July 7, 2009, 6:28PM
The Republcans are already starting to blame President Obama and Congressional Democrats for ruining the economy and failing to create jobs with their stimulus package not one Republican voted for. In short, since losing the congress
and the presidency Republicans have staked their political fate on the economic failure of America. For them, as far as they have calculated, any sign that the economy might be inching up toward a marked improvement, then, a political disaster for them could ensue. They lost the presidency just 7 months ago, and the Congress two years, but they already want their power back. They are talking down the economy through their effective Talk Radio Crackheads. Democrats will have to fight back. Republican distortions are gaining traction, eventhough the economy has been in shambles since their reign.
July 7, 2009, 4:38PM
Vice President Biden says the Obama Administration misread the economy. If this statement were true it would be an innocent statement of factual existence. But it is not true, and therefore, it is a wrongheaded statement that flies in the face of what President Obama has always said, that the country is in deep recession, and that it could even take beyond his first term to turn around. Thus, this wrongheaded statement comes from a person who sometimes sounds as if he seldom thinks through things before opening his mouth. He does not even seem smart enough to sat anthing intelligent right off the cuff. How many times will he continue to give ammunition to the enemy. It is likely that before long Obama might be forced to ditch this guy.
June 16, 2009, 2:15PM
The Reports about a Tennessee Republican staffer who is said to have e-mailed racist Obama "spook" photos, as well as the former South Carolina Republican official Rusty de Pass's reference to a gorilla as Michelle Obama's ancestor are not anything new coming from Republicans. This once great party of Abraham Lincoln has evolved into something Lincoln would not recognize were he to come back from the dead. The party has deteriorated over the years into a social group where a bunch of bigots and racist like David Duke,as well as racially insenstive people like Rush Limbaugh find a spiritual home. So these recent incidents of racial smears by Republican office-holders are without a shadow of doubt sadly a tale of a party immersed in a cesspool of racism and hate. The unfortunate thing is that the so-called GOP is a mainstream party, not a fringe one.
May 4, 2009, 12:05PM
For Sen. Arlene Specter to deny on Meet the Press, Sunday, that he ever said he was going to be a loyal Democrat can only be inferred to imlpy that he is in fact not going to be loyal, which begs the question: Why should the Democratic Party be loyal to him then? There is no question that this guy's switch to the Dems is a shrewed move driven by cold political calculation. As a matter of fact he himself has admitted so. It thus leaves the Party at liberty to decide just whom they want to support as candidate. Dems must be very careful when they make that decision not to have to support in their ranks, and with their meagre resources, someone who will not be supporting them at critical moments and on crucial issues.
April 20, 2009, 12:36PM
What we have seen gathering in small and relatively huge crowds across the nation are defeated and angry Republican malcontents desperately recasting themselves as Tea Party for no other reason than to surreptiously revive their damaged and discredited "Republican" brand. These are the same nasty, vitriolic Palin/McCain followers who during the campaign threatened to kill the then presidential candidate Barack Obama, as they routinely and vituperatively spewed racial epithets at any black people within their sight. This took place in every Sarah Palin rally. Now this crowd is masquerading as the new people's movement pretentiously animated by their professed aversion to big government spending. Where were they for the last 8 years when President George Bush's tax cuts for the rich went through the roof while working families were left hanging out to dry, and leaving the biggest national debt and deficit ever known to mankind.The American people are watching this development with great interest as the Republican Party is now trying to resuscitate itself even as their rejected policies remain in place. For the two terms of Bush the government and its spending has expanded to proportions unseen since the inception of the Republic. The same Republican big government encroached upon individual rights and tore them apart piece by piece in the name of national security, even as they consistantly compromize the nation's security on an international level. Hardly has three months elapsed since their crushing defeat, but they want their power back. After 12 years in charge of Congress and 8 years in the White House. As much as they hate government, they need it to amass wealth for their constituencies in huge tax cut give-aways, and legislate morality as they autocratically intrude in bedrooms of their fellow Americans. The Tea Party is going nowhere because they are nothing but the Republican Party they are pretending not to be.
April 20, 2009, 12:21PM
What we have seen gathering in small and relatively huge crowds across the nation are defeated and angry Republican malcontents desperately recasting themselves as Tea Party for no other reason than to surreptiously revive their damaged and discredited "Republican" brand. These are the same nasty, vitriolic Palin/McCain followers who during the campaign threatened to kill the then presidential candidate Barack Obama, as they routinely and vituperatively spewed racial epithets at any black people within their sight. This took place in every Sarah Palin rally. Now this crowd is masquerading as the new people's movement pretentiously animated by their professed aversion to big government spending. Where were they for the last 8 years when President George Bush's tax cuts for the rich went through the roof while working families were left hanging out to dry, and leaving the biggest national debt and deficit ever known to mankind.
The American people are watching this development with great interest as the Republican Party is now trying to resuscitate itself even as their rejected policies remain in place. For the two terms of Bush the government and its spending has expanded to proportions unseen since the inception of the Republic. The same Republican big government encroached upon individual rights and tore them apart piece by piece in the name of national security, even as they consistantly compromize the nation's security on an international level. Hardly has three months elapsed since their crushing defeat, but they want their power back. After 12 years in charge of Congress and 8 years in the White House. As much as they hate government, they need it to amass wealth for their constituencies in huge tax cut give-aways, and legislate morality as they autocratically intrude in bedrooms of their fellow Americans. The Tea Party is going nowhere because they are nothing but the Republican Party they are pretending not to be.
