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http://politicalwire.com/archives/2014/05/05/extra_bonus_quote_of_the_day.htmlMay 05, 2014
Extra Bonus Quote of the Day
"Democrats bragging about the number of mandatory sign ups for Obamacare is like Germans bragging about the number of manditory {sic} sign ups for 'train rides' for Jews in the 40s."
-- Tennessee state Sen. Stacey Campfield (R), quoted by TPM.
Squinch
(50,773 posts)sheshe2
(83,319 posts)Devaney's counterpart, Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Roy Herron, wasn't much a fan of the comparison either.
"Senator Campfield's blog post this morning is just the latest example of Tea Party Republican extremism. To compare attempts to save American lives through access to healthcare with Nazis killing European Jews is outrageous, pathetic, and hateful," he said. "Sen. Campfield and other Tea Party Republicans ought to look at the 5,000 Tennesseans who will die within the next 3 years because Tea Party Republicans refused to take the 100% federal funding to expand Medicaid and have denied working Tennesseans access to healthcare."
http://www.tennessean.com/story/insession/2014/05/05/campfield-says-obamacare-signups-like-nazi-train-rides/8720257/
Thanks bsis, disgusting is right.
Shandris
(3,447 posts)...comment?
That's just brain-wrackingly stupid. Pants-on-head stupid, as I heard someone refer to it recently. I like that one.
Kath1
(4,309 posts)What a disgusting and STUPID lie! Makes me even more determined to GET OUT THE VOTE!
alp227
(31,959 posts)etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)How stupid does one need to be to believe something like this?
jwirr
(39,215 posts)Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)Dunning-Krueger in action. I'll bet he thought that was clever as hell. Some right wing dolts I know do the same thing with their 2nd-grader humor. Just had one smarmily say "Voting for Obama is like a chicken voting for Frank Perdue" as if were the most original all-time zinger.
calimary
(80,693 posts)Or was this statement simply allowed to stand? Unchecked? Unchallenged? Unquestioned? Nobody threw a shit fit? Nobody made a stink about it?
Just stop and think for a moment. Some Dem makes some dumb statement - a la Kerry and putting "apartheid" and "Israel" in the same sentence. A freakin' firestorm of criticism rained down on him after that from the bad guys!!!!! WHY DOESN'T OUR SIDE EVER RESPOND LIKE THAT??????????
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Freedom and Liberty!
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)What a fucking POS IDIOT.
gademocrat7
(10,623 posts)This goes beyond the pale.
okaawhatever
(9,453 posts)have for right wing nutjob of the week, or similar "awards". Each time it's vile and revolting. I think Wonkette has him on there quite a bit. I just looked it up, Wonkette gave him the Legislative $hitmuffin award for 2013 If you google Wonkette, Stacey Campfield you'll see the full spectrum of his hate and ignorance.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)shenmue
(38,501 posts)He not too bright.
pscot
(21,023 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)update their Talking Points Manual; all of these Holocaust and Slavery analogies are getting old.
marble falls
(56,353 posts)okaawhatever
(9,453 posts)Senator Campfield,
I am writing to you today as a mother, active citizen and born & raised Tennessean. You are an embarrassment to our great state. Folks all over the country and here in Tennessee are looking at the bills that you are proposing in shock. They are the most ignorant and morally lacking legislation that could be proposed this year. It is clear that you are targeting homosexuals and low income families with hogwash legislation. You need to search your heart, your values and your Christianity to find a better way to represent us as a whole. We will do everything in our power to make sure that you are not here in 2014. There are numerous grass roots parties that are making their voices heard.
Thanks
Telisha Arguelles Chris Cobb
Senator Campfield, how did you reply?
You seem to have some serious, deep anger issues. Have you ever thought about therapy? I hear they are doing some wonderful things with medications these days.
Yours in service,
Sen. Stacey Campfield
Yours in service. Oh, The_Sen, bless your heart.
Read more at http://wonkette.com/499476/tennessee-homophobe-and-new-wonket-coverboy-stacey-campfield-is-a-real-weird-guy#7aArC8izzcJYBvKR.99
Cha
(295,899 posts)minds can conjure. Turns out they're good at something.
davekriss
(4,608 posts)Ignorant and uncaring.
progressoid
(49,824 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)It was droned into the national consciousness day after day. He promised Death Panels, killing the elderly and disabled if HRC succeeded.
Those were his talking points in the early 1990s to bring in the Gingrich majority. It worked fine for the GOP then.
This stuff has been a gold mine. Why should they give these memes up?
Please don't say because it's shameful, they have no shame.
spanone
(135,627 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)I fool myself into thinking the GOP cannot go any lower.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)the depths of stupid sometimes.