't that wonderful how that works? When you or me do a bad job, we get fired. But when the U.S. government does a "bad job" it gets ever more funding, power and control.

Is that by mistake? You can bet your life that it isn't.

5. How do you think the rebuilding of New Orleans is going?

Ask the Bush-connected Halliburton, which got no-bid contracts in order to "rebuild" it, using illegal foreign Mexican workers which they scammed by not even paying them for their work. (When you work for cutthroats, expect your throat to be cut.)

6. When Dick Cheney and the oil company and energy executives met in private to plan America's energy policy, how much of their goal was to benefit consumers?

None. Unless by "consumers" you mean to say their own consumption. For more on this, see the below page by me:

"The 'Peak Oil' Scam," December 5, 2005:

http://www.armleg.com/forum/viewtopi...ibertyandtruth

7. Do you believe in the President's call for an Era of Personal Responsibility?

You mean like how his wife, Laura Bush, nee Welch, on November 6, 1963 killed her boyfriend Michael Douglas? The two lovers were in separate cars, but she ran into her own boyfriend, killing him quite dead.

I wonder if Mr. Douglas had slapped her the night before. If he had, then apparently that was a strategic mistake.

While I am quite enjoying these questions, there are so many of them that I will have to put the rest off for later. That is assuming that I even get to the rest, which although I am loving them, I may have other things to attend to.

8. Since Republicans control the White House, Senate and House of Representatives, how personally responsible are they for conditions in America today?

9. Why do you think they haven't been able to find anyone who can verify that George Bush ever showed up for National Guard duty in Alabama?

10. Would you want Donald Rumsfeld to plan your daughter's wedding?

11. Are you aware that no government in the history of civilization, other than the Bush Administration, has lowered taxes during a war?

12. Are you married?

13. Do you personally feel threatened by gay marriage?

14. Since getting elected, do you think the President has been more a uniter or a divider?

15. How do you explain the President's approval rating going from a high of 90% to the current mid-30%?

16. Do you like the government collecting personal data on you without a warrant?

17. How much money do you have in your bank account, stocks and investments?

18. What's your partner's favorite sex position?

19. If you have nothing to hide, why aren't you answering?

20. Should we build a wall along the Mexican border?

21. Why isn't anyone building a wall along the Canadian border?

22. Does that terrorist gang arrested in Canada count as a threat?

23. If you shot someone in the face while drinking, how fast would the police show up to arrest you?

24. If Donald Rumsfeld had planned your daughter's wedding three years ago, would the guests still be there?

25. Even if no laws are broken, do you think it's okay to reveal the name of a covert agent?

26. During your lifetime, approximately how often have you changed your mind?

27. Why shouldn't people dismiss you as a flip-flopper?

28. Where do you think the Weapons of Mass Destruction might be?

29. Where do you think Osama bin Laden might be?

30. Is it fiscally responsible to cut taxes, increase spending and create a $9 trillion federal debt?

31. Are you glad liberals passed such programs as Social Security, Medicare, the Civil Rights Act, women's suffrage, federal deposit insurance, unemployment compensation, rural electrification, child labor laws, minimum wages and the 40-hour work week?

32. What are the Top Ten best things that conservatives have given to America?

33. If you were on life support, would you want a doctor you'd never met making a diagnosis about you via remote television?

34. Do you think man-made greenhouse gases have anything at all to do with depleting the ozone layer?

35. If Donald Rumsfeld had planned your daughter's wedding three years ago, and guests were still there, how many factions would they now be split into?

36. How good is it that the terrorist Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi was killed?

37. Are you aware that in 2002 the Pentagon knew where al-Zarqawi was and presented three separate plans to kill him, but the Administration refused to act each time?

38. Is George W. Bush the kind of guy you'd want to sit down and have a beer with?

39. When he started talking about being a Born Again Christian, would you want to stay or leave?

40. Is Ray Romano the kind of guy you'd want to sit down and have a beer with?

41. Would you want him to be President?

42. Does the Administration have an environmental policy that benefits the environment?

43. Since George Bush campaigned for President strongly against nation building, in what ways are our actions in Iraq not nation building?

44. What's the maximum amount of time you'd want to spend alone with Dick Cheney?

45. After dismissing Saddam Hussein's old Iraqi army, was it a good idea to let them keep their rifles?

46. Would a policy that allows torture be something that makes you proud as an American?

47. Has the Mission been Accomplished?

48. Do you feel comforted that Dick Cheney is a heartbeat away from being President?

49. If Donald Rumsfeld had planned your daughter's wedding, and guests started fighting and were killed, would you expect to be allowed to view the caskets when they were returned home?

50. How glad do you think George Bush is that he's no longer active in the National Guard?

[Jamie Michelle]

So, does no one else want to tackle these questions?

[BeardedOne]

So, does no one else want to tackle these questions?

Tackling a fullback is one thing.

Knocking over a one-legged drunk is another.

