GOP Lifeless, Commissars Lively
By John Batchelor on October 25, 2009 at 10:30 AM in Current Affairs
A possible explanation is the Obama administration’s whimsical spending binge since the $1 trillion mark is now the fashion in DC. Another explanation is that the party has put in a bottom.
The depth of the grave is now six feet. There is no good news in the GOP. The 23rd NY continues to look like a black eye. The naive and aimless conservative/libertarian mouthpiece candidate Doug Hoffman, a creature of media attention and the Club for Growth, shows enough strength either to split the dominantly Republican vote in a legacy GOP district on the Canadian border or else surge past the lackluster and also aimless GOP candidate Dede Scozzfava (a Pataki choice) and go to Congress as an independent Know-Nothing. In sum, the GOP is fragmented, listless and about to lose another seat in the House.
This is not a signal of party sturdiness. Instead, argues a trusted correspondent, it points to the fact that the Ross Perot phenomenon of disgust with all government is back in force. Two decades after the original, it is more accurate to say that the Perot boom was not a Republican renewal but rather a facile, vain, ignorant lurch off the tracks by the alienated that permitted the unknown Bill Clinton to rise to the occasion. The Perotistas will burn out again, but not before 2010 and maybe not until after 2012. The GOP professionals are dismayed and resigned. POTUS and the White House Politburo are lucky to have the Sons of Perotistas in the field. Tea Party pours hallucinatory molasses on the dopey GOP head.
A poll by ABC/Washington Post shows the GOP identification down to 20%. It isn’t zero, but it is a dead-looking pachyderm. (That is a very bouyant TR standing with elephant gun in hand, 1910).
Ken Feinberg, the so-called Pay Czar, has published a list of mandated reductions that transform POTUS and his Politburo into Commissars of Captured Capitalism.
Is it a good thing that dead banks get to pay their dead bankers billions of dollars? No.
Is it a good thing that the White House orders people to give up their private compensation arrangements with private enterprises? No.
Is it fun to laugh at the rich as they whine and maneuver? Yes.
Will members of Congress receive many heated phone calls from expensively paid head-hunters who are looking to fill the soon to be abandoned ranks of the zombie banker jobs? Perhaps. Why work at Citibank, with a bonus ceiling, when you can work at HSBC and live large?
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The only way to have true fairness is to regulate the media: major newspapers such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today, as well as magazines and national television networks.
The Republican party is a joke
The obamacratic party, aside from being a complete contradiction in terms is also a joke–one being perpetrated on all of us. Next time, Tom, do us a favor and limit your voting to contestants on American Idol.
Excellent article at Hot Air–”Rogue Stars Rising”. Sounds like the “battles” within the repub party need to be fought.
Both parties have lost their way. Neither stands for anything except greed and power.
Seems like PUMAS and tea partiers want that to change. I know, I do.
I hear you.
it’s like an echo in my head!
The Dim-oc-rat-ic Party is a
NIGHTMARE
WTF are you talking about??
Now the government should take over and regulate the media? I know! We can call it TASS!!
Only in our version, it would stand for Treasonous Americans for Strategic Socialism.
What an idiot.
LOL
Sorry Steve!
I forgot to mention it was Rush Limbaugh who said that, in July 2007.
From World News Daily:
“Rush Limbaugh: Regulate the ‘Drive-By Media’
Broadcaster suggests ‘Truth Doctrine’ to control all outlets but talk radio”
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56632
Who knew Rush was such an authoritarian!!
And I suppose you think this is a big Pro-Limbaugh site? Maybe you think that because the tone here is anti-Obama you think it’s a bastion of right-wingers and conservative Republicans? If that’s the case, then we all know who is the idiot here.
The same way anyone critical of the right wing hypocrisy is attacked here as an Obama worshiper. So it goes both ways, bud.
And by the way, why the compunction with Limbaugh? He wants the same thing you want (Obama to fail) and has the same ‘anti-Obama tone’ as you put it, so what’s not to like?
Man-up already and own him, he’s all yours!
We man up every day, bluex. This site has always been centrist in that most (but not all) of us didn’t like Bush and we certainly don’t like That One. While Limbaugh is a bellicose gasbag with delusions of grandeur, he has a right to speak just as the shills who support That One have a right to so do. That right, however, doesn’t include this site, which is owned by one Larry Johnson. That’s one reason many of us come here–to get away from the petulant children, i.e., extremists from either side, who seem bent on running this country into the ditch.
talk about being BEAT UP??? I’m a PUMA4PALIN BABY!!
go ahead and THROW ME A PUNCH!! foos
Better yet, the government bureaucrats should writer the stories and editorials. The government should make their press and media departments contract employees for those media companies and everyone in those companies connected to journalism should be put in jail as a vacation opportunity for them and given free health care while there.
Lets dismantle our society, change everything and welcome whatever is dictated to us as new.
“Regulate the media”?! I don’t believe you can be serious, Bluex; you think “state-run media” is the solution? That’s a breathtaking assertion, and fundamentally horrifying to me in every respect. To put it nicely, have you lost your everlovin’ mind?!
The GOP is dead; the Democrats are next. But they’ll both take all of us down with them.
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I am not sure about the universe” - Albert Einstein was not kidding.
