Republican Agonistes: GOP wrestles with the toxic embrace of its wingnut base
Republicans were out this weekend in force, holding town-hall meetings designed to "reconnect" with constituents -- and demonstrating in the process that they remain as clueless as ever.
As it happens, there was also an interesting Rasmussen poll showing that those constituents basically despise them:
Just 21% of GOP voters believe Republicans in Congress have done a good job representing their own party’s values, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Sixty-nine percent (69%) say congressional Republicans have lost touch with GOP voters throughout the nation. These findings are virtually unchanged from a survey just after Election Day.
Among all voters, 73% say Republicans in Congress have lost touch with the GOP base.
Seventy-two percent (72%) of Republicans say it is more important for the GOP to stand for what it believes in than for the party to work with President Obama. Twenty-two percent (22%) want their party to work with the President more.
In other words, the Republican base, by a large margin, is unhappy with their party's political leadership for not being right-wing enough. And that happens to comport with what their real leadership, aka the Right-Wing Punditocracy, has been saying.
Unfortunately for Republicans, the electorate at large has a distinctly different outlook. They strongly want Republicans to cooperate with President Obama, and strongly believe they are not making a good-faith effort to do so, either. Republicans want to fight, but this not a fight Republicans are winning:
A new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll shows that the president has a 63 percent favorability rating. But 31 percent of Americans approve of how congressional Republicans have conducted themselves, a dropoff of 13 percentage points from February when the same question was asked.
Here's the standard GOP analysis of the problem:
Shortly after the November elections, Republicans en masse began to acknowledge that the party had lost its way on the issue of fiscal discipline during the Bush administration. Their vote against the stimulus bill was the first real test for Republicans to exercise their frustration with what they describe as excessive federal spending. And they're shaping a message around this theme.
"We are united," said Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. "The debt of this country is a national crisis and a national security issue."
The problem with this is that Republicans seem to believe that it was simply George W. Bush's profligate ways with the budget that caused the economic disaster we currently are confronting. And that's part of the picture, to be sure. But only a small part.
The cold reality is that, as we explained after the election, the economic turmoil was created by a broad swath of Bush policies that, in every respect, were clear products of conservative fiscal and governmental philosophy:
The swirling global economic crisis produced by Republican rule is only the most prominent debacle produced by eight years of conservative philosophy being put into action. Conservatives never met a deregulation scheme they didn't like -- and it was that very mania for breaking down well-established institutional barriers, particularly in the financial sector, that led to the housing bubble and the collapse on Wall Street. Certainly, Democrats played along, often eagerly -- but they were being conservative when they did.
No doubt the solutions to the economic crisis will entail re-regulating the financial sector and imposing strict government oversight. And when they do, no doubt conservatives will accuse Democrats of indulging "socialism". But it is to laugh: the right has earned all the credibility of Joe the Plumber on such matters.
Especially when you consider all the other fruits of conservative governance:
- Foreign-policy debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- A government that invades nations under false pretenses.
- A nation less secure and at greater risk of terrorist attacks than ever.
- A sinking economy.
- An expanding gap between rich and poor.
- Utter inaction on global warming.
- $5-a-gallon gasoline.
- An unresolved immigration problem.
- An incapacity to deal with natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina.
- A debacle in public-school education testing and funding.
- Declining food and consumer-product safety standards.
- A government that spies on its own citizens.
- A government that tortures prisoners held in their detention facilities.
These messes weren't the result of George W. Bush being too liberal and straying too far from the movement's party line. To the contrary -- they're the direct result of him toeing that line to the millimeter. They are all the direct product of the conservative philosophy of governance.
So it's not surprising that the public now believes more in liberal solutions than conservative ones:
The survey found the public holds greater confidence in Democrats than in Republicans in handling most of the issues that are involved in Obama's legislative agenda.
Democrats were favored by a margin of 61 percent to 29 percent on education; 59 percent to 30 percent on health care and 59 percent to 31 percent on energy. Congress is expected to consider major legislation later this year in all three areas.
Democats were also viewed with more confidence in handling taxes, long a Republican strong suit. The only issue among nine in the survey where the two parties were rated as even was in the war on terror.
Conservatives had their shot and blew it -- and it goes well beyond George W. Bush's budget failures.
..to nowhere.
"The only issue among nine in the survey where the two parties were rated as even was in the war on terror."
