And they believe, with every fiber of their rancid beings, that they are the ones who can stop progress and get “their” country back. They’re also under the delusion that they have much more support nationwide than they actually do.
They’re thinking that the 2016 elections will be a rerun of 1972, which they remember quite well.
They just don’t understand that the parties will be reversed this time.
That is just wishful thinking or do I need to go back to the articles and predictions following the 2008 election. The country is essentially a 50-50 country that just moves a few points from one election to another.
Cheering the resignation of your own Party Leadership from the #3 position in the government is not a sign of a healthy party, I agree.
They found Boehner to be too moderate!
This is not 2008 (or even 2012). And this has only tangential relation the the electoral makeup. This is about a slow-brewing rift among the tea party rebels within the party and the establishment wing. It is metastasizing.
If you honestly believe that a party that forces its SOH to resign almost one year before elections! and THEN decides to force the gov’t. to shut down over - wait for it - Planned Parenthood - is even close to winning an election, you are deluded. That’s the only way to describe what you’re experiencing.
EVEN IF you believe that the country is 50-50, this madness transcends mere numbers.
This is sheer political insanity. Nothing more, nothing less. No way that the GOP has the numbers to overcome this debacle. No way.
“This extends to the White House and the Presidency as well.”
Wow. Rubio intends to change leadership in both the White House and the Presidency? I guess he’s really serious.
Any chance of replacing that clip with one that shows what he was saying right before? This might show Rubio joining the “blow it up” brigade, pandering to the crazies, but not without more context. He’s apparently playing on a generational theme after the announcement, but what did he say just before?
You might, yourself, need to go back to articles that talk about how electoral maps change from election to election, how increasingly radicalized the Republican Party has become, and how the aging process is a thing that happens. And as long as we’re going back to things to call into question our predictive powers, here’s you on March 24: “The GOP nominee, based on the current assumed candidates, will either be Jeb Bush or Scott Walker.”
Atti-ca! Att-ica! Atti-ca!
No one needs to be a fan of Boner’s to see how ghoulish it is to harvest the organs and break the bones down to make soap before the corpse is even cold.
What strikes me is the instant assumption that now they’ll get everything they wanted for Christmas. Sheer magical thinking.
My question is why was it incumbent and necessary for Rubio to make that announcement there – at that time? He knew what kind rank response that announcement would generate. He was trying to embarrass Boehner.
Right before the announcement, about 1:06:00 in the full video, Rubio asked how it is there’s a Republican majority in Congress yet they can’t stop the country from sliding away. http://www.c-span.org/video/?328352-1/2015-values-voter-summit-part-1
Rubio is a strong speaker. Full of BS, but he says it well. At the same time the country is changing for the worse, the “political class” won’t change anything. Self-contradiction is a pretty good sign of ideological propaganda. At the FRC conference, it comes with a dose of religious propaganda too.
More likely the “olds” who are cheering so wildly at Boner’s downfall will be surprised to learn that what the ascendant tea party faction wants is to destroy the Medicare, and Social Security benefits they depend on as well as other social safety net programs they’ve never heard of but many more Americans rely on.
Also, I seem to have misunderstood the depth of feeling you had in yesterday’s discussion about the PA white nationalist versus white supremacist in my reply about the AG shenanigans. I’m walking it back as we speak.
I don’t think this means what they think it means.
I guess that crowd wants anarchy. They should be careful…they may get their wish.
No problem, you were just noting all the weird stuff going on. Personally I don’t know an awful lot about the AG thing and where the bodies are buried, but over the years you would occasionally see pols playing super-hardball that way, getting each other indicted and stuff. It was deplorable but not a new trend. Renormalizing racism is new, was my point. Certainly didn’t take it amiss, don’t know why I might.
They will be partying tonight and the entire weekend like its 1999!
Allow me to chime in on what @littlegirlblue said.