The Snowball of Derivatives: The Specter of a Second Black Swan
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“The notion that any public official — the president or a policeman — possesses a kind of inherent power to set aside the Constitution whenever he thinks the public interest or ‘national security’ warrants it, is subversive.” - Don Edwards, 2002 recipient of Thurgood Marshall Award for his “unswerving devotion to the Constitution and its values throughout his career.”
Obama Every Bit as Bad as Bush/Cheney on Patriot Act
http://www.opposingviews.com/articles/opinion-obama-every-bit-as-bad-as-bush-cheney-on-patriot-act#
thanks for the articles
He he. Not really complete chaos. Complete chaos is a different thing. It is being organized and planned by Obama’s ego.
No. It would mean complete uncertainty and the end of probability. How? By triggering a slew of additional black swans. Unbelievable. Whatever will reign everywhere.
Is funny that the solution (at least in my mind) was so simple.
Abit OT, but I saw this on another blog this morning and it was so much fun that I just had to share it… (its all about attitude eh?!)
HOW TO START EACH DAY WITH A POSITIVE OUTLOOK
1. Open a new file in your computer.
2. Name it ‘Barack Obama’.
3. Send it to the Recycle Bin.
4. Empty the Recycle Bin.
5. Your PC will ask you:
‘Do you really want to get rid of ‘Barack Obama?’
6. Firmly Click ‘Yes.’
7. Feel better?
GOOD! – Tomorrow we’ll do Nancy Pelosi.
ROFLMAO!
I just did it, too, and felt much better.
Hahahahaha
I think I am more angry at those underlings that are STILL so complicit like the WHOLE DEM rules and by laws committee esPECIALLY DONNA BRAZZZIERE! Plus Axelrove, Rahmbo,Pelosiosaur, I can’t decide WHO I THINK is a bigger traitor to this country……… perhaps JOHN EDWARDS??? OR all those donkeys that took their name OFF the ballot in MICHIGAN to HELP OBAMBI the ONE WHO ALWAYS NEEDS HELP! po po baby!~
gawdddddddddd help us!
This is a great idea for releaving stress! Thanks!
sjc-tx,
Original, crative and like it a lot. As you say, a great way to start the day.
I can’t believe I read that here. Are you saying we must stay with the “@holes that brung us”? Even though they have taken us over the cliff economically and to the brink of losing our democracy?
The House of Representatives was set up to be the People’s house. Where citizens could do their duty for two years and then go back home. Maybe having representatives who need to rely on the home community for advice and consent would serve us better then the ones we have now who stiff arm any constituent who tries to find out what is going.
And I am pretty sure I have heard the “giant sucking sound” as have a great many Americans. After having lived through the last two years as a “bitter clinging sore loosing bed wetter” I suspect any statement that runs along these lines:
Any way you look at it Republican or Democratic, our party system is in need of a major overhaul.
Take every ABC/Washington Post poll “with a grain of salt” as their number are bogus. I am not saying that republicans are any great choice, but the last poll (not this one) the polling group was about 1000 people and represented the views of 36% Democrats and only 20% Republicans. With these kind of numbers it can only result in a distortion of the results. ABC and the Washington Post has been in the bag for Obama since day one. Not only are the Republicans shooting themselves in the NY 23 race, they are also, by splitting the vote, going to let Corzine coast to victory in New Jersey.
Oh my goodness, the reporters in this story look mighty worried….and the female reporter looks like she can barely get her words together…lol…
MG-PUMA
kelly evans is…kinda smokin’ hot.
sorry.
couldn’t help mentioning it…
Republicans with deep enough pockets to be real players only care about low tax rates & deregulation. Socially they gravitate toward the limo liberals & are basically appalled by wedge issues like abortion & 2nd amendment advocacy & when they try to wear those mantels they reek of insincerity. Deep pocket Repugs have been lined up with social liberals for 20 years on immigration & outsourcing, neither party gives a damn about the middle classes. The corporate Repugs, in their lust for cheap labor, have played into the hands of the Dems & consequently the rolls of the poor have grown. The poor, having gotten the idea that Dems will morph all of their desires into rights, will never go over to the Republican Party. The only hope for Republicans is to convince the middle classes that ObamaCare, Cap & Trade & taxes will be so costly the middle classes will surrender all they have worked for & fear based campaigns rarely win over happy talk. Republicans are too stupid to woo the middle classes. Obama gave them an opening when he promised no taxes on seniors making less than 25K & they’re too dense to see it: Why don’t they seize it? Build on it? Lobby for a graduated cap gains rate? No, those dense clowns are still blabbering about corporate tax cuts, everything to benefit themselves & drop the middle class into the big bottom. We are so 13 TRILLION dollar screwed.
Bill Clinton was a master of co opting the opposition’s talking points. Repugs need to study the technique & target their audience.
A move toward the center would more than likely help, as well. While I don’t need any left-wing kook telling me how to live and think, I certainly don’t need any right-wing nutbag trying to do the same. The operative acronym is MYOB and I’ll mind mine.
Does it bother anyone else that it seems that Ken Feinberg is giving a lot of orders yet he is one of the Obama czars that is not even congressionally approved?
Hey I’m just like the next guy and don’t like the idea of the big CEOs living high off the hog on our money, but to give this kind of power to Feinberg or even to the executive branch????
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