Did anyone else think that maybe, just maybe, two consecutive election ass-kickings.....

[marmar]

..... might cause Republicans to do a little introspection and have some humility?

I did, and I was wrong. They're more rabid than ever, and have annointed Rush Limbaugh, David Vitter and Joe the Wingnut Welfare Queen Plumber as their defacto spokespeople.

To be an elected Republican is to be a huge mound of sh*t, apparently.

[Captain Hilts]

1. I keep saying that. They've been PASTED in TWO consecutive elections.

Dogs get meaner when they're cornered.

[radfringe]

2. we're a victim of our own success..

Yes, we kicked their butts, however the butts we kicked out of congress were pretty much moderate and reasonable repub butts

those remaining are the rabid-foam drooling repubs

[Pirate Smile]

3. They are also whittled down to the more crazy Republicans. The moderates

have lost their seats and we are left with the extremes.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

6. But they also don't speak up against the extremists, and the extremists are all involved with the

evangelical churches.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

4. I think it's going to take longer than that. Remember, they turned the country right wing with...

their Republican Revolution, and it's been that way pretty much for 30 years. They thought it would last forever, and because they're such haughty, savage, selfish a-h's, they feel it's their right to own this place. They're getting their @$$ handed to them and think they still have a choice. What we cannot do now is kowtow to them any longer. Bipartisanship does not work. Obama tried it. He's a gentleman. It didn't work. Now it's time to move on without the Repukes.

[.... callchet ....]

5. Watch them revive " Better dead than red"

when they get really scared. They are seeing their support erode with each new batch of lay offs.

[Oak2004]

15. I wish I had a link to a very revealing article

Republicans in the presidential campaign pulled out all the stops, including a word that has always worked for them with the public in the past: "socialist". They screamed it on every streetcorner, still the polls kept spiraling downward. Finally, figuring that they were doind something wrong and the charges weren't sticking, the campaign focus grouped it.

It turned out people were hearing the socialist charge, and believing it. But, they told the guys running the focus groups, they thought that, given the mess the Republicans had made of things, maybe the country needed a little socialism.

Let 'em scream Red. Because they know for a fact this country is turning Red, and by that I don't mean Republican :)

Public opinion in this country is closely aligned with the policy positions of the Socialist International and its American affiliate, the Democratic Socialists of America (that is, "Socialist" as in "labor party", not "Socialist" as in "Leninist-Stalinist-Maoist"). But don't hold your breath waiting for either a majority of politicians or the major media to acknowledge that.

This truth is the real secret behind Vermont's conversion from the rural state which was the most Republican state in the Union to the state that gives the Senate a card carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America, that donated Howard Dean to a bleeding Democratic Party, and that has three caucuses in its state house: Democrats, Republicans, and a statewide socialist party. Bernie Sanders' political genius, when he formed the Progressive Coalition (precursor to the Vermont Progressive Party) was in understanding that democratic socialist positions, honestly and boldly and unflinchingly stated, can win elections. Bernie and the Progs have had the effect of dragging the entire political spectrum in Vermont leftward (leading ultimately to folks like Howard Dean).

Now if I can find anyone around here who can successfully teach the Democratic Congressional Caucus the concept of "spine". I'll try and send him or her your way ;)

[rainy]

7. Plus, the media keep giving them most of the air-time. Before it was lots of

republicans with a few democrats and even less progressives thrown in. This morning on MTP it was two to two but the two republicans kept doing all the talking. It was so annoying that I had to turn it off.

[.... callchet ....]

8. They are fighting for the lives (money) .

[msongs]

9. maybe repubs play to win...and dems win to play? nt

[cherish44]

10. I knew this would happen

They were like rabid wombats during the Clinton years. They are sore, dirty losers.

[applegrove]

11. They offer nothing constructive. All they are are leaches.

[leftstreet]

12. The Dems are turning 'ass-kickings' into 'ass-kissings' n/t

[blues90]

13. Isn't that the truth.

What really burns me and to say this I have to refer to the Dems failings and enabling not only since 2006 midterms but before that and these so called Reagan Democrats.

No matter what the issue was or how urgent it was of how the people went out and protested the war and conditions it all landed on deaf ears.

I understand the idea of reaching across the aisle so as to include all voices and unite the people and how it was republican rule where they made all the rules but it will never work and a divided country will never find a happy medium either.

None of this comes as a surprise to me.

[bobbolink]

14. Humility? Why would they? They have NO OPPOSITION PARTY!!!

[gratuitous]

16. Let's be fair

Certainly Not-Joe the Not-a-Plumber is a welfare queen, don't forget that Rash Lardbutt was on the dole for a while, too.

Yeah, I thought the GOP might learn a little humility after getting whomped two elections in a row, but such is not to be the case. They're just as rude, arrogant and snotty as they ever were even during the worst days of Lee Atwater, Newt Gingrich or Karl Rove. As such, I don't think we owe them any consideration at all. Let 'em whine about not being consulted or not getting to dictate the agenda; elections have consequences, assholes. And here's your reward for fucking up the country and fucking up your party. Back of the bus to Palookaville.