Republicans Bhawhahahahaha! Silly people.

(((Katymine))) my thoughts of concern and healing to you.

Frankly Christy, I hope an Ice Age has arrived for the Republicans. They need to be frozen in an ice sheet like a wooly mammoth.

I find it so bizarre — and humorous — that anyone would find Newt Gingrich to be the answer to anything. Honestly, if that is the best they can do, they are in even more a world of hurt than I originally thought.

Sad, that.

What bothers the Republics most is that, in losing their way, they forgot to put St. Reagan’s image on the dime and the half dollar.

And, btw, I loved the herd of exactly the same nondescript elephants. Seemed to fit perfectly as an illustration, don’t you think? *g*

Why is it that every time I read or think about the past eight years, I reach for a cigarette? (Note: I don’t smoke.)

Thanks, Christy. It would be uncharitable of me to wish that their winter is a long and bitter one. I’ll wish it anyway…

Morning Christy,
sorry about Norquist circling the drain. hee hee

Oh, and do click through on the RNC self-help site. Everyone needs a good laugh…

Gingrich – Palin 2012?
Palin – Quayle 2012?

That is good. In the threads at Glenn’s place yesterday, this set of elephants came up. Some good ones there, too.

Palin-Bachmann is what the wags in my part of the world are touting. Bobblehead Barbies, wOOt!

The problem with these people was voiced by Limbaugh the day after the election: “Let the game begin!”

That’s the problem in a nutshell. To me, this country and its blemishes and good parts aren’t part of some fucking game. The country and its traditions and what we stand for are an integral part of what are try to impart to my kids and what I want us to present to the world.

This shouldn’t be some game for rich thieving Republicans to play, devising new catch phrases with which to confuse their loyal mob as they march out to impede progress and spread vicious lies about the new administration.

This isn’t a goddamn game and the sooner people realize that the Republicans have no respect for our country as a symbol of democracy and hope the sooner we’ll be able to start fixing things.

The thought of that gives me a massive headache. Wouldn’t that be a trainwreck and a half?

Republics might want to wake up and notice that Limpy Limbaugh’s not such a great water carrier anymore.

Well said James. The game I see from Repubs like Limbaugh and his minions is a credo/scam to perpetuate unabashed avarice.

Not so sad that. btw can we have a millenium of GOP discontent

More than that, it’s a scam to perpetuate their own incomes.

I cannot fathom how/why anyone continues to even acknowledge Gingrich on the national stage. The fact that he and Palin have any credibility is very troubling.

Newt is the ‘answer to a maiden’s prayer’? For the party that is supposed to be now hewing to ‘family values’ and ‘the sanctity of marriage’? How many wives did that guy throw under the bus? Two…or was it three…or more? Who knows? If these guys choose Newt, we’re going to run out of popcorn for sure.

It’s flat out amazing to me that Bachmann was re-elected. What are those people thinking?? Oh, wait. I think I just answered my own question.

Oooh! Kathleen Parker calls the Republicans toddlers and then changes that to roaches. From Christy’s “Mosh Pit” link:

The impulse to blame someone — anyone — for what went wrong last week reminds parents of when a toddler falls down. Hurt and embarrassed, he will often walk up to his mother (or caregiver, as the case may be) and slap her to shift attention and assign blame.

In similarly childish behavior, those disappointed by the election of Barack Obama are slapping the heretics who expressed doubts about the McCain-Palin ticket. It’s their fault that Obama won.

Good thinking. And turning on the kitchen light creates a roach problem.

That’s gonna leave a mark.

OT – for hearing junkies: house financial services committee hearing this morning on the apparently failing $300 billion “Hope for Homeowners” program. more at oxdown.

Jim, not to flog my new diary at Oxdown(but I’m gonna anyway *g), Foley is showing the same level of thinking about his “little problem” – someone else’s fault…oh no, not his…not his at all… I think the Republicans have been drinking their own kool-aid for a looong time.

oh geez, they really are a sad lot!

thanks selise! it really helps to have the witness list et al andn a recap of what to expect

Sorry for going OT, but has anyone seen wobblybits around? I haven’t recently.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of the truth.

Albert Einstein

you’re most welcome and my thanks back to you – i always appreciate your WJ and sunday talking heads lists and info.

The republicans are arrogant. They refuse to accept that anything they might have done was their own fault. It is always the other guy’s fault.

But even a republican has to see that the greed, nepotism, inept leadership, did I say greed? and dishonesty of the last 8 years has finally sunk in to the American public. And they showed it at the polls.

So will the republicans acknowledge their errors and retool? I don’t think so. They will start digging for more dirt, whispering more lies and distortions, and do everything they know how to divide the country and claw their way back to power. So they can destroy the country again.