Really? After eight wars of war and nothing accomplished? Over 4,00 US soldiers dead and untold foreign civilians? After a homeland security office that couldn't distinguish between its head and its ass?
Really? They are THAT stupid?
Yes, yes they are really that stupid.
It was rhetorical...;)
Stupid!
My reply was SARCAAAAASTIC!
Butthole! ;p
I don't think the "Stupid!" was directed at you there Zippy.
Sparky.
It's all in jest anyway.
I wonder why I even try to be cute on the web.
sigh.
;)
You look cute when you're exasperated.
hittin on all 8 cylinders today...
Just want to say no sticking out your tongue when calling someone else a butthole. yechh!
BWAAAAAAH!
You bastard!
That was pretty damn funny!!!
... to know its head from its arse.
It was designed to bring major agencies (FBI, NSA, CIA) under one umbrella not for 'information sharing' or 'communication' purposes, but to enable one-stop shopping for human rights abuses and violations of the law.
Feel safer? Not when the very name 'Homeland Security' sounds like something out of a fascist bureaucracy, not when the first appointee as secretary looked like an extra out of a WW2 flick (as a Nazi), not when the next guy to hold the office looks like a balding Felix Dzerzhinsky.
.......'heck of a job'...........Chertoff, a Dubya wanna be. GAG!!
Yes! This is exactly the problem. Repubs will not learn that their economic philosophy is wrong-headed because they will simply lay all of the current problems on Bush's (and Obama's) doorstep. The philosophy goes unquestioned again, and it will return stronger than ever once our national attention-deficit disorder takes over again.
Beware of anyone promising a future full of yesterdays.
National attention-deficit disorder, YOU nailed it! Proliferated by the whore-media, might I add?
the republican base is still alive and well, and will probably grow daily as the voters see thiers very little change happening under the democrats , at any event the last election was not worth winning to the corporations thats why they ran mccain and palin, they were both sacrifice politicians and thier loss ment nothing to them , it was obvious the corporations could get what they wanted with a democrat in name only obama administration and a complacent bunch of democrat voters, nosir wasnt any need of fixed voteing machines very little purgeing of democrat voters , the republican lite wing of the corporations branch are now incharge!
...little brother went he kicked my ass in chess. Lol.
Why would anyone lose on purpose?
John McCain is the kind of guy whose ego would allow him to lose nothing.
what has been a longtime problem for the GOP is just how different the GOP base is from those that the GOP takes marching orders from. things were fine for awhile, they could distract their base with "cultural" issues, all-the-while governing as a cash-hose for the ruling elite. but now as the proverbial shit has hit the fan they are in a serious conundrum: cater to the far right christian base, or continue their subservience to the corporate class. wall street or jesus street.
although we know who always wins, the question is what dastardly ploy the GOP will use to retain the far right base. deep down i think some of the GOP political estab are scared to death of those they call their supporters.
well put. that's theri 'conundrum'. they're losing moderates. these are people i can actually talk with. with clinton's positive economic legacy the (r) party went dirty. they fed the right extremists base who are
preoccupied with abortion and same sex marriage. these people are an embarassement to "conservative"
intellects. of course they are just used. every election the "wedge issues" are used to rally these people.
these are the same people that claim to follow the word of NOT judging others when in actuality many often do just the opposite. what the right wing lawmakers understand that often the left/dem. economic
agenda will most likely be favorable by lower/mid income republicans so they have to get them on their side some how. that some how is cultural issues and BLAMING government for everything.
Remember a couple of months back when they were describing the Dems as Fascists and comparing Obama to Hitler and Mussolini?
How truly messed up do you have to be to be so far to the right that Hitler and Mussolini look like radical left wingers to you?
The sooner these clowns go the way of the Whigs the better for everyone.
They have not stopped.
(snark starts)
And heh, Mussolini *was* a vegetarian at least for a little while ... that's got to count for something.
(snark ends)
Everytime a Republican starts talking about America's overspending and debt they need to be asked straightforward which spending bills they voted against and why was the Iraq War spending offline or not in the budget!
... will be 'that was necessary to keep Americans safe!'
You'll never get a different answer, because honesty requires that they admit they were either corrupt, complicit, or stupid (perhaps all three).
"we explained after the election" link doesn't work for me.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Here.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Sorry 'bout that. It's fixed.
Mimicking what the Democratic Party did isn't going to help these losers. They don't get it. THEIR way IS the highway. They can't muster enough hate groups to be a factor, and preaching the Republican values of 50 years ago isn't who they are.
It's hopeless, and these clowns are going to see the final curtain close ON THEM! Good riddance.
Time for a new party. Maybe it's time for the Libeterian Party or bring back the Whigs??
people and solutions do not begin to rise to the top, the repubs will go the way of the Federalist Party...Problem is we DO NEED BALANCE IN CONGRESS...The Dem's leadership hubris is beginning to errupt!
I don't know, I don't think a drag queen party will fly in today's political climate.
Thats what they used to say about you guys.
They have painted themselves into a corner and yet they keep on painting. Screw them and their hard luck BS.
You mean they paint themselves into the corner and wait for the paint to dry so they can put the 2nd coat on and paint themselves into a corner again.
Night Of The Living Dead Republicans.
Come 2010 they will be wandering the dark streets of small towns, arms akimbo, moaning incoherently, looking for victims.
... is eat your brains.
...I'm not gonna click there.....
:)
Really. It's a parody song by Jonathan Coulton. :D
Back when SNL was still good with the original cast, they did a sketch that was a parody of The Body Snatchers or the like. The people were all good liberals until they found these giant pods with a large "Reagan" logo on them. Someone opened one, and hilarity and calamity ensued.
"Seventy-two percent (72%) of Republicans say it is more important for the GOP to stand for what it believes in than for the party to work with President Obama."
Do 72% of Republicans really, really believe that wealthy people need to be made wealthier, that we really should invade sovereign nations based on lies and innuendo, that the country should fail because there isn't a Republican Dictator in the White House, that you have to hate life, that people with dark skin don't count? What exactly is it that the GOP stands for if not these things that they seem so intent of proffering the American public?
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
72% of Republicans ARE wealthy people.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
that they too can be rich...even though, like joe the faux plumber, they havent a shot in hades
the repug party has become like those late nite informercials, with the core selling the rest on some pie in the sky scheme
there is a rube born every minute
a bunch of bullshit Uncle Joe. I come from a dirt poor family. My mother actualy remembers living in a house with dirt floors now that is pretty fucking poor in my book and I worked hard and made it. Because I believed I could. How hopeless it must feel to be you. I think you are the rube waiting for tax credits from the masters hand instead of making your own way. I would like to go on but it's getting late. Maybe I will go in late tomorrow, you can do that when you own the place.
So much of their "faith" is invested in magicality that no matter what they do, they can somehow rationalize it internally.
Republicans remain the party of manly-men even when they are caught chasing male interns or soliciting gay sex in airport bathrooms.
Global warming? If we deny it enough, it will go away!
Gay equality? If we deny it enough, it will go away!
Bad economy? If we deny it enough, it will go away!
In the technical parlance, this situation is known as "fucked." As in "The GOP is completely fucked now."
hahhahahhahahahha
the RIGHT is trying very hard to get us to stop talking about the BUSH legacy. specifically the financial crisis,economic crisis, steep oil prices, unemployment, automaker crisis,huge deficit, larger government
tortureGATE and two war(s). they don't want to hear it. remember we heard clinton was at fault for everything for 8 yrs. we're NOT done with BUSH yet. trying to pass blame to obama for the TARP/credit crisis is ridiculous. the propaganda machine is trying to reduce/dilute the negative inheritance/legacy handed to obama from BUSH/(r). this of course is to re-establish the (r) party. NOW we're going to hear how conservative they are and how they don't want big government. where were their voices the past 8 yrs.
there are anti obama peeps on this blog. i ask that you remember the BUSH legacy and that obama has been at this for 100 days.
I am fully in favor of the GOP continuing to reach out to its base and moving the Party further to the right.
Only then...can they guarantee the success of their strategy and achieve a truly pure Party.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Sounds like a party platform speech from 1930's Germany:
"Only then...can [we] guarantee the success of [our] strategy and achieve a truly pure Party."
Yuck.
"Dodging taxes" and "NO" are the only two things in the Republican platform; neither were principles of Ronnie R.
Dodging taxes? When they announced today that Obama was going after income tax cheats I wondered who would be our next Treasury Secretary.
Can you say vetting process washout tour 2009?
Troglodytes Unite!
