'We Need to Train an Army of Ninja Cats': A GOP Site Gets Hijacked

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A GOP Suggestion Site Gets Hijacked by Commenters - Newsweek

Be careful what you put on the Internet, Republicans. The Internet just might use it.

Yesterday, the GOP unveiled America Speaking Out, a Web site that promises to "change the way Congress works by proposing ideas for a new policy agenda." Visitors, presumably of the Republican persuasion, are invited to make their own suggestions in four broad categories: American prosperity, fiscal accountability, American values, and national security. The idea is that citizens can speak up on these topics, vote up or down on each others' proposals, and the best thoughts will bubble to the top—maybe even becoming part of the Republican platform come November.

Visitors haven't exactly been playing by the rules.

As Dana Milbank writes in today's Washington Post: "House Republicans, meet the World Wide Web." Though the architects of America Speaking Out, including Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R.-Calif.) and Rep. Peter Roskam (R.-Ill.), are touting its technical sophistication, by midafternoon Wednesday the site had been overrun by prankish submissions. The few high-minded ideas about the federal budget and terrorism have been drowned out by submissions that are inane, racist, absurd, physically impossible, and other qualities that aren't what the GOP hoped to hear.

While many are obviously jokes, some walk a hard-to-detect line between satire and slightly unhinged. The site is almost too bogged down to load currently ("A very high volume of Americans are speaking out right now," an error message reads), but if you can click through, here are 10 of the silliest submissions hijacking the service:

"We need to train an army of Ninja Cats. Cats are natural born hunters and predators, and it is known that they indeed have 9 lives, many more than the typical human life (being one). They are also excellent at hiding themselves and would be ideal for sneaking into countries and assassinating communist leaders to lessen the ever growing threat of communism, finding key terrorist leaders and shattering the global terrorist network. In fact they could be potentially useful in the current Korean crisis. Loyal to their trainers, the cats could rain destruction and fear throughout the world, and if ever captured would never tell who they are serving. Finally, after they have solved the worlds problems, they could serve as border patrol and show unflinching resolve at keeping illegals where they belong, anywhere but here."

"I know this guy in Nigeria he says he's going to inherit a lot of money, but he needs our help to get it. All we have to do is wire him some cash and in return he'll give us part of the money that he will be inheriting. This would be a good way to balance the national budget deficit."

"Require all Muslims in the U.S. to wear ankle bracelet transponders so we know where the terrorists are at all times."

"We're wasting our time protecting the sanctity of marriage by merely targeting gay marriage. We should immediately criminalize divorce."

Least the funny ones were better than the bunch of racist ones that were seriously submitted.

Welcome to the internet, Grand Old Party. Please keep all hands inside the ride at all times, and be sure to be buckled in nice. It's going to be a long ride.

 

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Welcome to the internet, Grand Old Party. Please keep all hands inside the ride at all times, and be sure to be buckled in nice. It's going to be a long ride.

Pretty amazing that after all these years the GOP finally discovered the Internet, the story should break in the NYT in about 30 days, Comrade Obama and crew will acknowledge it in about 37 days and the rest of the country will still be left with the perplexing question of when certain people will discover that there's a reality beyond the tiny sphere of political message boards .......

*sigh* so many mysteries in the Universe and only one God around to understand them all, not fair.

 

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Pretty amazing that after all these years the GOP finally discovered the Internet, the story should break in the NYT in about 30 days, Comrade Obama and crew will acknowledge it in about 37 days and the rest of the country will still be left with the perplexing question of when certain people will discover that there's a reality beyond the tiny sphere of political message boards .......

*sigh* so many mysteries in the Universe and only one God around to understand them all, not fair.

Well the GOP has been on the internet for quite some time. However, it's been in controlled areas where they were easily able to scrub anything they didn't like away. I'm willing to bet the same thing will happen to this website. Interestingly enough, the GOP can not use this site politically for Republicans (despite the fact they are running it) because it's been used with taxpayer money to create.

 

[The Infidel]