Happy Birthday G*O*P!

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Posted by Roedapple July 6, 2012 at 2:35 a.m.

Happy Birthday GOP!

(image from web source) by RoeDapple

That's right folks! Today is Republican Day, honoring the Republican Party founded on July 6, 1854. To my amazement I found the Republican Party shares its birthday with some notable Americans, including;

Pat Paulsen. Born in 1927, he ran unsuccessfully for president in 1968, 1972, 1980, 1988, 1992, and 1996. Not sure but I think he ran on the Comedy Ticket.

Nancy Reagan. Born in 1921 and the wife of Ronald Reagan. (My apologies Nancy for divulging your age.)

Sylvester Stallone. 1946. Star of "Rocky", "First Blood", and a lesser known role in "Party at Kitty and Stud's", a 1970 porn flick which was his "break" into the movie industry.

And last but not least, George W. Bush, also a 1946 birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GEORGE W. BUSH and HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE GOP!!

(image from web source) by RoeDapple

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Did_I_say_that 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Roe - you troublemaker, you.

Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, embodied what the GOP should be. Here is a tribute from his 99th birthday celebration.

Happy Birthday Ronald Reagan by PTBRepublican

Did_I_say_that 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Reagan was a Statesman; he had tact. "Tact," as described by a Presbyterian preacher from Kentucky, "is the art of telling someone to go to hell in such a way that the person believes it will be an enjoyable trip."

Ronald Reagan tells joke about Democrats by Winston Blair

tuschkahouma 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Too bad the GOP took in all of those disinfranchised segregationists that we kicked out by supporting civil rights and then took in the tent evangelists too. No room for thinking just follow the doctrine of GOP hailfire and Brimstone and study the bible to find passages justifying hatred and bigotry. You go GOP.....Sandy Praeger really fits into the intellectual party???? you have now as does Mrs. Snow.

labmonkey 11 months, 2 weeks ago

You are by far the most racist person on here. You have very little room to point fingers.

classclown 11 months, 2 weeks ago

by Class Clown

RoeDapple 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Good morning! After an early start this morning casting lead projectiles (gotta do that in the cool of the mornin' this time of year), helping round up a neighbor's calf and an hour or so of volunteer work for the community (we Republicans are known for our helpful nature), imagine my surprise when the old email box was empty! I guess the new ljw system doesn't notify when comments are made on the blogs anymore. That's okay, once I clicked onto this site I saw Mr. Bush's and the GOP's birthday hasn't been totally ignored. What a great day this is turning out to be!

hear_me 11 months, 2 weeks ago

What about Nixon?

rockchalker52 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Happy Birthday, GOP! I'm always up for a celebration. Now, I can enjoy a two-fer: The Repubs today & the Dems in November!

somedude20 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Happy Birthday!! by somedude20

somedude20 11 months, 2 weeks ago

and is a certified narcotic drug abuser

Frankie8 11 months, 2 weeks ago

I now have gout in my knee and if you had any idea how painful that can be, then you would not make comments about people taking pain medication. I just wish I could take some that took away the pain but did not make me drowsy. I now understand Rush more after my gout attack, and while in the middle of it, and on the pill, I wrote one of the best blogs of my life. Dear God, I hope no one remembers it! So, I can understand Rush and where he is coming from though I don't agree with him. I have a passionate love of President Obama. Oh, yeah!

labmonkey 11 months, 2 weeks ago

There is trouble in the forest, there is unrest in the trees. The maples scream oppression while the oaks ignore their pleas.

hear_me 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Like this.

RoeDapple 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Mitt Romney's health care plan in Massachusetts is responsible for its citizens experiencing the highest percentage increases for insurance in the nation. Is it any wonder he would be against a similar national plan?

Paul Decelles 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Actually Roe,

Like so many other things, the real answer is not so clear cut. Check out: http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/health/health_stew/2011/11/does_massachusetts_have_the_na.html

RoeDapple 11 months, 2 weeks ago

With the right attorney no evidence is indisputable! Enjoying your participation though!

RoeDapple 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Well hell, that was 8 months ago! Plenty of time to see for himself it wouldn't work! ;-)

So how did birthday wishes for the GOP and former President GW Bush turn into a bashing of our next president?

Did_I_say_that 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Simple, Roe. The haters are out in full-force today.

RoeDapple 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Well . . . . it ain't like I didn't give 'em an open invite . . .

RoeDapple 11 months, 2 weeks ago

We have more in common than you might think . . .

jonas_opines 11 months, 2 weeks ago

"So how did birthday wishes for the GOP and former President GW Bush turn into a bashing of our next president?"

Because you turned it into an opportunity to bash our current president, of course. As DIST said, haters are out in full force today.

Frankie8 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Oh, no, no, no, Barack Obama is going to be our next president. Can you give me one good reason why the republicans are so intent on getting rid of him, by which I mean not being president again? Why all the hate against him and his family? You should know that every article, column and blog turns into some sort of bashing. Who knows? Now a days not even The Shadow knows.

Cant_have_it_both_ways 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Michelle Obama has been reported to have 26 attendants, and she is still butt ugly.

beatrice 11 months, 2 weeks ago

So show us your picture can'thaveit. I am sure you are as beautiful on the outside as you obviously are on the inside.

jonas_opines 11 months, 2 weeks ago

I assume that this is like celebrating Mark Twain's birthday? Since the party born back then died a while back.

Don't like Obama, but don't miss Bush, either. Obama being a poor president sure as hell doesn't make Bush any better than he was.

beatrice 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Yes, the have-been performers of yesteryear who are now relegated to perfoming in Branson so often do. I'm sure the dozen of his fans appreciate his views.

beatrice 11 months, 2 weeks ago

At least the GOP has the sense not to nominate one of its founding members this time around, like they did in the last presidential election.

beatrice 11 months, 2 weeks ago

No, we do not miss George W. Bush.

Imagine lending your car to someone, who then goes and crashes your vehicle. If you hire a mechanic who repears the auto and keeps it out of the scrap heap, but can't quite get the vehicle running at its original speed, do you really miss the guy who crashed it originally?

Or, as jonas states more delicately, just because you get the crabs, does that really make you miss the time you had syphillis?

labmonkey 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Or we handed the keys to someone who warned us well over a dozen times that the car couldn't run this way much longer and could possibly crash. We then blame him when it does crash and take it to a body shop/mechanic who has never worked on a car in his life.

beatrice 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Warnings? What warnings? Further, if he had known it was coming and didn't do what was necessary to stop the crash from happening (market crash not car) then he is even worse of a president than originally feared.

labmonkey 11 months, 2 weeks ago

The Bush administration warned congress several times about Freddie and Fannie. Barney Frank accused the administration of creating "an artificial issue" in 2003 and Harry Reid rejected legislation to reform Freddie Mac in 2005 are just a couple examples of Democrats ignoring Bush administration warnings.

beatrice 11 months, 2 weeks ago

But the economic crash wasn't caused by Freddie and Fannie, but rather, they were so heavily in the market that their bottoming out was a major hit. The true cause was allowing mortgages to be bundled and sold on the derivatives bond market like any other bundled investment. Mortgage companies weren't concerned about making loans because they didn't intend to keep them. Instead, they sold them off almost as soon as the loan was made. That was the problem, and the Bush administration did nothing to prevent this from happening.

It is one thing to say that Freddie and Fannie were getting too big -- Republicans love building up government agencies and then saying that the agencies are too big -- but if you aren't actually going after the root of the problem, the derivatives, it wouldn't have mattered. That is the type of warning I am saying the Bush administration never gave. Show me where Bush was saying the derivatives market needed to be reigned in, then we can talk ... and I'm not just saying this to bash Bush. There was plenty of blame to go around and Democrats should have been blowing the horn louder than they were (the few that were).

labmonkey 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Hell... even the normally liberal Saturday Night Live made fun of this. NBC keeps trying to erase this skit from the internet, but it is still out there...

http://proletariat.wordpress.com/2008/10/11/banned-snl-bail-out-skit/

RoeDapple 11 months, 2 weeks ago

That was a long, long time ago bea! Who told? And by the way, I don't want either party snooping around my bedroom. ;-)

And jonas, I'm not sure where you get the idea I'm bashing our current president, even though I personally don't agree with all his policies. A couple of vague tongue in cheek comments by myself are hardly of the bashing quality. Shall we go back through your comments to see how you describe politicians you don't agree with?

RoeDapple 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Aaaand my apologies, jonas. A quick look back through five or so pages of your comments doesn't indicate you get involved in name calling or bashing. At least no worse than myself.

jonas_opines 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Shrug. I've got over 10,000 comments over the course of more than a decade, and I'm sure you could find Something in there, but on the whole I save my bashing for the people who actually post on here and are capable of responding, but I try not to cross a certain line.

If you wish to define bashing by the intensity, then no, what you posted doesn't qualify. But your pic of GWB was opening the door to let it in, and you have to know that. Don't act surprised when it happens. Here in the dark of the forums, only mushrooms and toadstools, and icky little insects, grow well and flourish. I would think that you'd know that by now too.