Republicans, feeling down, get an invitation to the White House
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) recently delivered a major-league pep-talk to his Republican caucus, which was very well received. GOP lawmakers gave Boehner a standing ovation, and were all smiles as they looked ahead to the rest of the year. They were led to believe that tying Dems in congressional races to Obama and Pelosi would be a recipe for success, and Republicans might even gain seats this year.
This same Republican caucus was feeling far less jovial during their confab yesterday. Boehner’s election strategy has been tested twice now in two months in two reliably Republican districts — first in Illinois’ 14th, then in Louisiana’s 6th. The GOP went 0-for-2. Worse, the NRCC has very little money to make a serious go at actually narrowing the Dems’ majority. None of these guys left the room smiling yesterday.
What might cheer congressional Republicans up? How ’bout a trip to the White House?
House Republicans will hold a rally with President Bush on Wednesday morning, with all 199 members invited to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. to show solidarity with the president, according to GOP sources.
Oddly enough, I’m not sure whose spirits this is supposed to boost — Republicans’ or Dems’.
As Tim F. noted, “Blind, deaf Americans living under rocks for very long periods of time have figured out that everything the President touches is a half-assed failure. Any sane person would treat the guy as radioactive. So what gives? I have to assume that this little pep rally will be about as well attended as Alberto ‘abu’ Gonzales’s farewell party at the DoJ.”
Oh my sweet Jesus Lord. I’m first. Yeeeeee haaaaa
All the truly joyous Republicans carpooled in a VW bug.
Gives a new definition to a "clown car."
I sure hope they get a photo of this. Maybe they can even photo shop a picture of McCain in there to show he is with them in spirit. I would really give his campaign a boost. NOT!!!
Sounds like a circle jerk to me.
Did Mr Maybelline...I mean Boner cry when he got his ovation? Nothing like a fake tan streaked with eyeliner to cheer the fellas up.
I've been calling this moron the king with the fecal touch ever since 2000.
Will Bush do a tap dance?
$5 sez Lieberman is there with them.
These guys will come out of that meeting stinking of feces.
You know, as fun as it is to gloat, the DNC is hurting for money too. Because Democrats are still focused on the presidential campaign to name a nominee. It's really hurting Dems running for Congress.
There is no story here folks...the Republicans and Lieberman are just going to the Whitehouse so Joe can check all their bearings for them...he's a whore!
And I bet instead of singing Kumbaya they’ll be singing Bomb Bomb Iran.
I wonder how many won't show up.
A failure? really?
he has been an astounding success. for his constituency.
if you are reading this, you are likely not his constituency.
everything this President (and Vice President) has done has not been happenstance or accident. It has accomplished - EXACTLY - what they told you they were going to do in their PNAC documents.
You chose to ignore them. You chose to downplay them. You chose to call them conspiracy theories.
The PNAC documents - as well as their own excited utterances - are literally the new Mein Kampf of this generation. And we know how that turned out.
Hey there, my daughter is deaf.
It doesn't take the deaf any longer than anyone else to figure things out.
No offense taken.
Rebel Patriot @ 14:
Name one success, if you will. "Half assed" failures is not the right phrase. Total and complete failures all.
The Preznit could be having them all over to build support for a campaign against Iran.
That would explain all the long faces.
I heard a purported Hillary supporter on the radio claim today that she would vote for McCain before Obama. She said that Michele Obama was too negative to be the First Lady.
As long as Democrats can display the same stupidity that one must expect from Republicans they can still win.
How anyone could vote to perppetuate the travesty of Republican rule rather than let the media define a potential FIRST LADY for them is beyond me.
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 16:
I can name several. The problem is however, you are weighing them in the wrong paradigm. They don't operate according to the normal - non-psychopathic paradigm - that you or I are assuming they operate under.
You think their objectives are the same as you or I would have? Or any other normal non-psychopath?
If you think as a criminal would think - and thats what they are are (but the worst kind) then these parasites are absolutely successful.
It's like they think they're still in junior high.
someone please hit the Flush valve.
Dems need to take every seat they can in both Houses. If McCain wins he will not be able to get anything done. If Obama wins, we just might be able to make things better for America.
I hope there will be a group picture taken.
The image for November 2008.
Rebel Patriot @ 19:
In that case, as i argued before they are failures. Not only to themselves but to the rest of the planet. Short sighted criminal success is not siccess at all. It is self deception and self defeatism.
