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I have posted this text in a number of forums today, and in no less than four other forums, Republican moderators have attacked me on the grounds that I couldn't possibly have written it myself, or that I'm trolling or baiting or I part my hair the wrong way or I hurt the feelings of Republicans. Since I also face the same sort of attacks here, we'll see how long it stays up.
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Obama has won the national debate, because the Republicans have offered nothing but attacks.
Obama’s personal approval numbers are still rock-solid. But that’s just the beginning of the problems for the GOP: Obama has totally crushed the Republicans on the issues.
According to the polls, Obama has won the debate on the economy. In poll after poll, the American people have said that Obama inherited the economic mess from the Republicans; they know that by the time Obama was sworn in, we had already lost 3 million jobs, and saw major industries and banks crippled. And billions in stock value lost on the Dow. The American people said that Obama’s economic philosophy is better than Reagan’s and that we need to trust Obama rather than the Republicans on the economy, and give Obama time to clean up the mess; we need to repeal the tax cuts for the rich, impose stricter business regulation, and pass the mortgage plan even though it might be unfair. The number of people who think America is on the right track jumped 15 points. In fact, Obama is clobbering the GOP on virtually every issue, particularly among the all-important independents.
Polling also shows that Obama has won the bipartisanship issue, by mile. Poll after poll shows that, according to the American people, Obama extended the hand of bipartisan friendship to the Republicans, but the Republicans are fighting Obama for partisan political reasons. Half of Republicans polled said that Obama made a reasonable effort to accommodate Republican ideas, but that their party has no ideas of their own. Repeat, that’s Republican condemning their own leaders. Also the polls show that nobody is buying the GOP argument that the press is going to easy on Obama.
So, unsurprisingly, Obama’s approvals have stayed rock-solid in the 60s; outside the south, Obama’s approvals are almost 80. 86 percent are rooting for him to succeed. He is a two-to-one favourite to win reelection. Pelosi is twice as popular as her GOP counterparts, the Congressional Democrats are twice as important as their GOP counterparts, and the Democratic party is twice as popular as the GOP. Approval for the Republicans and their leaders is at a 12-year low. Boehner is down in the teens and McConnell is at 22. And, even worse for the Republicans, the independents who swung hard toward the Democrats during the election and elected Obama, are swinging even harder to the left.
Worst of all, a poll of the conservative participants in the CPAC conference revealed that about half of the conservatives wish they had someone else to support for 2012. Again, that’s the Republicans rejecting their own leaders.
So how did the Republicans destroy themselves so completely?
For months the Republicans had offered no new ideas of their own. Just more attacks.
The lies never stop. These gems of wisdom were all flung into the arena by Republican “leaders” just in the last couple of months, and all are horse manure.
Obama’s a liberal liberal liberal! He will impose communism! Just like those evil socialist bureaucrats tried to stop the Katrina rescue boats! There is a spontaneous wave of “we hate Obama the socialist” protests cross the country! (actually it was concocted by rightwing fatcats and it fizzled).
(Seriously...“Socialism socialism socialism socialism!!!” Too bad nobody under the age of 60 is afraid of socialists. “Socialist” is a scare-word that goes back 70 years. Next thing you know the Republicans will be screeching at Obama for not building a wooden stockade around Washington to keep the Apaches out.)
Obama will fail because the New Deal failed! Everything in our economy is either Obama’s fault or Clinton’s : the drop in the Dow, the AIG theft...! Obama’s effort to pay for doctors and policemen and firefighters and schools and roads is all pork pork porkulus! The Republican earmarks which were put into the budget bill during the Bush administration are all Obama’s fault! ACORN, the people who stole the election for Obama, is getting the stimulus money! The temporary stimulus provisions are really permanent! Obama wants a bullet train to Vegas! Bush’s effort to but new presidential helicopters was really Obama’s fault!
Obama broke his promise for change! He’s a crook! Obama will put Capone-like Chicago criminals in charge of the government! Obama was responsible for the Blago scandal! Democrats will make millions peddling a global-warming hoax!
Be verrrrrrrry afraid! Obama is not a U.S. citizen! Obama will take everyone’s guns! Obama will put terrorists on the streets! Obama will remove his enemies from the radio airwaves and build an all-liberal media! Obama s pushing a bill to force abortions, choose how many kids you can have, and shut down Catholic hospitals! Obama will ration health care so people die! Obama will send gays in to destroy and invalidate all straight marriages and make all our wives whores and our children bastards!
Obama’s numbers are dropping! And it’s because America is a center-right nation: the center really agrees with the GOP, not Obama! Obama is the new Carter!
And to show how terrified the Republicans are, of losing another Senate seat: “The people who voted for Al Franken are retarded! Franken’s stealing the election!”
Then they tried to make villains of Grandpa Reid and Pelosi the Housewife, but unsurprisingly they got nowhere.
