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December 27, 2011 09:59 PM UTC
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whose name I can’t recall said it best during the final days of the payroll tax battle. I paraphrase but basically, whether a policy is good or bad, the only important thing is to be against (or for) it if Obama is for (or against) it. They pretend to be super ideological and pure but that’s been the real basis of GOTP policy ever since they started voting against their own ideas as soon as Obama adopted them.
The real agenda is crush Obama and any remaining Dem power at any cost regardless of how much harm constituents must suffer as a result. Any sacrifice (as in “let’s you and him sacrifice”) is worth it as a means to that end. The only good policy is policy that fails and so improves their chances by making voters miserable as long as no one notices that they are the ones behind all the failure.
For decades they managed to hypnotize their way past folks noticing but those days may be coming to an end.
Except I would have slipped some cuss words in there somewhere.
which I did earlier today – there is a stony silence, so far.
My Uncle and I made truce years ago. We know we won’t ever change each other’s minds so we now just adore each other don’t send each other political stuff. Fortunately my uncle has plenty of other interesting stuff he likes to talk about as a former Chicago reporter and then fire fighter. With really cool pictures starting from the late 40s and early 50s. Now if he could just get his daughter, my cousin, to stop trying to start something in every conversation…
He’s been on this Newt kick and we have been back and forth debating his newtness for several months. Others, like you, I agree to disagree and go on to other things of mutual interest.
Newt’s got absolution for all sins, venial and mortal, occurring before 2009 . . . besides, prior to then he was just a tadpole.
It’s hard to pin an old amphibian historian, nice try anyway.
Hey, he’s a 68 year old grandfather now. In his bad old days lo so many years ago – five? six? – he was whoring around and supporting the individual mandate.
Now he’s a 68 year old grandfather.
Which reminds me: Jerry Sandusky is 67. Maybe we should forget about his past, too.
A lot of Republicans supported the individual mandate
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…
Hmmm. There are more R-names from 1994.
You have to love it when a columnist makes your arguments (debates) for you.
And he must have a research staff that’s really, really good.
Remember when journalists had to research, interview sources, verify that the sources were correct?
Still waiting for the talking points on why this is all wrong and why what Newt and Romney supported is so very different than the Affordable Care Act. (I refuse to call it O-care).
((crickets))
chirp chirp
But. I’m damned proud he pulled it off, and he owns it, warts and all. I realize it was and is used as a perjorative by the Repugs, but, have you noticed, less and less. And even some national Dems are beginning to wear it as a badge of honor. And deservedly so.
Looking back, it looms as one hell of an achievement.
Of course, I’d rather the Repugs were whining about PelosiCare, which would be a much more progressive program. Medicare E, anyone? Still, I think Obama can be proud of his achieving passage of the ACA. I am.