Help! What Are The 52 Greatest Rethuglican Moments?

[MannyGoldstein]

I'm thinking about putting together a commemorative card deck with the 52 greatest moments in Rethuglican history, circa 1994-2006 (when we hope the reign of error will end). I figure it'll be a great little reminder of history for my kid gets a little older. Each card could have a picture and a little text explaining the new depth in government that it represents.

Some obvious ones are:

* Mission Accomplished!
* "It's been pretty well confirmed that he did go to Prague and he did meet with a senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service in Czechoslovakia last April, several months before the attack. "
* The 20(?) minutes of "My Pet Goat"
* Foley resigns
* "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
* Bush plays guitar while Katrina destroys NOLA
* "Heckuva job, Bownie"
* Cheney shoots a guy in the face while hunting captive quail, drunk
* "Freedom's untidy"
* Bush holding hands with Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (funders of the 9/11 attacks)
* Tom Delay's mug shot
* Abramoff pleads guilty.
* Cunningham pleads guilty.
* Ney pleads guilty.

And so on.

Seems to me there's gotta be 52 of these epic moments - can you all help me out here in remembering some more?

[Sydnie]

1. Frists' diagnosis of Schiavo on the floor of the Senate n/t

edit - clarity

[Auggie]

2. George and Laura walking over the flag.

[Lithos]

3. A couple more

Bush and the guitar (Katrina)
Bush falling off the Segway
Bush's Pretzel war wound
Bush and the plastic turkey
The non-event of Sadaam's statue being torn down (the fake, non-existant crowd)
The Gropinator fondling the British newscaster/interviewer
Gannon
The Swiftboating lies
Allen's macaca
Trent Lott stepping down as Senate Majority leader after racist comments supporting segregation

[MannyGoldstein]

8. AWESOME

Thanks

[sakabatou]

4. Bush "molesting" the PM of Germany

[JohnnyLib2]

5. Ashcroft having the statues covered, Powell

at the U.N.

[lectrobyte]

6. It's a bit earlier than your timeframe, but Rummy shaking hands with

Saddam ought to be there. Also, Rummy doing that Kung Fu thing with his hands:

[smokey nj]

7. Ted Stevens and his clogged internets tubes......

and Sam Brownback's drawings of talking embryos

[MannyGoldstein]

9. OK! We're Up To 23!

Almost half way there! Any more thoughts?

[TygrBright]

10. How about the repeal of habeas corpus and the government...

...sanction of torture?

Make that one the Ace of Spades, please.

gloomily,
Bright

[carpetbagger]

11. A few more.

*Kerik's nomination
*Miers' nomination
*Gingrich shuts down the government because, on his own admission, he was mad that Bill Clinton wouldn't hold budget negotiations on the way to a funeral
*OxyRush gets busted a few times and yabbers about civil liberties
*Jeb Bush gets dissed by police who refuse to storm a hospice facility.
*Scalia tells a reporter "vaffunculo" in a church
*Speaking of church, "Justice Sunday"
*Cheney explains how he'd tell a senator to f himself all over again because it made him feel good.
*Trent Lott pines for the Thurmond presidency there never was.
*After retirement, Jesse Helms confirms what we've all suspected all along by saying that the black people were too pushy in trying to get civil rights before white people were ready.
*"Last throes"
*"they should watch what they say"
*A Bush administration DOD lawyer argues that bombing a Pacific island would be good for birdwatchers since rare birds generate more interest than common birds.
*arsenic in the drinking water
*WH officials go to Ashcroft, high on morphine in the ICU, to try to get him to sign papers authorizing an illegal spying program.

I'm sure I could think of many, many, more.

[MannyGoldstein]

13. Great, Thanks! Here's Some More

* Lester M. Crawford, former FDA Commisioner, pleads guilty to lying and conflict of interest.
* Don Sherwood (R-PA) gets caught trying to strangle his mistress

[solara]

12. Some tasty W quotes to use

1. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, as long as I'm the dictator

2. Stop throwing the Constitution in my face, it's just a goddamned piece of paper!

3. There -- it's -- you know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.

:eyes: ( I guess he told the truth some of the time)

[Auggie]

14. Telling Dick Cheney during the 2000 election that New York Times reporter

Adam Clymer was a "major league asshole" in front of an live microphone. Cheney replies. "Yeah, big time."

[AllegroRondo]

15. Cheney's "F*** You" on the Senate floor.

[lumberjack_jeff]

16. No one could have anticipated that the event that I'd had multiple..

warnings of would actually happen.

