GOP Divorced from Reality

[yeahwho]

Bill Maher hits another home run with this Ed/Op piece for the LATimes (http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-maher24-2009apr24,0,927819.story).

Here are the big issues for normal people: the war, the economy, the environment, mending fences with our enemies and allies, and the rule of law.

And here's the list of Republican obsessions since President Obama took office: that his birth certificate is supposedly fake, he uses a teleprompter too much, he bowed to a Saudi guy, Europeans like him, he gives inappropriate gifts, his wife shamelessly flaunts her upper arms, and he shook hands with Hugo Chavez and slipped him the nuclear launch codes.

Do these sound like the concerns of a healthy, vibrant political party?



I do not know what else to add, Maher has just nailed it down to the ground.

[King PSYZ]

Hammer meets nail...


It's downright disturbing how detached from normalcy and reality the right wing is becoming in this country.

It used to be some stodgy white dudes with some decent ideas, even if they didn't always pan out.

Then they let power get to their heads what with the majority of the last 29 years in their control as fas as Presidents go anyway. They had hoped Clinton would be lame ducked towards the end, but he still made some things happen and we ended up with a realistic budget for a change.

Then came W, we all know what happened here, let's not pull off that band aid right now.

Then came Obama, and as the kids would say, Shit got real... Then the other elections started coming in, Democrat, Democrat, until bam! Democrat majority all up in this country.

Now the Republican party which has been wild and fast like a Joe Francis taping in Lake Havasu has to watch while the Democrats get to do the same thing but with more public support... It's driving them nuts. You can feel it in the air, or at least on the airwaves...

Teabagging politicans, rich white people on street corners crying about taxes and how Obama is going to enslave them (any taxes paid last week were leftovers from Bush & Co BTW kids), Faux News anchors loosing their tempers, and in many cases their god damned minds right and right, a pill popping shock jock directing the Party from a radio booth, a guy with way too much try hard pretending to be down to gain traction with the youth of today to add some much needed blood to the party's coffin... I mean coffers. Etc, etc, etc.

Meanwhile the economy has been eating itself, record numbers are out of work (and that number is about to more than likely to tripple with the impending collapse of the American auto makers.), people loosing homes left and right while the banks twiddle their thumbs and swim in our tax bailouts, two wars, pirates running loose, mass hysteria. But the Right Wing is pissed a guy from St. Louis made Barack some fucking pizzas... :confused:

[Dorothy Wood]

<3

[saz]

dwight eisenhower, nelson rockefeller and even richard nixon would not be welcome in today's republican party. the party was completely taken over by the religious right, the neo-cons and the mouthbreathing neanderthal angry white man mentality.

[kaiser soze]

They were never married

[NoFenders]

Bill Maher hits another home run with this Ed/Op piece for the LATimes (http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-maher24-2009apr24,0,927819.story).



Bill? Or the people who write for him??

Either way, they've never hit a home run in my park.

[yeahwho]

Bill? Or the people who write for him??

Either way, they've never hit a home run in my park.

It's such a complex Ed/Op piece I'm sure that Bill Maher would be incapable of such prose, I never thought of it that way.

Please tell me your not serious, because this isn't rocket science or brilliance here, it's a funny Ed/Op that happens to be spot on, like your having a conversation with Bill Maher.

LOL at the Bill Maher conspiracy theory of ghost writers. Your just like the people he's (or those liberal ghost writers that prop him up) writing about! LMAO.

[NoFenders]

Well, he's yet another one that didn't have a show when they all went on strike.

So you tell me.

[saz]

real time was on the air during the strike.

[NoFenders]

Oh yeah. Now it's Bill.

Sorry got confused with Steven , Bill, and John Boy.

[Bob]

Oh yeah. Now it's Bill.


who was it before?

[yeahwho]

The whole key and gist to this article is this statement,

The thing that you people out of power have to remember is that the people in power are not secretly plotting against you. They don't need to. They already beat you in public.

I think once that settles in the GOP mindset they will begin to grasp that the reason democrats have the power is they quit their delusional behavior of the "vast right wing conspiracy" and started to invest in a message of solutions. So GOP, remarry reality and get on with solutions. Not delusions.

[saz]

Bob Barr: GOP in ‘very deep trouble’

May 2, 2009
Posted: 01:52 PM ET

From CNN.com's Kristi Keck

(CNN) — Former Georgia Rep. Bob Barr said Saturday it’s hard to “overestimate the damage” that’s been inflicted on the Republican Party — not only with this week's defection of Sen. Arlen Specter, but also the “lack of any coherent philosophy, vision or leadership.”

“The Republican Party is in very deep trouble right now,” Barr said in an interview with CNN.

Barr, who was once a loyal soldier in the GOP, joined the Libertarian Party in 2006 and was the party’s presidential candidate in 2008.

The ex-Republican said he doesn’t feel like he relates to Specter's reasons for switching to the Democratic Party. “Where I came from there really was a philosophical basis for leaving the Republican Party,” Barr said.

Specter, who announced Tuesday he’s switching from a Republican to a Democrat, is making the move for political reasons, Barr said.

Specter said he had found himself increasingly "at odds with the Republican philosophy," but he also admitted the decision was driven partly by a desire to keep his seat.

The senator, who has represented Pennsylvania in the upper chamber since 1980, said he was "anxious" to stay in the Senate — and he did not want to face a Republican primary in order to keep his seat next year.

But Barr said he doesn’t think switching parties will give Specter an automatic win. “I don’t think that the people in Pennsylvania will really appreciate what he did,” he said.

Barr added that Specter’s decision is “just another sign that the Republican Party nationally lacks any semblance of leadership.” Democrats, he said, also don’t have a coherent agenda, but they have “something that Republicans absolutely lack.”

“They have a charismatic leader and they have party discipline. The Republican Party has none of that,” he said.

Asked if he ever considered returning to the GOP, Barr said, “That would make no sense as all, either from a philosophical standpoint or from the standpoint of wanting to join a party that knows what it’s all about.”


link (http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/02/bob-barr-gop-in-%E2%80%98very-deep-trouble%E2%80%99/)

[kaiser soze]

I read somewhere they want to change their name

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/04/30/gops_big_names_try_to_forge_ne.html?wprss=44

It is all PR, no substance. Like a name change will change how they are perceived by the public.

Just like Blackwater changing their name to Xe