Replaying failed Palin strategy: HOW REPUBLICANS LOST HEALTH CARE debate, ha-ha-ha!
Bible Spice sucked up a lot of attention and air time, and that was the kooky McCain campaign's strength, but also its undoing. By the time people had taken in her full freak show two or three times, and especially after Katie Couric, they were ready for Tina Fey to eviscerate the ignoramus.
So with health care also; way too much time on the boob tube with nothing to say, i.e., Republicans have made the same strategic error. Overexposed loudmouths who have nary a thing to offer. That hideous Coburn has made a fool of himself, indeed a Scrooge, and so now has Cantor, in similar and all-too-predictable ways. Got no solutions, and that has registered.
Americans listened to envenomated Republican surrogates and their bizarre invective, gave them every chance. And finally concluded that they are naught but a bunch of bigots and buttholes. Enter President Clinton as relief pitcher, and he is throwing smoke. (Go dawg!)
The polling shows that Americans may be unhappy with some of Obama's leadership, but they are moving away from these ignorant haters and corporate stooges. The nabobs claim (incoherently) that giving Americans what every industrial country already has now is excessive, and the voters think, "Overreach THIS!" Voters won't move back because Republicans have taken their best shot, and people reached the conclusion that they're peddling snake oil: accordingly, we are going to win. So we can decide for ourselves if the public option really is a good idea, because we are going to get it, and we will all try it out together.
McCain wanted these town meetings all along (we just didn't realize what devilry he had in store), remember that? He got the rough equivalent with Palin and her idiocy. Now GOP has staged the real thing, and Americans were shocked but not impressed. Republicans can try the same tactic in 2010, of course: put a bunch of screaming people on the news night after night, who don't have one intelligent thing to say. So far, it has failed twice.
I watched Coburn from Oklahoma kind a tell a sick woman........WELL GOOD LUCK ON THAT ONE.
Same as that bastard from the House of Representatives. GOOD LUCK WITH THAT.
The repubs have no plan for reform, are paid not to have anything with reform,
And they have no heart and no soul. Just money from the corps
September 25, 2009 9:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is what people can see, in fact, DD. This is why they will lose.
September 25, 2009 9:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
As crazy as things are these days, I think you may have this right. I don't know about a one party state. Those unicycles always looked uncomfortable and dangerous to me. But to paraphrase Eddie Izzard, it does seem like they have created the psychotic bastard party.
September 25, 2009 9:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Psychotic bastard party!!
That's great, Larry!! :)
September 25, 2009 10:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
psychotic bastard party.
Whatever happened to the monster raving loonies?
September 26, 2009 3:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
Bible Spice
Possibly the "truthiness" of 2009.
If original w/you, imediately:
1. copyright
2 register Biblespice.com, org, etc.
(Hint: I love the formulation!)
September 26, 2009 3:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
If original w/you,
"Results 1 - 10 of about 88,000 for "Bible Spice"."
I appear to have missed that particular meme...
September 26, 2009 3:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah I was a bit surprised you hadn't heard, Jollyroger. Duck out this Alec Baldwin vid but he only gets to somewhere after the 4:15 point, having tried to be all polite and whatall. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXoO8aeM5-Y
I tended to favor Klondike Barbie myself and there were a lot of good ones!
September 26, 2009 7:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
Overreach, this is a delicious post. Well said. Highly recommended.
I hope you're right, and we do get the public option. I have let myself become optimistic in just the last few days, and that usually leads to disappointment. (But I have a well stocked cabinet for that...)
Every once in a while, something happens in the body politic (could it be gas?) that restores my faith. It's been a while, though. Almost a year.
Here's a dram that says, "Let's hope for the best."
-- ARG
September 26, 2009 8:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
*clink!*
September 26, 2009 8:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks a a whole lot, ARG! I think we're gonna be similing!
*clink!*
September 26, 2009 11:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
you need new ideas. Believe me when you say you want socialized medicine because every other country has it. Your wrong I am from Canada and talking with my barber who has been leaning on a cane for the past year or so, I asked him why he doesn't get his knee fixed, his reply was I have been waiting for over a year just to hear from a hospital when i can get a knee operation, When I hear something it might be another 6 months.
I love the US but you guys have no idea how good the every day worker in The united states has it. You have potentially the best system in the world yet it could be much better.
Your health system is broken for a few reasons.1. Lawyers 2. The burden on Employers. The people of both parties need to rise up against lawsuits. You have to fix this, It is so simple every lawsuit awarded is passed onto every customer. When someone is suing they are not suing an insurance company they are suing you.
The US has the 2nd highest corporate taxes in the world. Plus on top of that most pay for employees health care. If you added the two together the cost of doing business is the highest in the world. And then you ask why are companies leaving the US.
You need competition from insurance companies across state lines, it is like you have 52 countries.
I agree a solution needs to found for individuals who do not qualify for a plan.
I believe everyone should have at least a catastrophic health plan.
However socialized medicine is not the answer.
October 9, 2009 9:46 AM | Reply | Permalink