Conservatives are very much in tune with the republican party and this poll is the result of Fox News and Limbaugh trying to save the Titanic by blaming it on the iceberg alone. It's bullshit and they know it, so to save face they blame conservatives they supported all this time and the sheep fall for it. The republican party has never stopped being conservative, what happened is that CONSERVATISM FAILED, regardless of them saying that it did not. Their game now is to blame is on progressives saying that the republicans acted like liberals and that's why it failed and I WONT ACCEPT IT.
Conservatism is the poison, conservatism is the problem, not liberalism. The republican party IS CONSERVATIVE AND THE LAST ELECTION IS PROOF THAT AMERICANS REJECT IT.
you might be on to something. maybe this we lost our way story is NOT true. maybe it just didn't work. it's a good point.
It's amazing that democrats don't see this thing, they are trying to blame their failure on progressive values and I don't see one damn host or blogger saying shit about it. Bullshit, they failed because of their ideology, they failed because of conservatism.
Couldn't conservatism be a failed ideology that the GOP has drifted from?
Success means returning to failure.
FOR THE WIN
Thinking that just because someone disapproves of something that also means they want the govt to do something about it.
Take gays for example. For every social conservative that thinks gays oughtn't to marry AND thinks the govt should stop them from marrying, there is a social conservative that thinks gays oughtn't to marry but DOESN'T care enough about it to base a political loyalty on it.
Its a pretty glaring conflict in the GOP's supposed values. On one hand the RNC wants small govt that doesn't stick its nose into people business. On the other hand they want the govt to outlaw behavior they disapprove of that doesn't impact or affect them in any way.
They spent years creating this monster by fomenting all the extremist rhetoric they could gather. Now "the base" has unleashed its fury against their GOP representatives. What did they expect?
"WE'LL DO IT LIVE!"
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common sense matters as much as truth
is simply a warmup...they gotta lynch the black guy, so they're building justification.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
"In other words, the Republican base, by a large margin, is unhappy with their party's political leadership for not being right-wing enough. And that happens to comport with what their real leadership, aka the Right-Wing Punditocracy, has been saying."
Look, I'm dumber than a sack of wet hammers, but considering this is a poll of GOP voters, to come away specifically with that opinion is short-sighted in itself.
There are plenty of moderate voters than tend to lean GOP, because they believe the horse hockey that the GOP always sells, that only Republicans can keep terror at bay and your taxes low. These voters might otherwise be social liberals - they may not consider abortion or gay-marriage when they vote for a Republican (it's just they don't consider it the other way, either). Keep me safe & my taxes low and I'm happy is the mantra. And they've now had 8 years where they really haven't been kept safer and their taxes haven't been kept low, and they've got nothing to show for it. For these voters, it's not that they want the GOP to be more conservative, it's just that the "family values" issues have trumped all else, they see the zealotry that's running rampant within the party and they want none of it.
To be sure, there are plenty of wingnuts who want the GOP to be even more wingnutty. But that's not the entire party, and it's dangerously short-sighted to assume otherwise, because the ones who are leaving, the ones unhapy with the current direction, are the ones looking for a voice of reason that doesn't exist in their party today.
of course, it's possible that anyone even moderately sane has already left and only the wingnuts remain...but to assume so would be to underestimate their numbers and their message.
The New and Improved GOP...now with 20% more fruits and wingnuts!
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Now with only 20% fruits and wingnuts?
the rest is 80% cornpone flakes.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
You're talking about the 21 percent who think the party should work harder with President Obama, as opposed to the 72% who think they should do exactly as they did.
Is that not why we vote our leaders into office to stand up for what we believe in? I don’t go along with what I think is wrong just for the sake of getting along nether should they. Question is what happened to the other 28%.
An "overflow crowd of 100 people" came to hear what Mittens, Can'tor, and the brother of the worst. president. ever, had to say?
Hahahaha. Fail.
We get that kind of crowd here at my place of employment when they announce that there are free doughnuts in the cafeteria.
I've seen more people at Applebee's come out of the kichen clapping when someone has a birthday.
Same old GOP. Talking of expanding the party and diversity to an all white audience.
Simple solution: ditch the fundies and Fox.
First person to speak up usually get crucified by the rest. They've kinda painted themselves into a corner of intolerance
For 50 years the Rushthugliklans have been bashing, blacks, brown people, gays, non-Christians, libruls, Volvo drivers, latte drinkers, and Americans who prefer peace over war in order to get elected. They have now alienated everyone except the angry white, gun toten, bible thumpin knuckledraggers and tea bagers.
