Discussion: GOPers Put Idaho At Risk Of Losing $46 Million Over Fear Of Creeping Sharia Law

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Crazy Christian Republicans are so afraid of such nonsense.

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this is what will happen all across America when whack jobs get into office…the wheels of progress grind to a halt and we go back to the dark ages.

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Fuck em. Save the money.

And at a quick look, with the woman’s scarf and artificial looking face, at a quick look she looks like someone from an old Planet of the Apes movie.

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Wait, that guy on the left looks like Mitt Romney!!

Also, the religulous discrimination laws in Indiana, Arkansas and elsewhere will do more in the long run to supporting Sharia law in the USA than this treaty on child support payments.

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Huh. Maybe Idaho should just reap what it sows. If it’s painful enough, perhaps they’ll consider voting in people who aren’t complete loons.

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but they sow potatoes??

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Between their ears evidently.

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As a proud Democrat, I definitely hope the Idaho GOP screws this up and Idaho loses all that funding. Not only would this confirm the fact the misnamed “GOP” is the Stupid Party, but it would be poetic justice as well. I’m sick and tired of my tax dollars going to deadbeat Tea Party States that don’t provide anything in return.

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now i know where bumfuck idaho is. and why it got its name.

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But…but…think of the hostages!

That’s usually the reason for Dem surrender.

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Hmmm … growing up, my parents always told us kids that bumfuck was a place in Egypt. Now you tell me it’s in Idaho?

On another note, I think bumfuck(ing) came from England. No?

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It’s kind of like Springfield. They’re basically everywhere.

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Dems need to tough-love it this time – you know, tell them Republicans what they’re always telling the poor, disabled and disadvantaged – to pull your own damned bootstraps up … what, you say you ain’t got any? – Well, then, go and buy you some! … “Don’t bother me with your life choice problems; I got my own problems … the help in my Connecticut home won’t work under the table … my lawyer tells me the IRS is snooping around my Cayman Island accounts … Mitt’s people won’t return my calls … damn it!”

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Once again, Republican reptilian brains trump logical thought, and they cut off their noses to spite the face.
Gotta love these re-occurring soap operas.

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“About 80 percent of payments are garnisheed from paychecks, but noncompliance would prevent Idaho from making such collections.”

Color me dubious. Idaho could still garnishee paychecks of Idaho residents, they just wouldn’t be able to garnishee paychecks of people who weren’t paid in Idaho.

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A harbinger of the coming Teaocracy if the Chri$harians prevail in elections…

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When I was a child I played with Mr. Potato Head, oblivious to the danger of Islamopotatoes.

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Truth is the loons are representative of their constituencies, Idaho leads the nation in crackpot density, beat Texas and Florida hand down.

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But they don’t just ‘get into office’
They are voted into office.
And there’s the rub.
In a democracy the buck doesn’t stop with the King, or the dictator or some party plutocracy. It’s the rank and file voters with ultimate accountability. That’s what’s so damned depressing here. Clearly in Idaho, democracy doesn’t work.

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