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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMatt Taibbi - Conservatives Have Their Worst Week Ever
Have Republicans, and the right wing in general, ever been more disjointed? More confused? More incapable of getting out of their own way?
Watching America's political conservatives try to counter-maneuver opposite Barack Obama's re-inauguration over the course of the last week has been an incredible comedy like watching the Three Stooges try to perform a liver transplant on roller skates.
Let's review the basic timeline. First, Political Media, a conservative action group, decided to try to make an appeal to win the hearts and minds of Americans everywhere by declaring January 19th previously known as Martin Luther King Day, to the rest of us to be "Gun Appreciation Day."
They solicited hundreds of sponsors and sought to get 50 million people to sign a goofball petition (written in the style of the Declaration of Independence, with a plethora of "Whereas
"-es... Why do gun people insist on trying to use 18th-century syntax?) against the "tyrannical governments" that were out to take their guns. "Gun Appreciation Day" would also involve gun shows and other local events all over the country, meant as a counter-balance to the candle-toting gun control protests that were springing up over last weekend in anticipation of Obama's inauguration and the rumored plans for new gun legislation.
Read more conservative shenanigans of the past week: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/conservatives-have-their-worst-week-ever-20130123
dhill926
(16,234 posts)and the week after that....and the week after that.....
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)I never agreed with that but I thought that was the latest.
As always, I think he does a fine job, maybe he will be more welcome here in future.
just1voice
(1,362 posts)whom think every one of their ad-hom attacks is the most important thing in the world. I'm sure they'll lay off this Taibbi article because it doesn't address any Obama administration actions such as letting banking criminals go free, torturers go free, taking universal health care off the table, drone attacks, anti-gay "it's up to the states" talk or other such heavily researched and proven topics that loyalist apparatchiks experience extreme cognitive dissonance from reading.
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)DU should be the place where we CAN critique the party and it's officials.
trumad
(41,692 posts)You've been here since 2004 and you actually wrote that?
It is funny. On here I am accused of being an anti-Obama/Democratic troll because I criticize actions.
On other, non-Democratic boards (like sports boards with a political section), I am accused of being an Obama ass-kisser who never criticizes him, or any Democrats.
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)Wind Dancer
(3,618 posts)Amazing, isn't it?
trumad
(41,692 posts)He's bashed by one fucking douchebag who licks the balls of Wall Street
RainDog
(28,784 posts)and, honestly, stop this divisive horseshit.
just1voice
(1,362 posts)ad-hom attacks that lots of people see from people whom regularly engage in such wastes of time. Honesty, take a look at yourself and your own "horseshit".
RainDog
(28,784 posts)tell me about my horseshit. is it because I post about the issue of medical marijuana? because, except for a time there, I don't generally post here about anything else.
at one point, when someone was attacking me and others, accusing us of coddling pedophiles and being pro-rape - then, yeah, I struck back at the bullshit.
but, otherwise - tell me about my posts that you see as attacks.
RainDog
(28,784 posts)if you want to make such a claim about me - prove it.
RainDog
(28,784 posts)since you don't seem to have any, I'll just assume you're a master baiter of DU, trying to stir up shit, as I noted before.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)You should make it it's own OP
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)That's why.
RainDog
(28,784 posts)That talked about the nasty shit Republicans were doing to try to keep Democrats from even voting on bills.
http://archive.truthout.org/article/matt-taibbi-time-go-inside-worst-congress-ever
These past six years were more than just the most shameful, corrupt and incompetent period in the history of the American legislative branch. These were the years when the US parliament became a historical punch line, a political obscenity on par with the court of Nero or Caligula - a stable of thieves and perverts who committed crimes rolling out of bed in the morning and did their very best to turn the mighty American empire into a debt-laden, despotic backwater, a Burkina Faso with cable.
It just so happens that the Obama administration is the one that has raided legally-operating medical marijuana facilities in CA but refused to press charges against a bank that was laundering money for drug cartels and terrorists. Because, see, Tiabbi doesn't think it's okay to engage in that sort of rank hypocrisy without note, even if someone is a Democrat.
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/12/13/matt_taibbi_after_laundering_800_million
Because real reporters don't look the other way when "your side" is doing something horribly unethical.
riverbendviewgal
(4,251 posts)I think LaPierre looks like Hitler...just pencil in a moustache like Adolf's
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Must be bizarro day at Rolling Stone.
Sid
BootinUp
(46,928 posts)banned from Kos
(4,017 posts)Not Obama's election and the loss of Congress in 2008? Not health care reform? Not bank reform? Not the reelection of Obama and net losses in the Senate? Not FDR's four terms? Not Clinton's wins?
Some gun nuts got hosed in the media and that makes it their worst week?
Taibbi is a fucking douchebag again.
One of the 99
(2,280 posts)You're dissing one of the gods of the DU dittoheads.
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)painful death like the Whigs.