[Vicki Richter]

#4 and #5 - As bad as it sounds, I think there should be serious consideration before rebuilding New Orleans at all. The worst hit people were living on known flood plains. You obviously would not want to build there again... Another bad hurricane could easily repeat despite any reinforced levies etc. Also, there was nothing the President could have done to protect New Orleans from devastation. The help could have been better in the aftermath, but that is about it. New Orleans existed through generations of both Republican and Democrat Presidents who also did nothing to "prevent the devastation".

#13 - The statistics show that people in the communities against gay marriage are bipartisan. In some states there was even sub 20% votes in favor of gay marriage. Obviously that isn't because democrats aren't going to the polls.

#21 - Getting in and out of Canada is actually infinitely more challenging in many respects than getting in and out of Mexico - particularly if you use a standard border station. They actually require a birth certificate or passport just to cross and come back vs a legal drivers license along the Mexico border.

#16 - Sure. As long as I'm not breaking any laws that isn't a big deal right? Have you never seen the census? How much personal data is required by law? I received mine and it is outrageous. This is a bi-partisan legal requirement on the population. It asks name, age, address, income, family info, etc etc... It is really extensive and also a privacy violation. But anyway, if it came down to me letting the government listen to my phone calls and stopping terrorists from blowing up New Yoirk, I would take that deal.

#18 & #19 - Again bipartisan... I could ask a lot of democrats that question and get the same "that's none of your business answer". Just because you are democrat doesn't make you a swinger who is totally open minded about talking about how you fuck your wife/partner.

#31 - Nobody should be glad about social security right now. It was a flawed program without built in protections to secure it's future. The fact that many of us will get nothing while contributing subtatial $ to it is a travesty. Some of the very things that the liberals have done have resulted in American companies outsourcing to cheaper labor off shore. The bottom line is going to outweigh how we treat our population every time. Unfortunately, by creating these programs, we have often created situations which it is almost impossible to compete. Look at American cars vs foreign and how many plants are still located in the USA.

#29 - Clinton couldn't find Osama either. Bipartisan problem. There are democrats and republicans in the military looking for dude.

#32 - What are the top 10 things that you've (you personally) given to America? Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are conservative Republicans and they are the biggest philanthropists in the history of the world. None of the piss poor Democrats are out there giving 50 billion dollars to fight HIV, cure other diseases, feed the poor, etc. Instead they are on shemale message boards bitching about how Republicans never do anything good and sitting on the white house lawn with their trailers parked down the street with signs saying "fuck Bush". After all, their social security checks will be coming anyway so they don't need to be at work. See - stereotyping works both ways right?

Finally - as far as I know - nobody likes Dick Cheney but there are left wing whackos who most people don't like also. I mean if you pick the Satan of the republican party of course that would go that way... What about McCain? He's a good guy and even democrats like him. Just because you are democrat or republican doesn't make you a bad person or make you so far apart on all the issues. These questions just make you look uneducated as many of them have nothing to do with the Republican party.

I do hate that many Republicans come off as religious zealots and are so closed minded against pornography and telling people how to live. However, politics itself is a form of control. Giving 40% of our income to the IRS is not what our forefathers envisioned. Increasing this only further puts the government in control of our lives.

So debate me Chef. I haven't seen you manage or even attempt that yet. I'm actually wondering if you even care about all this stuff you post all the time or just try to rile people up with this nonsense. Are your other Democratic friends on this board embarassed about your ranting on here?

[specialk]

[quote="

So debate me Chef. I haven't seen you manage or even attempt that yet. I'm actually wondering if you even care about all this stuff you post all the time or just try to rile people up with this nonsense. Are your other Democratic friends on this board embarassed about your ranting on here?[/quote]


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[Jamie Michelle]

#4 and #5 - As bad as it sounds, I think there should be serious consideration before rebuilding New Orleans at all. The worst hit people were living on known flood plains. You obviously would not want to build there again... Another bad hurricane could easily repeat despite any reinforced levies etc. Also, there was nothing the President could have done to protect New Orleans from devastation. The help could have been better in the aftermath, but that is about it. New Orleans existed through generations of both Republican and Democrat Presidents who also did nothing to "prevent the devastation".

#13 - The statistics show that people in the communities against gay marriage are bipartisan. In some states there was even sub 20% votes in favor of gay marriage. Obviously that isn't because democrats aren't going to the polls.

#21 - Getting in and out of Canada is actually infinitely more challenging in many respects than getting in and out of Mexico - particularly if you use a standard border station. They actually require a birth certificate or passport just to cross and come back vs a legal drivers license along the Mexico border.

#16 - Sure. As long as I'm not breaking any laws that isn't a big deal right? Have you never seen the census? How much personal data is required by law? I received mine and it is outrageous. This is a bi-partisan legal requirement on the population. It asks name, age, address, income, family info, etc etc... It is really extensive and also a privacy violation. But anyway, if it came down to me letting the government listen to my phone calls and stopping terrorists from blowing up New Yoirk, I would take that deal.

