| Subject: Re: Rolling Stone: The GOP's Dirty War |
| From: "Sir Arthur C.B.E. Wholeflaffers A.S.A." <science@zzz.com> |
| Date: 14/03/2010, 19:19 |
| Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,alt.alien.research,alt.paranet.ufo,sci.skeptic,alt.conspiracy |
On Mar 14, 9:55 am, "Hagar" <hagen@sahm,name> wrote:
"Sir Arthur C.B.E. Wholeflaffers A.S.A." <scie...@zzz.com> wrote in messagenews:e30241ec-631b-4061-8e1c-f4f23ad84881@u5g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
On Mar 13, 7:15 am, Tom Davos <tda...@gmail.com> wrote:
How Republicans have risen from the dead by distorting Obama's agenda
and shutting down the government
Permission to remain an ignorant LipFlapper is hereby GRANTED.
Carry On !!
Review:
The GOP's Dirty War
How Republicans have risen from the dead by distorting Obama's agenda
and shutting down the government
Only a year ago, the Republican Party had been given up for dead. Top
GOP strategists despaired that their party — decimated by two
consecutive bloodbath elections — was leaderless, dominated by
Southern conservatives and lurching rightward into irrelevance. "The
Republican Party seems to be slipping into a position of being more of
a regional party," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell warned his
colleagues. "In politics, there's a name for a regional party: It's
called a minority party."
As the embittered remains of the GOP caucus locked arms against
President Obama and a stimulus plan designed to put Americans back to
work, the Party of No seemed no match for Yes We Can. Stuart
Rothenberg, one of the Beltway's top handicappers, derided as "lunacy"
the boast last April by Rep. Eric Cantor — architect of the Republican
strategy of obstruction — that the GOP would soon return to power.
"The chance of Republicans winning control of either chamber in the
2010 midterm elections is zero," Rothenberg declared. "Not 'close to
zero.' Not 'slight' or 'small.' Zero."
What a difference a year makes: Visions of a generation of Democratic
dominance have been eclipsed by a brutal economy and the party's
internal gridlock. Despite the $787 billion stimulus, unemployment
remains stuck in double digits. Health care reform — Obama's
centerpiece legislation — has jumped the rails, and every day spent
seeking to get it back on track is a day not focused on the economy,
stupid. "Barack Obama spent seven months talking about something other
than the most important issue to voters: jobs and wages," says party
strategist Simon Rosenberg. "Democrats left the door open for the
Republicans."
As a result, the GOP is poised to take back the House in November.
There are 59 congressional seats in play, and 53 of them belong to
Democrats. "We are seeing 28 to 38 Democratic losses, and it's getting
worse," says Charlie Cook, a top political forecaster. "Right now the
trajectory is going over 40" — the number of GOP pickups required to
flip the House. Even in the Senate, all bets are off following the
election of Tea Party darling Scott Brown in Massachusetts and the
unexpected retirements of red-state Democrats Byron Dorgan of North
Dakota and Evan Bayh of Indiana. "Democrats are demoralized, and
independents think we're incapable of governing," says Markos
Moulitsas, founder of the progressive political forum DailyKos. "We're
going to get punished."