OTHERWISE KNOWN as the quote of the day.
Now, if I were a Washington pundit, I’d launch into some boring speech about how both sides are equally to blame, and then I’d call it a day and we’d all meet at Katherine Graham’s house for cocktails. Which is weird because Katherine Graham is dead. But this is why you never see us booking George Will and Peggy Noonan on my show (besides the fact that they wouldn’t do it): Because the same old Washington pundits haven’t said anything interesting since disco. Also because the idea that the blame for our government’s dysfunction is equally shared by the parties just is a giant, steaming mound of horseshit and anyone who has paid attention to politics over the last 20 years knows it. Or as I like to call it, “The Rise of the Party of the Apes.” – Bill Maher
What Bill Maher doesn’t understand and neither do a lot of others is that what the activists on the Democratic side won’t do, because their party has the presidency, the Tea Party has done to Republicans, tying Congress, the leaders and the entire GOP in knots.
It’s hard to know how long it will last if Mitt Romney goes down in November, or if the failures of the extreme right will continue to grow through Sen. Rand Paul after his father steps back a bit from the stage, but one thing is certain. George W. Bush’s presidency inspired the hard right conservatives in America to fight for what they believe in, with the point driven home in the Democratic shellacking of 2010.
Democrats don’t seem to be willing to fight for anything except themselves, meaning each politician fighting for their own fiefdom. Democratic voters have even been lulled into believing that voting “D” is all that matters, the message received loudly from leadership.
Nothing confirms that more firmly than having the Democratic Party convention in a right-to-work state.
Postscript: The column I wrote in January for U.S. News & World Report, “Time for a Tea Party of the Left” remains as relevant today as it was back then.
I am pretty sure Bill Maher had never been over to Katherine Grahm’s house for cocktails. If he did, it would of been a one time thing and not a routine event as he would like us to believe. Katherine Grahm passed in 2001 and even if she was still alive, she would not hang around the likes of Bill Maher. She had way too much class to be around a person like him.
Democrats don’t seem to be willing to fight for anything except themselves, meaning each politician fighting for their own fiefdom. Democratic voters have even been lulled into believing that voting “D” is all that matters, the message received loudly from leadership.
Where are RAJensen and Solo, otherwise known as “Exhibit A” and “Exhibit B?” Their ears must be burning off.
And- mjsmith? Way to miss the point, seriously.
My point is that Bill Maher does not know what the heck he is talking about and is also a big phoney.
I will say this, many moderates and people on the right have also been convinced that all that matters and the only qualification a perosn needs is an R next to their name on the ballot. It works both ways.
This age of politics has lead to narrow platforms that inspire 51% victory campaign plans.
“but one thing is certain. George W. Bush’s presidency inspired the hard right conservatives in America to fight for what they believe in, with the point driven home in the Democratic shellacking of 2010.”
The teabaggers won primaries by out crazying, out racisting the old school repugnantklaners who had gotten fat and happy.
The repugnantklan/teabaggers won the House because Dems stayed home, not because the repugnantklan/teabaggers convinced anyone other then their shit house rat crazy base to vote for them.
Democrats by and large being sane, thinking folks just can’t do the out crazy or out racist thingy.