Carl Bernstein: GOP leadership ‘cancerous’
Source: Politico
Journalist and author Carl Bernstein said Wednesday that Republican Party leadership is cancerous and has put the United States at risk by letting the tea party lead the GOP.
The Republican Party today has become a rabid organization from the top down. The leadership is cancerous, the former Washington Post reporter said on MSNBCs Morning Joe on Wednesday.
Bernstein called the current situation a terrible moment in our history and said only segregation politics offers a comparison.
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This is a watershed moment in American history, and unless some people, McCain and others, throw out the leadership that appeased this tail that is wagging the Republican dog the tea party is not just a movement. It has been cowardly embraced by Eric Cantor, by [House Speaker John] Boehner, who has gone along with this craziness and allowed himself to be the speaker of this party and what it stands for, Bernstein said.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/carl-bernstein-republican-leadership-debt-budget-default-98383.html
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)In spite of Joey Scar's obnoxious efforts to suppress him!
Say it Carl!
Cosmocat
(14,565 posts)SEETHING over it, just ready to explode.
The segment before that he totally filibustered over Donnie Duesche on the "they are all bums" meme and how Obamacare IS going to hurt America. As usual, he bullied the cast of usual psycophants into just going along with the "they are all the same" meme to not really accept responsibility while beating his chest with some half witted reason why he is the guy who pisses BOTH sides off.
Burnstein was breathing fire and just was not going to have it and without his hold on them Scar knew he wasn't going to be able to bully him.
He was just totally seething ...
chervilant
(8,267 posts)What a lovely and apropos new word!
Cosmocat
(14,565 posts)it is like a cheesy 80s after school special about an abusive father and the family that takes on enabling roles.
They obviously are somewhat intimidated by him personally, but being the sell out whores they are, the biggest concern is loosing the cushy gig (see, paycheck). They know he is a vindictive, controlling POS and that not folding to him will get them bumped.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)You might end up like an intern.
Cosmocat
(14,565 posts)seeing how he acts on that show ...
none.
RainDog
(28,784 posts)wilt the stilt
(4,528 posts)are the same people as the segregationists.
Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)The sniveling little punks in the tea party. rather than running to change their diaper as soon as their start whining, the need to be bitchslap hard and often.
The media is the biggest offender of this. If Sarah Palin ot Ted Cruz sneeze it's headline news. The media give them a platform to spew their mindless nonsense which gives it an appearance of legitimacy.
Zoonart
(11,869 posts)We have a BINGO! The media needs to shun these asshats. Turn off the cameras - attention is their lifeblood and when the cameras turn away they will dematerialize like vampires in sunlight.
The same goes for the media. They exist on attention too. Their metric is "eyeballs". Let's deny them their blood sucking. Turn away from them too. Time to get real with these idiots and let them all get a taste of where the real power of opinion lies; with "We The People".
calimary
(81,317 posts)Glad you're here! I agree - I wish they wouldn't keep reinforcing bad behavior by paying it so much attention. These whores go straight for the cameras and microphones, usually with some SuperWhore like sarah palin or ted cruz leading the way. Moths to bright lights I guess - before they start eating through that nice coat in your closet.
Paladin
(28,264 posts)AAO
(3,300 posts)frog64
(40 posts)Bitchslap!
JimboBillyBubbaBob
(1,389 posts)let me slap one, just one!
charmay
(525 posts)I can't bear to watch his Walker love and general stupidity.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)Berlum
(7,044 posts)pam4water
(2,916 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)and brilliant political thinker, said in 1981, "The Republican Party today has become a rabid organization from the top down. The leadership is cancerous.
hue
(4,949 posts)jsr
(7,712 posts)Stuart G
(38,434 posts)Blue Owl
(50,423 posts)Black as the sky on a moonless night...
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)MindMover
(5,016 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)He can be removed by a vote of his caucus, and John Boehner's performance in this messy business has been so bad that his unpopularity probably crosses ideological lines. He just might be replaced by next week, if not sooner.
How bad was Speaker Boehner's leadership in this crisis? He's made Harry Reid look like Daniel Webster or Henry Clay. He made a President whose administration is more likely to prosecute a chemotherapy patient with a prescription for marijuana than the war criminals responsible for the invasion of Iraq or Wall Street bankers responsible for worldwide fraud look like Abraham Lincoln.
The corollary to the adage "Success has a thousand fathers but failure is an orphan" is nobody likes a loser. Boehner and Ted Cruz are clearly the biggest losers today, along with Sarah Palin, who inserted herself into the headlines in a desperate attempt at relevance but only to emerge as a two bit rabble rouser who ought to be charged with inciting a riot. Another pair of losers is the Koch brothers, and hopefully all the Kochs' money and all the Kochs' PR agents won't be able to put them back together again.
In short, the big losers are the members of the Tea Party. However, Boehner isn't a member of the Tea Party, so how did he manage to be such a big loser? By playing along with them, that's how. He had to placate rattlesnakes that are the Tea Party and give them this doomed attempt to defund the Affordable Care Act. In reveling with rattlesnakes, Boehner got bit and may die from the venom. That's how toxic the Tea Party is. We will note that the rattlesnake is the creature that adorns the Gadsden flag, often waved at Tea Party rallies.
Boehner will be replaced by Eric Cantor, something that would be a disaster in normal circumstances. Cantor is more closely identified with the Tea Party extremists, once saying that there can be no Social Security in the America "we" want to create. Cantor is a cynical man who attempted to undermine efforts at reaching a debt ceiling deal in 2011 after placing bets in the Wall Street casinos that the government would default. A deal was reached after Cantor was removed from the negotiations between the congressional leadership and the White House. To replace Boehner with such a man may seem like a step backward, but Boehner was too ineffective for this to be a step backward. Cantor will merely appear to be leading the Tea Party, still dominating the Republican caucus, to one disaster after another while Boehner appeared to just go with the flow to one Tea Party-dictated disaster after another. It's not at all a step backward; it's running in place. The GOP congressional caucus will be running in place until November 2014 when the Republican Party, too, dies from venom as a result of bites from that creature on the Gadsden flag.
hamsterjill
(15,222 posts)Carl tells it like it is. Bob...ah, not so much!
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Kahuna
(27,311 posts)andym
(5,444 posts)No wonder they're in trouble. How many political parties are run by a millionaire entertainer out to stir things up for his own benefit.
Madmiddle
(459 posts)Bernstein finally shows up when the numbers leave no doubt. No shit Sherlock, now you come outta your cave when the GOP is at the 8 count and about to be counted out. Figures.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,366 posts)Thanks for the thread, highplainsdem.
Kahuna
(27,311 posts)socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)nm
spicegal
(758 posts)your party to lead you astray, and worse do damage to the entire country is insane.