They have failed no matter what their personal view may suggest to them.
Imagine the fun and games and laughter, wet tshirt contest, sharing intern stories, tap dancing, wide stance contests.
♠Bangkok-Bob♠ @ 21:
What if 8 Belles Clinton wins? Is that a victory for the establishment, the media, the Republicans,or
(D) all of the above.
ferrofluid @ 24:
Wide stance contests....LOL!
StevePam @ 25:
The Rasmusen Poll has decided not to ask any questions about Clinton any more because she is done.
RebelPatriot is exactly right. Bush and Cheney don't give a damn about what those of us here think are appropriate goals for the US government. They've used the power of the American state to begin manifesting there plan as layed out in the PNAC documents. If elected, Obama is going to have a rough time of it for a while steering the ship of state in new, less imperial directions. McCain is an unabashed imperialist, so PNAC will be in play if he's in the White House.
As for the House Republicans, they need a Dear Leader to feel complete, and since most of them believe Bush has the sanction of God, I wouldn't be surprised if all 199 of them are at the White House, and giving him the one-armed salute. They are fascists, and they love their cocky little dictator. For most of them this transcends conventional political considerations. Bush is their Man.
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 23:
No they haven't. You write in denial.
they don't care about the rest of the planet.
they are not short-sighted.
here is my list of their accomplishments (and OUR failures to stop them)
What Bush and The competent Neocons have accomplished...
Iraq War 2 (and probably Gulf War 1)
The deaths of almost 1 million Iraqis and displacement of 3-4 million refugees
Taken Iraqi oil off the market
Kept Iraq from opening non-US dollar bourse
Stacked the Supreme Court with Neocons with a cake-walk confirmation
Escaping justice for numerous domestic and International War crimes
Escaping impeachment with collusion of key Democrats (fellow CFR members)
Enriched war machine & Military Industrial Complex
Installed 2 Attorney Generals who would block investigations and supeaonas and ignore whistle-blowers
Gutted Habeas Corpus
Rationalized torture through legal wordsmithing and spin
Conveniently "misplaced" trillions (Sept 10th, 2001) and later hundreds of billions of dollars
Reestablished record breaking opium production in Afghanistan
Implemented extraordinary rendition and secret torture camps
Manipulated - Stole 2000 and 2004 elections
Used hoaxed Niger Yellow-cake "evidence" with no political repercussions.
Lied about Iraqi WMD's
Lied about Jessica Lynch-Pat Tillman
Working on reigniting Russian-American Cold War (Russian bomber flights, etc)
Gutted independent officer corps
Christianization of the military
Moving towards Full Spectrum Dominance paradigm and capability for military
Massive expenditures for Chem-Bio, Space Weapons, Internet cybercorps
Intimidation (or willful cooperation) of Media & Business
Locked out Congress from Continuity of Government plans
Permanent military bases in Iraq
Passed Patriot Act after convenient Anthrax and Manchurian-style Sniper attacks
Passed Military Commissions Act
Entrenched Executive signing statements to expand Executive power
Massive debt to break government (and public)
Electronic surveillance and massive databases
Illegal warrantless wiretaps
First-rate mercenary force enriched and empowered
Broke Posse Comitatus precedent with Blackwater and US military domestic deployment
Blinding of America to Iranian nuclear program
Decimated New Orleans post-Katrina (dry-run for martial law)
Coopted Justice Department
Turned over key regulatory agencies to the foxes of industry (ex. Mining, Forestry)
Freed Scooter Libby with no political cost
Bankruptcy "reform"
Two-Hundred billion dollar bailouts of financial industry
No Child Left Behind and other Orwellian named govt initiatives
Garnered cooperation of fellow CFR and Trilateral Democrats to enable agenda
Unending blank checks from Congress
Bailed out the Crooked mortgage industry from subprime housing collapse
Convenient benefiting from a "New Pearl Harbor"
Pulled a sham Investigation on 9-11 over on the public for a paltry $15 million
But the piece de resistance - Conning the American public that they are incompetent.
What more do you want to qualify them as a success? Most people think they are incompetent because they are operating according to a different game-plan, or paradigm, than the normal person. Normal people wouldn't operate at this level of corruption and genuine evil.
