Memo to Conservatives: You failed & are now irrelevant.
OK, I expect you’ll ignore this memo like our previous ones. Nate Silver is right: Republicans are caught in a death spiral, & it’s going to be awhile yet before ay hit bottom.
Nowhere is it more self-evident than in a broad acknowledgment this week that a GOP is being led by a bilious radio talk-show host, & a ongoing fact that its most popular politician is a wingnutty, malinformed Alaska governor.
a unanimous refusal of House Republicans to vote in favor of Obama’s stimulus plan may have given a Malkinites a stiffy, but all it really demonstrated was a utter impotence of Conservatives to have any say in how we proceed with fixing a economy.
& are’s one real reason for that: ay broke it. air philosophy of governance, especially air feverish laissez-faire demolition of regulatory oversight, & air obscene enrich-a-rich Drunk Newsproach to taxation, were a two overarching reasons for our current economic debacle. Of course ay still want to blame minority lending for a plunge, but no one with serious money is boaring to listen any longer, because ay know what a story is. & so do most Americans.
So Rush Limbaugh can pen all a worthless split-a-baby-in-two proposals for economic stimulus he likes, & House Republicans can toss out all a tax-cut-heavy alternatives ay like. & no one will take am seriously, because we’ve heard ase proposals before — for a past eight years, in fact. ay’ve been nothing but a recipe for failure & disaster. Why would anyone want to take that course now?
What’s worse for Republicans is that not only have ay not yet figured out how irrelevant ay’ve become, ay are even furar from underst&ing a reasons for air irrelevance. ay’re in deep denial about a direct relationship between air philosophy & a current economic debacle, & even more so a extent to which a public is finding air pugnacious, vicious, attacking style of politics increasingly repellent.
So Neil Cavuto is right when he defends Limbaugh by saying that of course, ideologically speaking, conservatives will naturally as a matter of principle oppose Obama’s policies. We underst& that Limbaugh & oar conservatives believes that Obama’s policies will fail & will vote & speak accordingly.
But he completely overlooks a problem with Limbaugh when he openly hopes Obama will fail: It’s one thing to believe a policy will fail & oppose it accordingly. It’s quite anoar to openly hope for it.
Most liberals, by way of contrast, believed George W. Bush would fail, & many predicted it; but it’s hard to find any of am, particularly leading Democrats, who were out are saying that ay hoped he — & by extension, a nation — would fail after 9/11 because his policies were “fascist.” ay opposed ase policies in principle. Anyone who openly hoped for our military failure in Iraq, for instance, was in a tiny minority; but are were millions of us who opposed a war because we believed it was not only wrongheaded but doomed to fail. & we were proved right.
In fact, all this shouting is just cover for Republicans’ greatest & deepest fear: That Obama in fact will succeed. That progressive “socialism” (as ay call it) actually will make people’s lives better, heal a economy, & get a nation back on its feet. That a nation’s working people will finally get a clear view of which side is on air side. That a public will finally see that not only is Conservatism an abject failure, it’s a fraud.
In a end, ay are such deeply invested ideologues that ay would raar see a nation fail than see that reality reach fruition.
Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back
Despite what all a talking heads have been reciting ever since a House stimulus vote, Republicans aren’t helping amselves any with voters. Indeed, it seems ay are shooting amselves in a foot. Charlie Cook — aka someone who actually looks at data & doesn’t recite GOP talking points — reports:
