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sugar
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 Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 9:03 pm Post subject: Let's just say it: The Republcans are the problem |
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| Quote: | Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem.
Rep. Allen West, a Florida Republican, was recently captured on video asserting that there are “78 to 81” Democrats in Congress who are members of the Communist Party. Of course, it’s not unusual for some renegade lawmaker from either side of the aisle to say something outrageous. What made West’s comment — right out of the McCarthyite playbook of the 1950s — so striking was the almost complete lack of condemnation from Republican congressional leaders or other major party figures, including the remaining presidential candidates.
It’s not that the GOP leadership agrees with West; it is that such extreme remarks and views are now taken for granted.
We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional. In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party.
The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.
When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country’s challenges.
“Both sides do it” or “There is plenty of blame to go around” are the traditional refuges for an American news media intent on proving its lack of bias, while political scientists prefer generality and neutrality when discussing partisan polarization. Many self-styled bipartisan groups, in their search for common ground, propose solutions that move both sides to the center, a strategy that is simply untenable when one side is so far out of reach. |
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/lets-just-say-it-the-republicans-are-the-problem/2012/04/27/gIQAxCVUlT_story.html
Title edited for compliance with the "Schwarzenegger's mother" clause of the OTW Posting Guidelines. — JRG
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wswartzendruber
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| Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Damn. I need to start spamming this forum with Rush Limbaugh opinion pieces. |
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Prenj
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| Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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| This feels so 80's. |
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mcgruff
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| Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 11:26 pm Post subject: Re: Let's just say it: The [Rcunts] are the problem |
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| Quote: | | The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition. |
They are political terrorists trying to destroy America.
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