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Former Reagan Adviser: GOP Has Been ‘Hijacked by Crazy …Stupid People’ (Bruce Bartlett)
Cybercast News Service ^ | October 21, 2013 - 2:19 PM | Melanie Hunter

Posted on 10/21/2013 12:20:48 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Bruce Bartlett, who served as domestic policy adviser to President Ronald Reagan and a Treasury official for President George H.W. Bush, told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, host of “All in with Chris Hayes,” on Friday that the Republican Party has been “hijacked by crazy people, stupid people.” …

Bartlett, who is currently a columnist and blogger for the Fiscal Times, said he wondered why former Treasury secretaries who worked for Republican administrations did not speak out publicly during the budget impasse to tell the GOP that not raising the debt ceiling would be a “bad idea.” …

Bartlett said it was “perfectly understandable” that some Republican members of Congress might not want to go against the rest of the party and vote for a clean continuing resolution at first, because of the “crazy Tea Party people” and the fear that they would be challenged in the primaries by Republican candidates backed by people with “unlimited” resources. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: brucebartlett; gopestablishment; rino; teaparty
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To: Olog-hai

The Bible says a lot about a person like this who lacks understanding:

Proverbs 10:19
When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.

Proverbs 17:28
Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.

Proverbs 18:2
A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.

Proverbs 20:19
Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with a simple babbler.


41 posted on 10/21/2013 1:03:12 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: Olog-hai
Bartlett endorsed Obama both times he ran.

He has a right to his opinions, but it's probably time he dropped the whole Reagan connection and sold himself as a long-time Obama supporter.

42 posted on 10/21/2013 1:09:05 PM PDT by x
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To: Olog-hai

Another RINO whino? Complaining about stupidity?
You’ve got the world-class, A-1, top of the heap, triple whopper, build-your-house-below-sea-level, make-my-teeth-hurt, hysterical Barbara Streisand kind of stupidity. You are the the breath-taking, eye-popping, headline-screaming, glorious set-yourself-on-fire chief dingbat of stupid after which there is no more stupid.

You’re more stupid than any teen-ager I know. The original big bang of stupid. One-of-a-kind, global, universe-exhausting stupid collapsed on itself and so dense that no intellect can escape.

And finally, you are more stupid than all the hopelessly incompetent college administrators who hired raving totalitarian cockroach professors with their nincompoopy ideas on how to ruin America even faster than the socialist crash test dummies in Congress you voted for.

I’m a little out of breath, can I take a break and come back later?


43 posted on 10/21/2013 1:10:47 PM PDT by Liberty Wins ( The average lefty is synapse challenged)
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To: Olog-hai

What a maroon.


44 posted on 10/21/2013 1:17:01 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Olog-hai

I stand with Senator Ted Cruz!


45 posted on 10/21/2013 1:59:11 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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46 posted on 10/21/2013 2:03:41 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Olog-hai
a clear case of the irrelevant desperately seeking relevancy
47 posted on 10/21/2013 2:28:50 PM PDT by cashless (Obama told us he would side with Muslims if the political winds shifted in an ugly direction. Ready?)
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To: Olog-hai
Bruce Bartlett, who served as domestic policy adviser to President Ronald Reagan and a Treasury official for President George H.W. Bush, told MSNBC

= Reagan gave the young man a shot; he became a GHW Bush liberal, and he goes on the Democrat channel to bash Republicans.
Wow. What a scumbag.

48 posted on 10/21/2013 2:32:28 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: cashless

By the way, don’t confuse this guy with the greatly admired Wall Street Journal editor Bob Bartley, who passed on a few years ago. Bartley provided readers of the WSJ with conservatives they might not have known about, like Arthur Laffer, Paul Craig Roberts, Jude Wanniski, etc. The intellectual foundation that was established in the 1970s by the Wall Street Journal editorial page was a great help in electing Reagan.


49 posted on 10/21/2013 2:47:48 PM PDT by Liberty Wins ( The average lefty is synapse challenged)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Without a /sarc tag, you’re likely to catch flak for that post ;-)


50 posted on 10/21/2013 2:53:14 PM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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GOP Has Been ‘Hijacked by Crazy …Stupid People’

Hey Dirtbag!

Us "Crazy-stupid people" are the hard-working/taxpaying traditional American voters. We are the makers, not parasites like you and everyone in government.

51 posted on 10/21/2013 2:59:19 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (The "government" is nothing but a RAT jobs program)
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To: Olog-hai

“crazy Tea Party people” — I tire of that kind of rubbish.


52 posted on 10/21/2013 3:24:44 PM PDT by Gator113
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Bruce was cranky, depressive, negative, and self-isolating thirty years ago. Even when he was young he would sit in a corner quietly griping while other young Reagan Administration members were having fun. He didn’t get picked up by the GW Bush team and he’s been consumed with a growing bitterness and hatred ever since. I tried to reach out to him with kindness and humor, but he was gratuitously insulting to me, refusing to withdraw his opinion that we Tea Party people are stupid. So I wrote him off.


53 posted on 10/21/2013 3:32:01 PM PDT by ottbmare (the OTTB mare, now a proud Marine Mom)
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To: bkopto
However, Barlett has been getting crazier and crazier over the years, like the proverbial crazy uncle,

I agree. He was excellent at one time. Most of his articles were posted on FR. And then he became an expert on "crazy" from personal experience.

54 posted on 10/21/2013 3:38:08 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Olog-hai

Brucey, Brucey, Brucey, time to go back to your bath house, and leave the politics to the adults.

I’m sure you hobnob with those Log Cabin types, its why you soo have your panties in such a bunch.

Get one of your friends to undo that knot in your jockstrap, blood will rush back into your real head, and you will begin to think more clearly.

BTW, don’t come “out” again.


55 posted on 10/21/2013 4:15:49 PM PDT by ConradofMontferrat ( According to mudslimz, my handle is a HATE CRIME. And I HOPE they don't like it.)
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To: Olog-hai

Reagan and bush were surrounded by progressives like this pos. bush was one himself but Reagan allowed too many into his administration... including ghw bush... the good old “new world order” tax hiker.


56 posted on 10/21/2013 4:53:23 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: Liberty Wins

Well done!


57 posted on 10/21/2013 5:00:16 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: Olog-hai; 1rudeboy; Toddsterpatriot; expat_panama; 1010RD

Looks like Bruce is suffering from the same affliction as Paul Craig Roberts.


58 posted on 10/21/2013 5:37:47 PM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Mase

He’s an economic Icarus.


59 posted on 10/21/2013 6:48:54 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Olog-hai

Can we talk about the rat party being hijacked by evil, corrupt people?


60 posted on 10/21/2013 7:06:00 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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