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James F. Campbell 2009-05-03 02:54:42 AM  
shiat guys, I think they may actually be learning.

Well, we're boned.

 
2xhelix [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 03:09:44 AM  
Cantor took the lead in forming the group, which he says is officially nonpartisan, though it includes no Democrats and will be operated out of his office.

Using congressional staff and resources? Your tax dollars hard at work.

 
thamike 2009-05-03 03:15:04 AM  
party leaders attempted to portray Republicans as sensitive to the concerns of average Americans

I think this may be the problem.

/or the advantage, depending on the motive

 
thamike 2009-05-03 03:27:19 AM  
BTW, how DOES one actually polish a turd?


And how many turd-polishing retards did it take to come up with that?

And what kind of freak watches people polishing turds?

And, then again, what kind of freak doesn't have to?

/just getting it out of the way, Submitter. The retards have no fuel now, despite the fact they will try to salvage it.

 
House of Tards [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 03:27:51 AM  
Cantor took the lead in forming the group, which he says is officially nonpartisan, though it includes no Democrats and will be operated out of his office.

In a similar vein, I would like to announce that I am forming the Justice League of America, even though I have no superpowers, don't know any one who has superpowers, and am running the league from my living room.

The Republican Party: Even when we try to do it right, we do it wrong.

 
glenlivid 2009-05-03 03:29:01 AM  
FTA: "Our party has taken its licks over the last couple of cycles; no one is under any illusions about that," Cantor said. "But that's why we're here. It's important for us to reengage with the people of this country. . . . The prescriptions coming out of Washington are not really reflective of the mainstream."

So typical: It's all about the party and politics...absolutely no connection with people and what is actually happening in the country or the world. They are so out of touch they have to get together with people to figure out what their needs are - like hosting focus groups.

All you have to do is look at the employment figures, the cost-of-living vs wages, and the number of uninsured people...you complete asswads. But I guess you'd actually have to want to make life better for the average person, which is something they are not capable of thinking about.

They'll still miss the mark and come away with, "The American people are concerned about guns, abortions, and the fact that Rush Limbaugh is too nice".

 
Occam's Chainsaw [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 03:29:03 AM  
thamike: BTW, how DOES one actually polish a turd?

It's called dorodango.

 
SuperCatBarf [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 03:29:57 AM  
The well-intentioned people from the "Republic Party" might be catching on that actively insulting non-mega-millionaires by ignoring them, being blatantly unintelligent while being convinced otherwise by your team of money-hungry yes-men, acting like your retarded shiat doesn't stink, and gleefully and self-righteously (via a mandate from Christ) engaging in unjustified war that kills actual living, breathing, well-intentioned, patriotic American youth, might piss off a majority of people.

That said, let people get rich. Don't hassle people until they're pulling a couple mil a year--those are the people most interested in new ideas, and investing in them. I want $10 mil so I can relax and be free of worry; if the gov't takes too much, I'd just say screw it, get mine, and take risks years later when I felt secure in doing so.

 
thamike 2009-05-03 03:31:54 AM  
Occam's Chainsaw: It's called dorodango.

Holy balls, you are in my cool book.

 
jims4x4toy [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 03:38:18 AM  
GODDAMNITSOMUCH!!!!!

Jesus Christ! Why the fark is it that every person who views themselves as a republican classified as a fundie asshole? Good farking lord!

I identify much more closely with the republican party. I want smaller government. I want lower taxes. I want personal responsibility. I want the freedoms allowed to me under the 2nd amendment.

Why the fark do you people choose to take stands on things like gay marriage and abortion? Theses issues affect, like what, 3%, of the population? SHUTUP!!!!

Dear Republicans,

I hate you. You have gotten schooled in the last 2 elections. I will not vote democrat because of my basic views of their platform, but really, you guys suck.

Maybe I am libertarian.

Love,

Jims4x4toy

 
thamike 2009-05-03 03:39:43 AM  
SuperCatBarf: The well-intentioned people from the "Republic Party" might be catching on that actively insulting non-mega-millionaires by ignoring them, being blatantly unintelligent while being convinced otherwise by your team of money-hungry yes-men, acting like your retarded shiat doesn't stink, and gleefully and self-righteously (via a mandate from Christ) engaging in unjustified war that kills actual living, breathing, well-intentioned, patriotic American youth, might piss off a majority of people.

