Why Is The GOP So Angry At Everything These Days? - By Mike Barnicle

[DonViejo]

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Cruz, Walker, Kirk and—especially—Bolton are furious at the world. Their solution: Declare war on it.

At the end of a week when many paused to reflect during Passover and Easter ceremonies, a question with no real answer seemed to crash into our culture with all the subtlety of a marching band in a funeral parlor: Why do so many Republicans seem so angry all the time at so much around us?

The fury of some like Ted Cruz is understandable. It’s fueled by his massive ego and outsized ambition along with his personal belief that he is so smart and the rest of us are so pedestrian that he can manipulate opinion to win the Republican nomination for president with the support of the mentally ill wing of his party.

“A real president,” Cruz the bombardier said last week, “would stand up and say on the world stage: Under no circumstances will Iran be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons. Iran will either stop or we will stop them.”

Then there is the minor league Cruz, the tough talking, totally in-over-his-head governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, who is running to crack down on the salaries of teachers, cops and firefighters everywhere. Oh, he’ll also teach Iran a good lesson by throwing any deal out the window no matter what other countries might think. Imagine Scotty informing Angela Merkel of his decision while he wears his Cheese-Head Hat.

There are so many others too. There’s the kid who started the pen pal club with the ayatollah, Tom Cotton. There’s the mental midget from Illinois, Mark Kirk, who went right to the basement for his best thought on Iran, claiming that England got a better deal from Hitler than the U.S. got from Teheran. Kirk, not a history major.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/05/why-is-the-gop-so-angry-at-everything-these-days.html

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This article is well worth a trip over to TDB and a full read; it's the type column Barnicle used to write for the Boston Globe.

[lastlib]

1. Why do these folks claim to worship the Prince of Peace, yet have such a hard-on for war???

. . . .

[neverforget]

13. Because the MIC and it's money trumps "peace" & religion

And religion is a tool to feed fear of people different than themselves

[freshwest]

24. They mistook the sword of truth for a bloody sword. The Holy Spirit never touched them.

The very person they wave about as their justification to rule, has several unpleasant verses written for them. Which they will never, ever understand.

[Joe Turner]

28. Most of those folks like to forget the Jesus thing

when it comes to war...actually when it comes to anything. Yes, it is puzzling how they can at one moment expound on their love for Jesus and then be for everything that Jesus was against. Like killing people and seizing their property. Religion for republicans is really more of an social image thing than anything else. They really don't do much self reflection.

[thecrow]

32. Their behavior is then basically antichrist, isn't it?

All the while they have their panties in a twist, looking for the one person who is the antichrist;
believing it is one person when it could be one ideology.
And their numbers are legion.

[workinclasszero]

37. Actions speak louder than words

Anyone can claim to be anything. Judge them by what the religious right wing do any you will quickly see that they go against the teachings of Jesus everytime, all the time.

IOW they are lying fascists using Jesus as a cover to fool the sheep they are sheering!

[eppur_se_muova]

61. Because "money trumps peace" ...

[Dont call me Shirley]

64. They want their Armageddon fantasy they've been promised.

[gordianot]

2. The Republicans might see the writing on the wall.

A slightly conservative President was elected with many of the same policies promoted by Republicans only thing he was the wrong color. To make things even worse he defined American exceptionalism and has largely survived their most viscous attempts at sabotage. It is all a grand tantrum by mediocre minds all Republicans have to offer is decline.

[Fred Sanders]

17. A "slightly conservative" Republican would not stand for LGBT rights and climate change laws,...etc.

[gordianot]

27. I tend to look at Obama to the right of Kennedy to the left of Eisenhower.

In my perception Clinton was to the right of all of them. What passes for Republicans today is off the chart in terms of economic planning the classic measure of the old left-right divide. Eisenhower (for certain), Nixon, and even Reagan would not make it in the contemporary Republican Party. Nixon and Reagan planted the seeds for the monsters in the Republican Party today.

[yeoman6987]

58. I want the most conservative wacky crazy Tea Party

Person to win and lose to our candidate. The Republicans blame McCain and Romney losing because they were not conservative enough. I want to finally show this tea parties that voters don't want them so the Republicans stop moving right which is making the Domocratic party move right.

