Limbaugh Declares War, Cheney Declares Torture, Dick Morris Declares Treason

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Limbaugh Declares War, Cheney Declares Torture, Dick Morris Declares Treason
by Brent Budowsky | February 8, 2009


They never learn. Barely days after leaving office, in the strangest political move, Dick Cheney is back declaring war again, while barely hours after the Senate stimulus deal, Dick Morris is back accusing the handful of responsible Republicans of "treason."

Cheney's return to center stage reminds us why Obama has such a global mess to clean up, while Morris's contribution reminds us why Republicans were clobbered in 2006 and 2008, are not welcome in major regions of the nation and could be a minority party for 30 years.

Old habits die hard. The deal on the stimulus bill, if enacted, would be a major victory for President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and above all the American people, who are devastated by the economy made disastrous by the policies of George Bush and Dick Cheney. Dick Morris's charge of "treason" against the handful of centrist Republicans who remain proves the misjudgment of mindset of a party that is run by hardcore partisans, right-wing talk show hosts and Herbert Hoover economists.

Perhaps Morris's charge of treason will induce Republican centrists to join the Democratic Party. No doubt his advice, if followed, would lead to 63 Democratic senators after 2010, or maybe 65. The Republican "alternative" to the Obama stimulus would have meant virtually no stimulus at all, cutting the overall program in half, and of the paltry portions that remained in the Republican "alternative" most of the money would have gone to tax cuts. This is a formula for depression for the nation and more disaster for Republicans.

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Treason, Morris says! The Republican vision of policy is to bring back Herbert Hoover economics. The Republican vision of politics is to demand the unanimity of Brezhnev's one-party state, where all votes are partisan for the party, and all party members must march in lockstep and vote unanimously or face charges of treason.

Republicans used to accuse Democrats of treason. Now they hurl this bogus charge against each other, while the American people applaud our new president who won a great victory in the last election, and look at Republicans who were clobbered and ask: "Who are those guys?"