That said, let people get rich. Don't hassle people until they're pulling a couple mil a year--those are the people most interested in new ideas, and investing in them. I want $10 mil so I can relax and be free of worry; if the gov't takes too much, I'd just say screw it, get mine, and take risks years later when I felt secure in doing so.



i272.photobucket.com


It's great, but what am I supposed to do with it?

 
Your Faith is Creepy [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 03:42:00 AM  
i185.photobucket.com

/better git busy

 
thamike 2009-05-03 03:44:50 AM  
jims4x4toy: GODDAMNITSOMUCH!!!!!

Jesus Christ! Why the fark is it that every person who views themselves as a republican classified as a fundie asshole? Good farking lord!

I identify much more closely with the republican party. I want smaller government. I want lower taxes. I want personal responsibility. I want the freedoms allowed to me under the 2nd amendment.

Why the fark do you people choose to take stands on things like gay marriage and abortion? Theses issues affect, like what, 3%, of the population? SHUTUP!!!!

Dear Republicans,

I hate you. You have gotten schooled in the last 2 elections. I will not vote democrat because of my basic views of their platform, but really, you guys suck.

Maybe I am libertarian.

Love,

Jims4x4toy


www.etherworks.ca

"This is my wife. Try convincing THIS to suck my dick and make coffee."

 
Asa Phelps [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 03:46:27 AM  
I believe the japanese actually perfected a method for polishing turds hundreds of years ago.

It's called hikaru dorodango. (new window)

 
jims4x4toy [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 03:47:31 AM  
thamike: jims4x4toy: GODDAMNITSOMUCH!!!!!

Jesus Christ! Why the fark is it that every person who views themselves as a republican classified as a fundie asshole? Good farking lord!

I identify much more closely with the republican party. I want smaller government. I want lower taxes. I want personal responsibility. I want the freedoms allowed to me under the 2nd amendment.

Why the fark do you people choose to take stands on things like gay marriage and abortion? Theses issues affect, like what, 3%, of the population? SHUTUP!!!!

Dear Republicans,

I hate you. You have gotten schooled in the last 2 elections. I will not vote democrat because of my basic views of their platform, but really, you guys suck.

Maybe I am libertarian.

Love,

Jims4x4toy



"This is my wife. Try convincing THIS to suck my dick and make coffee."


Ummmm, yeah. I don't get the reference.

 
SuperCatBarf [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 03:50:57 AM  
thamike: SuperCatBarf: The well-intentioned people from the "Republic Party" might be catching on that actively insulting non-mega-millionaires by ignoring them, being blatantly unintelligent while being convinced otherwise by your team of money-hungry yes-men, acting like your retarded shiat doesn't stink, and gleefully and self-righteously (via a mandate from Christ) engaging in unjustified war that kills actual living, breathing, well-intentioned, patriotic American youth, might piss off a majority of people.

That said, let people get rich. Don't hassle people until they're pulling a couple mil a year--those are the people most interested in new ideas, and investing in them. I want $10 mil so I can relax and be free of worry; if the gov't takes too much, I'd just say screw it, get mine, and take risks years later when I felt secure in doing so.

It's great, but what am I supposed to do with it?


When I get it, I'm gonna buy a house and a couple of cars, go on vacation...you know, live the American dream. And when I do, I'll pay the tax on it without ending up with no money. Nothing extravagant, just have stuff for once that feels like it's really mine, and what I save might be passed on to my children as I intend, rather than being ripped the fark off by some retarded-ass, jealousy-inspired, classist "death tax."

 
kmmontandon [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 03:52:12 AM  
thamike:

"This is my wife. Try convincing THIS to suck my dick and make coffee."



... is that Cal Worthington?

 
thamike 2009-05-03 03:53:55 AM  
jims4x4toy: Ummmm, yeah. I don't get the reference.

Sorry, it's a Southern California joke that I thought might be funny for all, despite their locale.

/C'mon, b*tch. It's a photo of an asshole, wearing a douchehat, pretending he's headlocking a wild animal, in order to sell Plymouths to assholes. It's FUNNY. Lighten up.

 
thamike 2009-05-03 03:56:09 AM  
kmmontandon:



... is that Cal Worthington?


We have a winner!

/Pussy Cow.
//Bob Saget agrees with me.

 
kmmontandon [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 04:00:38 AM  
thamike: jims4x4toy: Ummmm, yeah. I don't get the reference.

Sorry, it's a Southern California joke that I thought might be funny for all, despite their locale.



It's actually just as well known in Northern California - I have no idea how many of those commercials I saw as a kid. I still think he was really saying "pussy cow."


