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Hubris Alert: New Republic Writer Gloats Over Perceived Obama 2012 Landslide
Newsbusters ^ | March 1, 2012 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 03/01/2012 5:28:44 PM PST by PJ-Comix

Those whom the gods would destroy they first make proud.

The ancient Greeks warned about the consequences of excessive hubris so perhaps The New Republic contributor, Ruy Teixeira, should take heed since he exhibited this quality in spades which is on full display in his article crowing over what he thinks is the likelihood of another Obama landslide in 2012. The ironic thing is that Teixeira apparently did not learn from his previous comeuppance from the election gods when he gloated over the fate of the Republicans in 2009 on the pages of Time Magazine as revealed by Newsbusters' Rich Noyes:

"The outlook for Republicans is even worse than people think," says Ruy Teixeira, author of The Emerging Democratic Majority. "Their biggest problem is that they really believe what they believe."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barackobama; newrepublic; ruyteixeira
Teixeira was the same guy who derided the Bush tax cuts...until Obama extended them. Then Teixeira thought that Obama's approval of the tax cuts extension was a BRILLIANT move since such tax cuts would help the economy.
1 posted on 03/01/2012 5:28:52 PM PST by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

Hope this guy comes from the Rex Ryan school of preseason precictions.


2 posted on 03/01/2012 5:35:33 PM PST by gusty
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excessive hubris

Hubris is always excessive.

3 posted on 03/01/2012 5:37:12 PM PST by AndyJackson
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obama selective service forgery!....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHAM3hRI8_Y&feature=player_embedded#!


4 posted on 03/01/2012 5:37:57 PM PST by biggredd1
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What the heck kind of name is “Ruy?”


5 posted on 03/01/2012 5:40:05 PM PST by Cyber Liberty ("If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost." --Winston Churchill)
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To: AndyJackson

Bravo!


6 posted on 03/01/2012 5:42:03 PM PST by Bernard Marx
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Hubris is always excessive.

Point taken. Article updated.

7 posted on 03/01/2012 5:51:03 PM PST by PJ-Comix ("Now I am become Death, destroyer of oysters" ---from the Buffetvad Gita)
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Ah, but Zero makes it all flowery lawyer PC language, you see. Thing is, Zero is living proof that retardation is all the rage in America and he might get elected but not for the right reasons.


8 posted on 03/01/2012 5:54:58 PM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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“Those whom the Gods seek to destroy they first make mad’’.


9 posted on 03/01/2012 8:15:35 PM PST by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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