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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/new-obama-adviser-calls-house-republicans-a-cult-worthy-of-jonestownGood for him.
Bringing on John Podesta to advise President Barack Obama is widely seen as a move meant to shake things up in the administration, but the White House probably didn't have this kind of start in mind.
In an interview with Politico published Wednesday, the former Bill Clinton chief of staff and founder of the Center for American Progress compared House Republicans with members of a cult that committed mass suicide in 1978.
They need to focus on executive action given that they are facing a second term against a cult worthy of Jonestown in charge of one of the houses of Congress, he said.
Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), reacted by calling Podesta a "class act."
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L0oniX
(31,493 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)LonePirate
(13,437 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)and share his opinion, just because you think something, doesn't mean you have to say it ... out loud ... to a media outlet that has been proven, less than sympathetic.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)just because a guy says some nice things?
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Just because you think something, doesn't mean you have to speak your thoughts ... and if/when you do, it serves to be conscientious of one's audience. No need to GIVE an unsympathetic media a stick to whack you with!
okaawhatever
(9,478 posts)was just drawing first blood. The Republicans have been tying everything Obama does to a much worse event to conjure up images of horrible things and often, to explain away Republican history. I don't know how many articles or quotes you'd find if you googled: "this is Nixonian" in reference to something the Obama White House did, "gestapo tactics", they use Chicago and corruption synonymously, worse than Watergate, Nixon was impeached for less, but best of all they accuse Obama and the liberals of all these things and we've replied that the tea party is a cult and that they need to stop drinking the kool-aid. The tea party and the neo-cons are a dangerous cult. Time someone called the on it. They've used historical references to conjure up an image much worse than reality for Obama's entire career. Time to turn the tables, and Jonestown is more similar to the cult-like mental following the tea party than Watergate or Nazi Germany is to what Obama's done.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Just like Van Jones- speak the truth, get axed.
Mass
(27,315 posts)(To Boehner, not to the GOP).
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Dems...talk about the "Party of Apologists"!
Never a spine.
Anybody think that the Pukes or TeaTerrorists would/will apologize for the years of lies and made up shit?
Not. Never.
MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)as Jim Jones in the new mini series, Drink Cool-aid and die. A CBS and 60 minutes sponsored program.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)boomersense
(147 posts)ddddddddd
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)They are destroying their own party and can't seem to stop themselves. It is lunacy because they are lunatics.
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)I guess if he had called Republican House members, "Nazis, Communists, Traitors," and, "Terrorist-loving Usurpers," that would have been acceptable to Speaker Boehner's lackey?
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)If the president's new advisor called THE PRESIDENT and all democrats "Nazis, Communists, Traitors" and "Terrorist-loving Usurpers", THAT would have been acceptable to Boner's spokesliar.
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TeamPooka
(24,286 posts)gussmith
(280 posts)President Obama, with the ACA and the NRA crisis, is in a downward spiral. Already his fifth year has a lower rating that GW Bush. He does not need a loudmouth Podesta to incite Washington further. Where are the diplomats, not the floor mats wallowing in all the crud?
okaawhatever
(9,478 posts)people as a hostage to get what they can't achieve through democracy and the use of the Constitution. I think the Republicans put everyone on notice when they shut the government down that we need to stop kidding ourselves about diplomacy and democracy. If you can't stop an intruder from harming you by talking to him, start swinging.
TeamPooka
(24,286 posts)The problem is we haven't had enough Dems calling the GOP out on their bullshit the last 5 years and you want to be the one that goes along the GOP and plays nice after all that has happened?
Whatever noob.
gussmith
(280 posts)"In the first week of November in the fifth year of their presidencies, Obama and Bush have nearly identical approval numbers, according to the latest Gallup polling.
In fact, Bush comes out one point ahead, 40 percent to 39 percent, respectively." By Eric Pfeiffer, Yahoo News November 5, 2013 5:44 PM
TeamPooka
(24,286 posts)gussmith
(280 posts)From Washington Post: President Obama has had a rough 2013. His job approval has fallen 11 percentage points since last year, the steepest full-year decline so far, and his trust advantage over Republicans has been diminished. His signature health-care law has rebounded from a low in support but most say the federal insurance Web site is dysfunctional and a sign of broader problems in the rollout.
TeamPooka
(24,286 posts)Terrible
Republican
Orations
Lack
Lucidity
gussmith
(280 posts)Just mentioning the facts of Obama's ratings. Don't get in a snit. What is anti-Obama about reading the news and being concerned? Please, we need thinkers, not radicals.
TeamPooka
(24,286 posts)You don't even know what the word reactionary means.
re·ac·tion·ar·y (r-ksh-nr)
adj.
Characterized by reaction, especially opposition to progress or liberalism; extremely conservative.
n. pl. re·ac·tion·ar·ies
An opponent of progress or liberalism; an extreme conservative.
Keep using those GOP talking points though.
That way we won't have to listen to your crap much longer.
Vogon_Glory
(9,136 posts)Wakey! Wakey!
It's time to wake up and pay attention.
Whenever I read some naif expressing dismay that some Democrat DARED to say that the Elephant Party and their Mad-Hatter Tea Party pals are acting anything less than rationally, my first impulse is to give that person a good hard pinch to see if he or she is awake or sleepwalking.
Where, pray tell, were you these last two decades? Out touring this galaxy's outer rim? Strolling through the poppy fields outside the Emerald City of Oz? I very much doubt you were in the here and now and paying attention.
For your information, Republicans, particularly self-professed "conservatives", have been saying far uglier things about the Democrats in Congress as well as about the President.
To see some naif (or troll) pop up like a particularly dull -witted gopher and pretend to be upset about a Democrat saying something rude (and all too close to the truth) about congressional Republicans tries my patience past the snapping- point.
gussmith
(280 posts)Do you think a Repug notices if you respond in kind? Get a message and get proactive. We are not going to beat them at their game but we can be true to our beliefs (our manners too).
FatBuddy
(376 posts)it is the truth.
the tealiban has become a dangerous extremist movement.
Berlum
(7,044 posts)ck4829
(35,096 posts)DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)Any attempt to play nice will not only be rejected, but it will embolden them to newer heights of derpaved agression. It is time to stop carrying knives to gunfights!
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)KIDDING!!!
I'm Just Joking Here People!
(kinda)