These people are expert Machiavellian psychopaths (with a strong dose of Straussian Noble Lie telling) and to attempt to associate normal behaviors to them is an exercise in futility. You absolutely CANNOT continue to believe that the administration is incompetent - they are completely competent and shocking us into accepting a fascist version of America (just like Prescott Bush and his cohorts in the financial elite and industrialists tried in the 1930s)
I have this vision of Hillary trying to get to the podium at the Inauguration to get sworn in. She will embarrass the whole country.
Leslie [Hussein] @ 7:
Well, knowing what goopers are into, more like a lap dance. :-D
29 Rebel Patriot
Oh, hell the list is much bigger than that, but you are turning the world upside down and buying into their dreams when you call them successful.
Rebel patriot has a good point x. All those fuck ups were not accomplished by accident.
They have gotten away with it, for now. But I fear whoever wins the Dem nomination, will not change much.
America was a great idea, until money got in the way.
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 30:
screaming 'its mine, noooooo, it belongs to meeeeeeee'
The only way to stop them is to refuse to go fight their wars. Only then will they take notice.
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 32:
No. It is not "buying into their dreams." It is recognizing that their dreams are being realized.
And if you don't think that the world isn't turned upside down, then you aren't paying attention.
I bet you think that some Democrat is going to change what the Bushies and the Military Industrial Complex has built over all these years.
LMFAO.
oh lord...please let the sweaty hand of chimpy anoint the noggins of shays and lieberman at the white house circle je..um...."rally" tomorrow, amen.
The Democrats should make a point of getting as many pictures and as much video footage of the gang of repugs all flocked around their leader as they can. It will be political ad gold in the fall!
Film the whole the whole thing like an episode of Cheaters, the TV show where the guy (repug congress critters) gets caught with his skank (GWB) in a sleazy motel.
Rebel Patriot @ 36:
Oh, its funny to you?
That explains a lot.
the attack iran rumor is a ruse that bush/cheney are using in order to justify filling the oil reserves and taking that oil off market to raise prices.
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 39:
It ain't funny to me x...infact, it's downright depressing.
and with that I bid you good night my friend.
Keep fightin x , it must be my turn to be down right now.
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 32:
I totally get where Rebel Patriot is coming from. The Bush Administration has accomplished most of the goals of PNAC. The PNAC people do have a serious problem. Their success has turned the entire World against them. The changes they have made are going to be very short lived. The end result of the Neocon Coup will be to put the Progressive-wing of the Democratic Party in power. Even the Centrist Democrats are in a lot of trouble with the American Public. If you look at the New Democrats that are being elected; they are talking about the kinds of things that FDR Era Democrats talked about. The Centrist Democrats will be jumping ship to the GOP soon. It's a good place for them. They are all closet Republicans anyways.
ferrofluid @ 34:
Clinton: "I've got the white vote!" Except that if she really had the white vote, she'd be the nominee.
A month or so ago, House Republicans were climbing over each other to get photos with drug abuser/cheater/perjurer/philanderer/possible statutory rapist Roger Clemens. Today they tried to pass legislation AGAINST Mother's Day. Next week it'll be another photo op with Roger's fellow Texan, fellow serial felon and good buddy George W. Bush. Sunday is left open as a possible day to burn effigies of mothers on the front lawns of D.C. area orphanages and maternity hospitals. Somewhere in there I hope the guys will be able to unwind and maybe take in a dogfight or something.
What's next on Boehner's political deathmarch? A Muqtada al-Sadr photo op? Maybe a junket to Austria to shmooze with that incest Fuhrer guy who kept his kids/grandkids locked up in the basement? I hope he knows Pol Pot is dead: that'd save him a trip, then again Myanmar is right next door.
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 39:
Oh, so now you're an armchair analyst? I didn't see you elaborating what "explains a lot" means. Is that supposed to be an insult?
No, what is funny is you expecting a democrat to change anything substantial. It's funny because it is delusional thinking. After years of accommodation and assistance to the above list of major indicators of radical change to our government and our way of life through a hoax War on Terror, you believe that the hand-off to the Democrats will amount to any meaningful undoing of the accumulation of state power.
Will their be a few cosmetic changes? Likely - to placate the masses. But after a few modest backsteps, and the media's grandiose announcements of changes - they key ingredients will remain.
Nice try at conflating an issue.
joeedugan @ 44:
Why do Republicans hate mothers?
Leslie [Hussein] @ 43:
I'd like to add to this before I go.
