The BREITBARTOCALYPSE!

It is a 'truism' that in hard times, people turn Conservative. It is becoming a 'truism' that people are smart enough (or are getting tired of the rhetoric) to want actual policies over blaming.

Ummmm. We've figured out, well most of us, that blaming, true or false, doesn't put food on the table, pay the mortage or provide ANY actual living benefits.

But to go back for the 1000th time to Saul Alinsky?

Really.
'Charles Johnson'
'Wingnuts • Sun Mar 4, 2012 at 8:44 pm PST'

'Before his death, Andrew Breitbart had been promising a true BOMBSHELL revelation about Barack Obama, a STUNNER that would finally put an end to Obama’s reign of terror. Some whispered darkly that this may have been the reason for Breitbart’s sudden mysterious collapse'.

'Tonight, Breitbart’s fearless heirs have unleashed the BREITBARTOCALYPSE! And Barack Hussein Obama can only cower in terror'.

'The earth-shattering scoop that will blow this baby wide open can now be revealed: 14 years ago Obama attended a play in Chicago'.

'Yes! A play'!

'The subject of this nefarious play: the dreaded Saul Alinsky'.

'It’s over, Barack. You should just resign right now like Sarah Palin; you’ll never recover from this blow. It was fun while it lasted'.
From : http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/40015_Everything_Is_Different_Now_-_the_Breitbartocalypse_Is_Upon_Us

Romney

'Romney wrote a lengthy reply warning against European-style polarization. “Dogmatic ideological parties tend to splinter the political and social fabric of a nation,” Romney wrote. Worse, he added, political parties with fixed ideological programs “lead to governmental crises and deadlocks, and stymie the compromises so often necessary to preserve freedom and achieve progress.”

That was then Michigan Governor George Romney.

He 'and other leading moderates, called for a more inclusive GOP and critized Goldwater’s campaign. Stung by the failure of many moderates to actively support or even formally endorse his candidacy, Goldwater retorted that he needed no lessons in maintaining unity'.
From : http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/is-2012-1964-all-over-again/

How much of tghis is going to be replayed over the coming months?

 “The Missing Middle in American Politics—How Moderate Republicans Became Extinct” (apparently a review of Geoffrey Kabaservice’s Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party from Eisenhower to the Tea Party).

'Just 40 percent of Republicans say they have a great deal of interest in following the contest, compared with 48 percent in December'.
From : http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_AP_POLL_REPUBLICANS_VS_OBAMA?SITE=MITRA&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Do what I say - not what I do

'Voters will be able to cast their ballot in next Tuesday's "First-in-the-Nation" Republican Iowa Caucuses without bothering to show a Photo ID --- even though the Republican Party itself sets their own rules for voting there'.

'Unlike most primary elections where an official state election board or agency sets the rules and runs the registration and balloting processes, the Iowa Republican Party runs its own state caucuses, determines the rules, tabulates all the votes and announces the results to the public and media themselves. They have complete control over the entire process, and yet they don't bother to ask their own voters to show a state-issued Photo ID before casting their ballot'.
From : http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9016

'Voters going to the polls next year — and even some this year — will encounter a lot of new rules. Photo ID requirements and fewer options for early voting are among the biggest changes'.

'They're part of a wave of new laws enacted by Republican-controlled legislatures this year. Supporters say the rules are needed to ensure honest elections'.
From : http://www.npr.org/2011/07/18/138160440/the-politics-behind-new-voter-id-laws

'On a campaign stop at an Algona chocolate store, the former House speaker said the "mistake" occurred because one of their workers committed fraud'.

"We hired somebody who turned in false signatures. We turned in 11,100 – we needed 10,000 – 1,500 of them were by one guy who frankly committed fraud."
From : http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/28/gingrich-campaign-workers-signature-fraud-cost-slot-on-virginia-ballot/

Thank You teabaggers

'In what could be a new high water mark of anti-Washington sentiment, the city of Troy, Mich., is rejecting a long-planned transportation center whose construction would have been fully financed with federal stimulus money'.

'The terminal, which would help Troy become a transportation node on an upgraded Detroit-to-Chicago Amtrak line, was hailed by supporters as a way to create jobs and to spur economic development. But federal money is federal money, so with the urging of the new mayor, who helped found the local Tea Party chapter, the City Council cast a 4-to-3 vote this week against granting a crucial contract, sending the project into limbo'.

