Aux barricades! 

felicity—let me know when youre ready…

; )

KDelphi - right on.  Repubs are merely delusional - I looked it up, a fixed false belief that is resistant to reason or confrontation with actual fact -so we can write them off as merely delusional.

On the other hand, today’s Dems traffic in the art of the scam, a confidence game designed to convince us that they’re on our side, that they have our interests at heart, that they really want us to discover which pea is under which cup.

It seems to me that the time has come, yet again, to take to the streets because for some inexplicable reason it is only that which seems to put the fear of god in those who are screwing us royally.

felicity—youre right! lets break the pattern and insist on an opposition party..

I’m beginning to see a pattern.  Citing the last century and this one, Republican economic policies make for economic messes so we vote them out of office, vote the Dems in who proceed to spend a pile of money cleaning up the messes at which point Repubs scream bloody murder at the horrendous amounts of money the Dems are spending to clean up (their) Republican messes.

libertarians post , and others like it, is why there is total rejection of “libertarianism” by the Left…and will continue to be, if people like he/she run the show..the duopoly must love it.

I suppose, “guys, abortion hurts” is totally reaonsed and unemotonal…

KDelphi, often the two wings of the Statist party are referred to as the “Evil Party” and the “Stupid Party”; the Demos are the former, the Repubs the latter.

Indeed, now that it looks like they’ve got an unassailable majority in the Senate, let’s just see what the Demos do with it.

So, when the Dems get that fillibuster-proof majority, what policies will they enact?

ardee—Barney Frank was on Bill Maher friday, night, and, said, (in reply to Maher’s SLIGHT suggestion of a Third Party)”..the {GOP} are the minority—let them branch away into a Third Pary!!”. He said it about 3 times and, no one confronted him to ask him what the hell was talking about. Dems are terrified of a Third Party .Always have been.

JEP—Didnt Clinton sign it?

I Third it…outraged and Paul. I do hate the GOP more…lol.They did not get us into this mess single handedly, but, look at what they did do , when they had the House, Senate and presidency…

NOw, lets see what the Dems wil do…

Thank’ee kindly, Outraged.

Re: Paul_GA

Your comment: ”A plague on both their houses, but I wouldn’t mind at all if the Repubs are the first of the two big parties that implodes.”

I’ll second that motion (with emphasis added).

All the better reason, Folktruther, to remember Oliver Cromwell: “Trust in God, but keep your powder dry.”

Big B has noted the important historical trend, that the lunatic right now controls the gop party.  This makes it more difficult for them to win elections but coalesces their lemming followers to support martial law when the American people start revolting.  the prison camps have already been built and the class inequality continues to increase under Obama. 

Do you think the Dims would offer effective resistence if there wwere a Terroist incident and a Bi-partisan adiministration were form to rule by degree?

Term limits for Congress is the only answer.

The pendulum swings inexorably back…and forth.

Every time it swings to one extreme, we say things like “but it’s the new economy”.  Then it swings back, and we say “it’s time for change”.

There’s nothing new with BO, except for maybe having exposed the electorate’s naivete.

Change, yes.  Change we’ll have to live with.

Eugene Pulitzers for happy talk.
When do “award winners” point out the downside of hated men such as Dick Cheney telling thousands of Muslims with relatives crippled & killed as “collateral damage” that nuc/bio attack is EXACTLY the way to avenge their dead loved ones?

the long term disaster Cheney’s warped fear mongering makes almost certain to encourage from Jihadis has been coddled far too long by “outstanding” journalists.

“a nation increasingly dissatisfied with the leadership provided by both political parties.”

Hey, Ardee, lately, I’ve heard others lately trying to lump the Dems into the mess the Republicans quite singel-handedly created.

But as for the economic collapse, there’s no way to spin it as “both parties at fault”.

When the Glass-Steagal law was emasculated in 1999, which led to the deregulation debacle we now suffer, that vote was strictly along party lines.

Maybe the banking lobby didn’t NEED the Dems at the time, so they didn’t bother buying any of their votes.

But IF the repeal of Glass/Steagal was as pernicious as it appears, and the Republicans repealed it without the help of the Democrats, on the contrary to the howling disapproval of the Democrats, then HOW can you people continue to blame both parties?

I’m not suggesting the Dems are infallible, but to twist history is such a way as to ascribe them blame for what the Republican majority did so publicly, provably and proudly (at the time) is disingenuous at best and historical revisionism at worst.

More like hysterical revisionism.

Great timing, Gene. 

I was just commenting to Josh at TPM that the Republicans seem to be on a Whig trajectory.

Haven’t had the opportunity to congratulate you on the Pulitzer, you da man!

Why don’t you put together a collection of your award winning work and publishing it in hardcover?  It would prove to be an invaluable classroom tool in years to come, as the “revisionist historians” try to molest the truth.