Then the smears and attacks. Republican “leaders” bragged or joked about the death of Ted Kennedy, the death of Justice Ginsburg, and a nuclear attack on Obama’s hometown; they ran a cartoon comparing Obama to a rabid monkey, compared Democrats to murderers and rapists, and said that the little girl whose school Obama wants to rebuild is a slick opportunist. The House GOP whip got nailed for circulating an anti-union smear tape. The Washington Times asserted that the Freeman nomination turned out the way it did because “the Democrats were mostly Jewish”.
The far-right has hired the Swiftboat smear firm to run a new campaign of dishonest attacks against the Obama health plan; these are also the same guys who tried to sell George Bush’s plan to rip apart Social Security; if these people had had their way, all your pension money would have been wiped out in the crash of the Dow.
As the American people know full well (as the polls indicate), the Republicans, with Goldwater-like fanaticism, have rejected the notion of a bipartisan effort to solve our problems. Echoes of 1964: “Extremism is no vice, and moderation is no virtue!” Boehner put out a call to conservative economists, to come up with a rationale for opposing Obama’s stimulus plan, but the effort fizzled. Isn’t that putting the cart before the horse? How about figuring out whether the battle is worth fighting, before fighting it? Or, better yet, come up with their own plan? Cantor claimed the GOP had their own economic plan, but McConnell admitted it was nonsense.
Thus the obstruction, on every imaginable front. Southern legislatures are kowtowing to religious extremists, and working to defy Obama’s decision to lift restrictions on stem cell research. GOP legislators in California embarrass themselves in their effort to bankrupt the state, all to defy the Democrats. GOP lobbyists get caught trying to launch a crusade against testing medical equipment and procedures, for safety purposes, because the manufacturers and drug firms told them to. GOP legislators who cheered when the Bush gang destroyed all those documents and emails are now demanding that Obama save every scrap of paper. Obstruction on the stimulus, on the budget, on health care, on everything.
How far are these loons willing to go? The CEO of Fox News made the Republican siege mentality laughably obvious when he said that Fox would fight the Obama administration “like the Alamo...until the last shot is fired.” The American government is the enemy! Allahu akbar!
Activity among rightwing militias and hate groups is spiking nationally. They are trying to suck in the stupider Iraq war vets. Neo-Nazis have tried to infiltrate the military and the militias are working actively to recruit people with military training. There is lots of talk of Timothy McVeigh and lone-wolf scenarios. One Marine who threatened Obama’s life and was eventually arrested on unrelated B&E charges had a journal containing plans to kill Obama and white supremacist materials.
A year after Palin was exposed as supporting an extremist Alaskan secessionist group, Huckabee supporter Chuck Norris is talking secession in Texas. How about a Palin/Huckabee All-Secession ticket it 2012?
And this is all just in the last couple of months.
Lies, smears, attacks, obstruction, and possibly violent resistance?
This is how the GOP finally destroyed itself.
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Obama has won the national debate, because the Republicans have offered nothing but attacks.
Obama’s personal approval numbers are still rock-solid. But that’s just the beginning of the problems for the GOP: Obama has totally crushed the Republicans on the issues.
According to the polls, Obama has won the debate on the economy. In poll after poll, the American people have said that Obama inherited the economic mess from the Republicans; they know that by the time Obama was sworn in, we had already lost 3 million jobs, and saw major industries and banks crippled. And billions in stock value lost on the Dow. The American people said that Obama’s economic philosophy is better than Reagan’s and that we need to trust Obama rather than the Republicans on the economy, and give Obama time to clean up the mess; we need to repeal the tax cuts for the rich, impose stricter business regulation, and pass the mortgage plan even though it might be unfair. The number of people who think America is on the right track jumped 15 points. In fact, Obama is clobbering the GOP on virtually every issue, particularly among the all-important independents.
Polling also shows that Obama has won the bipartisanship issue, by mile. Poll after poll shows that, according to the American people, Obama extended the hand of bipartisan friendship to the Republicans, but the Republicans are fighting Obama for partisan political reasons. Half of Republicans polled said that Obama made a reasonable effort to accommodate Republican ideas, but that their party has no ideas of their own. Repeat, that’s Republican condemning their own leaders. Also the polls show that nobody is buying the GOP argument that the press is going to easy on Obama.
So, unsurprisingly, Obama’s approvals have stayed rock-solid in the 60s; outside the south, Obama’s approvals are almost 80. 86 percent are rooting for him to succeed. He is a two-to-one favourite to win reelection. Pelosi is twice as popular as her GOP counterparts, the Congressional Democrats are twice as important as their GOP counterparts, and the Democratic party is twice as popular as the GOP. Approval for the Republicans and their leaders is at a 12-year low. Boehner is down in the teens and McConnell is at 22. And, even worse for the Republicans, the independents who swung hard toward the Democrats during the election and elected Obama, are swinging even harder to the left.
Worst of all, a poll of the conservative participants in the CPAC conference revealed that about half of the conservatives wish they had someone else to support for 2012. Again, that’s the Republicans rejecting their own leaders.
So how did the Republicans destroy themselves so completely?
For months the Republicans had offered no new ideas of their own. Just more attacks.
The lies never stop. These gems of wisdom were all flung into the arena by Republican “leaders” just in the last couple of months, and all are horse manure.