'The Troy transit center’s construction, by comparison, required no local contribution, and its predicted annual maintenance cost of $31,000 was, in the context of the city’s $50 million budget, “de minimis,” said Mark Miller, the assistant city manager'.

'Taking Tea Party reasoning to the local level has outraged supporters of the transit center, which has been in the works for a decade. Michele Hodges, the president of the Troy Chamber of Commerce, which supports the transit project, said that her organization “will be a pit bull for what’s best for this community'.”

'David A. Kotwicki, a local lawyer, noted that members of Congress might talk tough on spending, but that they still bring projects home to their districts. The vote against the transit center, he said, looks like “cutting off your nose to spite your face'.”

'The transit fight is not Mayor Daniels’s first brush with controversy. Earlier this month, it was revealed that she posted a message to her Facebook page last June, after New York State approved same-sex marriage, stating, “I think I am going to throw away my I Love New York carrying bag now that queers can get married there'.”

'On Tuesday, an official of Magna International, a global automotive supplier based in Canada whose American headquarters are in Troy, expressed frustration with the City Council vote in a private e-mail to Ms. Hodges and others that was posted to a blog that favors the transit center'.

“I am drafting a memo to all Magna group presidents and our Magna corporate executives strongly recommending that Magna International no longer consider the City of Troy for future site considerations, expansions or new job creation,” wrote Frank W. Ervin III, the company’s manager of government affairs. “I have also recommended that where ever and when ever possible we reduce our footprint and employment level in Troy” in favor of communities that act in the best interests of residents and business and that do “not simply use their public position to advance their own private agenda.”

'Ed Myles, the president of a local manufacturing company, J.E. Myles & Co., said that the area, like the rest of the country, had been hurt by the recession and that it could use the economic boost that the transit center could provide. He said he worried about what companies like Magna would do. The council’s vote “put the kibosh on any other companies moving here'.”

“It’s all politics,” he said. “In the meantime, people are suffering.”
From : http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/23/us/michigan-city-of-troy-led-by-tea-party-mayor-rejects-federal-dollars.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

 

Representative Eric (The Ass) Cantor (R-GA) - Next Speaker?

'If Boehner were a stronger, more effective House Speaker, this fiasco could have been easily avoided. He could have told his caucus this was a fight they were likely to lose, so passing the Senate bill quickly was the smart course of action. But he couldn’t — Boehner takes orders; he doesn’t give them'.

It’s what helps make this story a disaster, not only for Republicans in general, but also for John Boehner personally. As he surrenders this afternoon, Boehner becomes The Speaker Who Has No Clothes.

'He stuck out his neck, vowing not to cave, knowing he’d likely have to cave anyway. Boehner than waited until the pressure became unbearable — after he’d lost face and friends — and walked away with his tail between his legs'.

'Neither party has had a Speaker this feeble in modern times. His instincts told him to take the deal over the weekend, but Boehner allowed himself to be pushed around by his unhinged caucus, then get pushed around by Democrats, then get pushed around by his allies, then get pushed around by Senate Republicans'.

'How big a disaster was this for Boehner? Keep an eye on whether Eric Cantor’s travel schedule changes over the holidays'.
From : http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_12/house_republicans_cave_in_payr034271.php

The 'People's House'

'FULL TEXT: Boehner Delivers Remarks on Congressional Reform and the People's House'
'Sep 30, 2010'

'So instead of clamping down even further, it's my view that we should open things up and let the battle of ideas help break down the scar tissue between the two parties.  Yes, we will still have disagreements.  But let’s have them out in the open.  Yes, we will still try to outmaneuver each other.  But let’s make it a fair fight.  Instead of selling our Members short, let’s give them a chance to do their jobs.  Let’s let legislators legislate again'.
From : http://www.johnboehner.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=209528

Amended December 21, 2011 -

'Except when I don't like what you're saying'.

'During a quick pro-forma session of the House this morning, Republicans rebuffed a Democratic attempt to force an up-or-down vote on the Senate-passed payroll tax holiday extension, which Republicans have thus far refused to allow. Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick (R-PA), who was serving as the speaker pro-temp, ignored shouts of “Mr. Speaker!” from Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), quickly adjourning the House'.

