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Republican Party

org · in 23 videos (2007–2013)

Mentions by year: 2007: 4 · 2008: 7 · 2009: 1 · 2010: 3 · 2011: 2 · 2012: 3 · 2013: 3

What the videos say

2007

2008

  • 2008-02-05 · Obama Says Subscribe — Hank says nothing would scare him more than Republicans in the White House again, rejecting talk that things can't get much worse. (00:01:32)
  • 2008-02-05 · Obama Says Subscribe — Hank says Republicans generally don't treat the environment as an issue, and McCain, who does, has a much weaker climate plan than Obama or Clinton. (00:02:31)
  • 2008-02-21 · People Who Love Giraffes Who Love Giraffes — Asked which Republican presidential candidate he'd vote for, John jokes Abraham Lincoln; of living ones, he votes for the individual not the party and wants none of them. (00:02:17)
  • 2008-03-05 · SETTING THE QUESTION TUESDAY WORLD RECORD — Asked whether he'd rather drink his own pee or vote for a current Republican candidate, John says it depends on how much pee: a few drops, sure. (00:00:57)
  • 2008-06-17 · Maine Inspires Deep Thoughts — Hank says he is 100% in favour of there being Republican nerdfighters. (00:00:40)
  • 2008-08-29 · Sarah Palin: An Introduction — John tells Hank, who does not like watching the news, what he needs to know about presumptive Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, a pick that surprised John. (00:00:02)
  • 2008-08-29 · Sarah Palin: An Introduction — John says Palin is reliably conservative on social issues important to the Republican base: strongly pro-life, against gay marriage and a lifelong NRA member. (00:00:34)
  • 2008-09-26 · Obama Llama Song — The song says Republicans claim to want change but then want to stay the same; the singer will vote neither left nor right, only for change. (00:00:26)

2009

2010

  • 2010-09-06 · I HATE PENNIES!!!! (Also Nickels.) — Second, John says coinage reform isn't partisan: about half its major advocates in the last ten years were Republicans and half Democrats, so it fires up no base. (00:03:10)
  • 2010-11-16 · Hey! You! Fix the Budget! — John says the astonishing thing is that even all the Democratic leadership's tax increases plus all the Republican leadership's spending cuts would still leave a huge deficit. (00:00:59)
  • 2010-12-21 · Thoughts on the Project for Awesome — Hank jokes that Mike Huckabee's attempt to 'hack' the Republican presidential nomination kept P4A from taking over the whole first page of 'most discussed', but P4A's hack was more successful. (00:00:19)

2011

2012

  • 2012-04-03 · Idiotic Governance: How Our Political Discourse Hurts Our Economy — John says long-term highway deals fail because they involve big numbers: Tea Party-backed Republicans oppose big spending, so rather than, say, one $250 billion bill, Congress votes for ten $30 billion bills. (00:02:05)
  • 2012-04-03 · Idiotic Governance: How Our Political Discourse Hurts Our Economy — John says Republicans have proposed interesting Medicare reforms, but Democrats refuse them as cutting seniors' care, since seniors tend to vote for Democrats. (00:02:41)
  • 2012-09-21 · You. Must. Vote. — To 'I don't live in a swing state', Hank says that if Utah Democrats or California Republicans stayed home they would be underrepresented locally and politicians would ignore their views. (00:01:59)
  • 2012-11-08 · The 51st State — The UN, President Obama, Governor Romney and both the Democratic and Republican platforms all agree Puerto Rico should decide for itself whether to become a state. (00:01:35)
  • 2012-11-08 · The 51st State — Probably all of those members of Congress would be Democrats, so a Republican House would not be excited to give statehood a supermajority. (00:02:26)

2013

  • 2013-01-01 · Why Does Congress Suck? — John says his Indianapolis congressman is Democrat Andre Carson while his across-the-street neighbour in the same zip code has Republican Dan Burton, because the district was redrawn to take in pricier houses expected to vote Republican. (00:01:45)
  • 2013-03-12 · Understand the Sequester (Spoiler: It's Bananas.) — John says news coverage focuses on blame, with congressional Republicans calling it Obama's idea and Obama asking whether he passes legislation, which distracts from the sequester being a disaster. (00:05:09)
  • 2013-10-01 · The Lowdown on the Shutdown — Hank says Obamacare, passed in 2010 and upheld by the Supreme Court, went into full swing that day, and the Republicans are not done fighting it. (00:00:56)
  • 2013-10-01 · The Lowdown on the Shutdown — Hank says the Republican-led House voted on the continuing resolution with an added one-year delay of Obamacare; the Democrat-controlled Senate refused, saying a stopgap is not for sweeping changes to the most significant domestic policy in 50 years. (00:01:02)
  • 2013-10-01 · The Lowdown on the Shutdown — Hank says the Republicans don't actually think they will stop Obamacare, which he finds weird. (00:01:57)