Daily Kos Week in Review: Hurricane Irene Is Like Early Christmas for GOP?
For most East Coast residents, Hurricane Irene has been cause for concern, but for Republicans it's been cause for celebration. At least that's the word from one Kossack, who alleges that GOPers are gleeful because both they and the storm have had the same effect: wrecking the country and damaging Obama's chances for re-election.
As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.
MinistryOfTruth: Irene comes bearing gifts for the GOP
...To Republicans who are hell bent on fucking up America as much as possible so they can blame Obama, Hurricane Irene is like having Christmas early. The Hurricane will fuck things up, Republicans will make sure the Government is a useless as possible, and then they will blame Obama, and you can guarantee that the talking point for next week will be "Is this Obama's Katrina?"
The GOP vision of America is a fucked up 3rd world shithole with tax shelters for the rich. The rich can afford nice mansions away from Hurricanes. To quote President Dick Cheney, the rest of you peasants can, "Go fuck yourself"...
Hunter: The Republican base craves its red meat
...If conservative "elites" are unhappy with their presidential options, they have only themselves to blame. For years, anyone insufficiently orthodox has been hounded out of office. The number of litmus tests each candidate must pass, many of them contradictory...all but assures that only the worst panderers, liars or crazy people will be able to survive...
So who could the conservative establishment put up that wouldn't be perceived as either a crackpot or a joke, and who could make it through their own primaries? Nobody they might want is dumb enough to enter the race, because they know they would be bludgeoned for any past position they have ever had that showed even a bit of nuance...[T]he base, having been fed exclusively red meat from their "conservative elites" for years now...want their meat red and their politicians frothing...
Delawareliberal: Democrats are too smart for their own good
...People don't give a flying f*ck about policies. The utter wrongheadedness and chronic failure of Republican policies proves that. People care about emotions. Republicans connect with voters on an emotional level...
Democrats are a little too good to try and connect with voters on an emotional level. We sneer at the Republican Party's practice of appealing to the emotions of voters. We are so smart and rational to keep talking about "results" and data and crap that voters find absolutely pointless and boring...
glendenb: The religious right are whiners who don't understand sex
...The right declared a culture war and they're realizing the once unthinkable - they're losing; claims that they are discriminated against and oppressed, that our culture has an anti-religious bent should be understood in that context...
...The conservative story of sexuality is strikingly pre-modern, with contraception, sexual minorities, pre and post marital sexuality exiled from discussion and the cherished belief that people sex inside of marriage is the best and only worthy sex. But social and legal norms no longer support that view. Religious authority is the last line of defense in the ongoing struggle against modern sexuality..
Hunter: Eric Cantor loves that dirty water
...As for corporatists like Cantor, I expect he would be the sort to form a limited liability partnership just so that he could crap in other people's drinking water without personal repercussions. That is essentially what he is arguing for, after all: he just insists on a grander scale...
Hunter: All hail Jon Stewart, beacon of truth
...We are forced to debate even the most stupid premises or ideas as "reasonable" because that's just the way the media works: everyone is "reasonable", even the complete idiots and unapologetic crooks. Using actual math, science, or even logic in an argument might be considered gotcha journalism, after all.
If you want to know what both sides are saying, turn to a "news" show. If you want to know which side makes more sense, ask the court jesters...
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→ So true!
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sun, 08/28/2011 - 2:37pm.
In fact, that steadfast Republican, Colin Powell said today "“I haven’t decided who I’m going to vote for.”
Stop laughing, guys! He was serious.
They are getting scare that
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Sun, 08/28/2011 - 2:58pm.
They are getting scare that they will lose their messiah Obama.
Michael Moore would have more material
Submitted by NiftySwell on Sun, 08/28/2011 - 4:59pm.
If there were a Republican version of Michael Moore out there ...he would have more material and would have no need to twist, take out of context, or otherwise misrepresent the truth to expose the inability of this administration. Each crisis is an unfortunate gift to the GOP as the administration tries to use it to push their agenda instead of trying to help the nation. It has become so obvious that the media and any bit of credibility that they had left has been sacrificed to the administration and is being pulled down the drain together. The media and Dems try to stay afloat by jumping on each others shoulders as they are being pulled down but neither will toss aside their failed belief systems to earn back the trust of the public by doing the job the public expects. So it is kind of a merry two for one for the conservative crowd watching the mistrust grow, the polls go down, and the public turns to the media outlets who were in retrospect truthful from the start. Those outlets who highlighted the words of the politicians that predicted the outcome of the Keynesian response to the recession. Deeper debt, higher interest rate, inflation, unemployment, and regulation were but a few of the predictions from the right that were denied by the left. So who ended up being correct?
I, for one would love to see a video contrasting the predictions of the right, the denial of the left, and the outcome that we are seeing today in a Michael Moore format. That would be a killer production, as long as it also contained what should have been done instead and how that had worked in the past so that it is not just taken as a 'hit piece'.
it wouldn't matter
Submitted by wizardjr on Sun, 08/28/2011 - 6:16pm.
between the Cargo Cult of America and the neo-Know Nothings you could not prove the sun comes up in the east to these morons, it's a lost cause
Irene
Submitted by kinijane on Sun, 08/28/2011 - 5:16pm.
I heard a liberal talking on the news the other night, said that Irene would be
good for the economy, it will create jobs after the disaster hits.....go figure.
you could see that coming a mile off...
Submitted by wizardjr on Sun, 08/28/2011 - 6:13pm.
I came to a great insight with regards to libtards some time ago. Rush kept asking why they are always so angry, particularly at anyone who does not believe their cant. It dawned on me that libtards just 'know' that we can have utopia if we merely let the braniac itellectuals like Obama have free rein to install all the wonderful ideas of liberalism - such as redistribution of the wealth from successful people to the losers.
Every time they do get in charge and do install some or all of their ideas the inevitable outcome is failure. The cause, the real cause, is because these ideas suck. They fly in the face of history, experience, and human nature (the REAL human nature, not some dreamed up BS about mankind). Because liberalism is a religion these assclowns cannot even attempt to accept that some or all of their ideas are stupid based on reality so THERE MUST BE AN EVIL HAND AT WORK!
Of course that evil hand is always the realists such as today's conservatives and groups like the TEA Party. The libtards are angry because they know we're just inches away from utopia and "we" have been stymied by the evil conservatives thwarting their holy goal of utopia. That fact that they fail and fail again is what creates such anger blooming from their frustration.
If they weren't effing idiots, they'd see the error of their path. They don't. They are and always will be.
Wrong you folks at the KOZ.
Submitted by michael lofrano on Sun, 08/28/2011 - 7:58pm.
Wrong, you folks at the KOZ. November 6, 2012 will be like early Christmas for the GOP.
And in order
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Sun, 08/28/2011 - 11:30pm.
To MinistryOfTruth: Do you really kiss your mother with that dirty little mouth?
To Hunter: Lighten up on the koolaide. Jon Steward beacon of truth?! Watch what an evil puke he is when he shows his true colors.
DelawareLiberal: You must be kidding? You who haven't the balls to show your messiahs college grades while he makes one gaff after another smear someone else's intellect?! Really now.
glendenb: Obviously someone that spends his evenings in the alleyways.
The boy-god-king will fall in 2012...
Submitted by docjohn52 on Mon, 08/29/2011 - 1:08am.
And America will endure and pick up the pieces.
The Tea Party is awake now, and for the next 40 years, we will fix it.
Liberals, I would tiptoe past those FEMA camps if I were you.
"Liberals too smart for their
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Mon, 08/29/2011 - 1:31am.
"Liberals too smart for their own good", too funny, pass the Jenkem.