'Hoyer continued talking undeterred, saying, “You’re walking away, just as so many Republicans have walked away from middle-class taxpayers [and] the unemployed.” “We regret, Mr. Speaker, that you have walked off the platform without addressing this issue of critical importance to this country,” Hoyer added'.

'Moments later, the mic appeared to cut out. A few seconds after that, the video feed switched away from the House floor to a still image of the Capitol Dome. It appears someone in House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) office cut the feed, as C-SPAN tweeted afterwards: “C-SPAN has no control over the U.S. House TV cameras – the Speaker of the House does'.
From : http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/12/21/393990/speaker-cuts-off-c-span-cameras-when-dems-attempts-to-bring-vote-on-payroll-tax-cut/”

Come on teabaggers! What happened to the 'will of the people'?

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PAYROLL_TAX_CUT_ECONOMY?SITE=KTVK&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Over the last year, it is very often said and assumed that no matter what the Democrats or President proposes - Republicans will be against it. See Senator Mitch McConnell.

Less then a year away from the General Election, the Republicans have seemingly confirmed it.

This should have been such an easy victory for Republicans. The Presidency, maybe even more gains in the House and almost certainly taking control of the Senate.

The trifecta of National Politics.

And then came the teabaggers...........

America is a center - right Country. The more the Republicans have to go further right to apease the far, far right, the furter away from the center - right they go.

House members are being seen as too extreme.

Senate candidates will be seen as filibusterig obstructionists.

And any Presidential candidate will be saddeled with having to explain and justify thier actions as he is assoicated with them.

What a mess the teabaggers have made of what should have been a year long victory lap for Republicans.

'Former Bush adviser Karl Rove said he agreed with the Wall Street Journal’s blistering assessment on the failure of House Republican leadership in the payroll-tax debate, and conceded that Republicans have “lost the optics” and should fold on the issue'.

“I think the Wall Street Journal editorial hit it right on the nail, the question now is how do Republicans get out of it,” Rove told Fox News on Wednesday'.
From : http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/200877-rove-says-republicans-should-fold-in-tax-debate

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'DES MOINES, Iowa – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who famously lost budget battles to President Bill Clinton amid two government shutdowns, had some advice to House Republicans at loggerheads with another Democratic president: Give in'.
From : http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/12/21/gingrich-to-house-gop-give-in-on-payroll-tax/

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'Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) said Wednesday that Republicans are losing the public-relations battle over a payroll tax cut extension and should find a way to extend the tax holiday and move on'.
"Are Republicans getting killed now in public opinion? There's no question," Corker said Wednesday on CNBC'.
From : http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/200705-sen-corker-says-gopers-need-to-pass-payroll-extension-and-move-on

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'GOP Sen. Scott Brown ripped into House Republicans on Tuesday after Speaker John Boehner vowed that his caucus would reject the short-term payroll tax cut extension that nearly 90 percent of senators voted for over the weekend'.
“The House Republicans’ plan to scuttle the deal to help middle-class families is irresponsible and wrong,” Brown said in a statement'.
From : http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-congress/2011/12/brown-blasts-house-gop-on-payroll-tax-cut-108035.html

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The Wall Street Journal -
'GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell famously said a year ago that his main task in the 112th Congress was to make sure that President Obama would not be re-elected. Given how he and House Speaker John Boehner have handled the payroll tax debate, we wonder if they might end up re-electing the President before the 2012 campaign even begins in earnest'.

'The GOP leaders have somehow managed the remarkable feat of being blamed for opposing a one-year extension of a tax holiday that they are surely going to pass. This is no easy double play'.

'After a year of the tea party House, Mr. Obama and Senate Democrats have had to make no major policy concessions beyond extending the Bush tax rates for two years. Mr. Obama is in a stronger re-election position today than he was a year ago, and the chances of Mr. McConnell becoming Majority Leader in 2013 are declining'.
From : http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204791104577110573867064702.html

Priorities in the House of Representativess

The House tabeled the legislation to extend the 'payroll tax holiday' but DID find time and money to do this yesterday.........