[gordianot]

59. Agreed

[woo me with science]

3. Corporate propaganda, encouraged by both sides, to divide the 99 percent.

It is the corporate MO to divide. Build hatred and suspicion between groups, between the Red and Blue teams. But the truth is that we have much more in common with each other than we do with the corporate thieves who are looting and oppressing us all.

Below is the very best post I have read on DU in a while. It is by DUer, F4lconF16, and it exposes the MO of the corporate propaganda machine exactly:

On the contrary: there is a ton of money in that.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6458575

They care about racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry very much. You said as much yourself.

"And by having these serious differences they know they can keep us fighting between left and right while they get what they want on things that do matter to them"

It has been a tactic of the American elite since its very beginning. Our political and economic system is uniquely designed to fracture the working class, to keep us from uniting. It's why laws were passed in the early 1800s forbidding interracial communications--the poor Irish and the slaves were beginning to cause worry. It's why whites and blacks have had their hatreds stoked by their literal and financial masters against one another for the last 200 years. It's why gay marriage isn't legal everywhere yet, despite a majority of people supporting it. It's why women are still discriminated against (though there is a far, far longer history to that than just our political system, and indeed, political systems at all). Our entire political history has been carefully balanced oppression stacked on top of and woven into more carefully balanced oppression. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. So far it's worked more than it hasn't.

[font size=3]It is absolutely critical to keep us divided amongst ourselves. The elite care more about those issues than you might think, because without them, the people will realize their own power as one. They will become a single working class, rather than blacks and whites, men and women, straight and gay. We are a dangerous mass of humanity that would roll over them like the ocean rolls over a few pebbles.[/font size]

This is why these social issues are just as important as the economic ones, the power struggles. They are utterly critical to maintaining the illusion that there is no true working class, that we are separate, different from one another. The elite care very much about maintaining that illusion.

Enough division. Enough hatred. Enough propaganda.

Red versus Blue is a scam, a tactic to keep us divided and unable to fight back. We are the 99 percent, and we are ALL the victims of the stunningly united corporate government that now rules and exploits us:

Mass spying on Americans? Both parties support it.
Trans-Pacific Job/Wage Killing Secret Agreement? Both parties support it.
TISA corporate overlord agreement? Both parties support it.
Drilling and fracking? Both parties support it.
Wars on medical marijuana instead of corrupt banks? Both parties support it.
Deregulation of the food industry? Both parties support it.
GMO's? Both parties support it.
Mass propaganda aimed at Americans? Both parties support it.
Austerity for the masses? Both parties support it.
Cutting social safety nets? Both parties support it.
Corporatists in the cabinet? Both parties support it.
Bank bailouts? Both parties support it.
Ignoring the trillions stashed overseas? Both parties support it.
Tolling our interstate highways? Both parties support it.
Corporate education policy? Both parties support it. Privatization of the TVA? Both parties support it.
Immunity for telecoms? Both parties support it.
"Looking forward" and letting war criminals off the hook? Both parties support it.
Deciding torturers are patriots? Both parties support it.
Militarized police and assaults on protesters? Both parties support it.
Indefinite detention? Both parties support it.
Drone wars and kill lists? Both parties support it.
Targeting of journalists and whistleblowers? Both parties support it.
Private prisons replacing public prisons? Both parties support it.
Unions? Both parties view them with contempt.
Trillion dollar increase in nuclear weapons. Both parties support it.
New war in Iraq. Both parties support it.
New war in Syria. Both parties support it.
Carpet bombing of captive population in Gaza. Both parties support it.
Selling off swaths of the Gulf of Mexico for drilling? Both parties support it.
Drilling along the Atlantic Coast? Both parties support it.
Arctic drilling for Shell Oil? Both parties support it.

Done here. Seeking out OP's that focus on uniting to solve problems rather than reinforcing and fomenting hatred, suspicion, and division among Americans who share this nation and its future.

Reject Third Way propaganda. Reject the Two Minutes Hate and incessant attempts to divide.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5767160

[newthinking]

21. This! We need to be aware of our own vulnerabilities as well

[2naSalit]

29. Wow, I must have missed that

and I thank you for bringing it to my attention!

[Enthusiast]

40. I agree.

[Dont call me Shirley]

65. “if the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up from the lamp posts.”

