I Think Republicans Think They're Too Big to Fail

[babylonsister]

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2011/12/5/17467/1663


I Think Republicans Think They're Too Big to Fail

by Steve M.
Mon Dec 5th, 2011 at 05:46:07 PM EST

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What frightens me is that I don't think it matters whether Romney and Gingrich and all the other pretenders are ignorant or just cynical, because I think they'll still feel they have to pursue teabagger/Fox/Rand policies, and they won't think it matters whether those policies fail.

I think Republicans see themselves the way Wall Streeters see themselves -- as people to whom nothing really bad could possibly happen, no matter how dire America's problems are. If they get in, push more tax cuts that increase debt, and make spending cuts that worsen unemployment and leave more infrastructure to crumble, they'll just find some scapegoat, sexting or illegal immigrants or Dodd-Frank, to blame everything bad in America on. If that doesn't work, they'll start a war, and make it just controversial enough that Democrats will hesitate to support it, then treason-bait those Democrats for their hesitancy.

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And even if, after years and years, Republicans are eventually blamed for what they're doing, they'll bounce back in an election cycle or two -- Watergate and Vietnam combined spoiled the GOP brand for only a few years after Nixon resigned (hell, Ford almost won, and Proposition 13 passed in California in 1978), while the debacle of the Bush presidency discredited the GOP for an eyeblink. (Democrats, by contrast, are still paying for being the Hippie Party forty years ago.)

What will the Republicans do if they actually win? Be as reckless as they are now. They assume that, at worst, we'll suffer but they won't, and they can get us to punish anyone but them if we do suffer.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. One of Bill Moyer's more interesting observations on Republicans-many of them think they're "chosen"

As in chosen by their maker to be special, above it all - if they have wealth, it is because they were chosen to have wealth. Therefore they can be hypocrites, because they truly feel that the laws/ethics, even biblical teachings, don't apply to them. It doesn't matter who they screw, because they will end up in heaven no matter what - it has been predetermined.

It is one way to explain the incredible ignorance and tone-deafness of most GOP politicians - and their voters.

[liberal N proud]

2. Their arrogance may very well be what brings them down

But they always have corruption to fall back on.

[Sheepshank]

3. What is really sad are the poor schmucks

...who revere the wealthy because clearly they have been blessed by a higher authority. They themselves may not have 2 pennies to rub together, but they feel they are the righteous side of the political fence...because of all the blessing bestowed on 'their' side.

[liberal N proud]

4. Those are most difficult republicans to understand

There is no reason for their support of the GOP