'Suspensions: The House agreed to suspend the rules and agree to the following measure:
Provide for the placement of a statue or bust of Sir Winston Churchill in the United States Capitol: H. Res. 497, to provide for the placement of a statue or bust of Sir Winston Churchill in the United States Capitol'.
'Pages H9940-43'
From : http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/B?r112:@FIELD(FLD003+d)+@FIELD(DDATE+20111219)

Having that bust of Winston Churchill in the Capitol is SO much more importamt then - well people.

And in the ROTFLMAO Department.....

In a pre-taped interview that aired last night on Fox Business Network’s “Follow The Money,” Eric Bolling mentioned to Sarah Palin that people constantly tell him they wish she was running for President.

“Any chance we can see you making a play, even after Iowa or New Hampshire?” Bolling asked. “There’s still plenty of time, Governor.”

“You know, it’s not too late for folks to jump in,” Palin replied. “And I don’t know, you know, it — who knows what will happen in the future?”
From : http://www.mediaite.com/online/sarah-palin-tells-fox-business-network-that-its-not-too-late-to-jump-into-the-gop-race/

From the 'They Never Give Up' Department....

'According to Dustin Baker of the blog Georgia Politico, a suit has been filed with the office of Georgia’s Secretary of State Brian Kemp challenging Barack Obama’s legitimacy to appear as a presidential candidate on the ballot in the November 2012 elections'.

'Georgia State Representative J. Mark Hatfield (R-Waycross) will plead the case before the Office of State Administrative Hearings on behalf of Mr. Kevin R. Powell of Duluth, Georgia, who filed the suit on the grounds that “Obama does not satisfy the ‘natural born Citizen’ requirement of Article II, Section I, Clause 5 of the United States Constitution. Obama’s father, Barack Obama, Sr., was a native of Kenya and a British subject who never became a United States citizen'.”

'Presumably the lawsuit does not address the question of the nationality of President Obama’s mother, whose status as a U.S. citizen would confer citizenship upon her son, no matter the nationality of his father'.
'The challenge, which Georgia Politico reports is styled “Kevin Richard Powell v. Barack Obama,” was submitted to Secretary Kemp’s office on November 28, and has been referred to the State Office of Administrative Hearings for further action'.

'Baker added, “In related economic news, no new businesses want to move to Georgia because they feel the workforce, as represented through the people they elect, are absolutely crazy and believe conspiracy theories'.”
From : http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/17/georgia-birther-suit-attempts-to-remove-obama-from-2012-ballot/

ROTFFLMFAO!!!!!

'If Americans find all of this ridiculous'

'they should have been a little more careful before the 2010 midterms'.

'Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) noted Saturday, “This is probably a done deal in the House; it should be.”

'The pieces were in place. Senate leads from both parties agreed to a temporary compromise that looked pretty sensible: Dems would get a two-month extension of the payroll tax break and a clean extension of unemployment benefits, while GOP lawmakers would get an expedited decision on the Keystone XL pipeline. It was quickly approved with overwhelming, bipartisan support, 89 to 10'.

'None other than House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) seemed relieved, calling the bipartisan compromise a “good deal” and a “victory'.”

'But Boehner then took this victory to his caucus, and as we’ve seen many times before, the Speaker quickly realized his job is to take, not give, orders from his right-wing members'.

'Indeed, the House will likely take up the Senate deal later today, simply to prove it can’t pass the lower chamber. In the bigger picture, it’s pretty amazing: House Republicans are going to kill a bipartisan compromise on a middle-class tax cut, which just passed the Senate 89 to 10, the week before Christmas'.
'It’s worth emphasizing that the GOP’s new demands are coming into focus. Last week, Republicans wanted an expedited decision on Keystone. They got it. This week, Republicans are arguing that the payroll tax break, if it’s extended at all, should be extended for a year, not for two months'.
From : http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_12/when_a_done_deal_unravels034184.php

Hey. You're the one who wanted to be Speaker.

The 'Republican Establishment' and 2012

Ezra Klein has a good blog on the likelyhood that the 'Republican Establishment' will not 'let' Newt be the nominee.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/newt-gingrich-will-not-be-the-republican-nominee--even-if-it-means-a-brokered-convention/2011/08/25/gIQARQ0DiO_blog.html

He points out that they, the 'Republican Establishment, are 'mobilizing' the likes of Will, Krauthammer, Brooks, Coburn, Coulter and others and and that this will somehow be seen as sage advice and the Republican voters will turn again to 25% Mitt. 

He takes a different route then Nate Silver who, rightly, sees Newt winning Iowa, 2nd in New Hampshire and then building on that, wins in South Carolina and Florida and so on and so on.

Klein ignores the fact that the 'Republican Establishment' is just too late in coming to the 'rescue' of Romney.

That should have happened last May after Palin had spent months teasing the voters and the press, after Bachmann rose in the polls while spouting nonsense about the history of our Nation and the legislative process and especially after The Donald rose in the polls after pushing the 'Obama wasn't a natural born citizen'.

By not stopping THAT, letting The Donald, Palin and then Perry go unchallenged (except for a few asides) in spouting that nonsense, thus giving those three and the 'issue' of Obama's birth 'credibility', the 'Republican Establishment' lost all of it's credibility.

Gingrich is not 'rising'. There simply is no one (with at least a realistic chance) left.

Palin, Bachmann, The Donald, Perry and then Cain. All self destructed. They shoulld have been at best bottom teir candidates but instead the 'Republican Establishment' along with FOX 'news' gave them time and voice which uninformed voters looking to be lead, eagerly accepted them as the role models for the Republican Party.

Newt doesn't have time, although he normally would, to self destruct as the voting begins in just a couple of weeks and Romney is just too weak to attack him. Newt has 25 years expereince attacking others and (usually when he self destructs) responding to attacks on him.

The 'Republican Establishment' blew it last Spring by not stopping the stupidity of what should have been the lower teir candidates and by not encouraging, nuturing the likes of Daniels, Pawlenty, backing Christie when he was considering and maybe even giving greater voice to Jeb Bush.

It doesn't mean that Bush or Christie would BE candidates but it would have shown the general electorate that the 'Republican Establishment' was at least serious about finding intelligent and reasonable representatives for the Grand Old Party.

And THAT would have given them a landslide victory in November 2012 instead of the now more then likely defeat at the Presidential level and also a now growing possibility of a defeat in taking the Senate and maybe even the growing possibllity of losing the House.

The growing backlash of moderates voting not for Obama but against the bitterness of Newt and that carrying over into other races. 

When steam dissipates, you're left with nothing

'The Great Donald Trump Debate (well, maybe slightly less great than its organizers had hoped) is still going forward even with just two committed candidates, its organizers said Friday'.

“We just had a production meeting this morning, and we’re pushing full steam ahead,” said Steve Coz, editorial director of Newsmax Media, which is hosting the debate Mr. Trump is set to moderate on Ion Television on Dec. 27'.

'But Mr. Trump, the reality star and real estate mogul, cast some doubt Friday about whether the debate would still happen in an interview with Fox News’s Megyn Kelly. “We’ll have to see,” he said. He made similar comments to Don Imus earlier in the day'.

'Mr. Trump’s spokeswoman did not return a request to clarify his remarks.

'Whatever the outcome, the incident is a body blow to Mr. Trump’s credibility as a player in conservative politics. He often talks up his political influence with the kind of self-aggrandizing swagger that is his trademark'.

'On Mitt Romney‘s supposed longing for Mr. Trump’s endorsement: “He wants my endorsement. He wants it very badly,” Mr. Trump said this week'.

'On his frustration about never being invited to the White House by President Obama: “I have a big voice. Call up Trump, invite him to the White House. Get him on your side.”

'On why he thinks he has influence: “The candidates look at me and they say, ‘He really does have a lot of people who are listening.’”

'Evidently, the campaigns of Mr. Romney, Rick Perry, Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann and Jon M. Huntsman Jr. — who have all declined to attend the debate — don’t quite see it that way'.
From : http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/newsmax-says-trump-debate-is-full-steam-ahead/
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Robing poor Paul to pay poor Peter

Newt Gingrich :

"Most of these schools ought to get rid of the unionized janitors, have one master janitor and pay local students to take care of the school. The kids would actually do work, they would have cash, they would have pride in the schools, they'd begin the process of rising."
From : http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68729.html

Yes. During a recession with 30% un and underemployment, lets 'get rid' of someone trying to earn a living for their family and put them in poverty so that we can give a student a part time job.

The Daily Herman Cain

'JOURNAL SENTINEL: Would you favor a military strike against Iran to stop that country from developing a nuclear capability'?

'CAIN: That is not a practical, top-tier alternative and here’s why. If you look at the topography of Iran. Where are you going to strike? It’s very mountainous. That’s what makes it very difficult'.
From : http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/11/16/369994/cain-attack-iran-mountains/

And THEN.........................

'Newt Gingrich said a Gingrich-Hermain Cain ticket would be "a real possibility" if he won the Republican presidential nomination'.
From : http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/194103-gingrich-says-gingrich-cain-ticket-could-happen

Note to Newt : Do you remember 'historian' when Sen. McCain picked Sarah Palin for his VP? Someone, and yes it's hard to believe, that knew and knows more then Cain?
Independents (who you will need to win) didn't want an idiot like Palin one step away from being President.

How do you think Independents will react to Herman (Call Me Crazy) Cain?

ROTFFLMFAO!!!!!

When even Grover Norquist 'isn't Conservative enough'

'One person interrupted, as I recall, and said, “C’mon, Grover, surely one day a Democrat will win the White House.”

'Norquist immediately replied: “We will make it so that a Democrat cannot govern as a Democrat.”
From : http://www.washingtonpost.com/how-grover-norquist-hypnotized-the-gop/2011/06/30/AGYOUlsH_story.html

'The oldest and most pernicious of these modern oaths was dreamed up by Grover Norquist, the leader of Americans for Tax Reform, who has managed to get 95 percent of all Republicans in Congress to pledge never to raise taxes for any reason'.
From : http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/opinion/19tue1.html?_r=1

And now.......................

'Conservative editor Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily is calling for Norquist to be thrown out of the conservative movement that he helped build'.

'Grover Norquist is not a conservative true believer. He may have been at one time. But he is no longer – that’s for certain. Maybe, like other politicians, he’s just been around Washington too long. Here’s the scorecard you should consider':

'• He’s shockingly pro-Islamist and has used his well-developed connections in Washington to spread the tentacles of stealthy jihad through the corridors of power, including the White House'.

'• He’s is unashamedly pro-perversion, given his position on the advisory board of GOProud'.

'• And he is a phony economic conservative who helped mislead tea-party Republicans in control of the House of Representatives this year giving Obama all the money he needed to keep destroying the free-enterprise system through the end of his term'.
From : http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/11/14/eating-their-own-conservative-editor-calls-for-ouster-of-grover-norquist-from-conservative-movement/

A lot of 'cracks' were appearing in the Norquist pledge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2804699/posts

and Farah has little to no sway in general Republican circles. Just another minority trying to force the majority further and further right.

This is teabaggerism

Only a fool wants to 'kill the messenger' without really looking at the message :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgMWhrCzbdk

http://gawker.com/5808271/sarah-palin-explains-paul-reveres-midnight-ride

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2011/11/01/note-to-herman-cain-china-already-is-a-nuclear-power/

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2011/01/michele_bachmann_flubs_history_of_slavery_and_the_founding_fathers.php

http://www.credoaction.com/campaign/bachmann_zero_taxes/index.html?rc=LA_BachTax_09232011_a1

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-04-01/news/29386444_1_birtherism-trump-brand-donald-trump

And this is only a small sampling.

Each and everyone of these has been and one still is and I think WILL remain on or near the top (Cain) of the Republican Presidential field over the last 6 months. I left off Perry because I and most of the Nation is still laughing our collective asses off at his response of which 3 Departments he'd cut.

When you put out and SUPPORT with a constant 30% of the Republican voters, such ignorant people and expect America to actually listen seriously? Really?

A minority within the Republican Party is attempting to force the Party to go further and further 'right'.

Eric Erickson of Red State and Rush Limbaugh have both declared that Romney 'is not Conservative' and are actively supporting Cain. 

