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Republicans at war, while Democrats sip tea
By Rrrandy Wurst | February 11, 2010
Rachel Maddow recently spent considerable air-time on her recent show listing and commenting on the large number of Republicans who railed against and voted against the economic stimulus bill. As smart as Rachel is, she’s missing the larger point, which is the tactical game adopted by the Republicans. They know that people expect inconsistency in their elected representatives, while Democrats and left-leaning commentators are stuck in their horror of it, expecting people to have similar disdain when the right-wing inconsistency is pointed out.
Wake up! For Republicans, politics is war—for them everything is war—and they are willing to use any tactic available, if it works. And all their illogical and under-handed tactics do work because Democrats don’t seem willing or able to counter them or come up with their own tactics. They just hold their faces in horror and cry out, “For shame, for shame!”
Politics is war because one side says it’s war and plays the game that way, while the other side recoils from the dirtiness of it or tries to discuss things over tea. It’s football for keeps, without referees. Democrats are constantly getting blind-sided while they thumb through the rule book. The result is that Republicans win even when they lose, as in 2008.
And here’s something to ponder in a spare moment or two: Would Obama even have won if Bush hadn’t been so bad? I think the Republicans think not, and they’re operating as if, with Bush gone, the turf will shortly again be theirs. Why? Because, with few exceptions—Alan Grayson of Florida, for one— Democrats don’t like to fight.
Mr. Obama, get outside your conciliatory head, see what’s happening on your watch!
Ms. Pelosi, show the mettle that your forbears in Baltimore politics showed.
Mr. Reed, go back to your chicken ranch in Nevada.
…Because what lies in America’s future could be worse than Bush.
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Okay, I’m back. I had “hope,” for “change,” so I opted for silence…let Mr. Obama win…get a House-full of Dems and a “super-majority” Senate…let them take the reins and straighten out the mess perpetrated by bad and greedy leadership from Reagan (at least) through the Bush-whackers. But we’re back in crisis mode, America. So, I’m back.
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