\Go see Cal! Go see Cal! Go see Cal!
\\And his dog, Spot ...

 
SuperCatBarf [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 04:04:09 AM  
thamike:

This thread is now about thamike talking out his ass in a weak effort to drive people to his incomprehensible, shiatty website. Chalk up unique from me, you drunk fark!

 
Asa Phelps [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 04:05:15 AM  
SuperCatBarf:
When I get it, I'm gonna buy a house and a couple of cars, go on vacation...you know, live the American dream. And when I do, I'll pay the tax on it without ending up with no money. Nothing extravagant, just have stuff for once that feels like it's really mine, and what I save might be passed on to my children as I intend, rather than being ripped the fark off by some retarded-ass, jealousy-inspired, classist "death tax."


It's so easy to avoid the estate tax that the only euphemism it really needs is something like the "completely fails at long term planning tax" or maybe "unexpectedly hit by a bus tax".

 
thamike 2009-05-03 04:08:43 AM  
kmmontandon: I still think he was really saying "pussy cow."

Pussy Cow-pussycow--

I started to subconsciously relate that jingle with breakfast. Until I tied Cal Worthington to the front of Space Mountain with nothing but GHB, bourbon, and methamphetamines in his system, a party noisemaker dact-taped to his mouth, and magnetic rollerskates tied to his wrists.

 
SuperCatBarf [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 04:10:25 AM  
Asa Phelps: SuperCatBarf:
When I get it, I'm gonna buy a house and a couple of cars, go on vacation...you know, live the American dream. And when I do, I'll pay the tax on it without ending up with no money. Nothing extravagant, just have stuff for once that feels like it's really mine, and what I save might be passed on to my children as I intend, rather than being ripped the fark off by some retarded-ass, jealousy-inspired, classist "death tax."

It's so easy to avoid the estate tax that the only euphemism it really needs is something like the "completely fails at long term planning tax" or maybe "unexpectedly hit by a bus tax".


Dude, I'm trying to speak for the common folk here--my ducks are in a row. I also use this alt to advocate teaching finance in middle and high school.

 
thamike 2009-05-03 04:10:29 AM  
SuperCatBarf: This thread is now about thamike talking out his ass in a weak effort to drive people to his incomprehensible, shiatty website. Chalk up unique from me, you drunk fark!

You think you're special? I f*cked your mother before you were even born!

 
Sun God [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 04:11:31 AM  
Papa John's!

 
Nina_Hartley's_Ass 2009-05-03 04:21:19 AM  
Dear GOP,

Turd pizza is not the way to go.

/Bush administration should have taught you that.

 
milk_plus 2009-05-03 04:22:52 AM  
Running the moderates off is only going to make the party nuttier and more out of touch with the general public.

 
GreenAdder [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 04:26:16 AM  
Mythbusters already did a segment about polishing dung. Maybe they're going to watch that episode. Democrat, Republican or Independent, I think we can all get behind eating pizza and watching Mythbusters for a few hours.

 
outatime 2009-05-03 04:28:48 AM  
GreenAdder: Democrat, Republican or Independent, I think we can all get behind eating pizza and watching Mythbusters for a few hours.

I'd like to get behind Kari Byron...

/oh, yeah, like the thread wouldn't have gone there anyway

 
Occam's Chainsaw [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 04:28:54 AM  
milk_plus: Running the moderates off is only going to make the party nuttier and more out of touch with the general public.

Don't you see, they're listening now! Sure, they're still beholden to the same old corporate interests and still vapidly tout the same old failed ideology, but they're sitting in rooms with non-billionaires and nodding their heads sagaciously when people speak. Nodding!

It's a whole new GOP.

 
Wolf Blitzer is a Substitute Teacher 2009-05-03 04:28:58 AM  
Go look at the website. This initiative includes John Cornyn, Roy Blunt, Lamar Alexander, John Boehner, John Kyl, Mitch McConnell, Pete Sessions, and John Thune. To say this is polishing a turd is quite possibly a compliment. What's worse than a turd? I can't think of anything, so I'm going to fix the headline, Mad Libs-style.

How do you [verb] a [something worse than a turd]? The GOP plans to discover how, in a [place].

 
thamike 2009-05-03 04:37:08 AM  
Occam's Chainsaw: Don't you see, they're listening now

Michelle Bachmann

It's not food, it's PEOPLE.

And all this time, I thought it was Corn Pops.

