GOP Rep Hits Pelosi With Toy Mouse
As I noted here yesterday, the Nancy Pelosi team is blasting as a “total fabrication” the claim by conservatives that there’s $30 million in the stim package to save the salt water marsh mouse in Pelosi’s district.
Today GOP Rep Tom Price, the chairman of the Republican Study Committee, went on the House floor and floated the story again, and he held up a mysterious prop in his right hand as he did so (see around 20 seconds in)…
“What’s in it? Have you read it?” Price asked, holding up the bill. Then he hoisted what appeared to be a little critter in a bag, and continued: “We found thirty million dollars for mice.”
Was he really holding up a mouse? “It was a toy mouse, from a pet store,” Price spokesperson Brendan Buck tells me.
Incidentally, the $30 million for mice isn’t actually in the bill, though Republican staffers are sticking by the claim that an unnamed agency told GOP leadership staff that if it were given money, it would, in fact, spend it on the mice.
Will the pathetic MSM and the “lib’rul media” **EVER** see fit to call these despicable right-wing liars and craven cowards out for what and who they truly are? God I fear for the future of this nation at the hands of these diabolically corrupt corporate whores. The only hope is that, following the election of 2008, more and more Americans have finally become able to see past the putrid stench and feces-laden haze of the Limbaugh-driven amoral wingnut spew.
I hate to tell Mr. Price, but I was laughing pretty hard. Until I started weeping at the realization that Mr. Price was elected to the House of Representatives. Some jokes have real consequences, and that dude’s one of them.
It’s all fun and games until America gains a Congress.
“Unnamed agency” sounds a bit like leftover Bush people at the most corrupt agency of the Bush years, Interior. Can you say planted story by Bush-bots?
Greg
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You HAVE to find Chairman Obey’s final words right before the vote on the bill. He took down that lie as well as several other wingnut lies. It was a thing of beauty. If I find it I will pass it along.
Wait I found it. Now its long. But its GOLDEN!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl5fDyUP718
When is Al Franken going to be seated?
Man, am I sick of Republicans. I’m about as sick of ‘em as I was when they were the majority, though not quite.
Punks. That’s all they are. Juvenile punks.
“Incidentally”???
Do you appreciate how commonplace crazy lying stunts by the Republicans have become? It’s not an incidental point that the very provision that they’re complaining about ISN’T IN THE BILL! But we’re so used to this tactic that the emphasis is more on the style points of the Republicans.
Political coverage is insane and deeply troubled. (Your work excepted, Greg, as always).
I hope this is reported in every city, town, village and incorporated and non-corporated crossroads in the country.
The Republicans don’t care about anything and are not serious people who are taking this crisis seriously and this is going to make the public mad as hell eventually because we are out here feeling the consequences of this crisis and I’m about ready to go postal on the GOP.
Juvenile punks.
That is exactly right, Nicole. That’s just how they act – they act like they are not serious people taking the country’s problems seriously. They’re joking and playing politics while the rest of the country is hurting.
I hope this nonsense gets reported on every newscast and in every paper in the country. Because it’s one thing to disagree. It’s quite another to be stuntin’ like this when we are on the ragged edge of disaster.
Exactly, Tena. I actually wrote in another post that the GOP care about power and silly acts of theater. Nothing more.
But its GOLDEN!
Yeah – thanks for the link; it was well worth it.
Classic example of the straw mouse fallacy.
The Republican Party does not care a whit about its constituents. They want to WIN, no matter what the argument, no matter what the cost to ordinary Americans. Their recent antics are the equivalent of a toddler trying to hold his breath until he gets his way. Too bad these bozos won’t pass out from lack of oxygen any time soon.
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