The Very Useful Idiocy of Christine O’Donnell - By FRANK RICH

[kpete]

Op-Ed Columnist
The Very Useful Idiocy of Christine O’Donnell
By FRANK RICH
Published: October 2, 2010


ALL it took was some 30,000 Republican primary voters in a tiny state to turn Christine O’Donnell into the brightest all-American media meteor since Balloon Boy. For embattled liberals, not to mention the axis of Comedy Central, “Saturday Night Live” and Bill Maher, she’s been pure comic gold for weeks: a bottomless trove of baldfaced lies, radical views and sheer wackiness. True, other American politicians have dismissed evolution as a myth. Some may even have denied joining a coven. But history will always remember her for taking a fearless stand against masturbation, the one national pastime with more fans than baseball.

Yet those laughing now may not have the last laugh in November. O’Donnell’s timely ascent in the election season’s final lap may well prove a godsend for the G.O.P.

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But while these billionaires’ selfish interests are in conflict with the Tea Party’s agenda, they are in complete sync with the G.O.P.’s Washington leadership. The Republicans’ new “Pledge to America” promises the $3.8 trillion addition to the deficit and says nothing about serious budget cuts or governmental reforms that might remotely offset it. Surfing the Beltway talk shows last Sunday, you couldn’t find one without a G.O.P. politician adamantly refusing to specify a single program he might cut at, say, the Department of Education (Pell grants?) or the National Institutes of Health (cancer research?). And that’s just the small change. Everyone knows that tax cuts for the G.O.P.’s wealthiest patrons must come out of Social Security and Medicare payments for everybody else.

They are acing it, these guys. Election Day is now only a month away. The demoralized Democrats are held hostage by the unemployment numbers. And along comes this marvelous gift out of nowhere, Christine O’Donnell, Tea Party everywoman, who just may be the final ingredient needed to camouflage a billionaires’ coup as a populist surge. By the time her fans discover that any post-election cuts in government spending will be billed to them, and not the Tea Party’s shadowy backers, she’ll surely be settling her own debts with fat paychecks from “Fox & Friends.”

more:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/opinion/03rich.html?_r=1&hp

[localroger]

1. Wow, the stupid, it burns

The Tea Party has always been a creation of these billionaires, and it seems to be at its zenith despite lavish astroturf organization and funding. All the TP is is an attempt to keep the populist/fundie wing of the Republican Party from peeling off or just plain staying home now that they've realized how badly they have been used by the plutocrat wing. The problem is, it isn't working; they have peeled off, and without the cover of their plutocrats the crazy is out in the open. It's clear that these people aren't a majority; they're not even close to one, they are so nutzoid that even many of the plutocrat/adult republicans are horrified and probably won't vote for their wacko candidates, and the craziness is actually promising to drag Democrats who were too disappointed by the lack of progressivism from the administration back to the polls.

[IndianaJoe]

2. As usual, Frank Rich has it right. n/t

[tavalon]

3. Just when we thought there was no stupider person on earth than Palin

Along comes proof that there are depths of stupid still to be plumbed. It's mindboggling.

[Cal33]

4. I've read that one of the founders of the Tea Party is none other

than Glenn Beck. Of course, he's probably only one of the spokesmen for the Tea aarty, and they
most likely are being funded by wealthy corporate executives. These guys make a great and
fabulous living by inventing lies -- pathological liars, one and all, but very successful ones.
Hence, they'll never quit. It pays too well. Talk about money and corruption!

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[yella_dawg]

6. Wow!

Just: Wow!

[yella_dawg]

7. Why do I get flamed...

Why do I get flamed for suggesting DU is wormy with paid posters?

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. The author of a stupid post doesn't have to be paid

and any post containing "We need more people in office like Christine O'donnell" is profoundly stupid, it's true. But it could be a heartfelt cry from our brand new comrade.

[Lucy Goosey]

10. But why not at least pay for someone who can write well?

Or is he writing poorly on purpose, lest he be mistaken for an Ivy League trust fund elite?

[KamaAina]

9. WTF?

Obama's health care bill is supposed to help small businesses by freeing them from spiraling premiums. And cap and trade hasn't even passed, and isn't likely to, given the Dems' willingness to cave whenever a repuke whispers "filibuster". :eyes:

[FarLeftRage]

11. You got BALLS to post here...

Considering the fact that you are a nixonite nazi in the truest form.

You know nothing about Thomas Jefferson, yet you quote him.

You believe in the fullest LIES of o'donell and the tea-buggers and you spout their sick, twisted talking points.

I have alerted on you and you will be tombstoned... I hope you don't enjoy your brief stay here.

[DainBramaged]

12. How much did you get paid?

:rofl: :patriot: