Seeing Red

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Just keep in mind, Republicans pride themselves on being the party of the red states.

And red coats.

And red ink.

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Insurgents? Not so much.
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Flashback: Republican Solution: Total Taliban Carnage
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Scare Words and Fearmongering

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The Republican Rump are in full court press now trying for tactical advantage on the stimulus bill. The big blowhard from Palm Beach aka Big Piggy their fearless leader has dubbed it porkulus (he would know pork) and of course the word is spreading.

So it's come down to this. Instead of sincerely trying to fix the dire economic situation we inherited from Team BushCo, the Republicans like Drug-Rush and Mitch McConnell and Karl Rove and Dick Shelby (why are all their names "Dick"?) are working to score points against the President.

They want this President to fail.

And I'm not the first to note that if this President fails, the country fails.

But maybe they're okay with that.

Me? Not so much.

So "Dick" Shelby, Big Piggy, all you Republican Rumpers in the neocon whine club. Yeah, you did lose. Big time. And it's going to get bigger.

Because you can try to scare monger with "isms," as "Dick" Shelby was doing on CNN this morning, but you can't hide the truth. Your "ism" got us in this mess. So if you don't have anything constructive to add to the conversation, then, please, just STFU and get out of the way.
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Republican Solution: Total Taliban Carnage

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You have to wonder at the sheer breathtaking evil of this Republican party's agenda for the future. Not solving America's problems. Witness their destructive and, frankly, ignorant attacks on the stimulus bill as a "spending bill."

And then there's this, from a Republican Congressman from Texas, Pete Sessions. And maybe you should be kind and just consider the source. After all it is a white male Republican politician from Texas.

"Insurgency, we understand perhaps a little bit more because of the Taliban," Sessions said during a meeting yesterday with Hotline editors. "And that is that they went about systematically understanding how to disrupt and change a person's entire processes. And these Taliban -- I'm not trying to say the Republican Party is the Taliban. No, that's not what we're saying. I'm saying an example of how you go about [sic] is to change a person from their messaging to their operations to their frontline message. And we need to understand that insurgency may be required when the other side, the House leadership, does not follow the same commands, which we entered the game with."

No, no, of course not, Mr. Congressman from Texas. There's nothing in your demographic group that would lead one to believe you're the Taliban. Or that you're urging that fellow Republicans should be Taliban. Not at all.

If the Democrats can't make at least as much hay from this as ol' Boner made from "condoms," then they might as well shutter their side of the aisle.

Bipartisanship was never an option for these Republicans. And any of those who profess to be moderate Republican, meet in the middle Republicans...you know who we're talking about...

It's time to ask them: are you with the American people? Or the Taliban?

Time for an up or down vote. Time to use the microphone and call these phonies what they are. Maybe Joan Walsh could give you a few tips.
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crossposted at firedoglake's Oxdown Gazette

Krugman's Question

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This morning the punditocracy are all huffin-puffin about what it could mean to have a Democratic White House and Congress. I won't belabor the spin--if you know who was talkin', you can fill in what their spin was. Right now, it's all the same ol' same ol'.

Even the last-ditch piss-in-our-bed Rethuglican airing of the Rev. Wright attack ad has a tired, worn quality to it. Sure it'll gin up the base and GOTRV, but let's face it, that segment of rightwing screeddom is getting smaller and smaller by the hour.

Just look at the Republican--former Republican or temporary independent--endorsements Obama has picked up. Iconic Republican names: [Susan] Eisenhower, [Ron] Reagan, [CC] Goldwater, Hagel's wife, Senator Pressler, Governor Carlson....

So instead of handwringing with faux concern over what the Democrats may do, perhaps it's time to consider what the Republican Rump will do. Krugman certainly thinks it's more than time.

This is the core Rethuglicanism -- and like a bloated, rotting corpse with maggots feeding in its belly, there is nothing right now that would appeal to any but the most ideological...or willfully ignorant.

Or as Krugman puts it:

But the G.O.P.’s long transformation into the party of the unreasonable right, a haven for racists and reactionaries, seems likely to accelerate as a result of the impending defeat.

This will pose a dilemma for moderate conservatives. Many of them spent the Bush years in denial, closing their eyes to the administration’s dishonesty and contempt for the rule of law. Some of them have tried to maintain that denial through this year’s election season, even as the McCain-Palin campaign’s tactics have grown ever uglier. But one of these days they’re going to have to realize that the G.O.P. has become the party of intolerance.

Win or lose, will new life emerge from that fetid corpse? I guess that would depend on whether the Greedy Ol' Party is capable of evolution...or cutting off the mutated cancer that is the GOP today.

Time will tell.
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