Republicans serve the devil his Tea (born loser Bob Schrum has it backwards)

The Week ^ | September 17, 2010 | Bob Shrum

[St. Louis Conservative]

If elections have consequences, so do strategies of opportunism that hitch a ride on popular paranoia. From the day this president was inaugurated, the GOP has fed off the forces that coalesced into the angry astringency of the Tea Party movement.

First the GOP maintained lockstep opposition to the stimulus, despite support from Republican economists. Republicans then proliferated lies about health reform — from the chimera of rationing to the nonexistent death panels. They next stoked the fires by pretending that the legislation to crack down on Wall Street was instead a giveaway to Wall Street.

Shrunken and narrowed, the GOP is increasingly dominated by a far-right rump. Republicans are now riding high on the tide of economic discontent. But they are even less popular than the Democrats—and far less popular than Obama — according to The New York Times/CBS poll. Republican leaders miscalculated their way into a place where their own influence has waned: They’ll lose seats in 2010 that they could have won, and they’ve imperiled the customary route to their presidential nomination, strengthening Barack Obama’s prospects for re-election.

The predicted dire day for Democrats in November is now looking a little brighter. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was a goner in Nevada against any barely reasonable conservative; but instead of a barely reasonable conservative he faces the Palinesque, press-phobic, Social Security–hating, and nearly incoherent Tea Party product Sharron Angle.

Another Tea Party coup in Colorado has widened the path to re-election for appointed Democratic Sen. Michael Bennett, who will benefit from a gubernatorial contest in which his party’s nominee will trounce two opponents — one extremist, the other extremer. And in Alaska, the repudiation of incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski has transformed the Democrat in that race from an impossibility into a bare possibility.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"Shrunken and narrowed, the GOP is increasingly dominated by a far-right rump."

Pretty funny choice of images coming from someone who talks out of his ass.

[JPG]

Shrummy, it's President Kerry on line 1 for you, he wants to thank you again for all of your excellent political savvy while running his ‘04 campaign.

[BradtotheBone]

Where is the BARF ALERT???

[jessduntno]

A guy tried to mug me and take everything I had once outside a bar in Shreveport. I “fed off the forces that coalesced into the angry astringency of the moment” and stomped his azz into a mudhole.

That’s the Tea Party movement, stupid.

[tennmountainman]

Is this the same hack that hasn’t won a major race?

[17th Miss Regt]

Is this the same hack that hasn’t won a major race?

Indeed, a political genius of the highest order.

[ANGGAPO]

Bottom line.
There are consequences to passage of Obama Care. Our medical insurance is just about doubling in cost. And guess what, the service has taken a hit.

[Bridesheadfan]

Bob Shrum, the name you can trust./s

Boy, he's got everything backwards(including his ass). I love how constitutional Conservatives are "extremists" while commies like the current crop of Dems are "moderates".