Why Obama Makes The GOP Panic

[babylonsister]

http://www.nationalmemo.com/obama-makes-gop-panic/

By Gene Lyons
Why Obama Makes The GOP Panic
July 9, 2014 12:00 am

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OK, so Obama asked for it. Mother Jones blogger Kevin Drum gets that part exactly right:

For years, I really didn’t believe the conservative snark about how Obama supporters all thought he would descend on Washington like a god-king and miraculously turn us into a post-racial, post-partisan, post-political country. Kumbaya! The reason I didn’t believe it was that it never struck me as even remotely plausible.

Of course Obama promised to transform America. “That’s what presidential candidates do,” Drum adds. “I believed then, and still believe now, that Obama is basically a mainstream Democrat who’s cautious, pragmatic, technocratic, and incremental…(But) by now, the evidence is clear that millions of Obama voters really believed all that boilerplate rhetoric.”

Hence bitter disappointment on the sentimental left. Oh, you wanted single-payer health care? So tell me where Obama was supposed to get the votes.

However, the real believers in Barack the magic enchanter have been Republicans. His presidency has driven a substantial proportion of the GOP electorate completely around the bend. To a remarkable degree, the party of Lincoln has metamorphosed into a Confederate-accented political cult on apocalyptic themes suggested by fundamentalist theology.

“The unhinged versions of this sensibility,” notes Jonathan Chait “held that Obama had launched a sinister ideological assault on the Constitution and American freedom, perhaps in the name of Islamism, or socialism, or, somehow, both.”

Mentioning Obama’s race as one cause of GOP panic is even more forbidden than bringing up George W. Bush. You want to argue about it? Check the comment lines to any online article about Obama, and then get back to me.

It’s in the Bible: “The guilty flee, where no man pursueth.”

Along with existential panic goes an inability to keep things in proportion. Benghazi equals invading Iraq. The IRS “scandal” equals Watergate. Forty-five consecutive months of job growth and shrinking budget deficits get airbrushed out of the picture.

Over time, fear will abate. Then we’ll see what we see.

[liberal N proud]

1. I always thought Lewinsky was for Watergate

So they still are not over that one?

[Rozlee]

2. The right-wing echo chamber confabulates everything.

Faux News ran a story about Obama not eating a Philly sandwich when he visited Philadelphia over several news cycles once. It was an act of high treason and un-Americanism! I remember when he'd barely been in office a week, he was holding a press conference and FOX was displaying the numbers on the Stock Exchange, reporting every 3 minutes into the speech that the Dow Jones had gone down 5 more points as the President spoke, that it had plunged another 2 points, etc., etc.; that his election was creating pessimism on Wall St. and the market. Never mind that the Dow Jones was barely at 8,000 after it crashed under Bush at the time.

[Beartracks]

15. ROFL I remember that minute-by-minute "analysis." That was so Hannity.

#GOPfail

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[babylonsister]

6. She wasn't alive during Watergate. nt

[awoke_in_2003]

7. I think they mean...

Lewinsky was payback for Watergate- we went after Nixon, so they went after Clinton.

[babylonsister]

9. Baloney! One was a dick, one played with his dick. Big difference. nt

[awoke_in_2003]

10. Yes, I agree...

but I think the republicans were looking to get back at the democrats after the Nixon fiasco. I don't think what Clinton did was impeachable, but that didn't stop them from trying.

[babylonsister]

11. Nah, too much water under that bridge. The black guy,

whatever he tries to accomplish, is met with disdain from people I wouldn't even wipe my shoes on. It's disgusting.

[Rod Beauvex]

12. What happened to the one that showed his dick?

Haven't from Anthony in awhile.

[liberal N proud]

17. They used Lewinsky to impeach Clinton

Which was retaliation for Nixon resigning.

[sheshe2]

3. KnR

[treestar]

4. no kidding

They are truly unhinged. He "hates America" blah blah. Wants to turn us into a socialist state. The left hear could use some exposure to that!

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Try this----

Most of the Rethugs are pissed because they have tried every damn thing possible to crash our economy. But,we Dems,not all we still have to deal with the third way bunch,and our President have foiled these scum bags at every turn.

Our next hurdle is dealing with the Krotch Brothers and this is now the playing Movie. Old Harry has stuck his beak out there and the local Krotch Industries Propaganda ads are hitting us big time. And to think,Harry's Salt Lake Church is even dumping on him. Bring it on.

[freshwest]

8. Yeah, the Obama the Messiah meme freaks ALL the B&W thinkers, LOL! I love this:

There is scarcely a king (or would-be-king) in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharaoh - get first all the people’s money, then all their lands, and then make them and all their children slaves forever.

~ Thomas Jefferson



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Kneel before Zod, er, Osiris, you fools!

Obama, still black after all these years.

Haters, still crazy after all these years.



Thanks for posting, needed a laugh after talking to a troll...

[supercats]

13. Brilliant!!!

Great piece...

[Beartracks]

14. "45 consecutive months of job growth and shrinking budget deficits" = The Obama Economy.

Rush wanted Obama to own it. He should.

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[Spitfire of ATJ]

16. Talk to an Obama hater some time....

They will claim he tripled the deficit (or the debt - they don't know the dif) and increased welfare for "his own kind".
They will claim he gave away free "Obamaphones" to blacks only.
They will claim he increased food stamps.
They will claim he STOLE from Medicare to pay for "Obamacare" which is free healthcare for black people.
They will claim he is a Muslim who is leaving America wide open for an attack.
They will claim he has already BEEN doing a gun grab and has used FEMA and Homeland Security to buy up ammo and cause a shortage.
They will claim he has a secret army (IT'S BLACK!!!!) ready to march on God Fearing Americans.
They will claim he RAISED their taxes. (Even if they work at Walmart)

I've heard one idiot claim Obama STARTED the war in Afghanistan.