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Confirmed: Even White House staffers think their petition website is dumb
“If you had told me a year and a half ago that the White House would be devoting time writing [an official statement] on how Lord Vader could fix our economic woes, I would have just laughed loudly at you,” one White House staffer who has worked on the WTP outreach program tells Mother Jones. Another White House staffer connected with the program is more blunt: “Sometimes, I find myself thinking, ‘My god, what have we done’?”
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The people are stupid.
They should petition their gov’t to live under the laws they pass.
Obama and the congress should all live under Obama’care’…zero exceptions.
The first political critter who makes exceptions should spontaneously combust, for hypocrisy alone.
Schadenfreude on January 18, 2013 at 12:05 PM
Finally! A leftist with a sense of humour!
Blaise on January 18, 2013 at 12:05 PM
Answer: Watch FoxNews for 12 hours. All will be revealed.
BobMbx on January 18, 2013 at 12:12 PM
It’s not DUMB at all – in fact, it has been a effective data-mining operation.
Pork-Chop on January 18, 2013 at 12:21 PM
But these people also think the 2nd Amendment is dumb and that abortion is a good idea. So maybe it’s a goid idea after all.
Flange on January 18, 2013 at 12:21 PM
How dare they speak that way about Jarrett and Axelrod’s brilliant idea? TRAITORS!!!!!!!
UltimateBob on January 18, 2013 at 12:21 PM
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It’s not DUMB at all – in fact, it has been a very effective data-mining operation.
Pork-Chop on January 18, 2013 at 12:21 PM
Pork-Chop on January 18, 2013 at 12:21 PM
Obama will spend more time and money hunting these rats down than the Benghazi thugs or the F & F goons… no one disses “the one” and gets away with it.
right2bright on January 18, 2013 at 12:38 PM
It seems to reflect a chronic failure to understand human nature.
Abelard on January 18, 2013 at 1:11 PM
I liked the petition that called for the elimination of armed guards for the President and Vice President and their families, and instead just create Gun-Free Zones around them.
John the Libertarian on January 18, 2013 at 1:16 PM
Not just dumb. It’s un-American. The Executive branch only has certain, well-defined powers and responsibilities. We do not do national referenda in this country. We do not whine to the White House about anything we have a problem with. We petition through our representatives, as is the Constitutional structure. This White House petition cr@p is just another bit of European/Third World idiocy that has been foisted on Americans to alter our unique architecture of governance and make us more like the cr@ppy countries int he rest of the world. This is something that an 84 IQ retard who grew up in Jakarta as a muslim might think is cool, but it has nothing to do with America … not that we live in America, anymore.
It’s par for the course for the American Socialist Superstate, though. A national petition site that goes right to the dictator’s office … and then nothing is done about any of the petitions, anyway – except that names and addresses are kept of those people silly enough to announce their displeasures to the ruling junta.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on January 18, 2013 at 1:18 PM
I wonder how many govt employees at all levels, go to work every day knowing their job is just plain dumb, useless and/or counterproductive? And then, every day, choose to just keep on coming in and collecting govt cheese for wasting another day on useless, stupid make-work jobs? I wonder how many are feeling any pangs of guilt for looting the people, their own family and friends who actually work hard and pay taxes to pay for their useless sloth?
Harbingeing on January 18, 2013 at 1:35 PM