Obama’s a liberal liberal liberal! He will impose communism! Just like those evil socialist bureaucrats tried to stop the Katrina rescue boats! There is a spontaneous wave of “we hate Obama the socialist” protests cross the country! (actually it was concocted by rightwing fatcats and it fizzled).
(Seriously...“Socialism socialism socialism socialism!!!” Too bad nobody under the age of 60 is afraid of socialists. “Socialist” is a scare-word that goes back 70 years. Next thing you know the Republicans will be screeching at Obama for not building a wooden stockade around Washington to keep the Apaches out.)
Obama will fail because the New Deal failed! Everything in our economy is either Obama’s fault or Clinton’s : the drop in the Dow, the AIG theft...! Obama’s effort to pay for doctors and policemen and firefighters and schools and roads is all pork pork porkulus! The Republican earmarks which were put into the budget bill during the Bush administration are all Obama’s fault! ACORN, the people who stole the election for Obama, is getting the stimulus money! The temporary stimulus provisions are really permanent! Obama wants a bullet train to Vegas! Bush’s effort to but new presidential helicopters was really Obama’s fault!
Obama broke his promise for change! He’s a crook! Obama will put Capone-like Chicago criminals in charge of the government! Obama was responsible for the Blago scandal! Democrats will make millions peddling a global-warming hoax!
Be verrrrrrrry afraid! Obama is not a U.S. citizen! Obama will take everyone’s guns! Obama will put terrorists on the streets! Obama will remove his enemies from the radio airwaves and build an all-liberal media! Obama s pushing a bill to force abortions, choose how many kids you can have, and shut down Catholic hospitals! Obama will ration health care so people die! Obama will send gays in to destroy and invalidate all straight marriages and make all our wives whores and our children bastards!
Obama’s numbers are dropping! And it’s because America is a center-right nation: the center really agrees with the GOP, not Obama! Obama is the new Carter!
And to show how terrified the Republicans are, of losing another Senate seat: “The people who voted for Al Franken are retarded! Franken’s stealing the election!”
Then they tried to make villains of Grandpa Reid and Pelosi the Housewife, but unsurprisingly they got nowhere.
Then the smears and attacks. Republican “leaders” bragged or joked about the death of Ted Kennedy, the death of Justice Ginsburg, and a nuclear attack on Obama’s hometown; they ran a cartoon comparing Obama to a rabid monkey, compared Democrats to murderers and rapists, and said that the little girl whose school Obama wants to rebuild is a slick opportunist. The House GOP whip got nailed for circulating an anti-union smear tape. The Washington Times asserted that the Freeman nomination turned out the way it did because “the Democrats were mostly Jewish”.
The far-right has hired the Swiftboat smear firm to run a new campaign of dishonest attacks against the Obama health plan; these are also the same guys who tried to sell George Bush’s plan to rip apart Social Security; if these people had had their way, all your pension money would have been wiped out in the crash of the Dow.
As the American people know full well (as the polls indicate), the Republicans, with Goldwater-like fanaticism, have rejected the notion of a bipartisan effort to solve our problems. Echoes of 1964: “Extremism is no vice, and moderation is no virtue!” Boehner put out a call to conservative economists, to come up with a rationale for opposing Obama’s stimulus plan, but the effort fizzled. Isn’t that putting the cart before the horse? How about figuring out whether the battle is worth fighting, before fighting it? Or, better yet, come up with their own plan? Cantor claimed the GOP had their own economic plan, but McConnell admitted it was nonsense.
Thus the obstruction, on every imaginable front. Southern legislatures are kowtowing to religious extremists, and working to defy Obama’s decision to lift restrictions on stem cell research. GOP legislators in California embarrass themselves in their effort to bankrupt the state, all to defy the Democrats. GOP lobbyists get caught trying to launch a crusade against testing medical equipment and procedures, for safety purposes, because the manufacturers and drug firms told them to. GOP legislators who cheered when the Bush gang destroyed all those documents and emails are now demanding that Obama save every scrap of paper. Obstruction on the stimulus, on the budget, on health care, on everything.
How far are these loons willing to go? The CEO of Fox News made the Republican siege mentality laughably obvious when he said that Fox would fight the Obama administration “like the Alamo...until the last shot is fired.” The American government is the enemy! Allahu akbar!
Activity among rightwing militias and hate groups is spiking nationally. They are trying to suck in the stupider Iraq war vets. Neo-Nazis have tried to infiltrate the military and the militias are working actively to recruit people with military training. There is lots of talk of Timothy McVeigh and lone-wolf scenarios. One Marine who threatened Obama’s life and was eventually arrested on unrelated B&E charges had a journal containing plans to kill Obama and white supremacist materials.
A year after Palin was exposed as supporting an extremist Alaskan secessionist group, Huckabee supporter Chuck Norris is talking secession in Texas. How about a Palin/Huckabee All-Secession ticket it 2012?
And this is all just in the last couple of months.
Lies, smears, attacks, obstruction, and possibly violent resistance?
This is how the GOP finally destroyed itself.