I think it would be like she was Sally Fields, when she won her Oscar.
only not quite the same.
Leslie [Hussein] @ 46:
Rebel Patriot @ 45:
but I will say this, I think there are enough Dem's still left to try to fix this mess.
Sen Feingold comes to mind.
I'm done.
gn all. be well.
Repugnants aren't drinking Kool aid, they are under the influence of some kind of mind altering drug. Who said insanity wasn't contagious? They are wrong.
mudshark @ 49:
goodnite as well mudshark.
I hope you are right as well, but I think it will be mostly speeches given, and disappointment delivered.
they've had the power of committee chairs now, and what real investigations have their been? what subpoena's have been enforced or a standoff forced to court?
It is not the responsibility of the Democrats to fix the mess we are in. It is our responsibility. I do not lay that responsibility on anyone but ourselves. (Me first.) Is your solution to vote in McCain and get all the Republicans elected? What is your solution?
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 52:
It's going to be a job for all of us. Stay involved and over time we will be able to fix some things but, it's going to take a long time.
The very post this thread is on shows that the Republicans have road blocked everything the Democrats have attempted to do. We need more left leaning or leftist Democrats in office. We need to rid ourselves of the Liebermans and remove the Corporate Media from the airwaves.
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 52:
Still playing the elites game heh?
Do you play rigged games?
Do you vote for elite candidates?
Do you vote for alleged populists with elites as their advisors and key officials?
Rebel Patriot @ 29:
realitys a bitch aint it xoites?
Rebel Patriot @ 55:
Ok, you are a troll.
Bye.
We are done.
Dubya is just having them over so he can bore them with wedding pictures.
mudshark @ 35:
hell mudshark they,ll be long gone with the treasury to parts unknown and we,ll be fighting with sticks and rocks!
I have to agree that the Bush regime has not been a failure. They have been remarkably competent at achieving their objectives. The problem is, is that Conservatism, when put into action, appears like incompetence. The Bush regime set out from the start to dismantle the instrument of democratic government, its ability to regulate and act as a leveler between the coercive power of accumulated wealth and the public interest. Thus we have a dysfunctional and politicized government. By creating huge deficits and sabotaging government agencies such as NASA, FEMA, the EPA and the FDA to name a few, the Conservative movement can argue that government (specifically when it acts in the public interest) is inherently flawed and that we don't have the money to pay for it.
The Bush regime has created a state of virtual lawlessness for the wealthy elite and corporations, while at the same time instituting an authoritarian national security state that spies on its own citizens and tampers with elections. Utilizing the Corporate Media, they have performed the most sophisticated psy-ops and propaganda techniques against the public to advance their agenda of a hegemonic American empire with a permanent military footprint in the middle east and bent the rule of law to allow the suspension of constitutional government, international treaties and civil liberties. They have managed to manipulate the flow of information to the public and limit debate by fear, intimidation and exclusion of alternative views from the media.
They have done all this even after Democrats won the House and Senate. The Bush regime has managed to fend off, avoid and evade any substantial investigations or legal actions against them.
For what they set out to achieve, to destroy democracy by bankrupting the government, to enrich and empower the Military Industrial Complex and Big Oil, to enmesh us in endless war for empire, profit and political control, the Bush regime has been exceptionally effective.
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 57:
resorting to an unfounded ad hominem?
I clearly have been backing up my argument with evidence and logic. How is that being a troll? Just because you fail to grasp the argument - as many others have on this thread have successfully - does not warrant name calling.
Bye? I am not going anywhere, and from the supporting comments my posts have received, I shouldn't.
Snowball @ 60:
I couldn't have said it better. Great post.
xoites (One White Vote for Obama) defends Constitution @ 30:
I have this terrifying vision of Sen Obama standing at the podium at the Inauguration to get sworn in. He will embarrass the whole country.
Rebel Patriot @ 62:
yes it is and you will allso be acused of being a troll , because you didnt add go obama!
abarts @ 63:
You are embarrassing me. I thought you were perhaps more intelligent.
tr @ 40:
I disagree. the coming attack is really planned to keep the Iranians from competing with the Saudis and LOWERING the price of oil and also providing a PORT for the russians to sell their own oil. The base currency is Euros, not dollars. And the plentiful russian oil has no accessible seaport for distribution.
