Since Republicans in the House are taking their cues from movie scenes, here’s my suggestion for a scene that’s in line with what they’re trying to accomplish. You can add your suggestions in this open thread.
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kdaug
You’re close, MM, but I think this more closely reflects their thinking
JPL
Mistermix, The problem is the republicans and the tea party are willing to drive us all over a cliff.
Yevgraf
Scarface…
JPL
The Town quote was fine but according to TPM the Post didn’t use the entire quote.
IMO, the Republicans think that good governance means hurting some people.
Elizabelle
Michael Hiltzik in the LA Times is shrill.
GOP tyrants threaten nation’s stability
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20110727,0,1687637.column
agrippa
I think that they do not care.
They are on a mission and whatever happens is not a serious problem.
They were elected to sort out Washington.
Rommie
@ agrippa
They were elected to sort out Washington from the people who voted in a President who is “Irish.” That’s all the proof they need that everyone else is insane.
Scott
This is really the only trailer to properly describe the Modern GOP.
JPL
agrippa @ 6 This is what my Representative Tom Price said
Politifacts gave it a false rating. DUH
cat48
OK, Our Horrible Nightmare is Almost Over! SteneySmash is gonna get Boehner Out of Trouble & We’ll Get Maybe Cuts that start in a year or two & StenySmash & Nancy Smash Go For the
Win & Debt Ceiling Vote. They’ve been working on it & Boehner is about to have a stroke, Steny says so Steny & Nancy for the Win!
Also2 Maybe Stimulus!
Marc
I think of Buckaroo Banzai:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYR1fGSK4U0
Where are we going?
Planet 10!
When will we get there?
Real soon!
JPL
cat48 @ 10…If Boehner introduced a bill that would only get votes from the democrats, he would still need the help of some republicans. At that point he would lose his leadership position. Do you really think Boehner will put country first?
Yevgraf
Days of Wine and Roses – Jack Lemmon is the Teatards and Lee Remick is America.
KCinDC
Is it possible for a talking point to be too moronic for Republicans to repeat? Apparently not, since I’m seeing blog comments from wingnuts saying that Obama is the one trying to crash the economy and benefit politically. Because we all know how great it is for a president to be running for reelection with a lousy economy.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
KCinDC
What do you THINK they are going to say?
jwb
For some reason I found the Moustache of Understanding inadvertently amusing this morning. What Congress and the President really needed to do, you see, was hold hearings and form a commission! That’s the proper way for government to solve this problem. What an idea! How serious!
Jason Bylinowski
@KCinDC: the editorial of my hometown paper (The Augusta Chronicle, a pretty big deal around here) just said the exact same thing, said it was all intentional and part of his crazy plot to discredit the Republicans. Our paper has always been wingnutty but it’s gotten to where I just don’t even bother to look at the back pages anymore.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
The end of Quadrophenia is relevant.
Carbon Dated
Any movie that uses Smell-O-Vision.
Bailey
The “I’m on a mission from God” scene from The Blues Brothers. (Though I hate to tarnish a good movie with the teabagger association.)
Killjoy
What’s the Republican strategy at this point? Aim for the bushes!
KCinDC
Raven, the talking point that Obama is making it all up and not raising the debt ceiling won’t cause any problems is moronic, but the one that Obama is intentionally crashing the economy for political gain is an entirely new level of stupidity—though it does follow the Republican habit of projecting their own motivations onto others, even when they don’t make sense.
WereBear
I keep thinking of the original Frankenstein, when Colin Clive exclaims, “It’s alive! It’s alive!”
AxelFoley
“To be the man, you’ve gotta beat the man! And I’m the man! WHOOOOOOO!”
Not from a movie, but you can’t go wrong with a Ric Flair quote.
arguingwithsignposts
For some reason, i picture these teahadist assholes watching the “squeal like a pg” scene from “Deliverance,” with Uncle Sam as Ned Beatty.
artem1s
This is the perfect quote…
http://tinyurl.com/state-of-Congress
Ack, ack!
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
KCinDC
But, of course, I happen to believe that the pukes are doing exactly that, crashing the economy for their gain. My question remains, what do you think they are going to say. “We are crashing the economy for our gain”?
AxelFoley
OOOH-OOOH! These are some good ones from Bruce Lee:
“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.”
“Don’t think; feel. It’s like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don’t concentrate on the finger, or you will miss all the heavenly glory.”
“You have offended my family and you have offended the Shaolin Temple.”
gene108
I don’t think Republican members of Congress would kiss each other on the lips, therefore they wouldn’t use Thelma & Louise as an appropriate basis for their decision making.
Note, they have no problem with driving over the cliff in a suicide pact, but the kissing….grrrrrooooooosssssssss…
Judge Crater
No contest, it’s Dr. Strangelove with Major Kong (Slim Pickens) riding a nuke into the Evil Empire. link
It’s the Tea Party’s wet dream.
Face
Between all the false hopes, dick swinging, and disappointment, this has lots in common with The Crying Game.
JPL
Raven, I called Price’s office and even though he can release idiotic statements, he hasn’t made up his mind yet.
JPL
I wish I could remember quotes because I’m sure there is something from Pan’s Labyrinth that would be appropriate.
PurpleGirl
JPL: If you go to IMDB, they have quotes from movies.
Mark S.
Surprised no one’s mentioned Titanic.
Here’s the Dems’ plan. I don’t think there’s enough time and I think we’ll default. One thing I know for sure is that I would rather us default now than accept Orange’s plan to do this all over again in 6 months. This has completely taken everything else off the table for the past 6 months, and it’s pathetic.
Mark S.