April 9, 2009, 3:50PM
Barack Obama has assumed the Presidency at a critical juncture when the economy is on a downward spiral due to mediocre policies of previous Administations as the visiccitudes of international factors. Most Americans, except Rush Limbaugh and his Republican disciples---want President Obama to fail. The majority of the Americans, knowing the stakes are so high, have closed ranks in support of the President. But his recent trip abroad, while it has yielded much dividend in terms of public relations on a universal level, some of the things he did while abroad did not register a positive note with some political observers here at home. His bow to the King of Saudi Arabia, for instance, is incompartible with the office of the President. The President also said things he would have been better off not having said. For example, when asked about the exceptionalism of America, he should have been unapologetically affirmative as to the authenticity of American exceptionalism without appearing to be pandering to other nations by authenticizing their own brands of exceptionalism. Moreover, his pronouncement of America as not a Christian country is the height of Presidential imprudence on his part. While that assertion in and of itself was as accurate as it could be on constitutional grounds, Obama's pronouncement itself in this regard smacks of religious particularism and denominational factionalism an American president ought to always stay above. Injecting himself into such a polarizing religious issue diminishes his Presidential status and raises questions as to his own religious orientation even as it unnecessarily tends to confirm pre-existing suspicions about his religious affiliation. All these are extraneous and uncalled for self-inflicted controversies that at the very moment he does not need to gulvanize Americans around efforts to stop the bleeding of the economy and enhance its growth for the goof of all.
April 7, 2009, 4:10PM
Repulicans/conservatives seem to forget that Barack Obama campaigned and won the Presidential election on a platform of enhanced diplomatic practice in American Foreign Policy, following 8 years of President George Bush's scotched-earth policy that wrought havoc in US Foreign Policy and laid waste to tens of thousand of precious lives of both American servicemen and Iraqi civilians while Republicans, through and through, were cheerleading the worse American policy ever. For them now to expect President Obama to pursue the same half-baked but suicidal policies is to forget why the majority of the American people voted for Obama in the first place instead of their candidate John McCain. It's not even worthy of any further effort to stress in unequivocal terms that the voters saw through McCain's policies a nightmarish reincanation of Bush's 8 years of the militarization of American Foreign Policy and the dictatorial usurpation of freedoms and liberty of the American in the name on false security. The bitter and vitriolic criticism of President Obama's trip abroad attest to icreasing hysteria among the Conservatives as they watch helplessly the demise of their political standing among the American people.The conservative loss of ground takes place in the context of heightened consolidation of the Democratic-progressive base who are sworn to defend Obama's progressive agenda with all at their disposal. Meanwhile what do the Republicans/ Consevatives do? Even as we speak they are retooling their attack machine in readiness to spew recycled smears they have used over and over to no avail. They make the same mistakes that precipitated their defeat. And they will continue to be defeated because thet
March 23, 2009, 3:38PM
President Barack Obama has been in office for just two months and has thus far done relatively well on a number of fronts including the Stimulus Package. But in other aspects such as the AIG 165 million bonuses he seems manifestly mired in a state of paralysis and perpetual impotence. This is because he has not been served well by, among others, Secretary of Treasury. And his chief advisors appear to have been better in running political campaigns than in governing America. If the imbalance between the Obama Administrations's increasing appearance of ineptitude and his personal brilliance and integrity are not reconciled then the political mischief and shenanigans stoked by the Republicans could eventually take a toll on Obama and his administration. Thus the president should ask himself if those who have not served him well and are likely to continue to drag him down should not be excused from his cabinet. Loyalty should'nt be enough to keep someone whose usefulnesshas been overtaken by his ineptitude.
March 18, 2009, 2:44PM
President Barack Obama has been in office for just over a month , and has thus far done relatively well on a number of fronts including the Stimulus Package. But on the AIG 165 million bonuses he seem destined to marginalize himself into perpetual impotence as currently and increasingly seems evident. This is because he has not been served well by, among others, Secretary of Treasury. And his chief advisors appear to have goodin running political campaigns than in governing America. If the imbalance between the Obama Administrations's ineptitude and his personal brilliance and integrity is not corrected then the political mischief and shenanigans stoked by the Republicans could eventually take a toll on Obama and his administration. Thus the president should ask himself if those who have not served him well and are likely to continue to drag him down should not be excused from his cabinet. Loyalty should'nt be enough to keep someone whose usefulnesshas been overtaken by his ineptitude.
March 12, 2009, 3:06PM
To his great shock, Rush Limbaugh has come to find out that days of his impunity are over. Gone are times when he would utilize his flippant rhetoric to maximum effect against his perceived foes and get away with it. The effectiveness of his trash talk masquerading as political wisdom has often accrued from the absence of any effort on the part of liberals and progressives untill now to relentlessly and ruthlessly confront him at every turn and expose the caricature he has turned himself into. Never mind that he is so revered in Republican-Conservative circles to saintly and messianic proportions.
Republicans are following Limbaugh blindly and unquestioningly without a scintilla of shame. Clowns and imposters like him are partly responsible for the crisis the GOP is going through. Republicans are in shambles today because their anti-intellectual orientation has inhibited their ability to place at the helm of their party a leader who understands the intellectual subtleties as well as social and political nuances underlying the complexity of the American polity. They need a leader who is endowed with clarity as to the social dynamics animating our society. Someone who has a feel of the aspiration of the American people, especially those whose overarching aims remain the achievement of the American dream even in the face of irrefutable evidenve that, for some, that dream is slipping away.
March 9, 2009, 2:08PM
Republican Patrick McHenry's reported statement to the effect that the Republican Party's mission is to bring down the approval numbers of House Democrats is in line with Rush Limbaugh's now infamous declarative statement about his wishing for President Barack Obama's failure. These cynical statements spewed by Republicans should live no doubt in anyone's mind that the Re-p'ubicans put their narrow ideological interests ahead of the interests of the United States and its people. Remember how they dragged the then President Clinton through the mud without regard to averse ramification to the country?
