Memo to CNN and the Republicans: Shut up, already.

[babylonsister]

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Memo to CNN and the Republicans: Shut up, already.

Normally, when someone loses a presidential election, or leaves office, they shut up for at least a year. See Mike Dukakis on TV lately, or ever? Al Gore, Bob Dole and John Kerry all decently vanished soon after their defeats. But not John McCain. President Obama beat him by a record margin for a nonincumbent — nearly 10 million votes. The people spoke, and they clearly did not want Arizona Johnnie.

Yet there he is, yammering every night. He needs to be ignored, other than perhaps by the nursing home network.

Incidentally, medical science needs to come up with a name for the disease that causes people to blow things out of proportion by watching too much cable news. For the last two weeks, it gave the general impression that the Obama administration was a failure.

Except he just got his massive stimulus bill passed, pretty much exactly as he wanted it. Unfortunately for the broadcast media, some things deserve to be considered for more than nine seconds.

What is true is that Obama should, by now, have learned his lesson about Republicans. No president in modern memory has done more to reach out to the opposing party in a quest for bipartisan cooperation, and none has been so thoroughly dismissed. That is largely because the GOP today is little more than a cranky band of party hacks and inconsistent ideological fanatics.

Why inconsistent? Not one House Republican was willing to vote to support the stimulus package. But vast lots of them rolled over to vote for Dubya's Wall Street bailout, which vanished without a trace, or a trace of accountability, into the bankers' wallets.

The best thing that could happen to today's GOP is defeat after defeat. Eventually something, if only a dull instinct for survival, may click in their primitive brains.

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[AndyA]

1. To me, this photo of McCain defines him best:

Do you suppose he saw himself in a mirror? Enough said. ;)

And that handsome fella next to him seems supremely more capable of dealing with the mess that Johnnie's party left America in upon exiting the White House.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear babylonsister!

And ain't that the truth???

Wow...talk about telling it like it is!

I love it!

K&R

:patriot:

[demokatgurrl]

3. Excellent post and article... to be read by too few. n/t

[DCKit]

4. Happy to be 5th....

Now a few more will see it.

[phantom power]

5. One thing that would help shut up the GOP, is if the Dems spoke out.

I'm going to go out on a limb, and propose that the problem isn't that the GOP won't shut up. It's that the Dems choose to be quiet. It was a mistake for Al Gore and John Kerry to fall silent. That's not how you get what you want.

[DCKit]

6. I think Clinton proved that the only way to get anything from the Republics...

is to publicly shame them and expose their ulterior motives - and even he didn't get much.

[newtothegame]

7. I'm sure they'll get right on that shutting up business, since SmirkingChimp told them to. n/t

[babylonsister]

8. Newsflash: cnn and rethugs probably don't read DU.

But thanks for your grand contribution to the conversation. :eyes:

[BOSSHOG]

9. You are so wrong SIS!

Everybody gets their news from Babylonsister. And we thank you and Love You Very Much

[Enthusiast]

10. Beautifully said, babylonsister.

CNN has become as unfair in its coverage as Faux News. And McCain sounds like he is under some delusion that he can run for president again in 2012.