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Idjit senator who proposes school grades tied to food stamps -- just told Martin Bashir that he's not proposing that kids become "rocket surgeons".
Sheeyut.
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NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)...always have a backup plan!
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Berlum
(7,044 posts)What, no takers? You DUers are apparently risk averse.
asjr
(10,479 posts)said rocket surgeon. I don't know about other states but I wish there was a rule that Legislators from TN have to take a rigid test to prove they are not neanderthals.
Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)Of COURSE it's a Republican!
mailman82
(399 posts)He has as many kids ad Obama has guns? He actually said that! He needs a good slap upside the head! What an arrogant prick! He could not give even a a coherent answer!
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)at home and doing poorly in school he thinks making the kid hungry will help.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)What an a**hole.
I love Martin Bashir, btw. I wish he had a better time slot.
Robb
(39,665 posts)MissMarple
(9,656 posts)Martin Bashir has to listen to this stuff. I'm going to turn MSNBC on, it will be like watching a train wreck. I love Tivo.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I do it as a purposeful play on "brain surgeons" and/or "rocket scientists", but its become second nature.
You know what they say, it's just half of one and six dozen of the other.
longship
(40,416 posts)I have used the phrase for decades. But I'll stop now that the Repukes have adopted it.
enlightenment
(8,830 posts)or an eggcorn?
The actual idea is, of course, idiotic.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)Or maybe he means robot surgeons it's a common mistake. Rockets, robots they are mechanical things you know.
lpbk2713
(42,751 posts)wandy
(3,539 posts)The GOP just seem to attract the kind of people where it is important.
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