-George H.W. Bush

- See more at: http://wikiprotest.com/blog/if-the-american-people-knew-what-we-have-done-they-would-string-us-up-from-the-lamp-posts-george-hw-bush/#sthash.Y2ZcKKdV.dpuf

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. these days? when have they not been?

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Had a hunch the Rethugs were going

scorched earth in this election cycle. This new(caugh caugh,burp)tool called the Internets is kicking their sorry asses. Through in Facebook,and twitter with a bit of Instagram,you better cover your public asses big time. You peddle bullshit and lies,karma will send you a mirror will your name rank and phone number,as well as your message STUPID. Really bad when some troll throws shit out on the net and our M$M picks it up as a breaking story. All you need to do is look at what is going on in the Rethug controlled State Legislature,just major shit laws that will be over turned by Courts as Unconstitutional.

[Wellstone ruled]

16. All this hatred aganist Rethug

opponents was fine tuned by Lee Attwater and Company with focus groups and of course Karl Rove is todays new Hatred Master of the operatives. What we would call a School Yard Bullies has upped their game to being Rethug Politicians.

[BlueMTexpat]

48. Don't forget Newt Gingrich, who

bears a good part of this blame ....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America

http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/jfnpr/jfreview.htm

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/2014-republican-contract-with-america-107097.html

Plus ça change …

[hifiguy]

53. It all started with William F. Buckley,

and a bunch of paranoid reichwing millionaires, first among them Robert Welch, back in the late 1940s to mid-1950s. It took them 15 years to take over the Repuke party and push Goldwater, and Nixon brought them all into the core of the party in 1968. The fundy churches were brought into the equation in the 1970s and by 1976 they had de facto control of the Republican party.

The rest is history, and the crazy has increased exponentially every election cycle since.

[Wellstone ruled]

57. Wanted to bring Welch into this.

Remember reading articles in the late forties about this guy and his ties to the Koch and Mellon families. And today we still are seeing the influences in our National Debate,all be from their Birch Society,and Propagandized with their vast fortunes. Koch Industries,LDS Church,Mellon Foundations and others.

[bmbmd]

6. Just passed a Toyota FJ cruiser on Interstate 45

with Viet Nam Vet, Not A Liberal, and other bumper stickers plastered to the bumper. My wife turned to me as asked "Why are they always so mad?" I have no answers.

[n2doc]

10. They probably listen to rw hate radio

Those stations are constant sources of hatred of others. Basically, everyone other than the 'special few' who agree with the hosts are takers, anti-american and evil.

[Fred Sanders]

18. Hate media on a perpetual loop eating into the soft-headed sub-conscience of some folks, like a worm into flesh?

[staggerleem]

69. The sticker that REALLY pisses me off ...

... is the one that says:

He's not MY President!

Well, dude, if I had to accept the likes of NIXON & REAGAN as MY President, then it's FINALLY your turn to eat some & like it!

[appalachiablue]

7. It's obvious that most of these conservatives lack basic

education in history, liberal arts & humanities since they're B school & money worshipers. But why are they so immature, untraveled, narrow minded, selfish, look like vintage 50s neo-Birchers; also for their age some are rather unfit, pasty, mean & unattractive in personality & physically like Cruz, Rove, Walker, Cotton, Huckabee, Jeb, Rush, Christie, Ryan, Rand Paul. It's strange, like from another era. I guess they didn't spend any time overseas working or volunteering to help those in need, with NGOs, the Red Cross or groups like the earlier Peace Corps(!). And they don't appear to get time outside in nature much. The job, ideology, family and church must be the sum of it. And CPAC, the annual gala.

[kairos12]

36. Their idea of overseas travel is going to IHOP.

[hifiguy]

54. DUzy! nt

[appalachiablue]

55. IHOP and Olive Garden when they want to go 'exotic' if there's one nearby-

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

74. Ignorance of history, economics, political science and the real world in general are helpful

In maintaining the conservative ideology, and essential for libertarians. Stupidity is acceptable as well -- look at Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann, to name just two.

Most conservatives have never been outside the US, and haven't a clue about how the rest of the world operates. I have had conservatives tell me with a straight face that Obama is a socialist. If Obama were a European politician, he would be center-right economically and center-left socially. No one who has a clue about actual socialism would call Obama a socialist. I had one libertarian tell me that Obama was a socialist, a Marxist, an anarchist and a fascist. Simultaneously. Ignoring the obvious fact that Obama is none of these, three of the four are mutually exclusive.

