posted on March 28, 2007 10:02:12 AM new
[By Harold Meyerson]: What gives with the Republicans? How have they -- not just in the White House but in Congress, too -- become so detached from reality?
There are, I think, four possible, partial explanations. (1) The first is Rudy-ex-machina-- the hope that the party will nominate somebody who is not perceived to be part of their current mess and who will sweep them back into power no matter how big a hole they may now be digging for him.(2) The second is a strategy to make it impossible for the Democrats to pass any legislation, and then run against the do-nothing Democrats.
(3) The third is that the alternative reality conveyed by the Republican media -- Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and their ilk -- has created a Republican activist base that is genuinely not reality-based, and from which the current generation of Republican pols is disproportionately drawn. (4) And the fourth, pertaining specifically to the inability of the administration to stop politicizing government, is that good government is just not in their DNA. Bush and Rove are no more inclined to create a government based on such impartial values as law and science than they are to set up collective farms.
Meanwhile, if you hear something go bump in the night, it's the Republicans, sleepwalking.
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". . . a Republican activist base that is genuinely not reality-based. . . ."
Gee, do ya think?!!! Love it. Not reality-based.
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posted on March 29, 2007 10:29:47 AM new
"".(2) The second is a strategy to make it impossible for the Democrats to pass any legislation, and then run against the do-nothing Democrats.""
Yup, the repugs can twist anything... it's a good thing fewer and fewer Americans are believing them.
posted on March 29, 2007 11:17:03 AM new "By Harold Meyerson: What gives with the Republicans? How have they -- not just in the White House but in Congress, too -- become so detached from reality?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/27/AR2007032701722.html
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
posted on March 29, 2007 12:44:27 PM new
LOL....there's not a thing wrong with the reality republicans see our nation facing today.
It's the dems that think running away from problems will solve them. It's the wackos who believe terrorists can be 'talked' out of their goals.
It's the dems who continue to ignore what the terrorists themselves state they are going to do.
Reality? The republicans LIVE in reality...it's the dems/liberals who have their heads buried in the sand.
That's probably WHY they're confused. They don't have a CLUE as to what reality really is all about. They live in some false hope of a utopia.
"While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation": "What would a Democrat president have done at that point?"
"Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack."
