The Real Reason Republicans Have Been Sabotaging America

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gulliver (8,051 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002709678

 The Real Reason Republicans Have Been Sabotaging America
It's not so much that Obama is black. That is a factor, of course, but that's not the biggest issue.

The real reason Republicans have been trying to sabotage Obama and the country is humiliation, personal humiliation. Their man, George W. Bush, was president for eight years, and their party also held majorities in Congress for most that time. And the result? Well, to put it mildly, they basically peed their pants on live TV with the world watching. Republicans cheered Bush as he cut taxes. They whistled and applauded when he strutted around on the deck of that aircraft carrier in the full flight suit. They were riding high.

And then everything went horribly, horribly wrong. All on their watch. All in broad daylight. Afghanistan fell apart as Bush's unnecessary, ill-conceived, and falsely motivated war in Iraq dragged on. Osama was on the loose. Bush made a complete ass of himself in every news conference. And the whole country came apart at the seams in 2008. Republicans were wrong, and it was obvious. The whole Republican ideology was caught like a bug in a skillet, and they had nowhere to turn to avoid humiliation.

Now, they could have just backed off and taken a second look at their policies. Maybe tax cuts for the wealthy don't solve everything. Maybe someone should keep an eye on what the scamps in Wall Street do with the matches they seem to like to play with so much. Maybe war wasn't cheap and easy. Maybe going after Osama Bin Laden was worthwhile. In short, Republicans could have looked at revising their playbook.

Not these folks. The first thing these Republicans did was get angry. Like assholes in the wrong always do, they looked for any out they could find. Introspection? Reflection? Yeah, right.

It is important to remember that this humiliation was personal. It was not just an organizational failure. Individual Republicans across the country had been gushing and fainting over Bush since his first term began. These were real people with real families. How were they going to explain to their children and grandchildren? Their party, their president, their Congress had wrecked the country. They themselves had laughed while people at their convention wore purple band-aids, mocking duly awarded military medals. They had swooned over George W. Bush in his cowboy hat as he drove his pickup around "the ranch." Republicans, in short, had made complete asses of themselves.

Enter the Tea Party. After finally and belatedly waking up at the economic switch and discovering that they had caused a catastrophe, the Republicans lost the election in 2008. The Republican Bush Fan Club—essentially their entire party—suddenly decided that Bush wasn't a Republican after all. In fact, neither were they. No one was a Republican. You say you are looking for the Republicans who caused all of this horrible damage to the country? Well, said the Republicans, we don't know this party of which you speak. What are Republicans? We are the Tea Party. We aren't responsible for what Republicans did. Who's George W. Bush?

The Tea Party dodge helped to throw off the bloodhounds, but then the Republicans had another problem. The Republican party still existed. It was their whole infrastructure. The Tea Party didn't have a single building, no checking accounts, no donor list, no elected officials under its banner. It was just a few travel trailers and some Founding Father kitsch provided by the Koch Brothers. Sooner or later Tea Partiers were going to have to be Republicans again.

It is kind of beautiful when you think about it. The most incompetent, most blameworthy, most idiotic Republicans dodged their identity as Republicans to become Tea Partiers. Then they came back and "took over" their party again. It wasn't the old Republican Party that had done all of those bad things to the country anymore, though. All that sin was washed away by the name change and the Uncle Sam costumes. The Republican party rose phoenix-like from the ashes. And all the old, bad ideas were now new and worse.

But they needed one more thing. They needed Obama to fail, and it was not because he was black. Republicans needed Obama to fail because Republicans had themselves failed so badly. America lost horribly under their leadership, and the were not about to let America win under someone else. It is as ugly and simple as that.

Rush Limbaugh said it clearly. He wanted Obama to fail. Mitch McConnell said it only slightly less clearly. Job number one for the Republicans was to make sure Obama was a one-term president.

Now would good Americans fail their country and then deliberately try to make sure no one else could succeed? Would good Americans take the country's economy hostage and play chicken with our national creditworthiness? Would good Americans put down American economic gains and business environment at every opportunity? I don't think so. Good Americans wouldn't do that.

Republican politicians would though. And, by the way, they want to run the country again.

 

kentuck (61,252 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

10. A most honest depiction of history...

and probably closer to the truth than anything we have read thus far about the Boy King and the angry Tea Partiers.

Very well written.

you can't get much more stupider than that.

[obumazombie]

Rush wanted what owebuma stood for to fail, which it did. If owebuma came out with conservative policies, he would get ALL Rush's support, and mine as well.

[jukin]

There is a party that has been sabotaging the American economy but it is not the GOP. If it were the GOP one would have to:

Forget the $6 trillion in new debt.
Forget the 500,000 people that left the work force last month.
Forget the 320,000 WOMEN that left the workforce last month.
Forget that the National Socialist Democrat Party senate has not passed a budget in four years.
Forget that April was the deadliest month in Afghanistan in the war's history.
Forget the record number of Americans in poverty.
Forget the record loss of household wealth.
Forget the record number of Americans and illegals on Food Stamps.
Forget that the bill for 0bama HellCare has doubled to almost TWO TRILLION DOLLARS.

Don't even get started on what Nanzi Pelosi did from 2007 to 2009 (another $2.2 trillion in debt) which set up the financial problem in 08.

