Markos Moulitsas: Why the GOP is failing

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Markos Moulitsas: Why the GOP is failing

http://thehill.com/opinion/markos-moulitsas/235281-markos-moulitsas-why-the-gop-is-failing

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That’s the polite way to put it. The less polite way? “Bad tactics yield bad outcomes,” he added, noting that Republican leadership had engaged in “tactical malpractice.”

Also not polite? “There’s an element within our party, a wing within the Congress, which is absolutely irresponsible,” said Republican New York Rep. Pete King. “They have no concept of reality.” Harsh, but true. “I’ve had it with this self-righteous delusional wing of the party that leads us over the cliff,” he added.

“We all know how this is going to turn out,” said Republican Rep. Mike Simpson of Idaho, noting the stupidity of the recent Department of Homeland Security funding fight. “Politically, it’s devastating.”

Said conservative pundit George Will on “Fox News Sunday”: “When the Republicans took control of the Senate, the fundamental promise was adult supervision … Now, this comes along.” “This,” of course, is the mess congressional Republicans have made of late.


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[donco]

1. YES

and one of the newer "delusional s"wrote a letter/blog to the mullahs AND if WE Dems don't ride that horse till it drops were in the same boat.

[lindysalsagal]

2. Exactly what I thought on election night: It's all on them, now. Popcorn, please.

Sometimes I think neither party wants the power or responsibility: They are cowards and only want to get re-elected. Until someone actually gets a serious discussion of voting reform going, nothing will change. The money will always be there, ruining everything.

No, don't attack me on "both parties are the same. " I didn't say that: The dems are not quite as badly corrupted, but they're not all that far behind, either.

[on point]

3. Exactly. We need BOLD leadership to confront the issues. We get insipid waffle n marketing BS

Pols only doing, or appearing to do, what is needed to get elected, but not upset the apple cart.

Our problems are accumulating and growing desperately severe from this lack of attention, vision and leadership backbone.

We need pols interested in doing what is needed and correct for the people of the country, and not for themselves and their corporate cronies.

[Skittles]

4. LOL, it's not like it is a recent development that conservatives are f***wits

I mean, please

[yeoman6987]

5. Lol. Failing? I wish.

They run 31 states completely with 31 governors on top of that......no gerrymandering involved. They have full Senate again no gerrymandering and the House which has gerrymandering. Still if that is failure then I want the Democratic Party to have some of that failure. Republicans do stupid things but they do it far enough from election that they don't pay for their stupidity. Shutting down the government should have lost them 2014, but because it didn't they will freely shut it down again, but not 6-months before election. This Iran letter is all the news right now, but will it be in August?

[Doctor_J]

6. yeah, more wishful thinking

A lot like those who insisted limpballs was on his way out. 20 years ago. We never learn

[Fuddnik]

8. You took the words out of my mouth.

We thought they were self destructing with Benghazi! Benghazi! Benghazi! 24 hours a day. Or repealing Obamacare at least once a week. They were Dead Dead Dead!.

So our spineless "leadership" sits around and tries to accomplish nothing. Just sound bites, lip service, and photo-ops.

We've been pronouncing them dead since 2006. Maybe it's time we got our last rites.

Congress: The worlds largest outpatient mental health facility since 1980.

[KG]

7. as if

[villager]

9. As I keep maintaining, the GOP is like the "Mirror Universe" in Star Trek, incapable of "passing"

...for responsible, humane leaders.

The key difference is that our GOP has no Bearded Spock.

[OldRedneck]

10. True. But irrelevant.

The most telling conversation about the Vietnam War occurred in late 1972 at the Hanoi Airport. US Army Colonel Harry Summers, a member of the US team arranging the return of Americans being help prisoner by the Vietnamese, was talking with his counterpart, a North Vietnamese colonel, veteran of Vietnam's wars against the French, the Japanese, the French again, and the Americans.

Summers said to the Vietnamese colonel: "You know, you never beat us on the battlefield."

To which the Vietnamese colonel replied: "That is true. But it's irrelevant."

The GOP is filled with loons, dingbats, biblethumpers, idjits, and every form of lowlife imaginable. BUT that fact is irrelevant.

They win elections by appealing to voters FUNDAMENTAL, EMOTIONAL BELIEFS.

When was the last time you heard a Republican talking about programs and policies and wonky crap like that? NEVER. They talk about God, guns, protecting you from the socialists, tax-and-spend Democrats, limousine liberals . . . It works because what you and I consider crazy, voters consider standing up for what's right.

We call it racism, GOP voters say "Those people are lazy welfare queens."
We call it reasonable firearms regulation, GOP voters call it "Grabbing my guns."
We call it a woman's right to choose, GOP voters call it "killing babies."
We call it temporary aid to needy families, GOP voters call it "a government handout to lazy freeloaders."

I guarantee you Senator Tom Cotton is a hero to most of the country.

[phantom power]

11. They won the war of ideas so thoroughly that Democrats now stand for conservative ideas

[Orsino]

12. How the GOP is succeeding.

Fixed your typo.