[L0oniX]

8. Anger management problems. Probably a neuro chemical imbalance that's been going on for decades.

[2naSalit]

30. And probably

facilitated with the help of all that crap put into industrially processed so-called food.

[phantom power]

9. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

[Fred Sanders]

19. Suffering leads to manipulation.

[Scurrilous]

11. ODS - They got it bad.

With emphasis on the 'D' for derangement.

[libdem4life]

12. I see it as the "death throes" the last gasp, the dark before rebirth. Their ilk is literally

dying out. This amazing week spun some heads around, but it didn't happen overnight. They have over-reached and are floundering. The Emperor, indeed, has no clothes.

[blkmusclmachine]

14. http://www.teamhate.com/hate_flag.gif

[Rex]

15. Because fear does not work on these new generations like it did mine, so

they have to turn to hatred to get what they want out of their brain dead voters.

The GOP electorate only has two main emotions, anger (war war war) and fear (homosexuals, atheists, liberals). Beyond that, there is not much for them in the realm of humans. Compassion, nope not at all. Empathy, see compassion. Understanding, since when? Responsibility, not on your life. Integrity, sold to the highest bidder.

Though all the other emotions are there, dormant and withering from neglect, their lizard brain has lost the pathways to those parts. Most of their frontal lobe is dedicated to Fox news. Their cortex now fires instantly at the site of a hippie, black person, gay couple, wedding cakes, pizzas, guns, blood, death, taxes and Fox news. Only guns, blood, Foxnews and death get positive reactions. The others get an instant pulse of negativity that can lead to many things...none positive for the victim.

Although they are very violent, they temper it with cowardliness and non-committal oaths of manhood. Like showing up at a protest. This fact is often hidden under the mountain of lies they tell about being at work and not having any time.

[mountain grammy]

20. K & R This is an excellent article..

typo on the year of Bolton's death, but a great read.

They are mad, all the way down to the base. It's upsetting to see the economy improve, corporations pressured to raise wages, strikes getting settled, and people getting health care.
My Obama hating nephew posted an especially ugly rant the other day, but I was encouraged that only one family member liked it. I have no illusions that the rest like Obama, but they're no longer into trashing him.

[jeff47]

22. Because they see the writing on the wall. They're running out of time.

Polling shows their insanity is not popular enough among the young. So they only have a limited window to do what they want to get done.

They can feel their dreams slipping away, and it drives them further and further into madness.

[freshwest]

23. Cruz the terminally Clueless didn't comprehend that is exactly what the agreement does.

It puts Iran at fault and restores all sanctions and MORE, if they step out of line in any way.

Talk about trying to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory!

Cruz, take the next cruise ship to Cuba! Wait, they won't have you. Okay, Canada, your turn!

If none of them will, maybe Putin will give him a homeland.

[hatrack]

25. Because they feel the cold breath of oblivion at the back of their collective neck

Because they know that the old, white, intellectually bankrupt and literally dying political party they "control" can last no more than ten years more as a national force, absent massive internal ideological change.

Because the very change that reality demands (a younger, increasingly secular, increasingly diverse and heavily indebted/discarded electorate, destabilized climate, a multi-polar world and the simple inescapable fact that BOMB EVERYTHING! doesn't work as foreign "policy&quot is a concept that induces at best full-on mental anaphylaxis in latest crop of grifters taking the stage to thump the same old drum of God, Guns, Fetuses and "Faggots".

Because they lack the energy to even regurgitate the idealized, imaginary past that we're supposed to "return to". The best they can come up with these days is longing for the days when we were all supposedly wiping red, white and blue tears from our eyes, longing for an idealized imaginary past (RonaldReaganRonaldReaganRonaldReagan). If getting nostalgic for nostalgia isn't political Cheyne-Stokes respiration, I don't know what is.

Because the logical conclusion of grooming, elevating and electing candidates who not only can't govern, but don't even believe in government is a whole sticky, greasy, stinky kettle full of elected officials who can't govern - and not just with quiet incompetence, but obviously so, to anyone who's watching with more than a few marbles to rattle together.

Because they're fools who think that magical thinking, wishing on a star and Jesus are all you need to make it come out OK, and the world is just a fucking bit more complicated than that, and Barack Obama knows it.

