Out of Touch (Libtard Ranting About GOP Alert)

New York Times ^ | May 1, 2009 | Bob Herbert

[Zakeet]

The incredibly clueless stewards of the incredibly shrinking Republican Party would do well to recall that it was supposedly Abe Lincoln, a Republican, who said you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.

Not only has the G.O.P. spent years trying to fool everybody in sight with its phony-baloney, dime-store philosophies, it’s now trapped in the patently pathetic phase of fooling itself.

The economy has imploded, the auto industry is in danger of being vaporized and more than half of all working Americans are worried that they may lose their jobs in the next year. So what’s the Republican response? To build a wall of obstruction in front of efforts to get the economy moving again, and then to stand in front of that wall chanting gibberish about smaller government, lower taxes, spending cuts and Ronald Reagan.

It’s not a party; it’s a cult. I’m no fan of Arlen Specter, but if I were a Republican, I wouldn’t be shoving him out the door and waving good riddance. This is the party of Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Newt (“I’m trying to rise from the ashes”) Gingrich, and the dark force who can’t seem to exit the public stage or modify his medieval ways, Dick Cheney.

It is losing all credibility with the public because it is not offering anything — anything at all — that could be viewed as helpful or constructive in a time of national crisis. And it has been unwilling to take responsibility for its role in bringing that crisis about.

Americans are aghast at what happened to the country while the G.O.P. was in charge. Iraq and Katrina come to mind, not to mention the transmutation of the Clinton surpluses into the Bush budget deficits and the collapse of the entire economy.

[Zakeet]

This poorly written vile screed is based on blatant lies and faulty logic. It is also a classic example of why my newspaper's subscribers, readership, and advertising are dropping faster and lower than Bill Clinton's pants on a Saturday night.

[BobL]

Keep in mind that this shrinking Republican party is up 41 to 38 in the generic Congressional ballot. That is the only number that counts.

Getting Spector simply gives the Democrats the headache, ESPECIALLY if he continues to vote his own way...and Spectar even said that his support for Obama’s pork bill made him unelectable as a Republican.

Maybe it’s time we Republicans stop looking to the NY Times for advice (i.e., we listened to them on McCain).

[Nonstatist]

These demented children ,cheerleaded by the venerable racist Bob Herbert, now have total , unfillerbustable control of the government, so why is he going after the battered opposition??... Because the Democrap’s “plans” for the economy WILL fail, and hey need insurance and cover from the voters, who will foolishly want to blame them, but should really blame the other guy, who is out of power.

[capydick]

More people will probably read that excerpt here on FR than will actually buy the paper on newstands today.

[ovrtaxt]

Waging unwarranted warfare while radically cutting taxes for the wealthy and turning the national economy into the equivalent of a Ponzi scheme may be evidence of many things,

Bob, the economy has been a Ponzi scheme since 1913. We're just at the 'take the money and run' phase right now, soon to be followed by the 'hunt the thieves down and take revenge' phase.

But you're right, the GOP apparatus won't help We the People when we embark on that task.

[McBuff]

What disturbs me the most is that people that I love dearly will believe this utter insanity hook, line and sinker. I feel like I’m living in a world that has decide the laws of gravity don’t exist and can only blame others for the consequences of walking off the edge of a cliff.

[highlander_UW]

And it has been unwilling to take responsibility for its role in bringing that crisis about.

Both parties are unwilling to take responsibility for their roles in the economic crisis...that's part of what the tea parties were about...of course I'm sure that escaped this clown's understanding.

Americans are aghast at what happened to the country while the G.O.P. was in charge.

And the one's that are paying attention are even more alarmed at the lurch to totalitarian socialism the nation has taken under Obama.

Iraq and Katrina come to mind, not to mention the transmutation of the Clinton surpluses into the Bush budget deficits and the collapse of the entire economy.

Yeah...Bush shouldn't have cased the hurricane Katrina. What idiots liberals are. Guess he doesn't remember that that it was under democrats that the resources intended for levies were used to build up casinos so that they could raise more taxes instead of protect the public. Or that it was democrats who left buses that could have been used to evacuate people sitting unused. Or a democrat governor who was in charge of the state, or a racist democrat mayor in charge of New Orleans along with is vision for a chocolate city.

