Is the Republican Party Just a Distraction Now?

[rhett o rick]

I have been sputtering incoherently for a number of posts lately about who the real enemy is. How the moderate-right republiCons and their K street friends are sneaking into the Big D tent. Well, Sen Arlin Specter hardly snuck.

Christopher Hayes writes a good article about this in “Naming the Enemy” in the June 22, The Nation.

“While the Republican Party shrinks, corporate interests are deftly molting their old K Street Project skin and crawling en masse inside the big tent being pitched by the Democrats.” “the new strategy is to subvert legislation through co-optation, as in healthcare and cap and trade. …corporate lobbies are trying to have it both ways: to block reforms while changing overt power struggles over the future of the economy into seemingly cooperative negotiations.”

I see a number of problems with this:

It will be much harder to tell who the enemy is if everyone is wearing the same uniform.

Battles between progressives and the right will have to be fought in the primaries as in the cases of Lieberman vs Lamont and between Sen Specter and Rep Joe Sestak. Who will Rahm Emanuel and the DLC support?

And Democratic Underground will have to change it’s name to Underground.

Also posted at: www.watercoolerwars.blogspot.com

[izquierdista]

1. A painful one

Kind of like having a boil on yer bum. If you don't believe it, ask their chief spokesman, he has a lot of experience with that. :rofl:

[rhett o rick]

5. So who's the boil? Palin, Cheney, ?

[izquierdista]

6. A really painful boil

[spanone]

2. to the 'media', they are as relevant as ever

[rhett o rick]

Of course because they are a distraction like Palin. While the media

is saying "hey look at the republiCons", the Cons are sneaking into our tent.

[ThomWV]

3. I don't think so

I honestly think that the Republican Party will be a strong force by the 2016 elections. I have this prediction too, the Republican Party that emerges from the legacy of the Reagan/Bush years will be a Party that you could easily identify with Dwight Eisenhower and it will attract the hell ouy of many Americans.

[rhett o rick]

4. Well they have yet to make any moves in that direction. nm