"How Conservatives Cooked A Blue Meth GOP" (A history of GOP thought)

[applegrove]

How Conservatives Cooked A Blue Meth GOP

by Howard Fineman at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/25/blue-meth-gop_n_3989595.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

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WASHINGTON -- The Republican Party used to be dull and relatively reasonable. It stood for spending restraint, free markets (for big companies) and gentle regulation of business. But it also stood for, or accepted, federal public works and scientific research, a foreign policy that was neither isolationist nor war-mongering, the use of federal power in the name of racial justice, progressive taxation, and a public piety of the most anodyne, “In God We Trust” kind.

The party of Dwight Eisenhower -- of Scotch and soda and sotto voce -- is all but extinct.

What’s left of it is barricaded in the U.S. Senate, under fire in a deadly turf war with Blue Meth Republicanism, a movement at times so angry, reductionist, apocalyptic, God-invoking, fear-mongering and obsessed with purity that it seems to have been concocted in the sub-basement of "Breaking Bad."

One of its younger, more aggressive leaders, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, just delivered a grandstanding faux filibuster against Obamacare. Insiders and “mainstream” media weren’t impressed, but then they weren't his audience. The Blue Meth Crew was, and they will be back.



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[Andy823]

1. One thing about meth

It gives you a rush to begin with, but from day one the addiction slowly starts killing you. It rots you from the inside out, and the "Cruz" blue meth will do the same to the republican party if they continue to "use" it!

[Warpy]

2. It also ages you at lightspeed

Without the addiction to rage, they might have survived the deal with the devil that Nixon made.

They are not going to survive the deal with Reagan's devils: the religious zealots and the panoply of far right lunatics. The Reagan coalition is the one that is going to tear them completely apart.

I think the 2016 convention will be one for the record books. I just wonder if some of the fistfights will be on camera.

[applegrove]

3. I hope you are right about 2016. They already proved they are scraping the bottom

of the barrel with supporters when they got Clint Eastwood to speak in an important slot.

[Scurrilous]

4. K & R

[Cha]

5. Well we know Ike's granddaughter endorsed

Obama!

"The blue meth crew"!! And, this from Fineman.. who use to carry bush-cheney water. Wonder if cnn is still on the teabagger crazzzy wagon? Giving bachmann a spot after one of PBO's SOTU's.

Go Howard..

"What’s left of it is barricaded in the U.S. Senate, under fire in a deadly turf war with Blue Meth Republicanism, a movement at times so angry, reductionist, apocalyptic, God-invoking, fear-mongering and obsessed with purity that it seems to have been concocted in the sub-basement of "Breaking Bad."

That's a sick recipe for disaster.. A bunch of grifters who have no business in our government.

mahalo applegrove