[Diogenesis]

The destruction of America's financial strength stems from
the October Surprise 2008, engineered by the New York Times,
MSM, George Soros, foreign entities, and their owned Team Obama.

Can you say DNC-PLANNED October Surprise"? Of course you can.

PART 1: - Incredible, proven, systematic, pro-Clinton, pro-Obama, pro-RINO, media Bias.

So much bias that even Bill Clinton finished ***Third*** in Battle for Campaign Coverage

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PART 2: - Endless Loans to Illegal Aliens, and then the Gambling Bankers without Accountability

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PART 3: October Surprise to THROW Election2008, driven by Paulson/Geithner/Dodd/Obama and the so-willing MSM.

Rep. Kanjorski: $550 Billion Disappeared in "Electronic Run On the Banks"
"On Thursday Sept 15, 2008 at roughly 11 AM The Federal Reserve
noticed a tremendous draw down of money market accounts in the USA
to the tune of $550 Billion dollars in a matter of an hour or two.
Money was being removed electronically. The treasury tried to help with $150 Billion.
But could not stem the tide. It was an electronic run on the banks
The treasury intervened but had they not closed down the accounts they estimated that by 2 PM that afternoon.
Within 3 hours. $5.5 Trillion would have been withdrawled
and collapsed and within 24 hours the world economy."

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FLASHBACK: from 9/15/08:

“U.S. President George W. Bush said Monday he is confident
that the markets are resilient and can deal with the latest financial blows.
“We are working to reduce disruptions and minimize the impact
these financial market developments on the broader economy.” ...

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama
said eight years of Bush “brought us the most serious financial crisis
since the Great Depression.”

His Republican rival said John McCain said he was happy the
federal government decided not to use taxpayer dollars to bail out Lehman Brothers.”

How did Obama know THEN
that we would experience the ‘most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression’
when those who did not plan the takeover would not know for three more months?

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October 10, 2008, another massive selloff.

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PART 4: Thugs in Robes meet ex parte to reassure permanent unaccountability --- and total control.

[mewzilla]

Mr. Herbert’s rant reveals more about Mr. Herbert than it does the GOP.

[Landru]

Pinchy boy?
You and sock puppets like Herbert have done your job, well. You've bankrupted the NYSlimes, effectively destroying an American Institution.

Your solution?
More crap.

Niiiiice. ;^)

[NavVet]

Iraq - We won under Republican leadership, although the Dems may snatch defeat from the Jaws of victory.

Katrina - Dem mayor and governor screwup.

Anyway, when the Dems were hemorrhaging seats in the house and Senate in 2000-2002, I don't recall anyone advising the Dems to become more conservative.

Also, the Rasmussen poll now indicates a GOP preference on generic congressional ballots. I think if we remember Reagan and forget McCain and Sphincter we'll be fine.

[Kent C]

A good example of how our so called ‘Republican consultants’ just feed the beast. Steve Schmitt (mccain campaign hack) writes a piece - mid-April about the how we need a bigger tent and mentions how the Party is ‘shrinking’. Last week it was Peggy Noonan’s ‘Shrink to Win?’ piece and now this racist liberal twit with incredibly looking drugged out eyes (or is he just half asleep all the time?) comes up with the ‘incredible shrinking Republican Party’. And just like they used Martin Feldstein and Lindsay Graham even said ‘we need a bigger stimulus’, now they can say “even Republicans are saying it!” “Party of No” must be losing impact.

[Darkwolf377]

the G.O.P. spent years trying to fool everybody in sight with its phony-baloney, dime-store philosophies, it’s now trapped in the patently pathetic

Zzzzzz...

Looking at his picture, this guy's the liberal girly-man cliche, who sees all problems as opportunities to show how sensitive he is to the suffering of The Helpless so the women he fears will compliment him.

[agrace]

Separated at birth? Or just wanting to be just like him when he grows up?

