Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Everything You Need to Know About Republicans (2)


At last night's disturbing Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas, in which candidates competed to display more heartlessness to the American people, more racism toward immigrants, and more stupidity on international issues:

Anderson Cooper: "Herman Cain, two weeks ago you said 'Don't blame the big banks, don't blame Wall Street, if you don't have a job or you're not rich, blame yourself.'... Do you still say that?" (Cheers from crowd)

Herman Cain: "Yes I do say that." (Wild cheering ovation from crowd)

There's a clip on Huffpo that I won't embed here because it has a commercial.

2 comments:

  1. the thing is, ish, this is a revelation to no one. everyone already knows these folks hold this belief. but the foolhardy individuals supporting it ACTUALLY BELIEVE it to be that easy. they really do.

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  2. Republicans love to scapegoat poor people, but who caused the economic disaster? Was it the rich removing restrictions which allowed the financial industry to be destroyed (and allowed them to benefit in an unbelievable way) or the poor and powerless?
    Was it the rich who fought a unilateral war on borrowed money or...

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