[DonCoquixote]

33. this one for the win

Because the logical conclusion of grooming, elevating and electing candidates who not only can't govern, but don't even believe in government is a whole sticky, greasy, stinky kettle full of elected officials who can't govern - and not just with quiet incompetence, but obviously so, to anyone who's watching with more than a few marbles to rattle together.

[jwirr]

26. They can see their ways dying. And they have no alternative.

[3catwoman3]

31. To live in such anger all the time is not...

...only soul-withering, but physically unhealthy. I could not do it.

[Cha]

34. This is perfect on cruz..

"The fury of some like Ted Cruz is understandable. It’s fueled by his massive ego and outsized ambition along with his personal belief that he is so smart and the rest of us are so pedestrian that he can manipulate opinion to win the Republican nomination for president with the support of the mentally ill wing of his party."

THis is of course why we're glad we don't have bush anymore or want his brother anywhere near our White House. And, why it doesn't always mean you're smart just because you belong to MENSA

"The inconvenient truth is that only military action…” Field Marshall Bolton wrote, “can accomplish what is required. Time is terribly short, but a strike can still succeed.”

Excellent article taking down the warmongers, Don! Thank you!

Wasn't Barnicle a repub back in the day? There was some reason I had gotten turned off by him?

[DonViejo]

39. Not that I am aware of....

Wasn't Barnicle a repub back in the day? There was some reason I had gotten turned off by him?

his columns were always like this one I've posted. He was accused of plagiarism by the Boston Globe and fired. When I learned he was appearing on Morning Snow Job I thought he would bring the column's tenor to the show and began watching it. I watched the program a few times and was disappointed he didn't come out shooting so, I stopped watching it

[Cha]

42. But, he did come out shooting on this one!

[tularetom]

35. Great article - wonder who he plagiarized it from

This twit has apparently been a regular on that god awful morning joe crapfest for a long time and pretty much an enabler of the republican tactics he pretends to be so concerned about.

I've never read one word about him standing up and challenging scarborough's warped worldview, but now he's an expert on republican's anger.

[vlyons]

38. because their minds are filled with delusions

From my Buddhist perspective, anger is an afflictive emotion that arises as a response to the ego either not getting what it wants, or getting what it doesn't want. It's one of the hallmarks of an undisciplined mind that thinks the self/ego is a real, solid thing and is ever more important than anyone else's desires and needs. They are resistant to change, and the world is changing faster than they can cope with having their belief system repudiated at every turn. Their white, middle-class community is being invaded by people of color, people who speak a different language, people who aren't Christians. Their children have friends who are multi-racial and multi-cultural. Their daughters want a career as engineers, scientists, business owners. Their sons get crushes on coffee-colored girls -- and boys. Everything they believe in their self-centered, prosperity, fundamentalist, bible-thumping church is just not turning out work so swell. And so they cling ever the more tightly to the belief that their suffering is all the fault of those awful people "out there." They don't understand that all phenomena is subject to change. Everything is impermanent.

They never look inside at their own mind to discover how it works and examine what is "self." They have never been taught the practice of "calm abiding" as a response to change and impermanence. They have never been taught that compassion for the suffering of others, and working for the benefit of others is a path that will lead them out of their own unhappiness and dissatisfaction with an ever-changing universe.

What I want to know is where the Hell is the Church. When will the Church stand up and repudiate all the anger, greed, and fear that fuels the hate and fear-mongers. The teachings of Jesus to feed the poor, heal the sick, practice peace and tolerance, and love thy neighbor are perfectly excellent teachings. Where are the sermons on the Good Samaritan, the woman about to be stoned, Peter told to put down his sword, cleansing the temple of the money changers? What happened to the Sermon on the Mount? Doesn't the Church teach that anymore? Has the Church lost its mojo?

The thing that we the people need to do is to have compassion for the crazy hate-mongers. They are deeply in need of teachings on compassion. And a good place to start is Buddha's teaching the 4 Noble Truths, the first of which is the truth of suffering.

[ProudProg2u]

41. Because like the the "dodo'bird" they will be extinct soon..

And , People are finally getting wise about the true intention that has nothing to do with trying to make America hold it's promise of a better life. Unless we are talking about a few billionaires.

[abakan]

73. Their extinction can't come too soon...

I don't think I'll see it in my lifetime.

