Posted on 04/04/2011 1:38:01 AM PDT by Scanian
We Americans live in a political era when it's reasonable, perhaps even prudent, to consider the unthinkable.
Before the election of Barack Obama, most Americans were unable, or unwilling, to consider what his campaign promise to "fundamentally transform" the nation might mean. Before his election, those who used the word "socialism" to refer to his intentions were chided for being too extreme. (A longtime friend of mine said I'd "gone over the edge" in using such language.)
Not until Newsweek published a February 2009 article entitled "We Are All Socialists Now" did the word become widely acceptable, if used benignly.
The litany of previously unthinkable events that have unfolded since then, most recently including our role in Libya, don't need listing here. The hits just keep on comin', with no let-up in sight.
For example, when Fox Nation recently reported that former Clinton administration official Jamie Gorelick is on the short list to be the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, we weren't shocked; we've grown accustomed to the unthinkable.
The New Socialist Democrat Party is now fully engaged in a relentless pursuit of what was, throughout the 20th Century, an intermittently-enacted, comprehensive, progressive agenda. The Tea Party Movement (TPM) emerged as a wrench, perhaps not unexpectedly but with unanticipated energy, tossed into the progressive machine. Consequently, über-progressive Democrats, like Senators Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer, simply label the TPM based on their experience of it. Anyone, or anything, that gets in their way is, by definition, "extremist" -- a label used by tyrants, big and small, throughout history to refer to their opponents.
Jump now to the 2011 budget battle underway in the House and Senate, with focus on the House where scores of new members of Congress arrived, metaphorically carried on the shoulders of Tea Partiers.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Probably not.
McCain sure didn’t. He practically campaigned for Obama.
Yes, they do...
Look at my name. And the answer at least from this one is yes.
” He practically campaigned for Obama.”
And still does.
Maybe these frikkers need a lesson on what “extreme” really means. In other words, if they keep pushing the push back is gonna’ be massive.
I think the writer is giving the GOP way too much credit for having a plan, even a bad one. I think they’re just responding to the name-calling by the Dems and, for some reason, the taunt of “extremist” is one they really hate. This is the case even though “extremist,” in the Dem lexicon, simply means anyone who opposes any Dem policy.
Furthermore, a plan to get the Senate by cutting off the Tea Party would be fundamentally flawed, because if the GOP throws aside Tea Party support, there is no way enough GOP Senate candidates will get elected in 2012.
This is the worst article I can remember reading. The idea that the Republican party doesn’t want the White House is insane.
If the republicans can do no better than another McCain in 2012 that is what they are doing and saying.
I didn't vote for McCain, I voted against Chicagoland 0bama in 2008.
The Rowe's and other inside the beltway republicans are no better than liberal dems and RINO's.
the question should read....”Do WE want the Republicans”??
NOT in their current loser form....they need to grow a pair and follow the constitution...
I pray for the day when the Kenyan is frog-marched out of the White House by Federal Marshalls.
It's arguable whether the national media or the republican party was the most responsible for McCain's nomination. It is certainly true that the national media doesn't want the Republicans to get the White House in 2012.
LLS
The official Republican Party long ago decided it it was never going to win an election by standing on Republican principles. Instead, it decided to go into the "loyal opposition mode" and bargain for enough safe seats from safe districts to ensure that Republican incumbents would always have enough leverage to protect corporate interests at the bargaining table.
This equation is upset from time to time by Democrat sweeps, requiring the official GOP to get off its duff and campaign to redress the balance, as in 2010, when Republicans swept control of the House, while the official GOP made damn sure they had no chance in the Senate. Inane or not, the official GOP is not enthusiastic about the Presidency in 2012. Their money-making opportunity will lie in control of the Senate, if possible, and if they can maintain a very strong, not necessarily majority, position in the House.
A majority position in the Federal legislative and executive branches, inevitable from time to time, is viewed by the official GOP as an unwelcome burden because it interferes with their role in the business of government.
The best opportunity for Republican Principles is to concentrate on local and state control by Republican office seekers not necessarily controlled by the national party. The true constitutional crisis, IMHO, is not the fact that an ineligible person occupies the White House, which he did with Republican misfeasance, but that the individual states have lost all meaningful sovereignty.
The sole purpose of the Republican Party is to serve as an ineffective alternative to the Democrat Party.
Too much metaphorical language this early in the morning. I’ve only had one cup of tea!!! : )
The Federal Government is considering making Jamie Gorelick, author of the barrier between intelligence agencies that enabled the 9/11 slaughter and then key operator in the subprime mortgage catastrophe that broke our economy and destroyed everybody’s real estate equity, the head of the F.B.I.
Meanwhile, they want to deport an Albanian model citizen who came here as a little girl of four but hasn’t been naturalized and keep millions of illegal Mexicans here, even though they tend to get drunk, go driving and kill people on our highways.
The same “they” keep our borders open to the terrorists of the world.
They are the ones spending trillions of dollars we don’t have. Meanwhile the Federal Reserve is over there printing tons of worthless bills called “Treasury Notes - legal tender for all debts public or private”.
They support the Muslim Communist in the Oval Office whose assignment is the reduction of the United States to a third world nation. There’s only one thing worse than this bunch in the government.
It is the people who listened to Barack Hussein Obama, or Barry Soetero, or whatever his name is, tell us all that his minister taught him to hate America, publicly gave a crotch salute to the American flag, and advertised his Communist agenda BEFORE he was elected, by calling for “redistribution of the wealth” (a basic Marxist goal) and then VOTED FOR HIM anyway, 55,000,000 strong (or whatever the exact number was)!
The majority of Americans have short memories, don’t follow politics much and read the glitzy front label but don’t check the ingredients listed on the back.
The Social Democrat News Media know that, and have developed an arsenal of button-pushing catch words that motivate people with a knee-jerk-like reaction, to do the Communist’s bidding without thinking.
The American Thinker does us a really good - GREAT! - service. So do Rush and Ann and Mark and Geert. (Limbaugh, Coulter, Steyn and Wilders)
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