Thanks Christy.

digg

I sent her a message on FB over the weekend and haven’t heard back. I’m hoping it’s a computer issue.

Hmmmmmmmmm. Thanks.

I had forgottemn who teh chairman of RNC was. went to their website. i was wrong. i never knew who he was. still don’t. maybe mel martinez will lose and he can to back there and continue his successful outreach to hispanics. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

btw,the RNC website is a hoot.

I’ve heard that Einstein was a pretty intelligent person.

But he was prolly into nuance, subtlety and ’stuff’ like that.

I also hear he was concerned with the ‘big’ picture of how things work.

Maybe such things will come into vogue in this country.

I hear that has happened once or twice, already.

So, it is possible that such notions are not entirely ‘foreign’.

But the ‘thinking’ part could still prove troublesome, one suspects.

;~D

More bad news for Repubs. and goods news for the world. Crossposted at Marcie’s.

An obscure law will allow the reversal of Bush laws and regs enacted even those in place before Nov. 1 using Filibuster-proof action by Congress.
http://www.politico.com/storie…..Page2.html

It could take Obama years to undo climate rules finalized more than 60 days before he takes office — the advantage the White House sought by getting them done by Nov. 1. But that strategy doesn’t account for the Congressional Review Act of 1996.

The law contains a clause determining that any regulation finalized within 60 days of congressional adjournment — Oct. 3, in this case — is considered to have been legally finalized on Jan. 15, 2009. The new Congress then has 60 days to review it and reverse it with a joint resolution that can’t be filibustered in the Senate.

In other words, any regulation finalized in the last half-year of the Bush administration could be wiped out with a simple party-line vote in the Democrat-controlled Congress.

A senior aide on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, which is chaired by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), was familiar with the CRA, acknowledging that it is an option the committee is considering.

House Global Warming Committee Chairman Ed Markey (D-Mass.) is also looking at it. “On egregious rule-makings that would have a detrimental effect on energy and environmental policy, [the CRA] speeds up the process for rescinding the bad rule,” said Markey spokesman Eben Burnham-Snyder. “It’s something Markey is seriously looking into.”

If you ask why George W. Bush was such a bad president, it is partly because he scores so poorly as a leader and as a manager. Most Americans found him a likeable man, to be sure, but none would accuse him of being an inspiring speaker, or even always an intelligible one.

lol
that’s kinda the job right there

from Christy’s Clive link, “Obama ran on competence”

I don’t find it sad at all. I find it hilarious.

Leave us not forget THESE PEOPLE DO NOT MATTER!

The big “Mainstream” struggle is with a media that has consistently thrown its legs up over its head for the Republicans and a public that has moved on. The “Mainstream” has totally ignored this movement, that we in Greater Blogistan have tracked in minute detail. This is OUR time. They are left on the trash heap of history.

wonderful news. clever Ds. more of that please.

Norquist’s rebel army is backed by the power gabbers of right-wing talk like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. They blame the Republican catastrophes of 2006 and 2008 on a party that abandoned its values. The party, not its ideology, failed, goes their mantra. It therefore stands to reason that Republicans must return to their core tax-cutting, low-spending ideology, or else die….

the problem with their “tax cutting low spending ideology” is that government costs money

if you want to lower taxes you need have fewer programs. BUT just about every program we have give us a POSITIVE return not a negative return, so having fewer programs COSTS money, it almost never saves it

in other words, if we cut a service from government commons, that service almost always costs more when relagated to the private sector.

the only real way to lower taxes is to make programs MORE productive (not less productive) and that is what these politicians refuse to acknowledge

Still, I see all of them, Norquist, Gingrich, Armey, DeLay, et.al., published and interviewed, as if their opinions were worthy of consideration. If there is any way to grind them so far into the dirt that no one admits knowing who they are, we should seek it.

Ha ha that would have been passed by a rethug house and senate.

Nice ‘catch’, BlueStateRedHead!

One hopes that the ‘news’ will soon record that Congress “considers” and “looks into” certain ‘things’ quite seriously, and then, does ’something’ with this ‘option’.

That would be nice.

For a ‘Change’.

Certainly reason to hope these things can be reversed. And, just think, it was a Republican congress that made up that rule!
The thing I find strangest about the republican mindset is that they are all for “personal responsibility” for others, esp the poor. But, like the toddler Jim White is quoting about

“The impulse to blame someone — anyone — for what went wrong last week reminds parents of when a toddler falls down. Hurt and embarrassed, he will often walk up to his mother (or caregiver, as the case may be) and slap her to shift attention and assign blame.”

My Neo-Con brother told me 911 was Clinton’s fault ( if you can believe!)because George Tenet was CIA director.

Now, that’s some tortuous logic! He’s very bitter. Afraid he’s gonna lose some $$ I guess; as well he should be. But, he’ll blame the Democrats…..we don’t talk much anymore………

I like how Rachel Maddow put it on the Colbert Report the other day.

“Having Republicans run government is like having a vegetarian grill your steak for you”

The Goopers will never admit that their “movement” is intellectually and morally bankrupt and always has been. Conservatism was never anything more than a vain attempt to give moral cover to greed and selfishness. That sort of thing will always appeal to a certain segment of society, but inevitably makes for lousy governance, which is grounded in the pursuit of the public, not private, good.

It’s worse than that. They actually want to pillage it and destroy most of it.

Sorry, my 49 was responding to your 47.

How sweet it is!
I said before the election that I hoped the Republican party got crushed to the point that they were no longer a viable political party.
I think I got my wish……

BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA!!

It’s worse than that. They actually want to pillage it and destroy most of it.

it is even worst than that. They actually HAVE pillaged and destroyed most of it.

small editing revision, no charge

Hey selise, you were promoted at Oxdown.

Let’s add Larry Kudlow of CNBC infamy to that list. He sits there in his gangsta suit hiding behind a tax-cutting, deregulatory, free-markets cheerleading facade every single day while the smoking ruins of that bankrupt ideology consumes every damned minute of that network’s broadcast.

Just in passing, I’ll note what I thought was one of the most blatent examples of hypocracy I ever saw. When Dick Armey retired, his unqalifified son ran for his seat and was defeated in the Republican Primary. Then, this son of a father who made a career of preaching agains government and burearocracy got his like-minded kid named Regional Director of the Government Services Administration (GSA) Southwest Region. Most ofthese Regional Administrators were career civil servants, promoted through the ranks. Not Scott Armey.

They’re right. The reason they failed is that they weren’t conservative enough. Let’s tell them that. Often. With a little encouragement they could really become the party of Joe the Plumber.

Good Morning Christy and Firedogs,

ahhhh, a target rich environment :D

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More than that, it’s a scam to perpetuate their own incomes.
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I know, I know, Limpballs listeners worship “success”, but dear god, how difficult would it be at this point to point out to them that they have been played like 7 year olds so he can live like Croesus in Boca ?

**younger republics – have an idea for a story on this, maybe screenplay – you out there demi ?

**have been trying to find something on this by Rick Perlstein, his would be a most welcome perspective on their time in the wilderness – anyone seen anything from him on this ??

Free Markets Kudlow was a big proponent of the Bailout. The man has not a shred of credibility.

I haven’t seen anything from perlstein

TBogg’s up
Conservatives: Too Old To Paradigm Shift, Too Young To Die

I know, I know, Limpballs listeners worship “success”, but dear god, how difficult would it be at this point to point out to them that they have been played like 7 year olds so he can live like Croesus in Boca ?

**younger republics – have an idea for a story on this, maybe screenplay – you out there demi ?

Young broke Republicans are coached to believe that in the future they will become rich. And when they do become wealthy like Limbaugh, they won’t want to pay any stinking taxes either.

Gee, Christy, in your graphic, I had to squint to see elephants. They looked like pigs on the way to slaughter to me.

I was thinking they were herding toward a cliff.

Limbaugh? Hannity? Norquist?

At the risk of giving conservatives useful advice, has it really not occurred to them that their electoral fortunes might improve if they rally around people who have actually, you know, won elections?

That RNC site gives me hope for the future. The sociopaths are all going to get together and try to decide which parts of same-old, same-old they need to campaign on.

Good lord, Palin/Jindal in 2012?

Sarah Palin for President in 2012 and Bobby Jindal for Vice President. It is time for conservatives to take back the Republican Party from the ‘moderate’ voices who actually think the media will like them

If I hear “reach across the aisle” one more time Im going to scream. If you truly believe something is bad for the country, why would you “reach across the aisle” to help the do that very thing?

Thank God for Sarah Palin, she is the new face of the conservatives. 4) Go back to our fundemental roots.

Rush and Hannity just don’t get it. Neither does Fox. Negativity, negativity, negativity all the time. Most humans do not like, approve or accept this type of behavior constantly. Look at how huge the self help book/cd industry is. They will spew their negativity till their ratings are as bad as Bush’s. There are ups and downs in life and they are all about the downs. They will soon be impotent.

Way EPU’s, but I hve never seen a toddler do that. Maybe that is Ms Parker’s experience, though, if she grew up Republican. What I see more is a child who has hurt herself screaming to mommy. Mommy, frantic, tries to find out what’s wrong. When the child can finally get it together to say through the tears, “I bumped my head!”, mommy says, “What did you do that for?” Volume of screams increases.