"Repugs: Very Disciplined Fanatics. Dems: Totally Undisciplined Neurotics"

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Political Analysts Discuss Military Tribunals, Sept. 11 Anniversary
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Analysts David Brooks and Tom Oliphant discuss President Bush's proposal for military tribunals for terror suspects, how Republicans and Democrats are using terrorism as a political tool and their views on the world since the Sept. 11 attacks.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/july-dec06/bo_09-08.html



TOM OLIPHANT: Republican -- think of Republicans as very disciplined fanatics. And then think of Democrats as totally undisciplined neurotics, and you have the setting in which all this happened on Wednesday. People are thinking, oh, my God, he's done this and the Democrats will do that. In truth, the factual situation obliterated this -- this initial thought. But that's the basic difference. The Democrats are looking over their shoulder, expecting to lose at the last minute again. Republicans have this discipline about them that causes them sometimes to march in lockstep off a cliff.



DAVID BROOKS: Well, to some extent, I agree. Whenever -- whenever I interview people in Republican administrations, I always think they're -- they're bland, but normal. And, in Democratic administrations, they're neurotic, but interesting. But -- but I would say, now, after all that's happened, Republicans are bland, but neurotic, which is the worst combination of all possible things. And I would say that the serious point behind that is that the party is no longer a lockstep party in general. It is a party with distractions.


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"But -- but I would say, now, after all that's happened, Republicans are bland, but neurotic, which is the worst combination of all possible things."

:rofl: :rofl:

[gully]

1. "bland, but neurotic"

hehe

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3. "Neurotic"-- as close as Repugs come to being "interesting"

"...people in Republican administrations, I always think they're -- they're bland, but normal....now, after all that's happened, Republicans are bland, but neurotic, which is the worst combination of all possible things."

[TomInTib]

2. I watched this about an hour ago on my teevee

That was one telling statement by Mr Brooks.

[bling bling]

4. The Republican Party has been hijacked by the radicals.

The worst combination is right.

This is a party that walks in lockstep. Furthermore, The voters aren't skeptical of the leaders. They don't fact check what they're told. They trust what they hear to be true, and then they parrot it all to others. Now, the Republican leaders are a bunch of greedy corporate oil tycoons who figured out that infiltrating the government is the most powerful business tool ever. The lockstep/uncritical nature of the Republican party is the perfect venue for these fuckwads to maintain their power and authority. Oh, they'll eventually be found out and fired from public office but not before they've pillaged our economy for their personal benefit.

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5. Well put

(you can keep the fuckwad though) :spray:


"Now, the Republican leaders are a bunch of greedy corporate oil tycoons who figured out that infiltrating the government is the most powerful business tool ever. "

Read in "Worse Than Watergate" Cheney said, when he was Halliburton without politics in his sights, "You've got to go where the OIL is."

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6. Oh jesus

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7. This isn't funny?

:shrug:

[Solly Mack]

8. I only build sand castles in the sky...I don't live in them

:)

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9. Betcha don't walk off cliffs in lockstep, neither

;)

[Solly Mack]

10. No - but I have been known to push others

who were going that way anyway

Always the helpful one :)