Senate GOP in big funk

[kpete]

Source: Politico

Senate GOP in big funk
By JOHN BRESNAHAN & AMIE PARNES | 11/20/08 4:35 AM EST

A day after losing Ted Stevens’ seat, along with their best hope for getting Joe Lieberman to cross over, Senate GOP leaders preached party unity as the key to surviving the Obama years.

If that doesn’t work, there’s always psychotherapy.

Down to 42 seats with two still at risk, Senate Republicans are in a deep funk. Some are in denial. Some want a return to conservative principles. Some want to cut deals. Some want more filibusters.

Others want to jump out a window — but they’re afraid they’d screw that up, too.

“We probably wouldn’t die,” a Republican Senate aide joked Wednesday. “We’d just lie there, hurt and suffering, which is not too much different from where we are now.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15812.html

[KansDem]

1. "Some want a return to conservative principles."

:wtf: Just where the Hell have we been these past eight years?

[benld74]

2. Some want their mommys. some want their blankies,,,

[onehandle]

3. Go Right. Go HARD Right!

Put the laundry list of Fundie and Corporate desires in your platform and perish.

[opihimoimoi]

4. Asking the Pubs to give up being a Pub is like asking Druggies to give their drugs

or alcoholics to give the booze

only a few make it

Many Pubs have seen the Light and quit this Flawed philosophy of the GOP...but roughly 20 % cling on...stubborn and obstinate...more like brainwashed too...

Its so hard to effect Common Sense and Logic when its not even comprehended....Damn

[Enrique]

5. I suggest retirement for any depressed GOP senators

retirement can be very renewing. Work on your golf game, travel the world, learn to play the piano. :thumbsup:

[jimshoes]

6. Aw, go ahead and jump,

chances are you'll get it right the first or second time.

[pink-o]

7. Awww. Poor Widdle things...

Major Schadenfreude. Sorry that I can't muster up more sympathy, but even if you don't believe in Karma, even if you're agnostic like me it's still a matter of cause and effect.

You cause pain, you effect hypocricy and use smoke, mirrors and out-and-out LIES to further your agenda, WTF do you think is gonna happen in the long run?

The 'Pigs biggest problems are their short-sightedness, and their insulting arrogance that makes them think Americans are stupid and can't see thu the bloviating. It took longer than I would have liked, but the Sleeping Giant that is America pretty well woke up after Katrina. Since then, it's only been a matter of time before the 'Pig agenda sank underwater as well.

And good fucking riddance!

[xxqqqzme]

8. Is this what happens when you start a

class war when you have no class?

[4lbs]

9. Pssst! Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann are your answer.

With them, how can you lose?





:rofl:

[Changenow]

13. Dream ticket 2012!

Obama shouldn't run for reelection with opponents like that.

[Mira]

10. GOOD and here's a suggestion, tried and true:

[aquart]

12. Oh, I don't want them to get over it.

They have no empathy. The only suffering they understand is their own. I want them to understand.

[aquart]

11. The window thing, fellas....how can you really know till you've tried?

Mass Defenestration: a wonderful way to show you care.

[Zorra]

14. Republicans, by their very nature, are not fit to govern.

Governing requires being able to think in ways that go beyond seeing everything in black and white. Adaptability is critical to problem solving, and conservatives have difficulty coping with change. They repeat the same mistakes over and over and expect a different result. This is the absolute worst approach to governing, and that is why conservatives wreck the country every time they get in power.

Researchers help define what makes a political conservative
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The avoidance of uncertainty, for example, as well as the striving for certainty, are particularly tied to one key dimension of conservative thought - the resistance to change or hanging onto the status quo, they said.

The terror management feature of conservatism can be seen in post-Sept. 11 America, where many people appear to shun and even punish outsiders and those who threaten the status of cherished world views, they wrote.

Concerns with fear and threat, likewise, can be linked to a second key dimension of conservatism - an endorsement of inequality, a view reflected in the Indian caste system, South African apartheid and the conservative, segregationist politics of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-South S.C.).

Disparate conservatives share a resistance to change and acceptance of inequality, the authors said. Hitler, Mussolini, and former President Ronald Reagan were individuals, but all were right-wing conservatives because they preached a return to an idealized past and condoned inequality in some form. Talk host Rush Limbaugh can be described the same way, the authors commented in a published reply to the article.

http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/07/22_politics.shtml

[LynnTheDem]

17. All that can be summed up in one word...

cowardice.

Republics are cowards.

They think sending others to invade and slaughter makes themselves fierce and brave.

No, it doesn't; it's peace, talking, listening and compromise that takes real strength.

They think telling others no dissent allowed makes them fierce and brave.

No it doesn't; speaking out, realizing, understanding, and dealing with challenges are the only way to solve them, and that takes strength and real courage.

They think "911 changed everything" makes them fierce and brave.

No it doesn't; it means the terrorists won, since "change" is the definition of terrorism's sole purpose.

[BootinUp]

15. Reading that was a lot of fun.

Now maybe I will listen to Patty Smyth sing Goodbye to You.

[LynnTheDem]

16. "party unity" will save ya'll! Yep, don't bother changing your beliefs, don't bother

changing your platforms...just keep on keeping on PARTY UBER ALLES.

That'll work beautifully!!!































For Democrats and the rest of the entire world.

[Mugweed]

18. Is the GOP ruining funk now?

Funk used to be cool, but if the GOP is into it I need to find another genre.

[HopeHoops]

19. I'm hearing DISCO - I'm hearing DISCO - YES - "FUNKY TOWN!"

[tanyev]

22. Play that funky music, white dudes.

[MurrayDelph]

20. They have no one else to blame:

they've funked themselves.

And yet, like most True Believers, they believe that their only problem was that they didn't believe hard-enough. How's that Great Pumpkin pie doin'?

(edited for spelling)

[Demeter]

24. Heretic! You Don't EAT the Great Pumpkin!

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

21. I don't think they'll have to worry too much

The Dems appear to be acting as though they believe the GOP is still in charge...

[ChairmanAgnostic]

23. jumping out the basement window - a recipe for success

almost as promising as their's to be more conservative and more open to religious freaks like AFA and Dobson.

[codjh9]

25. I'm SO sympathetic, snif snif... them with their lifetime healthcare and $142K (or whatever)

annual retirement pay. Not to mention how much we've suffered under 8 yrs. of Repub. rule!!!

[Winterblues]

26. Others want to jump out a window

"Jump you Fuckers"