 
Sabyen91 [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 04:37:24 AM  
jims4x4toy: thamike: jims4x4toy: GODDAMNITSOMUCH!!!!!

Jesus Christ! Why the fark is it that every person who views themselves as a republican classified as a fundie asshole? Good farking lord!

I identify much more closely with the republican party. I want smaller government. I want lower taxes. I want personal responsibility. I want the freedoms allowed to me under the 2nd amendment.

Why the fark do you people choose to take stands on things like gay marriage and abortion? Theses issues affect, like what, 3%, of the population? SHUTUP!!!!

Dear Republicans,

I hate you. You have gotten schooled in the last 2 elections. I will not vote democrat because of my basic views of their platform, but really, you guys suck.

Maybe I am libertarian.

Love,

Jims4x4toy



"This is my wife. Try convincing THIS to suck my dick and make coffee."

Ummmm, yeah. I don't get the reference.


It made me laugh my ass off.

 
Sabyen91 [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 04:39:26 AM  
SuperCatBarf: thamike:

This thread is now about thamike talking out his ass in a weak effort to drive people to his incomprehensible, shiatty website. Chalk up unique from me, you drunk fark!


Somebodies vagina is full o' Calcite.

 
thamike 2009-05-03 04:50:47 AM  
Sabyen91:
It made me laugh my ass off.


Thanks. It's nice to be appreciated.

 
IlGreven 2009-05-03 04:59:53 AM  
jims4x4toy: I identify much more closely with the republican party. I want smaller government. I want lower taxes. I want personal responsibility. I want the freedoms allowed to me under the 2nd amendment.

Your first sentence contradicts your next two. The Republican party hasn't stood for lower taxes or personal responsibility since Reagan. As for your 2nd amendment rights, please stop with the farking "They're coming to take our guns!" bullshiat that the NRA keeps lobbing up there like a pitcher who's lost his fastball. And don't forget about the other nine amendments in the Bill of Rights, either.

...and now, a rant on "personal responsibility". If I bought something at IKEA, followed the instructions to the letter, and came out with a piece of shiat that's nonfunctional, I would loudly complain to IKEA about them. Some "hardcore" IKEA shoppers (who either eschew the instructions entirely, or get someone else to do it for them) might say "you did this and this wrong", but the big thing is, this and this being wrong was touted in the instructions as being right.

Now, picture the economic "rules" as those instructions. And picture me as someone who did absolutely everything right the last decade. And look at the piece of unserviceable shiat that turned out as my mortgage that I can't pay, even though I did absolutely everything right. And then picture every economist on CNBC, F*X News, the WSJ, Bloomberg, etc. as those "hardcore" IKEA users...who make their money not off the stock market, but by being employed by CNBC, F*X News, the WSJ, or Bloomberg. People who've never had to worry about living paycheck to paycheck in their lives because they've been able to bullshiat high muck-a-mucks into believing they've got some insight into the market...are telling me, who went strictly by the book, who played strictly by their rules, that I have to take "personal responsibility" for playing their game.

...I say, fark you and your "rulebook". It's time we made some new rules. That's what I would call personal responsibility.

 
Wolf Blitzer is a Substitute Teacher 2009-05-03 05:05:30 AM  
IlGreven: The Republican party hasn't stood for ... personal responsibility since Reagan.

Ha ha, you think Reagan stood for personal responsibility! The same Reagan who knew about Iran-Contra but let Ollie North take the fall!

 
HairBolus 2009-05-03 05:05:48 AM  

The end of the article identifies the pizza joint where they held their meeting as Pie-tanza.

So I looked at their website. Initially it was promising: wood-fired Neapolitan-style pizza. So what are all these Republicans doing at a cool sounding place?

Then I looked closer. Under pizza one sees that most of the pizzas have fontina cheese on them and many would never be found at a real Italian place. Under hot italian subs you can find something that looks sorta like a cheese-steak but not to a self-respecting Italian:

prime rib & cheddar
prime rib sliced thin and sautéed to medium well with fresh peppers, sweet onions, cheddar cheese and herb mayo


Fake men of the people go to fake Italian restaurants.

 
SuperCatBarf [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 05:06:48 AM  
thamike: SuperCatBarf: This thread is now about thamike talking out his ass in a weak effort to drive people to his incomprehensible, shiatty website. Chalk up unique from me, you drunk fark!

You think you're special? I f*cked your mother before you were even born!


She hinted...I'm used to the idea now. Still, I suddenly see her covered in a sickly green film.

