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Title: The Republican Strategy: Covert Destruction at all Costs
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URL Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol ... lican-strategy-c_b_467728.html
Published: Feb 22, 2010
Author: Caroline MyssAuthor of "Sacred Contracts
Post Date: 2010-02-22 09:53:31 by Ferret Mike
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Views: 205
Comments: 18
It takes awhile to make sense of the entrails of the Republican Party, partly because they are just so toxic, but also because it's actually difficult to comprehend that an American political party can so deliberately sabotage its own government and nation. But after observing their behavior and their policy of, "Just Say No" -- sometimes to their own suggestions, one can only surmise that they long ago left the business of governing and have instead agreed to a covert game plan of destruction while simultaneously playing an overt game of seduction with the American public. The seductive part of their plan is the one more familiar to the public -- constantly talk about what the people want to hear. No more taxes. Defend the country. Go Conservatives. Minimal government. Meanwhile, the depth, width, and long range planning of the Republicans' dark strategy should have every American shaking with terror, especially since it is picking up momentum once again. As I observe the constant aggressive and non-cooperative behavior of the Republican Senators that is so outlandish as to border on choreographed (if not near-treasonous), it's blatantly obvious that the long term Republican agenda is to sabotage this Democratic administration so successfully as to make it appear responsible for all the failures of the Bush administration while simultaneously preventing this administration from accomplishing anything on its own merit, even to the detriment of the good of this nation. If their plan succeeds -- and it's certainly gaining ground, unfortunately -- the Republicans have a good chance of returning to the White House. How tragic for this nation to find itself returning to the dark days of "rule by fear". Just picture Cheney and Rove laughing behind the scenes. That one image alone should be enough of a reminder as to why the American people should wake up and recognize these political spell-casters for what they really are -- corporate loyalists with Fascist leanings. That Republicans honor corporate loyalties over their loyalties to the Constitution are beyond question and these policies became publically official with the passing of the recent Supreme Court ruling last month. With that ruling, Republicans have succeeded in outsourcing our own government, as corporate interests are international as well as national. That ruling alone makes their Tea Party gatherings a real head scratcher, as the last folks in line for any Republican benefits are the common folk, which largely comprise their army of modern day Brown Shirt Tea Party hysterics. If these people could only see through the real agenda of the Republicans, they would realize that they are merely being used as upstart noisemakers, no more than public distractions to create havoc for the Democrats. They actually believe that the Republicans are on their side, listening to their issues and protests when all the Republicans want them to do is make noise. Listening is not part of the Republican bargain. Don't they get that? Why don't these people remember the Bush/Cheney administration? Bush and Cheney were the closest Americans ever came to being ruled by dictators. Don't these people get that the Republicans are against health care because they are fundamentally against any and all forms of assistance? If they could take away Social Security and Medicare, in all likelihood, they would. How is it possible that these Tea Party Brown Shirts do not understand that in supporting the Republicans, they are in fact supporting their own demise? How soon these people forget that they have lost their jobs and homes and are continuing to lose both because of Republican de-regulation policies (among other policies) that the Republican House and Senate could have stopped - but didn't. Why? Because common folk do not and never will matter to the Republican Party any more than the Constitution does. Just review what the Bush/Cheney administration did to our Constitution for proof. They took a weedwacker to it. One more Republican administration and the coup will be complete. Wait until these Tea Party Brown Shirts gather and try protesting if -- God forbid -- the Republicans get back into office. They'll be met with police armed with weapons and the Patriot Act and that will be the end of those little social gatherings, or would they be called "uprisings" then? Certainly the Clinton administration added to the deregulation debacle but let's face it, the inspiration and fuel behind these policies picked up steam under the Bush/Cheney administration. The Democrats have their own list of sins against the American system, to be sure, which is long and historic, without a doubt. But by comparison to the present agenda of the Republicans, the greatest crime that the Democrats are presently committing is that they are not doing the job that they were sent to Washington to do - which was to represent the Democratic agenda and take on those Republican bullies. Next, we have Sarah Palin, one of the more covert schemes of the Republican agendas. What makes Sarah part of Republican covert strategy? Simple-Sarah doesn't even realize that she is being used by the Republican brain trust as their Vamp distraction - the poor thing. She actually thinks she has something to offer this country when, in fact, even her own party is probably laughing at her behind the scenes. She is the Republican Court Fool, an idiot mouthpiece who writes notes on her hands in order to get through an appearance and lacks the insight due to an over abundance of vanity and ambition to realize that her own party intends to toss her to the wolves as soon as her usefulness as a