I was about to write almost the exact thing you wrote. How do they expect to attract more people to their party when so many of those people are people who they reject? I think the only group you left out are women who have an issue with privacy of their own bodies.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
He did leave out woman some groups tend to do that.
I've been saying 20-30, but he may be right. The GOP can not win without a large majority of centrist independents, but their largest base, the theocrats, think they need to move farther right. To get the independents, they risk allienating their base. To go farther right guarantees future losses. They are between a rock and a hard place and no one deserves that more!
Which begs the question, "How did someone as bright as James Carvelle, marry someone as onerous as Mary Matlin?"
Seriously.
But surely there are some unattractive Dems he could have married. I know unattractive women, being bitter and all tend to be GOP, but surely there is a liberal woman out there somewhere not out of his league.
(tongue in cheek)
Ready to fix the GOP!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVdUsgYA_D4
The Repulican Party: Where the Rich get Richer and the Fools get Fooled.
and the sheep are scared.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
and yet the sheep are too dumb to get sheepish about it.
A lady called in to Washington Journal this morning on c-span. She identified herself as a long time republican. She said that the religious right had ruined her party for her. She said the repubs had catered too long and too much to them. Some republicans are seeing the same thing we are seeing.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
we've blogged together for years. You know I've always said that the problem with the GOP is that it is no longer a "conservative" party, but a party dominated by extremists.
I have no problem with true conservatives. I may even agree with them on certain issues...such as personal responsiblity and fiscal responsibility. Most of the debates are in the details, but...when there is mutual respect, common ground can be found.
The GOP has been destroyed by the "all or nothing", "you're either with us or against us" attitude of the extremists in the Party. Lump in the religious extremism and it's easy to understand why the Party has imploded.
I feel for that woman, not "home" in either Party.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
... seem to want some kind of ideal conservatism / ideological purity, which doesn't exist.
I mean, I'm liberal on many issues (abortion, same-sex marriage, privacy), conservative on others (military - and, IMHO, Iraq is not a conservative viewpoint as far as I'm concerned, it's a bunch of REMF's confusing the map for the territory - law enforcement, education).
She will need to be purged from the Republican party. Dissent and n
ew ideas are not welcome here!
On the other hand, she sounds like she would make a very sexy Democrat.
I felt sorry for her. She wasn't some crazy calling in, like so often happens on that program, she was a lady who was just so frustrated that the religious right had been allowed to direct her political party.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
As a Leftist, it pleases me to no end to be a proud member of a political faction that has no extreme, "wing-nut", fringe members.
I wouldn't say THAT.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
..... but, for the most part, lefty extremists protest by wearing pink or rainbow colored outfits and don't threaten to kill anyone.
Right-wing extremists are "armed and dangerous!"
Nor would I what about Bill Ayers? It seems to me like it is always the Left wing protests that result in violence. The recent protests by the right wing had little or no violence for the MSM to report. Maybe that’s why MSM hates the right so much.
What recent left wing protest resulted in violence from the protesters? I can think of plenty where the police got violent, but I can't think of many where left wing protesters were violent.
Maybe anarchists get violent, but they aren't really for any politics, so it would be hard to label them liberal...
Well why not you guys stick us with the insane white supremist groups.
The left is reactionary and aware. We think the truth is better than a lie and we are arrogant about it.
The right is self righteous and fearful. They think a lie is better than the truth if it protects and maintains the status quo.
The left sees the right as hypocrites and liars for which lives are lost and families are ruined.
The right thinks the left will destroy everything with their inclusion of all races, their equal rights for women, and their obsession with gay rights.
The left knows the right needs an enemy to have cohesion and that it can be manipulated into bonding together in a tribal manner if they can be convinced that enemy is real.
The right will lump any place, person, or thing together that questions their beliefs and furthermore will justify murder in order to maintain their self described reality.
One is about getting at truth and advancing human development in a real way that benefits us all.
One is about maintaining a set of group edicts or values to be defended no matter what the facts may indicate.
One is capable of extreme violence and intolerance based on self preservation and denial.
One is capable of violence and intolerance against lies and distortions that kill human beings and destroy life.
One is reactionary. One is protective. Both are being manipulated by a fraudulent system and propaganda set in motion for a century.
