Posted on 01/30/2013 10:35:16 PM PST by neverdem
Few are the men and women in American public life who haven't heard Mr. Dooley's famous aphorism: "Politics ain't beanbag." John Boehner, currently serving out his community service as speaker of the House, appears to have been meditating on Mr. Dooley's cautionary wisdom. At the Ripon Society last week he said the Obama administration was trying "to annihilate the Republican Party."
Better late than never, Speaker Boehner now sees that Barack Obama's notion of political competition is Mad Max inside the Thunderdome: "Two men enter, one man leaves."
Last week during the president's second inaugural address, if one can employ that hallowed phrase to describe this speech, Mr. Obama used the occasion to defend entitlement programs by whacking his defeated presidential opponent: "They do not make us a nation of takers."
This was the second time Mr. Obama used a traditionally elevated forum to take down his opposition. His 2010 State of the Union speech will be remembered in history for nothing other than an attack on members of the Supreme Court seated before him. Justice Samuel Alito's whispered "Not true" would prove a prophetic comment on the Obama modus operandi.
Subsequent targets of the president's contempt have included the members of Congress's deficit-reduction supercommittee, the Ryan budget ("antithetical to our entire history"), repeated attacks on the "well off" and bankers, and famously a $100 million dump-truck of vilification on Mitt Romney.
When he won, the rationalization was that it was all a shrewd if brutal campaign strategy. But it kept coming. What is striking about the Obama technique is that it's not so much criticism as something closer to political obliteration, driving his opposition out of the political arena altogether.
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If the opposition is looking for one word to shape its role now, it would be this: Dissent.
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“RINOS apparently believe in not believing in anything. Lukewarm, spit from mouth.”
RINOS believe in feathering their own nests and assimilating into network of like minded associates who will give them high paying consulting or lobbying jobs if the voters ever throw them out of office. It is the ultimate backscratching club they join when they arrive in Congress.
MAybe not; but it DOES make you a President of VOTEBUYING; and Buster - that is ILLEGAL!
THIS is what you get with a state run media AND a leader who acts independently and totally without regard for the Constitution or any precedent whatsoever.
Thank you Liberal America!
We survived the BullMoose party in 1912 (no one was bitten) and we’ll probably survive the BullCrap one we have now.
Monkey Wrench Gang
You can only be silenced thru intimidation.
I do not think that is a one-way street.
It would if they'd marched on the WP, and sealed it off from the outside world!
Wrong place.
That many folks could SURROUND an awful lot of 'providers'; thereby keeping Choosy Mothers from their appointed meeting with DEATH.
Sorry; but it IS functioning: exactly like it's OWNERs want!
We have GOT to buy back the media!
I will see your “intolerable”
and raise you “Free Stuff” and an “obamaphone”
The best strategy at this point would be to work through your state government and
IGNORE THEM.
How about we call reporters “communists”?
we have gloria vanderbilt’s son doing a second amendment bashing fest on cnn later today.
BUMP
Maybe. There are no guarantees about it at all. At any rate I was speaking of the politics going on not the nation in general.
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