Rep. Joe Wilson, the South Carolina Republican who yelled at President Barack Obama during his address to Congress this week, wasn't the only one unhappy with what he heard.The GOP is a total class act.
Rep. John Shimkus, a Republican from Illinois, walked out.
Memo to the Democrats:
Stop dreaming of negotiating with these ass-clowns!
Jesus, how long will this have to go on before the Democrats get the fucking point? There is no talking to the Republicans on this or, for that matter, almost any other issue. There may be one or two moderate Republicans left in the Congress, but they are an endangered species, politically speaking. The GOP is largely in the hands of the Christofascists and Southerners who want to roll the clock back to 1861.
I'm sure Barney Frank gets it. I'm not sure that very many other Democrats in Congress do. I'm damn near certain that Harry Reid does not. The fact of the matter is that Republicans have no interest in compromise on anything. They were beaten in the `08 elections and, to be brutally frank about it, they are nursing grudges along the lines of the far-right in Germany in the 1920s. They see their electoral defeats as not their fault, oh no, it's the fault of some conspiracy in the media, backed by a pasta-gazillion illegal voters who were registered by ACORN.
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If we liberals could tolerate that idiot Bush for 8 years without resorting to treason, these ignorant, sore losers need to man up and do the same.
ReplyDeleteObama needs to understand that the lunatic fringe on the right mean him actual harm.
The nuttiest of the right-wing nuts need to be thrown in prison until cooler heads prevail.
And they see no reason to negotiate with President Obama because they don't view Obama as being really President -- Obama is some uppity African negro who isn't even really American, as far as they can tell, because everybody knows that American negros are lazy and shiftless and stupid so surely Obama can't really be American, right? Nosiree, no racism in the GOP, no way, no how :).
ReplyDeleteThe GOP: Party of racists, lunatics, christianists, and conspiracy theorists. Bah. Negotiating with them would be like negotiating with a table.
- Badtux the Snarky Penguin
Negotiating with them would be like negotiating with a table.
ReplyDeleteA table is a useful piece of furniture. The GOP, on the other hand, is about as useful as a rubber crowbar.
Well, you might view the GOP as a useful piece of furniture too. Useful in that they show what happens when you let lunatics run the show, that is...
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