Abolish the Federal Reserve and the IRS. Take back our money supply from the private bankers that profit off our labor. Remove the shadow elite from the back rooms of our government. Break the corporate media into fractions and stop the propaganda machine for the ruling class elite. Prosecute any person living on our soil that violates the constitution of the United States.
Micheal Steele cleaned up after everyone left.
Looks like Jeb has had more than his share of tacos and every other food product since he left Tallahassee. The dude has gained some weight.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
The don't call em fat cats for nothing
Multi-millionaire Mittens and Bush royalty Jeb sitting their with their sock puppet trying to be average Joes like they care about rank and file Americans.
Funny.
When I hear "regular folks", I know a big steaming pile is about ready to be served up.
they actually think that "holding town-hall meetings"
in a mexican restaurant is the trick???
Bill-O to note that the patrons actually use silverware, and nobody is yelling, "Hey, M-F'er, where's my cerveza!?!?!"
These rightards are still trying to impose their Christofascist "Contract On America" fascism against us, and over the past 8 years we have seen the consequences of unchecked Republinazism. The citizens of the country are fed up with Christian terrorism and treason.
with crowing over the fact that public opinion polls favor Obama. Remember back when everyone loved St. Ronnie, and we were the small percent who were against what he was doing? We were right then and I believe we are right now, but just having the poll numbers doesn't make it so.
what was G.W. Bush's highest rating? 90% or so? Kinda makes Obama's 68% look kinda sad.
And what did he do with that kind of support?
He squandered it all away.
The country was backing him immediately following 9/11
So much for the myth the Dems hate America.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
for the myth of Dems not supporting the iraqi war.
You must be one lonely fuck hanging around still trying to apologize for the Bush disaster.
The re-Thug party doesn't stand for anything - has piss-poor leadership (or worse) - and has completely lost its moral center (decades ago.)
While as a result -- people have left the re-Thug party in droves and will no longer call themselves such ---- and the re-Thug lunatic fringe is sending any mentally sound members that remain running for cover. What reasonable person wants to be a member of the grotesque thing that is now the Re-Thuglic party?
Re-thug-lics -- the party of immature, voraciously rapacious, depraved, despotic, doughy white, cowardly, angry troglodytes, bigots, racists, perverts, xenophobes, pedophiles, murderers, war criminals, homophobes, misogynists, self-righteous hypocrites, self-hating women, fetid wombs, preeminent whiners and consummate chronic liars.
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It's one thing for the main stream infotainers becoming preoccupied with silly issues and having long winded discussions about the republican party's problem , but why here , just to keep the fire burning and avoid REAL issues like Condeslezza Rice's torture excuse on video .
It's not a left right issue , it's us v them .
WHO CARES !
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LuLu
Town hall meetings eh ? These boys are sure clever aren't they ? Gee , no one will see through this one ! The Repugs are becoming a comedy act .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
Look at the guy standing next to Mitt. The first 16 seconds are hilarious.
Dave has a nice list.
And just what will Obama do to change any of it? Pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan? Go IN to Pakistan?
Implement cap and trade to counter the right's doing nothing?
Continue the spying programs. Rendition? Gitmo?
Fake progressives are a sad lot. Even sadder than the Bushies.
that coordinated uncontested repetition magnifies the right and makes real democracy impossible
You guys have it now. There is no denying it. full control. Even a shiny new Supreme court pick. Lets see what you guys do with it. Just know one thing you can't blame the old boss forever. I will be looking at this list as time goes by. I think $5 dollar gas will be the first milestone revisited. Just a guess.
.Foreign-policy debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan.
.A government that invades nations under false pretenses.
.A nation less secure and at greater risk of terrorist attacks than ever.
.A sinking economy.
.An expanding gap between rich and poor.
.Utter inaction on global warming.
.$5-a-gallon gasoline.
.An unresolved immigration problem.
.An incapacity to deal with natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina.
.A debacle in public-school education testing and funding.
.Declining food and consumer-product safety standards.
.A government that spies on its own citizens.
.A government that tortures prisoners held in their detention facilities
We get to blame Bush for as long as you got to blame Clinton which was one hell of a long time.
I voted for clinton dork
Both of these parties are so contaminated by affiliations with lobbyists that nothing they say is believable. We need new parties. Nothing gets accomplished by recycling Democrats and Republicans. All we end up doing is recycling the same issues decade after decade.
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