I think Cain will stay at or near the top because of things like Rush coming out and degrading the Cain's accusers. That and by the process of elimanation - he is the 'last man standing'. Gingrich by default will raise up but only because Perry is going down. Once the spotlight is on Gingrich, he will show why he is the past and not the future of the Republican party because of HIS past.

A good example of the 'bad Newt' :
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/192915-gingrich-mocks-perry-over-oops-moment-at-detroit-campaign-stop

And the teabaggers know this is their only chance of getting into the Presidential race.
That's why more and more people believe that Romney won't have enough delegates to wrap it up, it will become a brokered Convention and led by Karl Rove, they will try to get Bush (Jeb), Christie, Daniels or Pawlenty to run against Obama. (Pawlenty left too soon).

And when that 30% of the Republican base DOESN'T get 'their' man?

The fecal matter hits the oscillating rotary blade device and the Republicans grasp defeat from what should have been the easy jaws of victory.

That is teabaggerism.

America and Americans deserved a serious debate. Instead we got teabagged. And the time lost because we AREN'T having a serious debate is going to only make it so much worse.
  

THIS is what a teabagger is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PFd_-4F2vY&feature=player_embedded

Kudos to Zander Versus The Stupid for that and Bon The Geek's comments :
'Maximum stupidity, a stupidity so dense and heavy that it brings down any intellectual measurements.  A stupidity so huge that it creates a stupidity orbit, which snatches little stray pieces of stupidity into its realm by pure massive attraction'.
From : http://zandarvts.blogspot.com/2011/11/dehydrated-rock-hard-stupidity.html

Don't count Cain out - the teabaggers 'Superman'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQrTGE4wwwA&feature=related

He is an idiot when it comes to policy or just basic knowledge of economics, foreign policy, US history, Government......well it's easier to say what he is good at - talking.

And THAT caters to his base - the teabaggers. The 'It's not what you say but how you say it' party.
But this :
http://www.suntimes.com/8592168-417/sneed-witness-says-cain-accuser-hugged-him-during-tea-party-meeting-a-month-ago.html

And this :
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-herman-cain-accuser-1108-20111108,0,4035523.story

and the fact that the teabaggers WILL have a Presidential Candidate one way or the other or will tear the party apart, are why you shouldn't count Cain out.

They have gone through Bachmann, The Donald, Perry. Cain is the Last Man Standing or else they have to relook at Perry or go to Newt.

Romney is out of touch with the populus movement and Newt was a failure in the 90's and is even slower today so also out of touch and has a whole lot more baggage then Cain has. 

So it's Cain. Throw dirt on him, they'll dig up dirt to throw back.

How's that for the party known for 'family values'?

Still don't believe in Republican Obstructionism?

You're in the minority.

First there was the Suffolk poll but that was only for Florida : 'Poll: Even Wingers Think That Wingers are Tanking the Economy'
From : http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/11/poll-even-wingers-think-wingers-are-tanking-economy

And now a National poll :

'The Post poll asks people to choose between two options. This':

'Option #1 - “President Obama is making a good faith effort to deal with the country’s economic problems, but the Republicans in Congress are playing politics by blocking his proposals and programs.” Or this':

'Option #2 -“President Obama has not provided leadership on the economy, and he is just blaming the Republicans in Congress as an excuse for not doing his job'.”

'The toplines: Americans agree with the first statement over the second one, 50-44'.

'* Independents favor statement one over statement two by 54-40'.

'* Moderates favor statement one over statement two by 57-37'.

'The overall number is lower, at 50 percent, because a hilarously meager nine percent of Republicans believe this to be the case'.
From : http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/independents-and-moderates-agree-gop-deliberately-sabotaging-obamas-jobs-policies/2011/11/07/gIQAPMfSvM_blog.html

A Nation is made up of people. Not balance sheets.

We have 30 million people un or underemployed. Millions of foreclosed homes. States and cities cutting back on services as more and more people need them. Health care based on ability to pay not need of care. Education system failing and falling behind. Roads, beidges and waterways crumbling.

And a political party more focused on 'balancing the budget'.

A Nation is made up of people. Not balance sheets.

But maybe it will give the Republican politicans a warm feeling when they finally 'balance the books' and then look up to see 15%, 18%, 22% of Americams living in poverty.

Put America Back To Work. Once America Is Working, Then Balance The Books.