Dems urge GOP to take back party

[mystieus]

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While marking President Obama's 100th day in office, Senate and House Democratic leadership said that the Republicans in Congress are out of touch with their Republican constituents.

[imdjh]

1. Oh great

The Republicans spent 8 years telling us what we needed to do to win, and now we're going to do the same.

[Crowman1979]

2. Screw that, I'd tell the GOP to keep doing what it is doing!

I want the Rethugs to fall and fall HARD!

[TheEuclideanOne]

3. This has got to be killing republicans

Geez, I can't think of any democrats that would like to take advice from Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid and I am completely sure that Republicans despise this with the heat of a thousand suns.

To me, this was not necessary, but I am okay with it knowing how much some Republicans must be wanting to jump through the screen and strangle these two. :)

[Amonester]

4. What? "the party of protecting the environment"?!?

WHEN was the last time the repugnant party ever been the party of PROTECTING the environment??????

What is it with that stupidity? hell NO! REPEAT AFTER ME (like a f*&#i%g MANTRA!!): WE DONT WANT THESE mfers BACK ALRIGHT??

[PBS Poll-435]

5. Conservation vs. Conservatives

Same root, different goals.

[Jack Rabbit]

6. A hundred years ago

WHEN was the last time the repugnant party ever been the party of PROTECTING the environment??????

A hundred years ago, when Teddy Roosevelt was president.

[Amonester]

7. but we DON'T want them (greedy liars of the last 28 years) back, right?

right?

[Jack Rabbit]

8. Not really

We need an opposition party, but we should prefer one capable of governing from time to time. Today's GOP is as committed to the truth as Dick Cheney, as gentle as Rush Limbaugh, as well-informed as Sarah Palin, as bright as Michele Bachmann, as ethical as Tom DeLay and as competent as Gee Dubyah Bush.

All that makes them as relevant as Ann Coulter (by the way, what is she doing these days? Looking for honest work?)

[Amonester]

9. That's why that "urge" plea looks just like "playing with fire"

We already KNOW these absolute hypocrits of today would be PLEASED to get back the POWER of WRECKING everything they touch as they did for the last 14 years in both the WH and Congress (like torturing many innocents to death, even CHILDREN, and, and, and, starting wars of agression by lying over and over, war crimes, doubling the debt in order to enrich the already obscenely wealthy have-more's at the expense of the rest of the world, and on, and on...)!

Why not tell them to stay where they bloody R instead, uh?

[Jack Rabbit]

11. They can stay where they are

Again, it would be nice if they could govern, but these guys can't.

The problem is that I believe in democracy, which is a system that assumes that no one person or group of people have all the answers. Opposition to those currently in power is encouraged and is regarded as necessary.

Unfortunately, there is no opposition right now that can be regarded as anything but a kakocracy (government by the worst elements of society, from the Greek kaka, shit). We know what the problem was for the last eight years. Not only did the Bushies not have all the answers, they didn't have any answers at all.

There is no reform element in the GOP. There is just a bunch right wing bullies on the airwaves like Limbaugh reading people who don't agree with them out of the party. And then they wonder why only 21% currently identify themselves as Republicans.

If the defection of Specter were to become a trend among moderate Republicans, then the GOP is going the way of the Whigs. However, these things have a way of correcting themselves. Should that happen, the Democrats will have to become too big a tent. It will divide, perhaps on DLC/progressive lines, and we'll have two parties. What's left of the Republicans will be a splinter group that will be happy to get a majority on the city council in some backwater small town in northern Idaho or central Alabama, much like the Greens were a few years ago.

[Thrill]

10. Pelosi and Reid are idiots

All these fools in Congress, should just let Obama do the talking