If the US attacks Iran, the Russians will inevitably have to be involved. They have already provided Iran with a defense system and missiles with a 6000 mile range. If the Russians are denied oil by the Saudi-American-British alliance, they'll have far fewer choices.
Then it will get really ugly.
.
The only bush success has been the elimination of the budget SURPLUS!!!
.
CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 66:
(maybe a little hot too)
Not to mention those Continuity of Government plans and Executive orders PD51 might get a chance to breathe.
Election? in this time of grave national emergency?
Snowball @ 60:
don 't forget that the dems were complicit in this. they have either been willing to exploit this disaster for political gain or have been outright co-conspirators(LIEberman, Nelson(Neb.), Boyda, etc.)
the government is a millionaires club. This is now an oligarchy. the two -party system is a myth.
Ron @ 65:
Sorry, Ron-
just couldn't take anymore Sen Clinton bashing on a thread about Republicans.
CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 69:
agreed.
who really doesn't think that the Democrats - the real leadership that is - isn't just chomping at the bit to use the apparatus of the state that has been expanded by the Republicans.
But then again, why would the Republicans just hand over everything that they created - including all the nefarious secret evil state machinery - if it could be used against them...
oh yeah.... that would only apply if their was a real division in the 2-party system.
who was it that wrote that all political systems devolve into oligarchical systems? Robert Michels Iron Law of Oligarchy.
When any stories of the nominees comes on there is a guy in the crowd that'll say I do not like any of the current people running when questioned he'll say I won't vote for hilary because she's hilary won't vote for obama because he's to liberal that leaves Mccrazy why he can give no reason. Maybe we need someone who isn't like the current chimp in the white house bring back the rights that have been taken away and put back the safety nets that have been shredded also to show the world that at least we'll try to make things right by holding those responsible for the last eight years to answer for what has been done
Maybe most of them were laughing and saying "As if!"...?
Never underestimate the GOP. They are just naturally better at the politics thing. Why do dems have better ideas yet always get trounced by BS debates regarding gay marriage and flag-burning? Because Republicans are simply better, and more organized, than we are.
So- be afraid. This stuff looks goofy - meeting with the Pres with the lowest approval rates in history? CRAZY!- but they are formidable, and we have to keep our guards up and avoid any sense of confidence.
BTW- have you contributed to a dem campaign yet this year?
Eric Gray
Everything BUSH*T touches turns to SH*T...he goes down to Louisiana to help senate candidate Kennedy; but poll results now show him trailing by 12 pts to incumbent Landrieau, originally considered vulnerable by the repugs...
angryspittle @ 6:
You ain't alone on that one!!
The people who are controlling the Republicans are smart, the Republicans themselves are well paid puppets.
Being from OH I'm very fond of the rep crying boy Boehner. ;) Let us not forget before the '06 election when the Mark Foley scandal rocked the reps, that Hastert, Reynolds & Boehner were the big (3) that tried to cover up for & keep the Foley debauchery hidden. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/30/AR200609...
It was extremely amusing after the '06 election when the reps elected Boehner their minority leader, he was the best they could come up with to lead their depleted party ~ someone who was involved in the cover-up of a sexual deviant !@#$%^&* that's a good way to break from the previous (6) years of rep corruption!
Yea, that's the ticket ...
neocons briefed on the upcoming invasion of Iran no doubt.
By all means get a picture of this group. Please. And paste it everywhere leading up to the Nov. election.
Hey, is Boehner up for reelection this year?
DemoChristian @ 18:
what you witnessed is the media seeking out a limbaugh repug to display as a hillary supporter. with a repug like mcAsshat as their candidate, it is important for trhe establishment to create discord among the opposition.
I would also be wary of the 'help' obama should expect from rahm emmanuel.
Why do Republicans hate their mothers?
All 199 repugs with their leader; pictures we need pictures!
John Boner is delusional.
mac @ 67:
And eliminating some of that pesky brush on his ranch.
Emma Hussein Goldman @ 85:
He only did it himself when the cameras were rolling.
You mean Dubya can't walk up to rich people any more and say:
"Hi, my daddy's the president and I wanna borrow some money."
HUH... times DO change!
Yea... they SHOULD stand with Bush. They ENABLED Bush. They should ALL go down with his sinking ship of a political party.
No life boats for the Republican ELITES!
Oh boy , they get to meet with the lunatic who destroyed their party !
Comments are closed on this entry