[truemiester]

“Americans are aghast at what happened to the country while the G.O.P. was in charge”

Especiall after 2006 when the Dems were in control of the House and Senate and the budget...lest we forget.

[laconic]

“the incredibly shrinking Party” is leading in the generic polls for Congress by several points; its candidates for governor in VA and NJ are way ahead of their Dem opponents; and twenty million fewer people watched The Leader’s press conference than did a month ago. Don’t think your helpful advice is needed, Mr. Herbert (columnist of a failing newspaper), Miss Noonan (a columnist no one reads) or Mr. Schmidt (strategic adviser to a failed presidential campaign).

[StatenIsland]

This is way out there, but I think something happened to Americans back in the ‘60s that caused us to develop different brains. Something in the water, maybe.

I have a friend who is a dyed-in-the-wool lieberal - almost a socialist. You won’t be surprised to know he is a former public school principal.

Well, we were arguing about the U.S. constitution the other day, and he looked me straight in the eye and said, “Y’know, I think conservatism is some kind of mental illness.” He said it with deep conviction, and appeared to surprise himself when he realized that he wasn’t kidding, even though he thought he was when he started the sentence.

Conservatives and Liberals don’t have different opinions, as we used to, we have different BRAINS.

Anyway, Herbert is coming from the Tony Bennett camp; that is, we should all just get out of Obama’s way and let him do what he wants and needs to do to remake America. Herbert is expressing/venting his frustration that he is being denied the orgasmic prospect of watching this transformative figure transform our country into a socialist utopia.

We, on the other hand, prefer freedom and individuality. The bottom line is, I guess, that WE are not afraid to compete in the world, and they just don’t want to.

Be that as it may, I don’t get too upset anymore about columns like this - since it’s merely the product of a diseased mind.

[capt. norm]

Even worse is the NY Times, seen here doing the very thing that is shutting them down.

I'm wondering how or if they'll be able to stay in business the rest of the year.

Do they think the Republican Party will listen to advice from people who can't even successfully run their own business when they don't even listen to use conservatives?

[LibertyRocks]

I couldn’t help but laughing at this juvenile ranting. I have no great love for the GOP at this point, but his jabs aren’t even well formed. Well, I guess you can’t expect the supporter of our Fascist-in-Chief to have a clue...

And, yes it WAS Lincoln who said, “You can’t fool all the people...”. I guess despite the quote he doesn’t get the meaning.

Plus, they are missing the transformation right in front of their eyes — one not dependent upon to SIZE of the GOP, just the quality of its members, frankly (and, there’s a bit more housecleaning to do, IMHO).

The only cult is that of those who praise a messianic politician with utopian promises, and a private agenda of hate and oppression. I’d rather count myself among those who actually RESPECT our country and its laws...

[only1percent]

“the incredibly shrinking Party” is leading in the generic polls for Congress by several points; its candidates for governor in VA and NJ are way ahead of their Dem opponents

Maybe the case is different in Virginia (although we seem to specializing in pulling defeat from the jaws of victory there), but polls notwithstanding, there's no reason for hope in New Jersey.

Christie could win, sure, and he'd be a real improvement over Corzine, but he is hardly likely to be any more effectively conservative than Pataki was or Rell is. It's very difficult to see him pushing the huge permanent spending cuts and World War Three-level confrontations with the government unions over pension plans which would be required to reduce the structural level of taxation. It's also very hard to see him seriously standing for school choice or large-scale deregulation.

Christie might even be a net negative on any efforts to rebuild the conservative spine of the national Republican Party, as he would stand for, and argue for, the necessity of exactly the wrong kind of moderation.

Turning to his primary opponent, while Lonegan's small-government platform is a thing of beauty, he's very hard to elect in November. As much as they may (theoretically) hate taxes and regulation and resent overpaid public sector workers, the swing voters in northern New Jersey hate social conservatives even more. He'll be lucky to break 50% in the suburbs he has to carry by 60%+ to overcome Corzine's huge lead coming out of the big majority-minority cities. Democrat-exhaustion downstate may hold Corzine to a 5% or 8% victory rather than the 25% landslide he'd get against Lonegan under ordinary circumstances, but it's a loss nonetheless.