Republicans: “Backward, March!”
I stole that line from a column by Paul Krugman. His column ends with:
“We’ve always known that the modern G.O.P. wants to take America back to the way it was before the New Deal; but now it’s clear that the party wants to build a bridge to the 19th century, and maybe even to the antebellum era. Backward, march!”
He points out that Republicans no longer refer to themselves as “the party of Lincoln.” Nope, that ship sailed a long time ago. The party whose governors keep threatening to secede, naming itself after the president who PREVENTED the southern states from seceding — LOL. That one flunked the smell test a long time ago.
The GOP’s “Backward, March!” order was loud and clear at last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) gathering. If nothing else, they set a new Guinness World Record for “number of inbreds per square inch.”
There’s nothing more pathetic — it’s also sort of funny in that sick sort of way — than a bunch of Far Right extremists all trying to out-wingtard each other. “I want to bring America back to the 1800s and ban ALL abortion.” “I want to take us back to the 1700s and put all rape victims in jail. They were asking for it!”
Ann Coulter, Andrew Breitbart, Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum, all at the same gathering — no wonder there was an emergency pollution alert. Somebody should have called in a waste removal truck.
Labels: Andrew Breitbart, Ann Coulter, backward march, Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, Michele Bachmann, party of Lincoln, Paul Krugman, Rick Santorum
posted by Tom Harper @ 1:20 PM
10 Comments:
they set a new Guinness World Record for “number of inbreds per square inch.
And here I thought they had done it through the fine art of cloning.
They used to be funny. Then they were pathetic. Now they are dangerous.
The Democrats could use a man like Howard Dean right about now.
It's not only scary, it's damned infuriating.
The Democrats could have used Howard Dean two years ago.
Sadly Dean has been co-opted too now.
Ann Coulter Hissed
"In honor of the new spirit of civility, I thought I would point out that under mean, divisive George Bush a nuclear sub was named after Jimmy Carter,"
Given Carters extensive Naval Service, why not?
Erik
The Only time the Republicans refer to Lincoln is when they try to recruit Blacks. No Lie, even Steele did it!
Erik
Soon, for the country?
Nice thoughts!
S
Somebody should have called in a waste removal truck.
There is one good thing about the way Republicans have become. Voters are getting a good look at why the party needs to follow the Whigs into oblivion.
And the thing they never realize is that, for as much as they like to rail about socialism and communism, the only reason this country didn't collapse under the weight of the corporate malfeasance at the top of the last century is because we adopted progressive economic policies that prevented violent upheaval.
All the union-busting and all the corporate welfare is going to come back to haunt them eventually.
The 17th century Age of Enlightenment is far too modern for these nuts. They want to restore a feudalism of serfs and lords. Not to mention plenty of witch (liberal) burnings.
So true, so true. The GOP of today is a sad reflection of what they once were. Even in the 50s and early 60s there were plenty of Republican moderates - who would probably be Democrats today. The CPAC convention always fills me with horror when I see what these people are really like.
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