GOP Fully Understands The Misery It Causes And Plans To Double Down.

[TheMastersNemesis]

Quit giving the GOP the "benefit of the doubt" saying that they don't get what they are doing or do not understand that their policies are damaging and even deadly. They fully know that are assholes and are determined act the way they do. To give them any benefit of doubt enables them. We should be getting in their face even militantly if we have to. You cannot face a bully without going after them and challenging them right to their face.

I realize a lot of DU'ers feel we have to take the good boy scout approach and act like the good guys and people will understand. A lot of voter look at that approach as weakness or cowardice. We are in a country that values fighting back rather than turning the other cheek or negotiating.

As a former military vet I support going on offense and being offensive when necessary.

[LiberalEsto]

1. All these years of trying to appease them

and shifting to the right, and the Third Way, haven't worked.

You can't appease a rabid dog.

[randome]

2. You also can't put this particular rabid dog down.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]“If you're not committed to anything, you're just taking up space.”
Gregory Peck, Mirage (1965)[/center][/font][hr]

[LiberalEsto]

3. In which case it needs to be isolated behind bars nt

[Tippy]

4. K&R

[L0oniX]

12. Getting Dems to shift to the right is the center piece of the repuke agenda.

[totodeinhere]

5. Not only are they aware of the misery they cause, they take pleasure in it. n/t

[Martin Eden]

6. Are Republicans Deficit Hawks?

No, but they've been very successful at fooling the public into thinking their goal is to reduce budget deficits.

Actually, Republicans NEED deficits more than anything else to achieve their long term overriding goal -- shrink government to a size that can be drowned in a bathtub.

The ONLY way they can do that is with Huge. Budget. Deficts.

The Powers That Be are smart enough to realize that programs like Social Security & Medicare are too popular to be elimated through the normal elctoral & legislative process. These programs will survive as long as there are funds to keep them going.

Hence, their strategy to Starve The Beast -- and that means one thing: Huge. Budget. Deficts.

[SCVDem]

7. I finally have a job, but

Without an unemployment check I can't afford the gas to get there. Or food or rent or insurance.

WTF?

They are forcing us to be takers.

[Rozlee]

8. I feel sorry for their followers.

I have a beloved relative that was pretty liberal before drinking the Kool-Aid. I think I can feel how people did in the Civil War, with families fighting against families across a great divide. But, I can see how they're being manipulated against their best interests by calculating puppeteers who know which strings to pull.

[Oldtimeralso]

9. K&R n/t

[Pathwalker]

10. My husband is on a first name basis with our Congressman,

and our State Senator. Congressman Camp's office HATES him, but our state Senator, Rick Jones speaks to him regularly. As crazy as Mr. Jones sounds on TV, my husband has been successful in getting him to change his mind on a few things, including keeping glaucoma on the list for patients on MMJ. My husband asks me to leave the room when he speaks to Camp's office because I yell at them - passed being diplomatic years ago. They are purposely destroying the economy, and they need to know that we know this.

[albino65]

11. I agree n/t

[Madmiddle]

13. Bullying right back is the

only way to treat any repuke. Boy scouts help old ladies cross the street. I would rather bring traffic to a half so all can get across. We need to stop this GOP stupidity now...

[Jester Messiah]

14. Fully agreed. They want a brawl? Let's knock 'em on their asses. [nt]