Vamp distraction is done. Anyone who doubts this has only to wait and see. Now that the Republicans have good looking, smooth talking Scott Brown, they are not going to risk their money on Palin again. No way. As soon as they no longer need someone to make outlandish, ridiculous, uneducated, near-illiterate statements that cause controversy, they'll ship her back to the big A. Republicans are known for being ruthless but when it comes to Sarah, ruthless is fine with me. That the Republican tactics are working is not surprising, though it is unfortunate. Given that the Democrats had the majority in both Houses and the White House, they still have acted like the minority party since Obama's swearing in, bullied by the Republicans, unable to get their policies and agendas passed. Compromise is one thing but the Democrats have turned compromise into an act of apology for winning this past election. As for those so-called Blue-Dog Democrats, why don't they just admit they lack the backbone to be anything at all? Lieberman certainly comes to mind. One has to wonder if the browbeating the Democrats took under the Bush/Cheney years so battered them that they forgot how to stand up with dignity and represent their party. Or perhaps they are just old, useless cowards, incapable of doing battle any more or are they waiting for their President to end the politics of compromise and repeat the disrespect for Congress that Bush/Cheney turned into an art form? Perhaps it's a mixture of all the above. In the meantime, however, we are left with a blockade in Congress that has gone well past the critical point. How do we proceed? As much as we Americans have this cultural tendency to want to detach from the past as quickly as possible and get on with a new future - in this case, in the form of a new Presidential administration -- sometimes such detachment lacks all wisdom. I heard a discussion among newscasters just the other day, for example, in which they bantered about whether the war in Afghanistan had "officially" become Obama's war, meaning, of course, that the nation could now shift all blame and anger from Bush for starting this massive debacle to Obama. These half journalists/half pundits decided that, indeed, the time had come to declare Afghanistan "Obama's War". If nothing else, such a decision would certainly get Republican support and fuel their much needed media controversies. Surely the American public cannot and, in fact, should not be allowed to forget that this nightmare of a war begun under false pretenses by a president obsessed with oil and his ex-president father combined with a paranoid and devious former vice president is not just "one of those problems" another president just inherits and manages to resolve within a year. But that's exactly what suits the Republican agenda: Make this war look like Obama's failure, not ours. And while you're at it, make the economic crisis and the housing crisis look like they started with Obama instead of the truth -- that he inherited more Bush/Cheney crises that need years to resolve -- not one year. No doubt President Obama has made several decisions in his first year that he would not make again now that he sees the consequences and now that he also realizes many in his own Congress want to see him go down. How tragic if not borderline treasonous is that? If his administration had chosen to investigate all the crimes of the Bush/Cheney administration in public view, perhaps that would have made these Republicans a bit more cooperative. But since that's just a pipe dream, maybe the Democrats should mirror some of the Republican strategy. When the Republicans say, "NO", the Democrats should yell back, "NO WAY". You are not getting the White House back and you are not turning this nation into a complete corporate state in which the Constitution is a thing of the past. The Republican creed of "less government" is in truth one of "corporate government". Their covert destructive policies need to be publically exposed again and again until even their Brown Shirt Tea Party minions can understand that this party is fundamentally dangerous to the future of this nation.
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#1. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
Weasel You are a thing with zero, nada,no redeeming value. You are pure useless breeder, an 02 waster of the highest order. The best day of your life will be when you stop burdening us with your useless spammings and assume room temperature. Being poor quality fertilizer will be your highest calling.
Show Me Obama's Birth Certificate!
The current crop of Republicans have shown they are unfit to govern because of their rule-or-ruin attitude of partisanship. When they had control of the Congress, they imposed "the Hastert Rule" (sp?) by which no proposal made by non-Republicans got to the floor. Now that they are the minority party, they simply refuse to participate in a meaningful way, blocking everything -- and loudly complaining about proposals to circumvent their dog in the manger obstructionism. One example is their promotion of real incivism regarding Pres. Obama. When Dubya was in power, the Republicans told us that we must support him in everthing - even truly ruinous ideas like putting the Social Security funds into the stock market (and imagine how that would have turned out if they had won on that point) - because the slightest opposition even about domestic policy would somehow encourage the enemy in Afghanistan and Iraq. But now the Republicans are bandying around terms like Tyrant and Usurper to describe Obama, almost as if they were trying to incite an assassination attempt. What has Obama done that Dubya didn't do, that justifies calling him a tyrant? So far, Obama has lowered taxes on most people. You'd think the Repubs would be grateful. The Republicans might strike a chord with several thousand teabaggers, but millions of honest Americans won't be fooled and may show their resentment in November.
Flint. Are we sure we've given this Obama guy a fair chance? To date, his accomplishments....never mind.
