I am just completely and totally amazed at the mass, non-liberal, (cough, cough) media and Republican politicians going on the record as hoping for a President of America to fail! That astounds me.
In a country that overwhelmingly in 2008, in city, state and federal elections, elected more Democrats to office than Republicans, the very small minority opinion party is espousing a policy of failure?
Ma ma mamacita, donde es santa claus? (quoting Cheech & Chong).
Do they not realize that most of America does not agree with this minority party's platform, and said so in the voting booth, despite the same old attempts to rig Republican votes. Even with Coleman still trying to figure out a way to make it a two year fight so that Al Franken never gets to represent his state, are these people so out of touch that they don't think the American public will vote them even more out of office?
I cannot imagine every day Republicans being in agreement with this new Limbaugh "Policy of Failure" attitude. I know the ones in my office building are shaking their heads and holding their hands up (as in, "well, what can you do"), which is in stark contrast to their vocal support of the Republican platform during the past eight years.
Just about everyone I know has only a one degree of separation from someone that is (a) either in a foreclosure, (b) filing bankruptcy, (c) lost their job, (d) lost their apartment, (e) lost their health plan, (f) lost their retirement, (g) lost a good deal of their financial portfolio, (h) dropped out of college because of losing grants, or (h) any combination of the above. This is what real Americans are facing.
And the Republican party in the last eight years has fallen all over themselves in trying to hand out taxpayer money to the Haliburton war profiteers and their ilk, hand over wads of cash, I'm talking cash, people, to anyone and everyone in Iraq that had agreed to anything and everything any young 20 something who was managing Iraq right after the invasion, said were qualifications for the money, deregulate the shit out of this country, free trade the shit out of this country, send our jobs out of this country, etc. so who the fuck are they to have any job qualification to pontificate over a policy of failure?
Is that Beltway bubble so tight these people and their cronies really and truly do not have a clue as to what their constituents (their voters) really want from this government?
And they say the Democrats have no balls. How the ruling policy maker of the Republican has become Limbaugh is beyond my rather bright mind to comprehend. Oh, the quivering and shaking of the Republican party, Rush said this, Rush said that, mantra this, mantra that, bullshit. It's now a true meme -- Republicans actually root for failure. I was taught all Americans root for success, otherwise, you don't succeed. But in our government, especially those in Washington, Republicans truly believe that Americans will support their rather small opinion that Americans want our President of the United States, to fail. Poll, after poll, after poll, completely debunks this theory, and yet, on tv and in Washington, you can't drop to the floor fast enough to repeat after Rush -- "We want Obama to fail."
And who was it that said ""I didn’t vote for [John Kennedy], but he’s my president, and I hope he does a good job," oh, yeah, John Wayne!
I need another drink.
UPDATE: Funny quote -- “I’m sorry Limbaugh called for harsh sentences for drug addicts while he was a drug addict. I’m also sorry that he’s bent on seeing America fail. And I’m sorry that Limbaugh is one sorry excuse for a human being.” [Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL)]
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Guinness, please...
The other thing that gets me is the penchant for the Repub "anti-tax" stance. I was listening to a radio program that did a story on the "Cap and Trade" approach to fighting global warming. An opposing view was given by some Repub congressman something like this...."Let's be honest here, and call it what it is- an energy tax that all American taxpayers will experince." Now I don't claim to know anything for sure about this program, but it is obvious that if you want to discredit ANYTHING, just make it into a Democrat inspired tax increase.... All of a sudden they want us to think they are concerned with how much tax us peons pay. That was not an issue when the rich guy's tax cuts were being handed out. When the folks that have most of the money are asked to pitch in a maybe do a litte more, it's 'class warefare'. It's obvious that the ruling repubs are self centered bastards (much like anyone that has enough money to get elected to much higher than school board). Rush?? I agree with the guy's opinion that 'he is an entertainer, he says terrible, incendiary things....", but I suppose he is now apologizing for saying that. The fact that Rush has 20 million listeners is almost unbelievable to me, but then Bush did get elected TWICE!!!!!!!
I gotta go, Carlo
I don't think Rush has 20 million listeners. I've gone to Arbitron and googled, and the most they have him at is around 13 million WEEKLY listeners, and then that is even disputed.
And, Carlo, Bush was never elected once or twice. The Supreme Court of the United States STOPPED the Florida recount in 2000, which clearly, had it not been stopped, would have yielded a different result, and Gore would have been president.
In 2004, Diebold switched a few counts here and there in distinctive counties in Ohio, and that is the state that put Bush over the edge. Had Diebold not been able to switch the votes, Bush, again, would not have been the president, as Ohio would have gone to Kerry.
=======> and here's your mug of Guinness [_]o
Hmmm.... 1300 listeners would seem like too much.... ;-)
Point taken on the election topic. But the fact that it was close enough to steal is still cause for great concern.
I'm not complaining, but have you considered putting Murphy's Stout on tap here???
I gotta go, Carlo
Want a lighter stout, eh? At my bar, I have everthing (especially since it is virtual, anyway!)
==========> Pint of Murphy's to Carlo (_)o
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