Cousin Ed brought home twins once.....Pish and Posh Jankowitz.  Now the Jankowitz twins were female, but not much to be looked at.  Some might say ugly.  I blamed Bush.  Figured it had to be his fault.  They were Republicans, just like me.

Palm slap to the forehead!   Why did it take me so long to figure this out?

BDIdiot, when claiming to be a republican, is actually referring to the Republic of the Congo, not to the political party we are familiar with in the good ol' U.S.   It all fits:

Civil wars and militia conflicts have plagued the Republic
of Congo, which is sometimes referred to as Congo-Brazzaville.

After three coup-ridden but relatively peaceful decades of independence, the
former French colony experienced the first of two destructive bouts of fighting
when disputed parliamentary elections in 1993 led to bloody, ethnically-based
fighting between pro-government forces and the opposition.

A ceasefire and the inclusion of some opposition members in the government
helped to restore peace.

Civil war

But in 1997 ethnic and political tensions exploded into a full-scale civil
war, fuelled in part by the prize of the country's offshore oil wealth, which
motivated many of the warlords.

The army split along ethnic lines, with most northern officers joining
President Denis Sassou Nguesso's side, and most southerners backing the rebels.
These were supporters of the former president, Pascal Lissouba, and his prime
minister, Bernard Kolelas, who had been deposed by President Sassou Nguesso in
1997.

By the end of 1999 the rebels had lost all their key positions to the
government forces, who were backed by Angolan troops. The rebels then agreed to
a ceasefire.

Remnants of the civil war militias, known as Ninjas, are still active in the
southern Pool region. Most of them have yet to disarm and many have turned to
banditry.

Oil and diamonds

The Republic of Congo is one of sub-Saharan Africa's main oil producers,
though 70 percent of the population lives in poverty. Oil is the mainstay of the
economy and in recent years the country has tried to increase financial
transparency in the sector.

In 2004 the country was expelled from the Kimberley Process that is supposed
to prevent conflict diamonds from entering the world supply market. This
followed investigations which found that the Republic of Congo could not account
for the origin of large quantities of rough diamonds that it was officially
exporting.

IMF debt relief to the country was delayed in 2006 following allegations of
corruption.

Coincidence?  I think not!   Helen?  dat you?

Writes Daniel Woolley: "It appears that creating petitions on the White House site is all the rage these days. Here's one that will really get them mad - a petition to have the administration answer all of the questions Ron Paul posed in his farewell address. Now that would be entertaining!"

Answer ALL the questions posed by Congressman Ron Paul in his final speech on the House floor, Nov. 14, 2012.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/answer-all-questions-posed-congressman-ron-paul-his-final-speech-house-floor-nov-14-2012/y6DRpYbL