#18 & #19 - Again bipartisan... I could ask a lot of democrats that question and get the same "that's none of your business answer". Just because you are democrat doesn't make you a swinger who is totally open minded about talking about how you fuck your wife/partner.

#31 - Nobody should be glad about social security right now. It was a flawed program without built in protections to secure it's future. The fact that many of us will get nothing while contributing subtatial $ to it is a travesty. Some of the very things that the liberals have done have resulted in American companies outsourcing to cheaper labor off shore. The bottom line is going to outweigh how we treat our population every time. Unfortunately, by creating these programs, we have often created situations which it is almost impossible to compete. Look at American cars vs foreign and how many plants are still located in the USA.

#29 - Clinton couldn't find Osama either. Bipartisan problem. There are democrats and republicans in the military looking for dude.

#32 - What are the top 10 things that you've (you personally) given to America? Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are conservative Republicans and they are the biggest philanthropists in the history of the world. None of the piss poor Democrats are out there giving 50 billion dollars to fight HIV, cure other diseases, feed the poor, etc. Instead they are on shemale message boards bitching about how Republicans never do anything good and sitting on the white house lawn with their trailers parked down the street with signs saying "fuck Bush". After all, their social security checks will be coming anyway so they don't need to be at work. See - stereotyping works both ways right?

Finally - as far as I know - nobody likes Dick Cheney but there are left wing whackos who most people don't like also. I mean if you pick the Satan of the republican party of course that would go that way... What about McCain? He's a good guy and even democrats like him. Just because you are democrat or republican doesn't make you a bad person or make you so far apart on all the issues. These questions just make you look uneducated as many of them have nothing to do with the Republican party.

I do hate that many Republicans come off as religious zealots and are so closed minded against pornography and telling people how to live. However, politics itself is a form of control. Giving 40% of our income to the IRS is not what our forefathers envisioned. Increasing this only further puts the government in control of our lives.

Vicki Richter, you sound like a true compatriot (which is the original meaning of the term "patriot"). It's just that you're caught up in the false "left and right" debate.

The terms "left" and "right" in the political sense go back to 1789 in France. When the French Estates-General (États-Généraux) met on May 6, 1789, the Third Estate commoners, who wanted less taxes and government control (i.e., "laissez-faire"), were seated on the left side of King Louis XVI, and the Second Estate nobles and First Estate clergy, who were the conservatives and wanted to maintain the government's power, sat on his right. (Prior to the May 1789 convention of the French Estates-General [the first meeting of which was on May 5, 1789], the last time the Estates-General had met was under King Louis XIII from October 27, 1614 to February 23, 1615.)

Also, "liberal" originally meant what we would call today (at least in the U.S. and Canada) "libertarian," i.e., laissez-faire free market, less taxes, less regulation, and gun ownership by the common people. Thus, in the original sense of the words, someone who wanted no taxes, all drugs to be legal, a free market, and armament of the common people would be a left-wing liberal.

The term "liberal" as it is commonly used today is purely and simply a misnomer meaning the opposite of what it originally meant, as those commonly called "liberals" today are about giving government more power, not in stripping government of power. Those commonly called "liberals" today are in fact *right-wing conservatives* in the original sense of that political term. So also, socialism and communism are exceedingly *right-wing* and *conservative* political philosophies, as they put all power into the hands of government, rather than strip government of power.

So debate me Chef. I haven't seen you manage or even attempt that yet. I'm actually wondering if you even care about all this stuff you post all the time or just try to rile people up with this nonsense. Are your other Democratic friends on this board embarassed about your ranting on here?

[Vicki Richter]

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He won't debate any of the issues I have presented and if he does, he won't do it well. Since I know he's your cyber-hero - you are of course welcome to refute anything I've said as well SpecialK.

I do love an educated debate.

[Ecstatic]

#21 - Getting in and out of Canada is actually infinitely more challenging in many respects than getting in and out of Mexico - particularly if you use a standard border station. They actually require a birth certificate or passport just to cross and come back vs a legal drivers license along the Mexico border.

Vicki, you know I respect your opinion highly, but where did you get your info on American citizens visiting Canada? I've probably spent a year of my life visiting Canada on dozens of trips (one lasting nearly 3 months) and have never been asked to produce a US passport nor birth certificate. Officially, a US passport is NOT required, though it is advisable to have a birth certificate or other proof of citizenship (though I usually don't and have never been asked for same). [/quote]

The official word from the Canadian government: "If you are a citizen of the United States, you do not need a passport to enter Canada. However, you should carry proof of your citizenship, such as a birth certificate, certificate of citizenship or naturalization, as well as a photo ID." [Source: Canada Border Services Agency, http://www.cbsa.gc.ca/E/pub/cp/rc4161/rc4161-e.html]

[Jamie Michelle]

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He won't debate any of the issues I have presented and if he does, he won't do it well. Since I know he's your cyber-hero - you are of course welcome to refute anything I've said as well SpecialK.

I do love an educated debate.

Great, then debate me. I'll hand your own ass over to you on a silver platter.