* Good news! we only borrowed $250 billion this year to balance our budget!
* An american flag door mat! What a good idea!
* we must show the terrorists our resolve by accelerating tax rate cuts. (I can't find the actual quote)
* Candidate Bush mocking Karla Faye Tucker "please don't kill me"

[NoPasaran]

17. Bush flies to Baghdad to serve plastic turkey to the troops

[bluedogyellowdog]

18. Some fun ones from the 90s and early 00s

* Helen Chenoweth (R-Idaho) holds an endangered species cook-off.
* Helen Chenoweth gives a speech on the House floor alleging that "black helicopters" are buzzing the ranches of her constituents.
* Merrill Cook (R-Utah), on the night of the election with returns coming in showing him easily being re-elected, babbles aimlessly all night saying he is losing and "they" are out to get him - even when the returns say otherwise. Cook proceeds to fire his entire staff and spends his entire second term voting "no" on everything. Two years later he is challenged from within his own party. Cook loses the primary to another Repug, who loses the general election to a Democrat.
* Sen. Bob Smith (R/I/R again-New Hampshire) gives a long-winded speech on the Senate floor, mostly lifted verbatim from "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington", announcing he is leaving the Repugs 'cuz they aren't far right enough for him. A year later he comes back begging to be let back in the club. He loses a primary challenge from his own party next election.
* Steve Stockman (R-Texas) announces that a reporter trespassed in his house and, quote, "terrorized his wife", whatever that means. The reporter sued for libel and slander. Stockman also announces on the day of the Oklahoma City bombing that he received a fax about the bombing in his office *before* the bombing occurred. Stockman loses his seat next election to a Democrat.
* Following Newt Gingrich's resignation as Speaker of the House and announcement that he would leave Congress altogether, Bob Livingston (R-Louisiana) is chosen for the job. Larry Flynt promises forthcoming information about Livingston's adulterous affairs. He resigns and leaves Congress altogether.
* Rick Renzi (R-Arizona/Virginia) proposes to solve the controversy over hauling nuclear waste through Arizona by chartering chinook helicopters to airlift it over the state. Around the same time he proposes renaming Walnut Canyon National Monument and changing its focus - making it the National Park of the American Flag.
* Right after being elected to Congress, the house Rick Renzi bought in Arizona and never moved into is foreclosed by the bank, because he wasn't making payments. Renzi does not have a house in the Arizona district he represents, and has not lived in that district since going to college there in the late 1970s.
* Rick Renzi (R-AZ) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) get into a fight on the floor of the House over stem cell research, widely reported as a fist fight although both deny it.

[RedEarth]

19. Great Idea.........

[PA Democrat]

20. Bush talking at the G-8 luncheon with his mouth full

showing his stellar grasp of foreign policy with this remark to Tony Yo, Blair!

"What they need to do is get Syria to get Hizbollah to stop doing this shit, and it’s over."

[KansDem]

21. Don't forget the incident that started it all...

The sinking of the Japanese boat by an American sub hellbent on exciting some GOP donors with a simulated emergency surfacing...

US sub joyride kills nine Japanese

The USS Greeneville and the arrogance of power

By Kate Randall
21 February 2001

The Navy runs a program called Operation Tiger, through which friends and family of sailors can ride on a variety of naval vessels. But regular visitors to Navy ships also include VIPs from government, industry and the media, who are often offered cruises of up to three days. The civilian guests on the Greeneville were from this latter group.

Many of the 16 civilians were major contributors to the USS Missouri Memorial Association, a group established to restore and maintain the battleship on which Japan surrendered at the end of World War II. In addition, at least a third of the submarine's guests were associated with the Texas oil industry. The Navy would not comment whether any of these individuals were invited to ride on the submarine due to ties to President Bush or Vice President Cheney—both Texas oil men.

Needless to say, the average US citizen does not receive an invitation to cruise on a nuclear submarine or aircraft carrier. Until this month, the vast majority of Americans were unaware that well-to-do businessmen and journalists routinely take such trips.

While the tragedy was an accident, it was an accident waiting to happen. That the victims were Japanese was likewise a matter of chance. The incident does, however, bespeak the arrogance of the American military, which polices the world in defense of American corporate interests, inevitably expressing the brutality and contempt in which the US ruling elite holds the vast majority of the world's people. The onus lies not with the average sailor or soldier, but with the class interests which he or she unwittingly defends.
--more--

WSWS

Remember that one?

[bluedogyellowdog]

22. If ya want to go back pre-1994

there was Bush's daddy vomiting on some Japanese officials during a summit of some kind.

[bluedogyellowdog]

23. THE PRETZEL!

How could we have forgotten the infamous pretzel?

:rofl: :bounce: :rofl: