Some Perhaps Not Unrelated Musings
Consider the following a brain teaser, if not a rhetorical question. Is it conservatism that has ruined the GOP or has the GOP ruined conservatism?
Answer (ya I know it was supposed to be a rhetorical question but I might come up with a punch line, and convert it into a joke): who cares which? Either way you end up with the same thing; a bunch of delusional, dogmatic sore losers, too in love with their failed ideology to seriously consider changing it. They'd rather tell outrageous lies, than admit their ideology and their ideas about governing and managing the economy have never worked.
I could go through a long list, but I will for now just mention one key lie that these fools need to deal with, and accept, but won't since they have too much emotion vested in their delusion. And the way I saw it recently on the Hannity Message Board (as telling a barometer of Republican lunacy as there is) was as the question, "Will Trickle Down Economics Work Again?" Honestly there is not one scrap of evidence to show it ever worked in the past. Ya, there are some people out there who are such slavish Reagan worshipers that they think the (then, when POTUS, already suffering from early stages of Altheizmer's) old man farted hundred dollar bills, and drooled silver dollars, but honestly, there is no evidence that Trickle Down worked. In fact the evidence suggests otherwise.
Moving on, remember what I said right after the election about them acting like out of control gamblers doubling down on their bad bets? What do you call the way them Republicans in Congress bet on the Stimulus Package not working?
This has to be the biggest gamble by one of the two major caucuses (Dems and GOP are separate caucuses, technically) since the Civil War, when the Dems erroneously bet on the Nation not having the will to see the bloody war through to the bitter end. What makes this choice even more of an insane play is the theory out there that one way or another, unless some further major disaster strikes, that the economy might substantially recover by itself. Not that I am an adherent of that theory, but it is the theory most favored by free market economists. Now that would be the Republican economists, at least them not pathologically, ideologically married to the theory that cutting taxes is the magic cure for all macro economic problems. So what the GOP as a voting block is doing is betting on failure. Guess Rush Limbaugh really is what passes for a brain for the dumb animal known as the Republican Party.
And let's dovetail into familiar territory; the Republican affection for clearly crazy people. Between Limbaugh's recent antics, and Beck's nightly meltdowns I have to ask again. Do Republicans have a specific attraction to crazy or crazy acting people, or is the truth of the matter more a matter of being tolerant past the normal objective outer limits of such to crazy or crazy acting people, based on confirmation bias and a pathological unwillingness to shun and condemn anyone with same or similar ideology and dogma?
Message to Republicans. Remember what we Dems did to Blago once it was obvious he was a crazy man? (In his case, his corruption was so excessive that it was clearly related to the being crazy part.) We tossed his ass over board, and threw out some bloody chum just to make sure the sharks were put on notice.
Granted, my metaphor there is grim, but I am going to give you republicans the best advice you are ever going to get from a self styled Yella Dog Dem. Ya'll need to start feeding the sharks too. You got leaders, both in and out of elected offices who need to be tossed over board. Ya'll not going to cure what ails your party until you rid yourself of your troublesome and backward thinking, failed idea embracing, not so much principled but more so stubborn and ignorant, unthinking leaders. You are not going to get any fresh leadership and fresh ideas until you clear your decks of the old bridge and senior staff. These are the idiots who crashed your ship into the reef. Do you actually trust them not to do that again?
PS. Main reason I feel so brazen as to give this advice freely is that I know that one of the main pathological weaknesses of Republicans is they are entirely incapable of telling the difference between a stubborn, blind, and self destructive adherence to ideology and dogma, and making a principled stand. I can tell them to change their self destructive ways until I look more like a Blue Dog than a Yella Dog, in the face. They will never listen to me. That is what makes this sport so much fun for me.
Ok. That is enough for now, but to mention my favorite Republican lies of last week. Firstly, that (not admitted or noted as such by the WSJ) Health Care Industry Lobbyist's op-ed that erroneous and dishonestly said that the stimulus bill is going to lead to the Fed. Government being able to tell doctors what they can an can not do for individual patient care. And the other one? That witless attempt, in trying to blame Obama for the extremely expensive POTUS helicopters that were originally ordered by Bush & Co., back in 2005.
