Almost make you want to register as a Republican. THey are going to have the most fun in upcoming primaries.
Nope, Cantor gets to say that he used erroneous information to his own advantage. Until he does that, he’s not worthy of being given the benefit of the doubt.
You do agree now that the story Cantor told was incorrect, don’t you?
Do you think that despite that, he should continue to benefit from the telling?
I don’t.
We’ve had enough lies from politicians this past decade. It’s time to set the bar a little higher.
Let’s start with you point me two exactly what you find so objectionable. Either a video or a transcript will do.
No, I’m saying that the right wing fanatics are largely the people who are the Republican party, while the left wing fanatics have little to do with the Democrats, much less run them. The Democrats aren’t left wing at all, so they have little attraction to leftists except as a mean of slowing down the Republicans.
Which, under the circumstances, is an enormously compelling argument.
Very few Americans (certainly, not most conservative blowhards) would recognize a real leftist if he or she was marching down the street, singing the Internationale right in front of them.
Henry Aaron of Brookings, a fairly mild-mannered policy wonk, bemoans what’s happened to the Republican Party:
Numbers, indentations and link added. The Scowcrafts, Powells, Bakers and Andersons have been shown the door. All that’s left are the Gingriches, Roves, Delays, Cantors, Bachmanns and Inhofes. A party of science this is not.
No, foolsguinea is - a letter. “Mudering” is obviously supposed to be “Muldering,” as in “mistakenly believing the children have been abducted by aliens.”
Judd Gregg was recently on Charlie Rose. He didn’t like the health care bill, but at least he had intelligent objections to it.
The sad reality is that you can’t win a GOP primary without appealing to your radical base. The second you side with Obama on anything you become vulnerable to a primary challenge. Specter voted for Obama’s stimulus package and as a result had to become a Democrat because he felt he could not have won a Republican primary challenge.
Gee, maybe you could help out a humor impaired brother. Just let me know what time I can tune in to the Fox News Half Hour Comedy Hour?
If not, perhaps there’s a funny conservative you can direct me towards?
The half Hour Comedy Hour got cancelled after like a week.
Fox News has this show on late at night called “Red Eye” that apparently attempts to be some kind of comedy show but is, in my opinion, the very worst show on all of television. Just abysmal, witless crap. There’s also Dennis Miller, but he isn’t funny any more either.
Come to think of it, there really aren’t any funny RW humorists any more, except perhaps for P.J. O’Rourke, but his humor peaked in his National Lampoon days. Why is that?
H.L. Mencken would weep.
Mallard Fillmore is a howl. :rolleyes: PJ used to be funny, but jumped the shark. national Review used to have lots of funny stuff in the '60s and '70s, but now they seem insane.
Frum offers commentary on NPR, sometimes even rational, so he is obviously a socialist.
Whatever did happen to Mitt? You’d think that he, more than practically any Republican, would have something to say about this. Perhaps he has enough integrity to not call his own plan socialist, which would put him one up on the rest of the party. Perhaps he is waiting for the loons to self-destruct? Perhaps he knows that if he says anything half sane Rush and the other morons would jump on him. Rational Republicans don’t seem to be allowed to speak any more.
Seems he is smart enough to not oppose HCR head-on since it is similar in many ways to Romneycare. So, smartly, he is opposed to HCR on the grounds that the Feds overstepped their authority and this is a matter for the states. He also opposes HCR on many of the points that are different from Romneycare.
Nothing. He’s raising money, recently put out a book, and will be running again in 2012 unless something happens or he becomes convinced he can’t win.
Both of those positions are rational. However, I’d think he’d agree with HCR on the basic philosophical grounds of the right to health care for all. If he said that, he’d no doubt get in trouble with the far right. I also doubt he’d say it was socialist, since doing it at the state level makes it no less “socialist.”
I’m not being critical of him at all - if I were running for President, I’d keep my head down also. At least he isn’t out there repenting his socialist sins.
I think the GOPs biggest problem is that they are no longer in control of the radical, teabagger elements that they unleashed. They wound up the stupid and the unthinking to a frothing rage and currently are only holding on by not getting in front of the beast. It was OK as long as it was pointed at Obama, Reid and Pelosi, but now they are finding out that the beast will turn on them just as fast. They’re only remaining options politically are to side with the teabaggers or keep quiet. This is fast putting them in a position where they are destroying the rest of thier base and having less and less ability to function in politics. Now, they have just had a big shit sandwich handed to them by the Dems proving that big legislation can be passed without them.
From your lips to God’s ears, my friend.