Holy crap. They actually believe it.

[smoogatz]

The House Republicans apparently actually believe that the reason they got their collective ass handed to them in the last two election cycles is that they're not conservative enough. Complete denial, in other words. No recognition that conservative ideology itself—everything from more tax cuts for the rich to global warming denial—has been broadly repudiated by the American electorate. The problem, my friends, is not that Republicans promote ignorance, intolerance, racism and xenophobia—the problem is that they don't promote them enough. The problem isn't that they want to trash your civil rights and create a soft police-state right here in the U.S.A.—the problem is that they're not fascistic enough. It's not that they hate the middle class; they don't hate us enough. It's not that they looted the treasury and gave the cash to their buddies; they left a few bucks lying on the floor. It's not that they invaded the wrong country and called us traitors for pointing it out; the problem is they didn't round us all up and put us in camps. To which I say: Great! Keep talking, Rush. Keep talking, Sean. Keep those angry emails going out to your congress-critters, Freeptards. Because there's another election coming in 2010, and your guys in Congress just voted against helping the American people get through the worst recession since the 1930s.

[Lex]

1. Watch them continue their dive off the cliff . . .

isn't it magnificent?

[smoogatz]

7. Yep--I posted a bit prematurely.

Edited to add that their vote against the stimulus package isn't going to look so great when the 2010 midterm rolls around. Why do the Republicans hate the American people? Why do they want America to fail?

[undergroundpanther]

25. If I am not at that cliff..

howling with laughter as they drive that stake in their own evil hearts, can somebody take pics and send them my way? heheheh..

[ORDagnabbit]

2. good the only good republican is a

wait... there are no good republicans.. never mind

[Sebastian Doyle]

5. No, you were right the first time.

There have been good Republicans. Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, even Ike Eisenhower. Hell, even Dick Nixon did one or two things worthy of recognition (Earth day, the EPA). But, as you almost said...... they're all dead.

[immoderate]

16. It's hard to believe...

They managed to make Nixon look good. I was a big fan of the Nixon impeachment hearings. Never thought this could happen. Then came Reagan and I said OMG! And then...

--imm

[tabatha]

3. Well, they were not conservative enough fiscally.

But surely if a voter thought they were not conservative enough, why would a voter vote more liberal?

Not logical.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

4. It's a lot to expect a Repub to be logical nt

[smoogatz]

8. I think we can pretty much throw out the word "conservative"

as a synonym for "fiscally prudent."

[Bolo Boffin]

11. It's not the word's fault. We should pass a law forcing Republicans to abandon the use of the term

until they can demonstrate actual fiscal prudence.

[lunatica]

12. If it doesn't work the first few times try harder.

[onehandle]

6. Go Hard Right, GOPers. Give us fifty more House seats and ten more Senate seats. nt

[sutz12]

9. Self awareness was never a real strong character trait among them. nt

[lunatica]

10. The Dodo Birds had a similar approach to life n/t

[Life Long Dem]

13. The drunken sailors are in denial!

[FriendlyReminder]

14. Let them continue to delude themselves. Sheesh, what a load of crap.

[butterfly77]

15. Haven't you got it yet....

THE republiCONS are INSANE!!!

[benld74]

17. Lemmings really don't think, they just FOLLOW in lock step over the cliff!

It reallt hard to think of anything new when ALL you can see is the asshole in front of your face doing the same exact thing you and everyone else is doing

[mike_c]

18. be careful what you wish for....

Let's be honest-- American voters are not an especially intelligent lot, at least not en masse. They're easily deceived, for example, and will readily vote against their own interests if a catchy soundbite directs them to.

If the democratic party's stimulus package works well-- essentially Obama's stimulus legislation, at least in the public eye-- then perhaps the republicans will end up with egg on their faces. But if it works, no one will be looking for scapegoats, so it won't matter much.

On the other hand, if the stimulus does not work-- and I don't think it will, or at least it won't prevent a whole lot of pain that's already beginning to drop on folks' necks-- then the villagers WILL be out with torches and pitchforks, looking for someone to blame, and it won't be the congress critters who can say "I TOLD them not to enact that legislation! I voted against it!"

[nradisic]

19. Republicans have Cognitive Dissonance...

No surprise here...

[undergroundpanther]

27. no they are sociopaths

and to them everything is a nail and THEY GOT to HAMMER it more.
They look for excuses to pound and pound,because,they cannot feel empathy ,shame or introspect,some of the human qualities required to effect changes.
Republicans have no conscience nothing to motivate them to change themselves.They have no soul no heart nothing inside them but a desire to bash,burn,pillage, steal,tear down,stomp whine and destroy.
Two year old's without a conscience in adult bodies.
Since republican sociopaths see themselves as faultless, everything they do that fails is a liberal's fault.Cognitive dissonance they do not have,lust for domination they DO have.

[unblock]

20. note that the republicans that are left managed to get themselves re-elected in november

many of the ones that were in districts where the democrats had a decent shot are no longer on the congressional payroll.
the ones that survived are the ones from more solidly republican districts, so it should be no surprise that we're left with a smaller but, on average, further-to-the-right group.

if they were wise and playing to the nation, they would compromise and seem reasonable.
but they're congresscritters, so they're playing to their district, which means a bunch of people stupid and stubborn enough to send a republican back AGAIN.

their voters WANT right-wing obstruction. they WANT their congresscritters to keep obama from getting away with his radical socialist islamic terrorist plans :dunce:.

[radfringe]

21. just look at their "leader" - Rush of the dittoheaded rushicans

no need to explain further than that

[OwnedByFerrets]

22. IF, and that is a huge IF, they had "actually" been

conservatives instead of NeoCons, they might not have lost so badly in the last two elections. America, well, most Americans are sick and tired of the NEOCON philosophy.

[Laelth]

23. Makes me giddy.

This essay on the subject is highly informative:

http://www.regressiveantidote.net/Articles/What_To_Do_When_Your_Party_Sucks.html

I look forward to the R's running Sarah Palin in 2012. My President will trounce her. Most R's are now so far out of the mainstream that their electability is highly questionable. The demographic trends favor us too. We may be looking at one-party rule for 20 years.

The United States is a LIBERAL Country.

:dem:

-Laelth

[BlooInBloo]

24. It's more like: they don't believe ANYTHING...

I think they're beginning to internalize the fact that their mantras - their very definitions of themselves are precisely what screwed the entire country over, and now they have absolutely NOTHING.

What we're seeing now is the scared-horse behavior; when stressed, and lacking any direction (they have nothing), they simply run back to the barn.

[undergroundpanther]

26. Einstien had these fuckers pegged..

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.



Albert Einstein

[WindRiverMan]

28. Darwin states that organisms must change to adapt to a changing environement

or cease to exist as a species. The Republicans are going the way of the DoDO and the head Dodos Rush and Hannity just keep pouring the kerosene on a brush fire.


Good Riddance. May my sons never live to ever have to consider voting for this slimy excuse of a political party.