Liars, liars, your hair should be on fire.
Answer (ya I know it was supposed to be a rhetorical question but I might come up with a punch line, and convert it into a joke): who cares which? Either way you end up with the same thing; a bunch of delusional, dogmatic sore losers, too in love with their failed ideology to seriously consider changing it. They'd rather tell outrageous lies, than admit their ideology and their ideas about governing and managing the economy have never worked.
I could go through a long list, but I will for now just mention one key lie that these fools need to deal with, and accept, but won't since they have too much emotion vested in their delusion. And the way I saw it recently on the Hannity Message Board (as telling a barometer of Republican lunacy as there is) was as the question, "Will Trickle Down Economics Work Again?" Honestly there is not one scrap of evidence to show it ever worked in the past. Ya, there are some people out there who are such slavish Reagan worshipers that they think the (then, when POTUS, already suffering from early stages of Altheizmer's) old man farted hundred dollar bills, and drooled silver dollars, but honestly, there is no evidence that Trickle Down worked. In fact the evidence suggests otherwise.
Moving on, remember what I said right after the election about them acting like out of control gamblers doubling down on their bad bets? What do you call the way them Republicans in Congress bet on the Stimulus Package not working?
This has to be the biggest gamble by one of the two major caucuses (Dems and GOP are separate caucuses, technically) since the Civil War, when the Dems erroneously bet on the Nation not having the will to see the bloody war through to the bitter end. What makes this choice even more of an insane play is the theory out there that one way or another, unless some further major disaster strikes, that the economy might substantially recover by itself. Not that I am an adherent of that theory, but it is the theory most favored by free market economists. Now that would be the Republican economists, at least them not pathologically, ideologically married to the theory that cutting taxes is the magic cure for all macro economic problems. So what the GOP as a voting block is doing is betting on failure. Guess Rush Limbaugh really is what passes for a brain for the dumb animal known as the Republican Party.
And let's dovetail into familiar territory; the Republican affection for clearly crazy people. Between Limbaugh's recent antics, and Beck's nightly meltdowns I have to ask again. Do Republicans have a specific attraction to crazy or crazy acting people, or is the truth of the matter more a matter of being tolerant past the normal objective outer limits of such to crazy or crazy acting people, based on confirmation bias and a pathological unwillingness to shun and condemn anyone with same or similar ideology and dogma?
Message to Republicans. Remember what we Dems did to Blago once it was obvious he was a crazy man? (In his case, his corruption was so excessive that it was clearly related to the being crazy part.) We tossed his ass over board, and threw out some bloody chum just to make sure the sharks were put on notice.
Granted, my metaphor there is grim, but I am going to give you republicans the best advice you are ever going to get from a self styled Yella Dog Dem. Ya'll need to start feeding the sharks too. You got leaders, both in and out of elected offices who need to be tossed over board. Ya'll not going to cure what ails your party until you rid yourself of your troublesome and backward thinking, failed idea embracing, not so much principled but more so stubborn and ignorant, unthinking leaders. You are not going to get any fresh leadership and fresh ideas until you clear your decks of the old bridge and senior staff. These are the idiots who crashed your ship into the reef. Do you actually trust them not to do that again?
PS. Main reason I feel so brazen as to give this advice freely is that I know that one of the main pathological weaknesses of Republicans is they are entirely incapable of telling the difference between a stubborn, blind, and self destructive adherence to ideology and dogma, and making a principled stand. I can tell them to change their self destructive ways until I look more like a Blue Dog than a Yella Dog, in the face. They will never listen to me. That is what makes this sport so much fun for me.
Ok. That is enough for now, but to mention my favorite Republican lies of last week. Firstly, that (not admitted or noted as such by the WSJ) Health Care Industry Lobbyist's op-ed that erroneous and dishonestly said that the stimulus bill is going to lead to the Fed. Government being able to tell doctors what they can an can not do for individual patient care. And the other one? That witless attempt, in trying to blame Obama for the extremely expensive POTUS helicopters that were originally ordered by Bush & Co., back in 2005.
Liars, liars, your hair should be on fire.
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