Bizarre Press Release on the Republican House Site

[eggplant]

http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6636

Wow. I'm speechless.

[DavidDvorkin]

1. Republicans should never try to be funny

Or satirical or sarcastic. It just ends up exposing their nastiness.

[ozymandius]

2. It reads like a Bartcop joke. Only it isn't.

Something is really, really wrong with a whole group of people to put this into the public domain. It's like Paul Krugman wrote recently - they really seem to delight in ridiculing other people's suffering.

[TomInTib]

3. What the heck?

Goodness, is that really Barton's site?

Why in the hell would his staffers post something such as that?

[spag68]

4. They do things

like that because they really are that inhuman.

[stevedeshazer]

5. As funny as Mallard Fillmore

Har Har Har, isn't that funny?

[Fridays Child]

6. I wonder if they have Matt Groening's permission to use his copyrighted characters.

[kestrel91316]

11. I doubt they have permission. And I get the funny feeling MG

would NOT approve of this misuse of his intellectual property.

Weird. I thought Repukes were really INTO property rights.....

Somebody more clever than me needs to get word to Matt Groening about this so he can SUE THEIR ASSES.

[iaviate1]

14. The courts are rigged...

so the repuke cause always wins. There is no justice anymore.

[Bluzmann57]

7. Boy this may be award winning stuff

Like Top Ten idiots list or worst person in the world. Or the grand prize for completely fucked up "humor". Sickening.

[Bobbieo]

8. And, of course these people are Pro-Choice!!!!!!

[Cirque du So-What]

9. Good satire arises from the powerless mocking the powerful

When the powerful mock the powerless, it's cruelty. This is further proof that Republican brains are wired differently from the norm.

[Cirque du So-What]

10. I just posted this in a forum I moderate

Another member sent me a message saying that Matt Groening used to be her neighbor. She's sending him an e-mail informing him that characters from The Simpsons are being used without his permission :woohoo:

[kestrel91316]

12. Good. Re my post above, he needs to SUE THEIR ASSES and make

a HUGE public stink about this.

[struggle4progress]

13. What a splendid demonstration of Republican dishonesty, immaturity, and bile

[ixion]

15. as well as their complete lack of creativity, originallity, talent and writing skills

One of the most poorly written pieces of satire I believe I've ever seen.