That is an accurate description.
www.libertysflame.com
Heh, well Flintie, you need not worry, I am done breeding at least in this lifetime. And I don't mind the appellation of weasel, or I would not have allowed friends locally bestow me with the nickname of Ferret Mike because I have had stink weasels that would follow me around as well as sit on my shoulder. As for the death thing buddy, we all will enjoy that sooner or later. And as a stoic, my personal philosophy about death precludes me from caring even a little bit when a small mind like you farts words about it as they bark at me from the big porch called the Internet. Cheers, and a good day to you. ;-D
The Democrat Strategy: Overt Destrution at all Costs War on Obama!! Put more Monsanto cronies in key positions in the FDA and EPA!! Outsource more jobs!! Send billions more to Pakistan and Israel and keep those poppies growing in Afghanistan!! Carry on with extraordinary rendition!! Increase that DOD budget!! Give to the bankers!! Bring on the death and destruction.......but just keep blaming Bush/Cheney while you do it.
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." Edward Bernays, Father of Public Relations
That is an accurate description. Were you saying that about bush-cheney when they were gutting everything and setting the deck for obamalamadingdong ?
It was the Democrats who created the Federal Reserve which is the source of our woes. Nothing will work until we END THE FED. JFK tried to end it as Lincoln had done before him but both were assassinated. It is time to get over partisan sniping. That is a distraction. Obama and Bush are very much alike in policy.
The Truth of 911 Shall Set You Free From The Lie
Yes, he's ready to return to the cotton fields of Kenya
Show Me Obama's Birth Certificate!
Wrong. He has done exactly what he planned from the very beginning. He is just another bush - nothing but lies, wars, gutting of the economy, shredding of rights and liberties, income redistribution from the lower and middle classes to the upper 1-2%. Obama regrets nothing he has done. It was all part of the plan from before he took office.
Go back and read.
www.libertysflame.com
So, you've crapped out your quota of muddpeople? How third world of you.
Show Me Obama's Birth Certificate!
Bump that!! : ) Another puppet doing what his cronies tell him to do, which is why they bankrolled him into office.
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." Edward Bernays, Father of Public Relations
-"How fortunate for leaders, that the masses do not think." - Hitler -“Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of death".-Hitler -"In defense of the world Order, U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die. ... We are not going to achieve a New World Order without paying for it in blood, as well as in words and money." -- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in Back to the Womb, July/August 1993 issue of Foreign Affairs - “Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar.” Julius Caesar -“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.” George W. Bush, allegedly misspeaking, at a bill-signing ceremony, August 5, 2004 “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” -H.L. Mencken Lessons In The Hegelian Dialectic
I no longer count myself a Republican - but this article is a pile of liberal crap. Does being a true liberal intellectual mean creating the biggest and best bucket of lies possible? What is wrong with the liberal mind that it needs all this untrue to prop it up?
Lincoln? FDR? Hello? Considering what self-righteous scolds they are, these HuffPo people are an ignorant lot.
Ka-Ching !!!
Prior to the Federal Reserve Act, no political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States, and of compounding the American People into one common mass of slaves. Yet, this is exactly what has happened under Social Security, by creating a revenue base for the collection of interest on a fictitious national debt owed to the Federal Reserve banks, in other words, slavery to the national debt under the so-called 14th Amendment.
The entire article with the exception of the quote above is pure party vomit. If anyone should be pissy about Obama's refusal to investigate his murderous predecessor and the previous administration it's the dopey democrats that elected him. The author of this article must be using artificial intelligence !
Prior to the Federal Reserve Act, no political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States, and of compounding the American People into one common mass of slaves. Yet, this is exactly what has happened under Social Security, by creating a revenue base for the collection of interest on a fictitious national debt owed to the Federal Reserve banks, in other words, slavery to the national debt under the so-called 14th Amendment.
#2. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
#3. To: Flintlock (#1)
#4. To: Shoonra (#2)
But now the Republicans are bandying around terms like Tyrant and Usurper to describe Obama,
#5. To: Flintlock (#1)
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#6. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
The Republican Strategy: Covert Destruction at all Costs
#7. To: A K A Stone (#4)
But now the Republicans are bandying around terms like Tyrant and Usurper to describe Obama,
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
#8. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
#9. To: Jethro Tull (#3)
Are we sure we've given this Obama guy a fair chance?
#10. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
No doubt President Obama has made several decisions in his first year that he would not make again now that he sees the consequences
#11. To: Rotara (#7)
Were you saying that about bush-cheney when they were gutting everything and setting the deck for obamalamadingdong ?
#12. To: Ferret Mike (#5)
I am done breeding at least in this lifetime.
#13. To: bush_is_a_moonie (#10)
#14. To: abraxas (#13)
#15. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
#16. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
Bush and Cheney were the closest Americans ever came to being ruled by dictators.
#17. To: Horse (#8)
Nothing will work until we END THE FED.
#18. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
If his administration had chosen to investigate all the crimes of the Bush/Cheney administration in public view, perhaps that would have made these Republicans a bit more cooperative.
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