Republican Jackass(es) of the Week

Is his name really Randy Boning?

Time to catch up on a few...

Representative Randy Boehning of Fargo, North Dakota.

The headline says it all: "Anti-gay Republican lawmaker caught on gay websites looking for encounters..."

Talk about your self-hating Republicans...

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Rand Paul, son of Ron Paul, senator from Kentucky and delusional candidate for president.

His quote on Baltimore protests and riots? "Violence is about lack of fathers and morals."

He should know all about lack of fathering and morals. His own son is perpetually driving drunk and getting into trouble with the law.

Oh, and he's an uncertified eye doctor. Just thought I'd throw that in.

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Oklahoma representative Kevin Calvey had a temper tantrum like a 5 year old in a grocery store this week. Seems he didn't want state Supreme Court judges and other court judges to get a 6% raise paid for by court fees, because some of those judges struck down a few unconstitutional laws restricting abortions.

So he threatened to light himself on fire. For real. Watch the 30 second clip:



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Kansas Governor Sam Brownback has cut so many millions of dollars in school funding that several districts in that state have announced they will end the school year early citing lack of funding. So Kansas doesn't have enough money to keep the schools open for the full year...

But he somehow managed to conjure up half a million dollars to defend one of his anti-abortion bills.


Just four of the overwhelming number of Republican Jackasses of the Week.

Republican Jackass of the Week

She's Jodie Laubenberg. She's a Regressive republican. And she's from Texas. Where else.

Over the last couple of weeks, thousands of Democratic, Independent, and even Republican Texas women have spoken out and protested the Republican-controlled Texas legislature, hell bent on inflicting a package of controversial, repressive anti-abortion restrictions on the women of that state. It was prevented from passing a couple of weeks ago thanks to a 13-hour filibuster made by Texas Democratic State Senator Wendy Davis.

But this week an abortion-restricting bill is being pushed by State Rep Jodie Laubenberg. The bill would force the closure of 37 out of the state's 42 women's clinics. And it would make no exception for victims of rape or incest to the proposed 20-week abortion ban.

Democrats in the state argued to include this important exception. But Laubenberg stated this wasn't necessary.

"In the emergency room, they have what's called rape kits, where a woman can get cleaned out," said the biology-impaired Republican woman.

Really, Jodie? You think rape kits "clean out" women, uh, down there? This suggests she actually believes rape kits offer an optional abortion procedure.

Completely false. And idiotic. Rape kits are designed to collect DNA, not magically perform abortions.

Hard to believe a woman would say something so far from the truth regarding a matter of her own biology.

Jodie now joins the ranks of Republican middle aged men who failed basic 9th grade biology -- including one who thought that pregnancy from rape was "intended by god," and another who thought that women can't get pregnant from rape because "the body has a way to shut that whole thing down."

Wow.

And she joins them in the Hall of Republican Jackasses.

Jodie Laubenberg -- our Republican Jackass of the Week.

Regressives Still Obsessed with Abortion

Put away the bourbon and do something useful.

They're at it again.

The party that lost seats in the House and Senate, and lost the White House in a second electoral vote mandate -- and continues losing young voters as well as women, Hispanics, the LGBT community and blacks -- is back at it, doing what they do best: putting on an expensive show for their far rightwing Teabagger base, and alienating everyone else.

They are, yet again, trying to change American abortion law by making it illegal to have an abortion after the first 20 weeks. This is about the time that women discover if there's going to be a problem with the fetus, or if it'll put the woman's life in danger. In addition, experts have long concluded that the age of viability is about 24 weeks. That aside, the point of this theatrical show is to pretend that they're going to take away, inch by inch, American women's reproductive privacy rights. Make the cutoff point 20 weeks now, 18 weeks next time.

Oh, and exceptions for rape, incest and health problems are not included.

Of course this House bill is going nowhere. This nonsense will be ignored by the Senate. And even if it were taken up by the Senate, and somehow magically passed, it would never be signed by the President.

This is all about fundraising and humoring the far rightwing base of the Republican party. And unfortunately, it's a total waste of what little time the House actually shows up for work -- and costs taxpayers millions of dollars.

It's as useless and expensive as pretending to repeal Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, 37 times.

Remember, this is the party that loudly proclaimed that if they got the majority in the House in 2010, their number one priority would be "jobs, jobs, jobs!"

But so far Drunken John Boner has not put forth one jobs bill. They're too busy working on blatantly unconstitutional bills like banning abortion and repealing Obamacare -- both of which have been established as legal and Constitutional by the US Supreme Court.

Republican Jackass of the Week

Trent Franks

They just can't stop.

They can't stop making idiotic statements about rape.

This time it's Trent Franks, a little-known Regressive republican from Arizona.

Another genius who apparently failed his required 9th grade high school biology class.

Todd Akin

Remember Regressive republican Todd Akin of Missouri, who famously claimed that women can't possibly get pregnant from "legitimate rape," since the female body has the ability to "shut that whole thing down"?

Richard Mourdock

Remember Indiana senate candidate and Regressive republican Richard Mourdock who famously claimed that if a woman got pregnant from rape, "god intended it to happen"?

Remember that Willard Romney's Regressive republican party specifically put a plank in its official platform, proclaiming that his party is against all abortions, with no exception whatsoever for rape or incest?

Well now we have another gem to add to the War on Women Collection of Stupid Statements from arrogant, ignorant Regressive republican men:

During a House Judiciary hearing on his anti-abortion bill, Trent Franks stated that he opposes an exemption for rape victims because, "the incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy is very low." This is why he's seeking to pass a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks.

See? Apparently you really can't get pregnant from rape. Or almost never can.

This bill is not going to become law. Not gonna happen.

(a) It will never pass the Senate.
(b) President Obama will never sign it.
(c) There's the little matter of it being unconstitutional.

(And for the record, 95% of all abortions happen in the first trimester, which means within the first 12 weeks.)

Another typical Regressive republican middle-aged man who is obsessed with control over American women. Another Republican who can't keep his mouth shut about rape, a subject they know nothing about. Another Republican Jackass of the Week.

I guess Stephen Colbert is going to have to reset his counter.