{"id":36022,"date":"2013-05-24T23:39:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T22:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/10-crazy-things-the-right-did-this-week\/36022\/"},"modified":"2013-05-24T23:39:44","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T22:39:44","slug":"10-crazy-things-the-right-did-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/10-crazy-things-the-right-did-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Crazy Things the Right Did This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s been another week of the insane, inane, and outright offensive. Here’s your top ten: <\/p>\n

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  1. Pennsylvania governor can’t find any Latinos to work for him.<\/strong>\u00a0Gov. Tom Corbett (R-PA) told a Spanish-language newspaper this week that he didn’t have any Latinos working for him<\/a>. There are approximately 18,000 Latinos just in the Harrisburg, PA area alone. <\/li>\n
  2. Pennsylvania governor remembers single Latino who works for him.\u00a0<\/strong>A day after saying he didn’t have any Latinos working for him, Corbett suddenly remembered<\/a>\u00a0a single Latino appointee working in his administration. <\/li>\n
  3. Conservatives freak out over Boy Scouts decision to admit gays.\u00a0<\/strong>Here’sthe ten best conservative freak-outs<\/a>\u00a0over the group’s decision to admit gay scouts while maintaining a ban on gay leaders. <\/li>\n
  4. Tea Party congressman mansplains his anti-abortion views.\u00a0<\/strong>Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), speaking at a hearing about an unconstitutional ban on abortion after 20 weeks that House Republicans are championing, told a witness that she should’ve been forced to wait and give birth<\/a>\u00a0rather than have an abortion even though her fetus had no brain function. <\/li>\n
  5. Top Republican called Obama’s national security<\/a>\u00a0speech “a victory for terrorists.”\u00a0<\/strong>The comments were made by Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Chambliss defeated a decorated, triple amputee veteran in 2002 by running an ad juxtaposing his opponent<\/a>\u00a0with images of Osama bin Laden. <\/li>\n
  6. Texas GOP continued its obsession with limiting women’s rights.\u00a0<\/strong>The Texas GOP introduced another 24 anti-abortion bills this year, but thankfully none of them advanced<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  7. This man could be the next Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.\u00a0<\/strong>Virginia Republicans nominated an extremely anti-gay, anti-abortion minister who has a long history of making insensitive and inflammatory comments. Here’s his 20 craziest tweets<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  8. RNC chair melts down.\u00a0<\/strong>In an effort to attack the president, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus threw out attacks so over the top that \u00a0the Morning Joe crew called him out.<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. GOP senator says implementing Obamacare is just like an illegal coverup.\u00a0<\/strong>Because of her efforts to implement Obamcare, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) likened Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to convicted criminal Oliver North<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  10. GOP senator defends Apple’s efforts to avoid billions of dollars in U.S. taxes.\u00a0<\/strong>Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), in a move reminiscent of Rep. Joe Barton’s infamous apology to BP<\/a>\u00a0in the wake of its disastrous oil spill, apologized to top Apple officials<\/a>\u00a0for being called in front of the Senate to explain how they use complex structures and gimmicks to avoid paying U.S. taxes. <\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n

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