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In reply to the discussion: REPUBLICANS: "My God, what (an effing) mess---A loss is what the GOP's political class NOW expects." [View all]sofa king
(10,857 posts)55. Heheh. Suckers.
Well over a year ago ago I called President Obama in a landslide, and my guess has only been reinforced since then.
How did I do it? What amazing magic did I use to foresee what the Republicans can only see now?
I read the fucking legislation the Republicans had signed.
Which, apparently, not one of the forty million active Republicans in the country did. I suspect it is because they assumed that any agreement they made could be subsequently broken.
But it can't, because Reid, Pelosi, and Obama correctly anticipated that breaking prior agreements would be the Republicans' first priority in the 112th Congress, and crafted the legislation so that it could not be pried apart.
This is the most important lesson President Obama has taught us. They can have all the money. They can buy the media and attempt to control the debate. But Republicans cannot fight Democrats legislatively, because the only thing they know about legislation is how to manipulate it for profit.
They are too criminally incompetent to foresee the complications their own greed creates--and too greedy to notice how criminally incompetent they are. President Obama has turned the base nature of the GOP against itself, and now they not only teeter on the brink of defeat, but I am beginning to wonder whether or not they face the prospect of fractionation and perhaps even the breakdown of our two-party system.
How did I do it? What amazing magic did I use to foresee what the Republicans can only see now?
I read the fucking legislation the Republicans had signed.
Which, apparently, not one of the forty million active Republicans in the country did. I suspect it is because they assumed that any agreement they made could be subsequently broken.
But it can't, because Reid, Pelosi, and Obama correctly anticipated that breaking prior agreements would be the Republicans' first priority in the 112th Congress, and crafted the legislation so that it could not be pried apart.
This is the most important lesson President Obama has taught us. They can have all the money. They can buy the media and attempt to control the debate. But Republicans cannot fight Democrats legislatively, because the only thing they know about legislation is how to manipulate it for profit.
They are too criminally incompetent to foresee the complications their own greed creates--and too greedy to notice how criminally incompetent they are. President Obama has turned the base nature of the GOP against itself, and now they not only teeter on the brink of defeat, but I am beginning to wonder whether or not they face the prospect of fractionation and perhaps even the breakdown of our two-party system.
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REPUBLICANS: "My God, what (an effing) mess---A loss is what the GOP's political class NOW expects." [View all]
kpete
Feb 2012
OP
I have been watching that mess starting at the local school board for many years. You
southernyankeebelle
Feb 2012
#11
I am the same way. I don't think most people thought that way before. But after seeing
southernyankeebelle
Feb 2012
#34
the Rethugs do seemed doomed, the only way I see Obama losing is if the economy utterly goes into
stockholmer
Feb 2012
#3
I seriously doubt that the Southern evangicals are going to vote for a religious morman cult nominee
AlbertCat
Feb 2012
#67
Why does anyone even listen to Ed Rollins anymore? When was the last time he was a significant
yellowcanine
Feb 2012
#16
Hurrah! They are self-destructing. Plus triangulation and "centrism" works.
AnotherMcIntosh
Feb 2012
#36
Six months before this thing got going...every Republican ...was saying, 'We're gonna win
AlbertCat
Feb 2012
#63
Oh bullshit. The GOP is just cleaning out the clown car. They know Obama's going to win.
HopeHoops
Feb 2012
#68