Republicans Can’t Remember the World Before Obama

[DonViejo]

Michael Tomasky

Birth control and data mining used to be things they believed in, now both are Big Government plots to be stopped.

I’m sure you chuckled at this weekend development as much as I did: At its winter meeting, the Republican National Committee, , passed a resolution condemning the NSA’s data-mining policy. The language about “unwarranted” government surveillance being an “intrusion on basic human rights” passed by voice vote, with only a few dissenters.

This is being read in the media as evidence for the party’s continuing turn away from war-mongery, Ari Fleischer-style, “watch what you say and do” Big Brotherism and toward a Pauline (as in Rand) libertarianism. And I wouldn’t deny that there’s something to that. The libertarian streak is very in vogue on the right, and neocons can’t seem to get Americans agitated about anything.

But let’s not kid ourselves. The passage of this resolution is mostly about the guy in the White House. If you want to try to tell me this was an act of principle by the RNC, then put Mitt Romney in the White House for a moment. Do you think the RNC would have considered such a resolution? Please. Reince Priebus would have had a stroke. He’d have quashed it in minutes. But with Barack Obama in the White House, the rules are different. The RNC passed this resolution to kick a little extra sand in Obama’s face.

This isn’t new of course, this rancid hypocritical sand-kicking, but it keeps getting worse, more comically transparent and more brazen. You may have read last week, for example, after Mike Huckabee’s birth-control throw down, that back in 2005 when he was Arkansas governor, Huckabee approved legislation requiring health-insurance plans in the state to cover contraceptive pills and devices. In fact, according to The Arkansas Times, Huckabee’s exemption for religious employers and organizations was narrower than the exemption in Obamacare.

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[gordianot]

1. Oh my what will they do when they do not have Obama to kick around anymore?

A crisis on the right as serious as the fall of Communism.

[DetlefK]

2. "Is Hillary american enough?" "Does she secretly hate men?" "Are men now an oppressed minority?"

You see, they won't run out of material.

[underpants]

5. Their "wussification" story line is about Hillary

Pretty standard fare in their echo chamber- the kids especially males are being made softer.

It is all prepping the battlefield for a Hillary run.

[SummerSnow]

4. They will just spend the rest of time blaming him for everything

Then his daughter will run for POTUS 20 years from now and win and her sister will be attorney general

[SummerSnow]

3. Everything and anything that happened before the 2008 election doesn't exist to them.lol

will ignorance and willful amnesia.lol

[DetlefK]

6. Not quite. 2002-2008 don't exist.