"The GOP flips the script on Obama"

[applegrove]

The GOP flips the script on Obama

by Dana Milbank at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-gop-flips-the-script-on-president-obama/2013/08/01/7c51a724-fafa-11e2-9bde-7ddaa186b751_story.html?tid=rssfeed

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Republicans need to make up their minds: Is President Obama a socialist or a corporate stooge?

“The president claims his economic agenda is for the middle class. But it’s actually for the well-connected,” Paul Ryan, the GOP’s 2012 vice presidential nominee, wrote this week in USA Today, rejecting Obama’s latest proposal for a corporate tax cut. “There’s no doubt that it works well for them. But for the rest of us, it’s not working at all.”

Ryan, in his brief commentary, protested that Obama is “interested in tax reform for corporations — but not for families or small business.” He further accused Obama of implementing health-care and regulatory policies that favor big businesses and big banks.

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Ryan, after all, is the guy who just a year ago accused Obama of “sowing social unrest and class resentment,” of supporting “a government-run economy” and of “denigrating people who are successful.” He has charged the president with leading the nation toward “a cradle-to-grave, European-style social welfare state.”


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[BumRushDaShow]

1. They have renounced all of their convoluted GOP agenda talking points

and are now wandering around like babbling zombies.

[applegrove]

2. It is actually common for psychopaths to reboot and come up with a new narrative that

may better suit their purpose. Then they just deny that they ever said the opposite. And people doubt themselves and their memories with this gaslighting. Why the internet is so bad for those who practice the dark arts. Cause there is a record.

[wandy]

3. This is a problem as we only have 2 political parties...........

Having one of them just overflowing with psychopaths can not work out well.
Oh, wait, things aren't working out too well.

[pnwmom]

4. Splitting progressive votes with a third party would just increase the likelihood

of a win by the party of psychopaths, as occurred in 2000.

[wandy]

5. No no no, that's not what I meant at all............

It works out something like this...
Like chicken pox, insanity is contagious. If you lock a sane person up with a bunch of not sane people after a while you won't tell the difference.
So.......
We get the teabaggers to split off to look for their own utopia. Split their party.
After a time republicans may once again become Republicans.
And even if they never regained any hope of respect it won't matter.
They won't get the votes to do any real damage.

Ya I know. Keep dreaming kid.

[pnwmom]

6. Well I agree with that wholeheartedly. Unfortunately it seems kind of unlikely. n/t