Pic Of The Moment: "We Did Not Send Him There To Do The Right Thing"

[EarlG]

GOP County Chair Blasts Pat Toomey Vote: 'We Did Not Send Him There to Do the Right Thing'

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[thucythucy]

1. And who is this "us" of which you speak?

If it's all the voters of Pennsylvania, the majority of whom voted for President Biden, then Senator Toomey did just that.

If it's a clique of right wingers and conspiracy addled losers who now control the GQP, then I'm afraid you're out of luck.

[LakeArenal]

8. Their all so old, too. Die monsters die.

[Doc_Technical]

36. This reminds me of a Steppenwolf song

"You've been telling lies so long
Some believe they're true
So they close their eyes to things
You have no right to do
Just as soon as you are gone
Hope will start to climb
Please don't stay around too long
You're wasting precious time"

[LakeArenal]

41. 😉✔️

[certainot]

44. in Pa the GOP depends on penn state athletes to attract advertisers for 11 Limbaugh stations

those old vampires are feeding off black athletes.

penn state is one of 87 universities that broadcast sports on 260 Limbaugh stations

from fakenewsradio.org:

PENNSYLVANIA 14 Penn St. 11, Pittsburgh 2, Temple 1

the penn GOP and old racist assholes like that depend heavily on those radio stations to get elected. if penn state was pushed to look for apolitical alternatives the GOP there might not win many more elections

[John1956PA]

2. Yep, that's the non-urban Western PA mentality I am familiar with. n/t

[MyOwnPeace]

26. Ain't THAT the truth!

And we've still got the 'DRAIN THE SWAMP' signs out to prove it!

[malthaussen]

35. Brings a nostalgic tear to mine eye. n/t

[Democracy2020]

3. How do we contact this asshole?

Clearly he needs to hear opposing voices.

[Tommymac]

20. Ask and you shall receive

From the Washington County PA Republican Committee Website:

Chairman: Dave Ball 412-608-3423 [e-mail]

(I will not directly link to that page. Some things are a bridge too far.)

[certainot]

45. they're dittoheads - he's probably been a regular on the local rw radio stations and has a trail of

podcast interviews where he criticizes kneeling athletes and calls BLM a terrorist organization on radio stations that broadcast games to attract advertisers and give shits like him community cred (in PENNSYLVANIA 14 Limbaugh stations depend on Penn St. 11, Pittsburgh 2, Temple 1)

tell them when Limbaugh dies he'll never win another election cause the talk radio monopoly of lying assholes will fall apart

[patphil]

4. Using that logic,

ask Mr. Bell who the majority of people of Pennsylvania voted for in the 2020 Presidential election.
Hint: It wasn't Trump.

But then, Bell's logic is inherently flawed anyway. Senator Toomey took an oath to defend the country against all enemies, both foreign and domestic.
I think Toomey decided that Trump fell into the domestic enemy column.

[niyad]

5. Soooo. . david has the balls to admit that he and his like-"minded" thugs have no conscience, no

ethics, no morals. . Good to know, you traitor-supporting asshole.

[FakeNoose]

6. Pat Toomey received a mountain of phone calls, emails and texts

... and many of them were begging him to convict Chump. Toomey's vote was honest and sincere, he voted how the majority of Pennsylvania voters wanted.

STFU Stop whining!

[MyOwnPeace]

29. Oh, the irony!!!!!

I've been fighting with Senator Toomey for the past 4 years, usually about his non-ending support for 'All-Things-Trump,' especially Sweet Betsy DeVos ( ) - so FINALLY he DOES do the right thing - and catches hell for it!

[Baitball Blogger]

7. .

They just keep shocking me.

[SWBTATTReg]

9. He is part of the gutter rural part of every state it seems. The dark side of living in the rural

part of America, where they think that they are the arbiters of all that is good and decent. Obviously this is one of the biggest lies and frauds being perpetuated upon the American public. These people living in rural America oftentimes are NOT the kind and decent Americans that a lot have come to expect from rural America, and kindly grandma and grandpa can't wait until a stranger walks up to them, and they kick the stranger in the unmentionables.

I've lived out there in rural America. I suspect that since these people with this mentality (sick as it is) have been allowed to grow up with their gutter mouth for far too long, since they have literally no neighbors around them. No wonder a lot of rural America is empty. No wonder jobs are not flourishing in rural America for the most part. No wonder the republicans resized district sizes to have far more of a proportion of rural populations than urban populations so they could pretty well dominate Congressional districts and basically win every time. Disgusting and pathetic. However, good luck is on the horizon, population trends are increasing faster than the republicans can change district sizes (due to economic trends, etc.), and the surplus rural areas that republicans use to offset district populations is shrinking drastically to the point that republicans are running out of rural populations to tailor make their voting districts.

[TNNurse]

10. We sent him there to be an asshole

like we are and he is apparently not one.

[Ferrets are Cool]

11. His JOB is to follow the constitution, asswipe.

FU and your feelings.

[JohnnyRingo]

12. More accurately, "to represent the majority of us".

That's why Toomey won the election in your state, but Trump did not. Because most Pennsylvanians do not think Donald Trump is the second coming of Jesus. Pat Toomey represents those people as well.

[MyOwnPeace]

30. Both won the state

in 2016 - and you will NEVER convince me that either Toomey or Trump really did (are you listening, Putin?).

