Republican Jackass of the Week

Meet Oklahoma House Majority Leader Dennis Johnson.

Johnson used his time during an Oklahoma House debate to discuss effective strategies for small business owners. Here's what he said:

"There’s such a thing called 'niche marketing,' he began. “You find out what you do better than somebody else and that’s what you market. Then you get the reward of success. People come back to you,” he continued. “They like the service they get, and they don’t ask me—they might try to Jew me down on a price, that’s fine. You know what? That’s free market as well.”

Immediately after this anti-Semitic comment, someone off camera says something like, "what was that?"

After a befuddled attempt to figure out what he said, he kinda, sorta apologized.

“I apologize to the Jews. They’re good small businessmen as well."

Wow. "I apologize to the Jews." 

Hilarious and pathetic at the same time, he then uses the second stereotype to backup his apology:

"They’re good small businessmen as well."

This comes right on the heels of the other Regressive Republican, Alaska Congressman Don Young, who recently said, "My father had a ranch; we used to have 50-60 wetbacks to pick tomatoes."

Republican Jackass of the Week

I know it's not Friday, but there are so many...

This first one's Don Young.

“My father had a ranch; we used to have 50-60 wetbacks to pick tomatoes,” Alaska Republican Rep. Don Young, 79, told radio station KRBD on Thursday. “It takes two people to pick the same tomatoes now. It’s all done by machine.”

Yep. Didn't have a clue how repulsive his casual use of that racial slur was. Not a clue. And some were actually defending this Jackass, saying in his day it was perfectly acceptable.

Well guess what? A lot of derogatory, racist words were "acceptable" to people like him four or five decades ago. Has he been in a coma since 1960?

And then there's Ben Carson.

Here's a guy who's a surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital, so you'd think he'd have a brain of some sort.

But during a recent interview on Fox Noise, he actually said, “Marriage is between a man and a woman. No group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA [the North American Man/Boy Love Association], be they people who believe in bestiality, it doesn't matter what they are. They don’t get to change the definition.”

Subtle, isn't he? 

Good job, Benny. Make your point by comparing American same sex couples with criminal child-molesters and criminal animal-molesters.

Two more Republican Jackasses of the Week. 

And the Regressive Party has no idea whatsoever why women, gays, blacks, hispanics, young people and so many others will never vote for it. They are clueless, living in their own hateful, bigoted little world.