Roger Ebert's article about the repubs.

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The Republicans exit history

By Roger Ebert on July 20, 2011


All I know is just what I read in the papers. -- Will Rogers

Me too. Or hear on TV, or see on the net. That's all most of us knows. I'm sure the President and Senators and government officials know more, but we elect them, they don't elect us. And I'm sure the CEOs of powerful corporations know more, although the Murdoch testimony indicates he didn't know as much as he could have read in the papers.

What I read,and hear is that the Republican Party is abandoning its hopes of speaking for a majority of Americans. It will still win elections. It controls the House. Perhaps it will elect the next President. But steadily and fatally it is moving out of history.

There are trigger issues in which the GOP no longer reflects the thinking of mainstream Americans of either party. In Tuesday's charade as the House put the Tea Party debt legislation to a vote, what we saw was an example of the kind of coalition voting common in Europe, where separate parties arrive at an agreement to govern. There are now essentially three parties in Congress: Democrats, Republicans, and the Tea Party. Reasonable Republicans with a sense of the possible do not subscribe to the Tea Party's implacable ideology, but they feel they must deal with it to placate its zealots. They are essentially in a coalition with a third party.



more at: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/07/the_republicans_exit_history.html

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1. Thanks. Roger's spot on! Good toons in there too. nt

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2. They may very well take us with them

As I posted a while ago, we seem to no longer have a representative democracy. We have 'leaders' who couldn't care less what we think.

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3. I disagree that non-Tea Party Republicans are any more reasonable.

Does anyone believe mainstream Republicans like Orrin Hatch, Jim Inhofe, or Tom Coburn are reasonable people? Strom Thurmond was more reasonable than today's Republican party.