[samsingh]

43. people drawn to the repug party by definition are fearless and less intelligent

than those drawn to the liberal side.

in other words, if someone was not fearful, they would not be a repug. If they had integrity, decency, caring, they definitely would not be a repug.

so what you're left with on the republican side is the frightened dreggs, scared of their own shadows, grabing what morsels they can for their own survival and cheating to survive whereever they can. many cheat to get their education - so they're not really educated. and they are stupid, so they can't connect the dots, but instead look at any obvious scapegoats.

[valerief]

44. By GOP Barnicle for GOP Daily Beast? I think I'll trash this thread instead.

[DonViejo]

49. Please provide evidence Barnicle is a Republican and TDB also. eom

[valerief]

66. What? Am I under arrest? You don't know how to Google?

As for Barnicle.
You never listened to him on Morning Joe? Nothing more GOP than that show.

As for TBD.
John Avlon http://www.amazon.com/Independent-Nation-Changing-American-Politics-ebook/dp/B000FC1ADE/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1428366143&sr=8-2&keywords=john+avlon (centrists are actually right wing because the right has shifted SOOOOO much)

Now, do your own research from here.

[DonViejo]

71. I'm very well aware of Barnicle and his reputation...

if you had read the thread you'd know that.

If you make the allegation about someone, it's on YOU to provide the evidence, not on me to do your Google research to back up your allegations

[valerief]

72. Well, if I make a comment and you disagree and want to reaffirm your position,

it's up to you to do the research, because you're the one caring about justifying your opinion, not me.

Let's agree to disagree, m'kay?

[rladdi]

45. The Republicans will only smile and be happy when they can get more wars started.

They are the fighting party, loving to kill our troops and innocent people. When will voters understand the only mission of the GOP is not PEACE, but war. If they win in 2016, the world will be a fireball started by the Republicans.

[certainot]

46. they need a figurative RUSH tattoo on their foreheads

all the rw nuts are channeling the rw radio gods, with a bit of visual fox icing on those idiot turd pies they throw.

the 'backbone' that their loon base fawns over and the wind in their sails comes from 25 years of think tank coordinated blowtrolling from limbaugh and his 400 wannabes. they live in an alternative universe created from 1000 unchallenged radio stations repeating whatever those think tanks wanted them to.

what barnacle is saying could be said in a more broad general way by rational people who have to refer to and directly interact with them by associating their lies and stupidity with the talk radio gods. they need a RUSH tatoo on their foreheads.

"that's what limbaugh said" should be a regular retort from any dem debating them.

[Orsino]

47. Victimhood is one of two ways to sell more feudalism to already-struggling peasants.

So they're claiming divine right as well.

[blackspade]

50. K&R

[Populist_Prole]

51. I notice a lot of them SAY they're happy

Like to make others THINK they are happy as they speak with pride of their possessions; yet are dour, glum, and full of lament in their actions and most interactions with others.

Spend even a short time with one and you get a full rundown of every thing or everybody they hate. I wonder what their blood pressures are.

[vkkv]

52. Why? Because HATE and FEAR sell. That's way too easy. (n/t)

[hifiguy]

56. Love your avatar.

A Magma fan, I presume?

[vkkv]

67. Hell yeah - and I'm seeing them at Slim's in S.F. this Wed. night. Dinner table!

Only Christian and Stella Vander are the orig. members, but some other players have been with them since the 90's, I'm pretty sure.

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[Martin Eden]

62. Yes. They stir up rage in their voting base to get them to the polls.

The average teapartier knows he's getting screwed, but too dumb not to realize he's being manipulated by those who are screwing them over.

[MADem]

60. Kick and rec! nt

[Submariner]

63. Because they lost 2 wars and crashed the nations economy

In late 2002 Rove said "this is the beginning of the permanent republican majority." That didn't work out so well.

After kicking the can down the road for six years so the next (republican) president could clean up their mess, they ended up with a Black president who bailed out whiteys incompetent ass, and they can't stand it. It eats at their craw every day.

[seether]

68. republicans are shit

shit in their brains,shit in their hearts ,shit in their veins,they are a disease,they are corrupt ,they are evil,and every single one of them should be thrown in the worst prison,forever,love seether

[CrispyQ]

70. A great piece. Thanks for posting. -nt

kick