As a proud member of the progressive movement in this country, I must confess to a certain amount of glee as we witness the total breakdown of the Republican Party. I optimistically await the Palin/Biden debate tonight with a naughty sense of optimism and voyeurism hitherto reserved for bad wrecks on the freeway and watching George Bush trying to enunciate a complete sentence.
The past two weeks have been most interesting. The Grand Old Party is engaging in a little old time family cannibalism. David Brooks, Kathleen Parker, Peg Noonan and George Will are all bad Republicans now. (also referred to as the intellectual republicans) House Republicans are beating their collective breasts and extolling their new found "principles". This is in direct opposition to the Senate Republicans and the President, Paulson and Wall Street. The Wall Street Journal had the temerity to blame the failure of last week's house vote on the House Democrats and Nancy Pelosi, who in fact delivered 140 votes (or 15 more than she had promised John Boehner) because they are the majority party. This is a real thigh slapper since the House repubs were brooking their own party leadership and esteemed Chief Executive.
Jonah Goldberg ranted this week about his distaste for populists in the party. Max Boot just wants to start bombing Iran. Fred Barnes knows that the GOP is just in a bad election cycle and will be perfectly positioned the next go around. Mark Levin is still waiting for his testicles to drop.
McCain's support and arm twisting had only a marginal effect. What does his party really stand for? Well they are certainly championing the rights of the unborn, even those borne of rape or incest. Perhaps more bodies to send off to foreign imbroglios? They want deregulation, unless it has to do with protecting American's civil liberty or rights (behavior that they want to regulate). And they want to ban books. Have I missed anything?
3 comments:
Can't wait for Biden to give Palin's cute little booty a real ass kicking tonite.
so glad you are thrilled with the collapse of the republican party, and to think it will only cost us and our kids and grand-kids $ 700 billion, add that to the spent war funds and we will all end up like Biafran's
d
Hey D,
The 700 billion potentially lost is the result of 7 years of republican mismanagement, with 6 years in charge of congress. I do think that the rats are deserting the ship. And yes, it is funny. I am pained that a trillion dollars was lost the other day in the market. We are fucked right now but we might as well toast marshmallows or maybe fiddle. Would that it not have happened and that we would have had a thinking person at the helm. This is deregulation in its finest hour.
Robert
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