Frank Rich: Herbert Hoover Lives - NYTimes

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HERE’S a bottom line to keep you up at night: The economy is falling faster than Washington can get moving.The crisis is at least as grave as the one that confronted us — and, for a time, united us — after 9/11. Which is why the antics among Republicans on Capitol Hill seem so surreal. These are the same politicians who only yesterday smeared the patriotism of any dissenters from Bush’s “war on terror.” No one should expect the Republicans to give the new president carte blanche, fall blindly into lock step or be “post-partisan.” But you might think that a loyal opposition would want to pitch in and play a serious role at a time of national peril. The problem is not that House Republicans gave the stimulus bill zero votes last week. The more disturbing problem is that the party has zero leaders and zero ideas. The nightmare is that we have so irrelevant, clownish and childish an opposition party at a moment when America is in an all-hands-on-deck emergency that’s as trying as war. To paraphrase a [well-known] dictum, the Republicans should either lead, follow or get out of the grown-ups’ way.
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  1. #1    The Republicans are anti-American and anti-Constitution. They support the large Corporations and Oligarchy over everything else, especially human beings. If you can't see this by now - YOU have a problem or are anti-American and do not support the Constitution either and are simply lying about it. Obama is deluded if he thinks that the these people will ever be rational FROM the human perspective. They need to be Crushed and go the way of the Wig's. And take your Blue Dogs and DLC with you when you go.
    written by PHred42 since 293 days 20 hours 40 minutesPHred42
  2. #2    One way to shut Limbaugh's yap permanently, would be to elect him as Chairman of the Republican National Committee. His complete incompetence will fit right in and his total misread on everything will ensure that the Republicans become the true and pure party of about 15% of the population and the other 85% can forget that they exist.
    written by CwV since 293 days 20 hours 15 minutesCwV
  3. #3    IT IS NOT THAT THE GOP HAS 0 LEADERS AND 0 IDEAS..... they have the same full-of-shit leaders they have always had--- and the same "KEEP THE WORKER IN HIS PLACE" .... CLASS WARFARE .... CRAP that they always have. The only benefit to this ENTIRE 2008-2009 FINANCIAL CRISIS... is that the "bomb bomb bomb iran" crowd, who cannot decypher ECONOMICS at least understands that IF YOU DONT KNOW SHIT MAYBE YOU WILL SOUND SMARTER IF YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP. So... they are playing the ONLY HAND they know---- "keep yelling it won't work, because if you HAPPEN to be correct you can pretend you understood the situation"
    written by codypup since 293 days 19 hours 13 minutescodypup
  4. #4    It appears that the Republicans are devoted to their political party more than the people of this planet.
    When I was younger, I recall the same mentality in the Soviet Union-- the party and its power was the be-all, end-all AND it also had Red as its symbolic color.
    written by ernieson since 293 days 18 hours 56 minutesernieson
  5. #5    Republicans: All propaganda. No patriotism.
    written by Fritz_da_Cat since 293 days 16 hours 52 minutesFritz_da_Cat
  6. #6    who voted for limbaugh? the same people that voted for rove?

    being a republican must be so much easier these days...since they can't get any votes, they don't have to pretend to care about voters. perfect!
    written by bick since 293 days 12 hours 42 minutesbick
  7. #7    Republicans are quickly demonstrating their rigidity of thought, hubris and lock-step dogmatic intransigence. Similar to Al qaida, the Republican's ideology is more sacred than patriotism to their country. They fail to recognize that the majority of Americans have rejected their 30 year mantra that lower taxes and smaller government will solve our problems.
    The Republicans not only fail to accept responsibility for the disasterous governance under their watch but now appear to believe the solution to the resession (depression) is the resession itself. As Mr Rich describes, they fail to remember the same rationale they promoted under Hoover. Furthermore, they fail to realize that "economic corrections" equates to human (American) suffering.
    The Republicans appear to be paving the way for another 50 dominance of the Democratic Party.
    written by seekingsanity since 293 days 11 hours 38 minutesseekingsanity
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