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April 25, 2007 12:48 PM
Out-of-Touch Lunatics In Stereo; Has the GOP Officially Gone Insane?
I feel like I am experiencing out of touch, idiotic right-wing politicians in stereo. At the federal level, I'm watching President George W. Bush threaten to veto an Iraq bill that calls for a timeline - and, as if trying to brandish his out-of-touch/utterly insane credentials, actually going before cameras to claim that the 2006 election was a mandate for a military escalation. And here in Montana, we have the Republican House leader who today stood in front of a group of 16-year-old pages at a press conference to curse off the governor for - gasp! - trying to make a budget deal so that the legislative session ends on time and Montana taxpayers aren't forced to finance legislators' extra salary for a special session.
Yes, you read that right. Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D) asked House Republican Leader Michael Lange (R) to support a property tax cut and tax loophole closing bill in exchange for the Governor's support for Lange's school funding bill. As the Billings Gazette notes, "Such horse-trading over bills is commonplace during the closing days of any Legislature." Yet, after Lange shook Schweitzer's hand in agreement for the deal, he then walked out of a room to hold a press event where he said:
"The governor can go straight to hell as far as I'm concerned for trying to do that...I'm pissed off at that SOB on the second floor (Schweitzer)...So my message to the governor is: Stick it up your ass! Stick it up your ass!...I don't give a shit...We won't back down."
The Gazette noted that "many of the House Republicans applauded at those words" - and then as if it's no big deal that their own leader is now working to waste thousands of taxpayer dollars on an unnecessary special session - House Republicans began cheering "Stay till May! Stay till May!"
Honest question: Has the entire Republican Party - from the White House to the statehouses - gone completely, utterly and certifiably insane? I ask that not even because their actual policies - whatever the hell they are, I can't tell - are insane, but because even the political calculation displays no sanity. Beyond trying to drive America off a cliff policy-wise, what possible political benefit could, say, President Bush think opposing ending the war bring him? Similarly, what possible political benefit does the Montana Republican Party think comes from a wild-eyed spastic freak-turned-legislator like Mike Lange running around the state capitol cursing off the governor and bragging about wasting taxpayer cash on his own extra salary for a special session?
Again - has the entire Republican Party gone insane?
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about 26 years ago when the religious right started taking over.
Last night while listening to something on PBS, they said something about the Enron and the corporate Darwinism that Skilling practiced. That's when the penny finally dropped.
Republicans have totally embraced Darwin and become Darwinists for everything and everyone with the sole exception of fetuses. After all, what else could you consider the Walter Reed scandal but survival of the fittest (Darwinism) in practice? How about the new restriction on abortion and stepped up plans to overthrow Roe v. Wade? Darwinism. Abu Ghraib? Iraq and all its associated disasters? Darwinism. No bid contracts? Darwinism manipulated by the large corporations and put into policy by Bush. You name it, if its a republican bill, party plank, policy, or initiative, it either contains an element of Darwinism or it is pure Darwinism.
Like Whatever stated.
When the Baptists and other addlepatted dominionists became the party base it pretty much meant the GOP party bosses could do and say anything they want and their stupid religious base would take it as manna from heaven.
Then again what do expect from millions people who think some clown in a armani suit with a brylcreme hairdo has a direct link to G-d.
Doubt it? Just look at the polling the GOP base is still solidly behind Bush and his policies. You can't shake these moron's faith in Bush no matter what.
The only good thing is that its left a massive political gap for the Democrats to exploit. The problem is as demonstrated by Schwietzers silence is that the Democrats are too stupid to exploit it.
I mean Schweitzer could have had field day eviscerating Lange but he runs and hides from this fool and blowhard.
Republican Darwinists? Man! Darwin's spinning in his grave. There's a big difference between natural selection and deliberately murdering anyone you consider inconvenient.
As for the "religious right", they are just suckers for the neo-con BS, following along lemming-like while the Big-Money pipes the tune, the Bible-thumpers want to hear, sneering at them all the while.
If the "Religious Right" ever admitted they were wrong, they would also have to admit that they've been dissed and played for fools. I doubt if their egos could take it.
One of the things the Republicans haven't figured out is that the Big Lie theory is no longer operative once the majority figures out that you are constantly lying your butt off. So they stand there prating their worn-out lies and getting indignant when the majority has the perceptiveness to call them liars.
Insanity is when you keep doing the same thing over and over even though it doesn't work. The Republicans have been insane for quite a while. Don't sell them any guns.
You're looking at it the wrong way, Butte. You're thinking like someone with an active conscience; a good Samaritan. The people creating and putting these policies into effect see this as "big fish eats little fish" and "those who can't keep up, get walked on (or worse)". Law of the jungle, survival of the fittest, darwinism.
Republicans have become Darwinists.
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