While the media and political elites debate the future of the GOP (and the evidence is before us of how their party has destroyed America), rank and file Republicans see see no need to deviate from the party's current path. According to a recent Rasmussen poll, a plurality of Republican voters think the party has grown too moderate over the past eight years, and a majority think the party should become more like controversial Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
Roadblock Republicans, back in the minority, have also rediscovered a new appreciation for fiscal conservatism after the profligate Bush years, and may not take to kindly to Palin's latest project: a road to nowhere that could ultimately cost $3-4 million per mile, or $2 billion total.
From Time's Ana Marie Cox:
"Palinism" = Aggressive no-nothingism, pride in ignorance, and a belief that there is such a thing as 'real America.'"
And if there is one thing I hate the most about this callous biotch, it's this: Governor Sarah Palin continues to push extreme methods to kill wolves and bears,
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Michael Phelps: 'I had to break world records just to work off the munchies.'
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GOP stuck in its own Groundhog Day
"Keep making 'right' turns, Phil, towards the tax cut sign, and that'll really guarantee we'll go over the cliff."
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Rush Limbaugh gives Republicans hope again: http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2009/01/rush-limbaugh-gives-republicans-hope.html
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Mitch McConnell, Roadblock Republican MINORITY leader of the Senate says the US Senate should strip a "Buy American" clause from President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Top_Republican_Scrap_buy_American_stimulus_0202.html
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Senate votes 75-21 to confirm Eric Holder as Attorney General. The 25 that apparently didn't like the fact that he said no one (including the president) is above the law, and that waterboarding is torture and torture is illegal are:
Barrasso (R-WY)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Cornyn (R-TX)Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Johanns (R-NE)McConnell (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)
The disgrace of the Senate Ethics Committee closing its books on 2008 today without taking a single disciplinary action against anyone - not Vitter, not Ted Stevens, who was convicted on 7 felony charges, not Larry Craig, and not Pete "Sneaky Pete" Domenici, who actually tampered with the Justice Department and got David Iglesias fired for not pressing politically-motivated and baseless charges - makes it even more crucial that we have a professional and non-politicized Justice Department working on behalf of the country, not on behalf of the rich and powerful status quo and the political Establishment they support. And today's NY Times makes the point that more than any other Department, Justice will be a place where there is change - "a broad doctrinal shift in policies from those of the Bush administration."
Godspeed, Mr. Holder. You've got a huge job ahead of you to wash away the disgrace of Alberto Gonzales.
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The Onion: Cheney dunk tank raises $800 billion for nation: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/cheney_dunk_tank_raises_800###
The current presidential line of succession.
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Republicans, Iraq, and Santa Claus: http://griperblade.blogspot.com/2009/02/republicans-iraq-and-santa-claus.html
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If you're that one American who wishes Bush could have run for a third term, here's some good news. You can send the former president a message, via your own bumper or breast, showing your gratitude for his ineptitude — all eight years of it.
For only $1.50 you can slap this "Thank you" sticker on your car. Or for $1.75 you can take that thought with you wherever you go, with a "Thank you" button. The Republican National Committee is selling both, along with commemorative golf balls, low-boy tumblers (fitting, eh?), and t-shirts at the George W. Bush Store.
P.S.
Midland Texas plans to name a courthouse after Chimpy.
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I actually pity the young Republican Congressional aides who put up with this:
When GOP congressional aides gather Tuesday morning for a meeting of the Conservative Working Group, Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher – more commonly known as Joe the Plumber — will be their featured guest. This group is an organization of conservative Capitol Hill staffers who meet regularly to chart GOP strategy for the week.
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Whale wars getting uglier - who would ever guess that the harpoon shooting crew members would resort to violence against conservationists?
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"Reagan and both President Bushes treated the Oval Office with tremendous respect. And some of that respect was reflected in how they expected people to dress when they walked into the Oval Office. And yes, I'm disappointed to see the no shirt and tie, no jacket, kind of locker room experience that seems to be taking place in this White House and the Oval Office." Andrew Card, Bush bastard to the end
Andrew Card is correct.
Reagan wore a suit when he gave arms to terrorists.
Bush the Smarter wore a suit when he pardoned Reagan's cabinet
to cover-up his involvement in the Reagan-era global crimes.
Clinton didn't always wear a suit when he gave us peace and prosperity and Bush the Dimmer was wearing a jacket when he froze up on September 11th and he wore a jacket when he refused to testify about what really happened that day when thousands of Americans were brutally murdered by his oil partner.
He was also wearing a suit when he decided to give the go-head for the illegal invasion of Iraq, every time he issued a signing statement, when he ordered illegal spying, and every other dumb decision he ever made.
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"The real leader of the Republican Party in America today is a corpulent drug addict with an AM radio talk show, Rush Limbaugh." - Paul Begala
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"You know very well, and the stupid Americans know equally well, that we control their government, irrespective of who sits in the White House. You see, I know it and you know it that no American president can be in a position to challenge us even if we do the unthinkable. What can they (Americans) do to us? We control congress, we control the media, we control show biz, and we control everything in America. In America you can criticize God, but you can't criticize Israel." -- Tzipora Menache###
Welcome to the next exercise in throwing money and guns out of airplanes. The AP reports on an assessment delivered to the Wartime Contracting Commission that says Afghanistan is headed along the same pth as Iraq: rampant corruption and waste via mismanagement of tens of billions of dollars in US taxpayer-funded infrastructure projects: http://crooksandliars.com/cernig/afghan-surge-waste-and-corruption
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From Murray, over at TPM:
Karl Rove will cooperate with a federal criminal inquiry underway into the firings of nine U.S. attorneys and has already spoken to investigators in a separate, internal DOJ investigation into the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, his attorney said in an interview
Sure he will.
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You probably noticed all the GOP talking heads on the weekend chat fests, telling us that tax cuts for lower income Americans and spending for Main Street wouldn't work, while saying with a straight face that Corporate America needed more tax cuts. Did you see any sign of a coordinated counter message from the White House, fighting the GOP on the issues and going after their failed dogma?
Nope, and you won't either. The Obama White House is still delusional in its thinking that by not talking about issues, by not challenging GOP senators, and by continuing to appeal for fuzzy bipartisanship that they'll pull enough GOP senators over to vote for a package that will already be watered down too much with futile and failing gestures to win GOP votes. And it will be a waste of time.
This is the way Obama won the nomination, not on the issues or making a compelling case for a Democratic or progressive counter agenda, but by talking up change, by taking advantage of Clinton's mistakes, and by appealing for "anyone but Hillary." Now that he has to attack on the issues to win, he doesn't know how to, and may not have the skills to do it, because he himself doesn't have the DNA to do it.
Change? - Not so much!
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4,237 soldiers killed in Iraq; 645 in Afghanistan - which is getting worse:
Coalition Military Fatalities By Year
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Interviewed by Matt Lauer, Barack Obama talked about the alleged difficulties of shutting Guantanamo: "No, because we've got a couple of hundred of hardcore militants that, unfortunately, because of some problems that we had previously in gathering evidence, we may not be able to try in ordinary courts – but we don't want to release." Sigh. So he's giving us the same "worst of the worst" line we used to hear from Cheney, as if the "problems in gathering evidence" might not suggest that some of the people the Bushies swept up are not actually guilty of anything.
By the way, Pentagon, how about an update on how many of the Gitmo prisoners are still on hunger strike? The number was up to 45+ on inauguration day.
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