Broken clock.
Wow. Like a book.
Don’t you hate to agree with Syd?
“He is louche, alcoholic, lazy, and without any commitment to any principle,”
And yet FR’s liberal wing demanded we re elect him.
He had a good read on this crying drunk.
Sad to say I can’t argue with that.
I always thought that “Sid the Squid” had not one redeeming feature.
I WAS WRONG!!!
The truth hurts now can we get a real leader in that position; and I mean yesterday?
Will have to call one of his state offices to let them know I agree. Fun.
Nailed it......and that's scary coming from the enemy camp
https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_August_Web/IPS-0106/DOC_0C05771375/C05771375.pdf
November 2, 2010
For: Hillary
From: Sid
Re: Post mid-terms strategy
What I hear from Republican sources and elsewhere and what it means for Republican strategy:
1. Rove is telling his donors that the ticket in 2012 is Romney/Barbour. Haley Barbour is Rove’s ally. Together they constitute the heart of the GOP establishment. In a potential Republican
administration Barbour would be a new kind of Cheney, but more politically skillful.
2. Rove is at war with Palin. He has told his donors she must be stopped. Palin is well aware. The Politico story filled with anonymous quotes about a murky establishment vs. Palin is about the Death Star of Rove/Barbour. Ironies: Rove doubled down on a base strategy for Bush, galvanizing the right wing, now spun out of his control to Palin. The GOP used the far right and Palin in the mid-terms and now have to kill them in presidential nomination politics. Attacking Palin only builds her stature with the right. She plays instinctively to the base, but can she play a long game against the big boys determined to destroy her?
3. Palin has already aligned Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh on her side. Fox News is being split. Murdoch gave his big donation to the Republican Governors Association, headed by Barbour.
4. Malcolm Hoenlein has been raising money hand over fist for the Republicans through Eric Cantor, now his vehicle. The donors are many of the same US donors to Bibi and Likud. Implications obvious.
5. The House Republicans have already planned to primary all Senate Republican moderates in the next cycle. Olympia Snowe is a particular target.
6. In the Senate, Jim DeMint continues to be a Fifth Column of the right, allied to the House Republicans, against remaining Senate GOP moderates. He will be reinforced after this election with Rand Paul, et al. Paul, of course, hates Mitch McConnell, and vice versa.
7. McConnell’s statement the day before the mid-terms that the goal of the GOP is to make Obama a one term president is, in fact, their agenda. Everything in the House and Senate will be bent to that end.
8.Can the House Republicans and Senate Republicans restrain themselves in their own interest and McConnell’s stated aim? Boehner is despised by the younger, more conservative members of the House Republican Conference. They are repelled by his personal behavior. He is louche, alcoholic, lazy, and without any commitment to any principle. Boehner has already tried to buy the members with campaign contributions and committee assignments, which he has already promised to potentially difficult members. His hold is insecure. He is not Gingrich, the natural leader of a “revolution,” riding the crest into power. He is careworn and threadbare, banal and hollow, holding nobody’s enduring loyalty. Boehner is beholden and somewhat scared of his base. He twitches when they make gestures that might undermine his position. His impulse is to
hand out money. His aim is to recreate DeLay, Inc, with Jerry Lewis, who will be the new chairman of Appropriations. But Boehner is neither feared nor loved. He’s a would-be DeLay without the whip. He’s the one at the end of the lash. Which means he will be under great pressure and find it hard to sustain a moderate, reasonable strategy of restraint. McConnell is relatively in the same position in the Senate. On the other hand, the Congressional Republicans are vulnerable to a strategy that takes advantage of their internal divisions. Policies/tactics should be calculated to locate GOP fissures, find political space by widening schisms, and ultimately break them apart. This is, emphatically, not a strategy of bipartisanship as Obama has pursued it so far. It is a different and more informed approach.
-PJ
Sid nailed it.
Syd himself was popped for DUI in New Hampshire when he was trying to get cankles elected the first time.
If you got it you can spot it.
Pretty much sums up most do it not?
May be why Donald is out front.
hey !!!!!! he cant call our POS names!!!
I feel so good over how public this beat down on GOP leadership. I bet Boehner might even cry over it.
Well, “drunk on bourbon” would certainly explain a lot...
There must be an email about obama and Valerie Jarrett from him.