Not a Filibuster Proof Senate because all those donning Blue are not Dems, Just long ago disaffected Republicans who jumped ship in the ‘80’s after the Moral Majority seized power.DLC’s Third Way- infiltrate the opposition and bastardize their platform for the sake of Corp America. Big FU regarding the failed Home Foreclosure Legislation by the Clinton’s legion of ‘ConservaDems’.So we Dems have our own soul searching and cleaning house to do.
As for the Repugs, since their Blind allegience is to the Cluster f*ck called the Reagan years, they will never be able to see their strength and come back could be possible if they reached back just a lil’ farther- To Ike.Of course that realization and resurrection will not happen until the Nixon Boys get their Death grip off the party- either through natural attrition, or prosecutorial Convictions for any one of their numerous High Crimes, most notably 40 yrs of Treason, with a good dose of War crimes and crimes against Humanity sprinkled on top. God Know the Godfathers of the MIC for the last few Decades (Cheney,Rummy & Wolfie et al) certainly would not want the party to return to the ideas of the very Presdient which warned US about this Organized Crime Syndicate, that they have been Acting CEO,COO & CFO for the majority of their ‘political’ lives. Nope keep harkening back to the Best Front man they had, who never got caught or implicated in any of their backroom deals- Iran Contra, Anthrax to Saddam, funding the fledgling AQ, Hostile Takeover of the American Free market Economy and financial Sector by the Corps….
How many people would be rushed to area hospitals if the Republican party began discussing the benefits of say PUBLIC Health,Education AND WELFARE, put forth legislation to undertake a nation wide infrastructure project, insisted the Miltiary had too much power and freedoms (esp those prvate contractors)or that Industry’s first obligation is to be a benefit and a service to our citizens (not just their bottom line).
Where have all those Ike Republicans gone….The Democratic party- We call them the ‘Liberal Dems’ as opposed to the ‘ConservaDems’ who deny the rights of Citizens to serve the Corp interests too- aka that Foreclosure Bill the ConservaDems Just Killed.
Ike and Lincoln must be spinning in their graves that their party has become the the antithesis to all they held dear.Not to mention JFK & RFK who must be too, seeing what these Conservadems (Clintonites) are doing to fuck this new, real Democratic President up.
We kick the Corp whores out of Both parties and the country and Her citizens will be far better off, and closer to what our Founders envisioned.

I have read the well versed efforts of Mr. Robinson at ‘Ourfuture.org’, the former Thompaine site and understand him to be a knowledgeable and well spoken supporter of the Democratic Party. Thus , and quite naturally, he views the trending of the voter away from the GOP, a party adrift and bereft of moderate leadership as a singular and unconnected event, divorced from the party of his choice.

Far be it from me to argue with a Pulitzer award holder but I see this:

“The trend away from the GOP is being seen nationwide. The Pew Research Center reported Wednesday that just 23 percent of voters self-identify as Republicans, down from 30 percent in 2004. Democratic Party identification has increased only slightly, the Pew survey found, but the gap between the two parties has grown from three points to 12 points.”

and see a nation increasingly dissatisfied with the leadership provided by both political parties. While the article stresses the clueless nature of the current stance of the GOP it makes no mention of the equally indecisive condition of the other guys.

The Democratic Party seems only one issue away from rebelling against its leader, President Obama, is unwilling in fact to stand for any principled position and far too willing to throw trillions away to further enrich those who got us into this economic decline we experience.

One might think this a fertile field for the growth of third party politics, as the author notes the growing trend towards registering Independent but makes no mention as to the growth of other forms of political expression.

Article quote:

“the increasingly bitter ideologues who control what’s left of the Grand Old Party are so bereft of new ideas—and so determined to obstruct rather than collaborate

True… so true.  Which must be why they’ve “resorted” to using “grassroots” tactics.  But really how inherently STUPID do they think people are?  It’s more of a INSULT to admonish the “right-wingers” to stoop to “that” level….. isn’t it?

Look…. the FACT is, you simply do NOT, I repeat…do NOT, allow yourself to “break a nail”.  Who do you think these people are after all?

From Wiki:

“In London King George III (read “king George W.) gave up hope of subduing America by more armies while Britain had a European war to fight. “It was a joke,” he said, “to think of keeping Pennsylvania.” There was no hope of recovering New England. But the King (again, read George W.) was determined “never to acknowledge the independence of the Americans, and to punish their contumacy by the indefinite prolongation of a war which promised to be eternal.” His plan was to keep the 30,000 men garrisoned in New York, Rhode Island, Quebec, and Florida; other forces would attack the French and Spanish in the West Indies. To punish the Americans the King planned to destroy their coasting-trade, bombard their ports; sack and burn towns along the coast (like New London, Connecticut), and turn loose the Native Americans to attack civilians in frontier settlements. These operations, the King felt, would inspire the Loyalists; would splinter the Congress; and “would keep the rebels harassed, anxious, and poor, until the day when, by a natural and inevitable process, discontent and disappointment were converted into penitence and remorse” and they would beg to return to his authority.”

Anyone feeling any…..“penitence and remorse”, and have you had that admonition to “beg to return to his authority”.....?  I didn’t think so.

Yep, this is AMERICA.  GW may have won a battle but he, nor his deprecative followers….. will win THIS war.  Dig in America, as yet….only the battle has been won, (well… OK, maybe two or three).  But not the war.

Hang tough.

A plague on both their houses, but I wouldn’t mind at all if the Repubs are the first of the two big parties that implodes. As a disillusioned and angry former conservative Repub, it would be delightful to watch and I could indulge in all the Schadenfreude I could ever enjoy.

The regulars of the republican party are most likely adrift and have little to be guided by by the now real part of the republican party, the neocons. These heartless bastards are not and have not giving up on regaining the power they once wielded from all 3 branches.

That is what their think tanks are for, to go back, reevaluate the situation and come up with ‘anything’ to shift the poor veggies and the lost regulars back into a stronger base. And I mean they will do ANYTHING, to wit, 9/11, the current financial terrorist attack, invasion of 2 countries and the genocide in each.

As I mentioned in Sirota’s article just above this one, hopefully this will at least weaken both parties so that 3rd parties can maybe win more than just a token seat or two in congress or the white house and seats on the supreme court.

The more time goes by, the more it appears that the right wing lunatic fringe has won the GOP civil war.

If you are and old school conservative, the GOP no longer has a seat for you at the table.

Of course it could be worse. They could be Dimmos, with majorities in the senate and house, and the oval office, a true mandate from the people, and still be paralized with their thumbs stuck up their asses. (pun intended)

The GOP has become the party of hate, and that is ALL they have to offer.