[benfranklin1776]

13. Oh he's a Confederate bootlicking traitor to the core.

Not to mention a cultist who puts fealty to his cult dominus over everything else including basic morality and decency, as this rancid statement shows. Bipartisanship with such a traitor to America is unthinkable as there’s no meeting soulless treason “halfway.” This IS their party as he’s not the exception but the rule.

[Traildogbob]

14. So.....

The whole Unite and work together thingy is all hot air? Fuck em all. Dems, step on their damn necks and kick em in the Ditch. “We sent you there to represent us”.
THATS what we voted for. 81 million of us. Fuck that 74.2 million shit brained cult.

[Orrex]

15. As a lifelong PA resident I can tell you

There is no asshole like a Pennsylvania Republican.

Toomey has always been a piece of shit, but his fuckface peers condemn him when he does the right thing for the first time in his career?

Fuck every Republican voter and legislator in no particular order, but I'd appreciate it if PA got put somewhere high on that list.

[KS Toronado]

16. "We did not send him there to vote his conscience" ?

What the hell did you want him to vote with? A magic 8 ball?

[Ohioboy]

18. "or do the right thing"?

[Gore1FL]

17. Accidental honesty is the funniest honesty. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

19. Complete the robot loop

Hard wire GOP Senators to their party's constituents cell phones and vote remotely. No more Senators, no staff. Saves money with the same result. What could be more efficient?

[yuiyoshida]

21. How did the GOP gain so much

Stupid?

[3825-87867]

25. How?

Probably much more residual from Three Mile Island than anyone thought or suspected, or polluted water.

Washington County is very suburban (even though right beside Allegheny County) and as such has a great deal of fracking and the polluted water that comes with it. Not only that but they've had a very high instance of cancer in and around their fracking areas. (Coincidence according to any ReQublican Politician) The GQP is firmly for fracking as "it provided thousands of jobs for Pa". Well, maybe not. Seems most of those employed are part-timers from Texas and the south who send the results of OUR resources in money back home. Oh, it's ok. They do eat and drink in restaurants who pay much less than minimum wage (legal to pay as little as $2.35 per hour and you get to either share tips with other waiters/waitresses or report them to the tax man).

Or they never visit the "Big City" but do listen to hours of Right-Wing radio.

There's also radon, low wages (almost West Virginia-esk), ancient roadways to get anywhere, excessive taxes (actually provided by our 30 year reign of Republican Controlled Legislature because Democrats raise taxes??!!), but mostly a lack of virtually any education with little to no desire to become educated.

And of course, religion. Evangelicals and politicians telling them Democrats will come and take their guns away (Infidelity is ok if you vote ReQublican). The basic political intellect is "there are more than 2 Amendments?" And it's ok to sleep with the farmer's daughter, or sheep or pig but not if you're a Democrat.

Eat, Drink and Be Merry because someone else will take care of us, attitude.

[yuiyoshida]

38. Personally?

I blame RUSH LIMBAUGH and FOX NEWS The Voice of insurrection!!

[dchill]

22. Good to know.

[rickyhall]

23. Clearly a repug minority sent him to violate the Constitution & ignore the majority.

So what's new?

[BobTheSubgenius]

24. "And by 'us', I obviously mean the donor class,

...and the beneficiaries of their 'largesse.'"

[IronLionZion]

27. We don't have direct democracy

so yes, we do elect representatives and senators to use their own judgment since we don't directly vote on these sorts of things.

[MASW]

28. this confirms a confusion among repubs that I've long suspected.

Your representatives are supposed to represent your best interests, not you. If you're an ignoramus, you want someone who's better educated than you to represent you in congress--not some dumbass who's just like you. But this subtlety of thinking is too much for repubs. And now look at all the fools we have in congress.

[DSandra]

31. Hey Dave Ball, just because your white doesn't mean that you get to speak for all Pennsylvanians

I am seriously tired of so many white Americans thinking that the world revolves around them and that they are more significant than they really are. Speaks to the power of the white supremacist culture that is deeply rooted in America.

[Grins]

32. It's an old and ceaseless GOP governing philosophy... (Noam Scheiber, Dec. 2002)

"...movement conservatives have a genuinely coherent worldview they want to see reflected in its entirety. Losing on any issue is enough to rouse their anger, and they take that anger out on any member that does not accept the totality of their worldview." - Noam Scheiber, The New Republic, December 2002

[Marthe48]

33. Do people like this even listen to what they are saying?

Another sick mind.

[malthaussen]

34. Well, that was your first mistake.

Senators are not Representatives.

However, it's useful to know, Mr Ball, that conscience and right are not representative of your district.

-- Mal

[The Polack MSgt]

37. That county is where I grew up.

Borders West Virginia , south of Pittsburgh.

The most racist hateful place I've ever been. And yes, I've been all over the south. Rural PA is worse IMHO

[Gothmog]

40. K&R

[alp227]

42. The party of Hugh Scott and Arlen Specter is no more.

Even Tom Ridge, who went on to be the first Homeland Security chief (and we know how that worked out), has more decency than this jerk.

[Oldem]

43. Dave Ball looks like the face

of the enemy, a face we can all unite against. We should all get Dave Ball's address and tell him to go pound sand.

[PatrickforO]

46. Voting your conscience, doing the right thing, representing your constituents.

Unfortunately, many of these politicians have forgotten that there ARE times when the first two supercede the last. It is called political courage, and is when a politician does the right thing even if it may mean he is not reelected.

It is a rare trait.

[pacalo]

47. I logged on to recommend this.

I had to back up the dvr after I heard it on tv.