[Freeper]

Rush wanted what owebuma stood for to fail, which it did. If owebuma came out with conservative policies, he would get ALL Rush's support, and mine as well.

He would still be black, so we would still hate him. </du mode>

[Ballygrl]

Didn't Obama extend the same tax cuts that Bush enacted? and aren't the Democrats now fuming because Boehner wants to force a vote BEFORE the election on extending the Bush tax cuts for another 6 months after they're due to expire?

[Freeper]

Didn't Obama extend the same tax cuts that Bush enacted? and aren't the Democrats now fuming because Boehner wants to force a vote BEFORE the election on extending the Bush tax cuts for another 6 months after they're due to expire?

I kind of wonder if 0bama will not extend the tax cuts to punish us if he happens to lose the election.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

As usual, Democrats **** up and it's the republicans getting the blame.

[JohnnyReb]

Republicans derailing the rainbow colored fast train to the socialist paradice.

[USA4ME]

The economic downturn was a direct result of Dodd and Frank giving carte blanche to Fannie and Freddie and allowing them to fund sub-prime mortgages in ways more risky than even private sub-prime mortgage companies were willing to make.

Until the primitives can disprove that, then the rest of their poorly conceived opinions are nothing but noise.

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[obumazombie]

The economic downturn was a direct result of Dodd and Frank giving carte blanche to Fannie and Freddie and allowing them to fund sub-prime mortgages in ways more risky than even private sub-prime mortgage companies were willing to make.

Until the primitives can disprove that, then the rest of their poorly conceived opinions are nothing but noise.

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Fanny, Freddie, and CRIA were used as proxies to apply the long hoped for holy grail of reparations.

[USA4ME]

Fanny, Freddie, and CRIA were used as proxies to apply the long hoped for holy grail of reparations.

I don't necessarily believe that, but no doubt Fannie and Freddie saw the yield that sub-prime loans offered and wanted in on the action.  Dodd and Frank just gave them the keys and all the gas money they wanted.

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[BEG]

If they stopped blaming racism for our side wanting to see them fail they would realize that it's their IDEAS we loathe and want to fail, not a specific person. We understand your side to a T DUmmie. We have been forced to listen to your crap through our schools, music, ill informed pundits and movies/TV shows with a "teachable moment" at every turn. You PC shit has literally turned your men into weak-kneed sissies.  

We know your side like the back of our hand, you don't know anything about us as you choose to stick your head in the sand to avoid listing to any view that contradicts your own.  For example the Tea Party. You project cultural issues with your preconceived idea of what they are about.  The tea party is all about financial issues, it has nothing to do with cultural issues.  You use "TeaBagger" as a pejorative thinking you are so cute and funny when the very meaning is to  have a man's balls in another persons mouth (usually another man). Why is it ok to use a gay joke when making fun of the tea party?  Aren't you offending one of your protected minorities, gay men?  You people are nothing but hypocrites.  You can't even be intellectually honest about your own views, why do you hide the whole "you" from public view?  Progressives are all about hiding their true feelings/views from the American public.  They know that if they let them all hang out that no one would agree/vote for them. But since it takes someone with a mental illness to be a progressive I guess it explains why you guys are the way you are.  How can anyone take anything you say seriously?

Face it, the jig is up. We are using your own tactics against you. You can't shut us up any longer.

[thundley4]

Face it, the jig is up. We are using your own tactics against you. You can't shut us up any longer.

[obumazombie]

Another word that will definitely be on my list of banned words that may offend someone somewhere sometime.

[redwhit]

Another word that will definitely be on my list of banned words that may offend someone somewhere sometime.

Don't be niggardly with that list; be bold and willing to call a spade a spade.

 

[obumazombie]

Don't be niggardly with that list; be bold and willing to call a spade a spade.

 

I'm taking a shine to your post, while wearing my coonskin cap. Big fan of Daniel Boone.

[Wineslob]

If they stopped blaming racism for our side wanting to see them fail they would realize that it's their IDEAS we loathe and want to fail, not a specific person. We understand your side to a T DUmmie. We have been forced to listen to your crap through our schools, music, ill informed pundits and movies/TV shows with a "teachable moment" at every turn. You PC shit has literally turned your men into weak-kneed sissies.  

We know your side like the back of our hand, you don't know anything about us as you choose to stick your head in the sand to avoid listing to any view that contradicts your own.  For example the Tea Party. You project cultural issues with your preconceived idea of what they are about.  The tea party is all about financial issues, it has nothing to do with cultural issues.  You use "TeaBagger" as a pejorative thinking you are so cute and funny when the very meaning is to  have a man's balls in another persons mouth (usually another man). Why is it ok to use a gay joke when making fun of the tea party?  Aren't you offending one of your protected minorities, gay men?  You people are nothing but hypocrites.  You can't even be intellectually honest about your own views, why do you hide the whole "you" from public view?  Progressives are all about hiding their true feelings/views from the American public.  They know that if they let them all hang out that no one would agree/vote for them. But since it takes someone with a mental illness to be a progressive I guess it explains why you guys are the way you are.  How can anyone take anything you say seriously?

Face it, the jig is up. We are using your own tactics against you. You can't shut us up any longer.

You, my dear, get a most deserved Hi5.