Speaking of stupid shit:
But as Thomas Friedman likes to say, when God closes a door, he makes you lemonade:
Toon Moene
The China Syndrome.
Definitely.
Almost any scene in it.
Bobbo
Network:
http://www.youtube.com/watchv=5jmuhZY2mgs&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Bobbo
Network:
http://www.youtube.com/watchv=5jmuhZY2mgs&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Ash Can
@Mark S.: And when the FAA finally gets its ability to collect revenue back, the airlines will bump ticket prices up so that they can keep collecting that extra little windfall, and when passengers get grumpy about it, the GOP and their mass-media enablers will explain that it’s all Obama’s fault.
jheartney
@gene108
I think goopers are fine with dudes kissing.
jwest
Palin: You have to answer for the economy, Barack. You ran the country into bankruptcy.
Obama: Sarah, you got it all wrong.
Palin: Ah, that little farce you played with the debt ceiling. You think that would fool a Tea Partier?
Obama: Sarah, I’m innocent. I swear on the kids.
Palin: Sit down.
Obama: Please don’t do this to me, Sarah. Please don’t.
Palin: Big government is dead. So is socialism. Uncontrolled spending. Tax hikes. Class warfare. Today I settled all government business so don’t tell me that you’re innocent. Admit what you did.
[Barack starts sobbing]
Palin: Get him a drink. Don’t be afraid, Barack. Come on, you think I’d make an ex-president a convict? I’m your successor.
[Barack gets handed a drink]
Palin: Go ahead. Drink. Drink. No, you’re out of government business, that’s your punishment. You’re finished. I’m putting you on a plane to Chicago. John?
[Boehner hands Barack an airplane ticket]
Palin: I want you to stay there, you understand?
[Barack nods]
Palin: Only don’t tell me that you’re innocent. Because it insults my intelligence and it makes me very angry. Now, who approached you first? Soros or Katzenburg?
Obama: It was Soros.
Palin: Good. There’s a car outside that will take you to the airport. I’ll call your wife and tell her what flight you’re on.
Obama: Listen, Sarah…
Palin: Go on. Get out of my sight.
suzanne
Deliverance.
For many reasons.
Hewer of Wood, Drawer of Water
If only because of the stupid, futile gesture, I think of Animal House
no video at work
Interesting thread but they block all video here at work *SIGH*
I could hear Boner quoting a bad line from ‘Waterhole Number 3’ when trying to excuse his rape of the sheriffs daughter:
“Assault with a friendly weapon?”
Clueless, tasteless and completely oblivious to the violence he is committing.
jon
Future GOP leader Mitt Romney motivates his party. Yep, those are his people in that room.
A must-see movie for so many reasons.
nevsky42
Surprised no one has mentioned The Dark Knight yet (apologies if I missed an earlier link)…
Culture of Truth
So… Boehner STILL can’t get the votes for his fake non-cutting plan which couldn’t get through the Senate or White House anyway….
JGabriel
I don’t think there’s video of it, but the Republicans are Breivik massacring our future.
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jwest
Barack Obama: I am honored and grateful that you have invited me to the budget process… on the day of the budget process. And I hope my first budget is a masculine budget.
Culture of Truth
Deathly Hallows Part II:
“You have one hour to send out the black President, or we will kill your country…”
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Chyron HR
We interrupt your regularly scheduled Teabagger fantasies to bring you some Judenhass.
grape_crush
I saw someone else reference Thelma and Louise earlier in the week…it’s an apt comparison, only that we get to see from a first-person perspective what happens after the car lands.
Hawes
I think this captures the combination of religious fervor and batshit insanity perfectly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUHk2RSMCS8
gex
@45 – Ditto. Would it be so hard to describe what the link is to? I’ve never understood the point of posting but giving your post a very high chance of not saying anything to anyone.
magurakurin
@nevsky42
has my vote. nice one.
mantis
How bout the end of Butch and Sundance?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgCSl9xgzKw#t=7m5s
catclub
“This has completely taken everything else off the table for the past 6 months, and it’s pathetic.”
NOT AN ACCIDENT. They needed something to keep people from asking “Where are the JOBS bills?” This has worked marvelously.
JGabriel
An extensive history of jwest’s Balloon Juice trolling is available on google.
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Crashman
Don’t look now but the Dow’s down by 104 already.
scav
My suggestion has more to do with what reflecting their internal state and that’s the freaking test screen. Almost went with static, but even that amount of meaningless motion seemed too coherent and, well, active, for them.
mantis
I see jwest has infested B-J after his exile from OTB.
JGabriel
@jwest: Dude, if you must indulge your Sarah Palin fetish, at least do it in private. It’s like watching John McCain eat his own splooge in public.
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arguingwithsignposts
@mantis: exiled from Outside the Beltway? Wow. Dude must have some issues.
mantis
exiled from Outside the Beltway? Wow. Dude must have some issues.
Yeah, they cleaned house a few weeks back, banning a few commenters who couldn’t stop posting racist screeds and constantly trying to change the topic of every thread. jwest did both.
jwest
Mantis,
It appears unapologetic liberals have a bit more tolerance for opposing views than liberals posing as libertarians.
Rome Again
I’m thinking the War of the Roses ending (the Chandelier scene).
Citizen_X
@nevsky42: “Do I look like a guy with plans?”
@ jwest: Wow. That’s the way you really think? Holy cats, you’re fucked in the head.
sukabi
the main problem with the Thelma & Louise analogy, is that Thelma & Louise are thoroughly likable characters through out the movie, even up to the end… the Teabaggers & Repubs, thoroughly repellent sociopaths from start to finish…
AxelFoley
re: jwest
I was wondering where this new troll came from.
You won’t be long for this blog, my friend.