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cali

(114,904 posts)
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 08:28 AM Nov 2012

Where is the right headed? to even more insanity at warp speed.

I've got a fascination with the batshit crazy right so I visit right wing sites. I can confirm what all of us know. As insane as the right was before the election, they're more insane now and the craziness is headed right off the charts.

So is the batshit crazy right wing in control of the republican party? Maybe not but they do hold a hell of a lot of sway over it in the House, with republican governors and in statehouses across the country.

They're not going away and they're not going to shut up. They'll press on zealously with their ugly agenda. And it really is ugly.

President Obama drives them insane. It's his very person that does this- not his moderate policies. It's his name, his color, his background. It's the way he speaks and his posture and everything else about him. In other words, it's personal as hell.

What will the nutcases in the House do? Rumble about impeachment which won't go anywhere. Boehner is horrid, but he's the very picture of mental health compared to a large number of the whack-a-doodles he's in charge of shepherding.

The House may well obstruct but republican governors and republican statehouses are going to go full tilt ahead with trying to impress their agenda. They'll try and drive the ACA into the ground- and yes, they have a path for doing so. Like the criminal governor of FL, they can refuse Medicaid funds and although the exchanges can be set up at the federal level, they can cause a lot of headaches there, as well.

Touring around the right on the intertubes is, quite frankly, a scary trip. Much scarier than it was pre-election and it was damned scary then.


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Systematic Chaos

(8,601 posts)
4. The cave is a hysterical fucking joke.
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 09:57 AM
Nov 2012

They have a woody for ME, of all people, about a mile long.

But damn if it isn't some of the best free entertainment one could ever hope for, watching them try and attack us for daring to be on the right side of history.

 

quinnox

(20,600 posts)
5. "Insanity sphere detected, Captain"
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 10:05 AM
Nov 2012

"About 20 light years away"
"Very well, lock the destination in"
"Aye, Captain. Speed?"
"Warp factor ten"
"Aye Aye Sir"

IDemo

(16,926 posts)
6. A large chunk of the population is on board with the RW nuttiness
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 10:14 AM
Nov 2012

Many appear to have become virtual screaming toddlers in the restaurant after this election.

VWolf

(3,944 posts)
7. Obama's intelligence, demeanor and empathy
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 10:19 AM
Nov 2012

are in direct conflict with their preconceived notions of "Black America"

It's cognitive dissonance to the n'th degree.

AlinPA

(15,071 posts)
8. When is the House Speaker voted on/out/in? I assume after new congress starts up.
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 10:25 AM
Nov 2012

Teabaggers will probably replace Boehner with a real nutcase.

 

cali

(114,904 posts)
9. Yes, when the new Congress is in and no, there is no doubt that Boehner
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 10:27 AM
Nov 2012

has the votes to remain Speaker.

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