 
Sabyen91 [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 05:07:46 AM  
SuperCatBarf: thamike: SuperCatBarf: This thread is now about thamike talking out his ass in a weak effort to drive people to his incomprehensible, shiatty website. Chalk up unique from me, you drunk fark!

You think you're special? I f*cked your mother before you were even born!

She hinted...I'm used to the idea now. Still, I suddenly see her covered in a sickly green film.


Don't disrespect your new daddy.

 
Wolf Blitzer is a Substitute Teacher 2009-05-03 05:10:16 AM  
HairBolus: Fake men of the people go to fake Italian restaurants.

I don't know... sounds pretty good. I think I'll go there this week. I'll let you know how it is.

 
Sabyen91 [TotalFark] 2009-05-03 05:11:48 AM  
Wolf Blitzer is a Substitute Teacher: HairBolus: Fake men of the people go to fake Italian restaurants.

I don't know... sounds pretty good. I think I'll go there this week. I'll let you know how it is.


Olive Garden? Yum.

 
GWSuperfan 2009-05-03 05:13:32 AM  
thamike: party leaders attempted to portray Republicans as sensitive to the concerns of average Americans

I think this may be the problem.

/or the advantage, depending on the motive


I think this is more of the problem:

party leaders attempted to portray Republicans as sensitive to the concerns of average Americans

They'd get farther if they were actually sensitive to people's concerns, not just trying to portray themselves as such.

 
thamike 2009-05-03 05:16:38 AM  
SuperCatBarf: Still, I suddenly see her covered in a sickly green film.

This is what made coffee in bed special. Don't type too loudely, because she's masturbating in a Plymouth outside of my motel room, giving me googly eyes, and prank-calling the elderly gentleman we've sold fudge to after skinning him with broken Coke bottles

 
Wolf Blitzer is a Substitute Teacher 2009-05-03 05:19:06 AM  
Sabyen91: Olive Garden? Yum.

I said I'll let you know. Could be awesome, could be Olive Garden-esque. Either way, it's worth a trip across the Potomac.

 
Random Reality Check 2009-05-03 05:23:46 AM  
Actually, I believe this type of introspection needs to be encouraged.

Let's all commit to attending the next open house style meeting these gentlemen have so we may be able to let them know that we believe the Republican Party needs to move farther to the right. In fact, what their very first steps need to be is to disassociate themselves from these RINOs who have diluted the Republican Party's essential fluids, er, message.

As such, I we need to communicate to these people on the steering committee that, as a start, the following traitors needs to be drummed out of the Republican Party permanently as they are too far left of center.

John Cornyn
Roy Blunt
Lamar Alexander
John Boehner
John Kyl
Mitch McConnell
Pete Sessions
John Thune
Eric Cantor
Mitt Romney
Bobby Jindal
John McCain
Haley Barbour
Mike Pence
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
David Dreier
John Carter
Kevin McCarthy
Roy Blunt

Let's get some real Americans in here, people we can all get behind.

Joe Barton
Ted Nugent
Ann Coulter
Fred Phelps
Sarah Palin
Sean Hannity
Rush Limbaugh
Michael Weiner
Jonah Goldberg
Michelle Malkin
Michelle Bachmann

Let's build a Republican Party we can all be proud of by getting rid of the people who ruined it in the first place - and let freedumb ring.

 
thamike 2009-05-03 05:34:07 AM  
Random Reality Check: Actually, I believe this type of introspection needs to be encouraged.


Let's build a Republican Party we can all be proud of by getting rid of the people who ruined it in the first place - and let freedumb ring.


Your Swiftian humor will ne lost on:

 
Befuddled 2009-05-03 05:34:24 AM  
So which one of these so-called reformers was saying that the GOP was going in the wrong direction when the GOP was winning? It was blatantly obvious how crooked the GOP was during Bush's eight years as President. There was plenty of legitimate criticism pointing out the crooked actions of the Republicans; did they acknowledge any of it, or did they disparage and slander those who pointed out the wrongdoing?

Unless the Republicans come clean and admit to all the crappy things and call for investigations and prosecution of those who ordered those crappy things, it's just window dressing in the hope they can get back into power and finish the job they started under Bush.

 
HairBolus 2009-05-03 05:37:48 AM  
Wolf Blitzer is a Substitute Teacher: Sabyen91: Olive Garden? Yum.

I said I'll let you know. Could be awesome, could be Olive Garden-esque. Either way, it's worth a trip across the Potomac.


2 Amys looks a hell of a lot more authentic.

 
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