The Looming Republican Civil War

[Lowell]

Rush Limbaugh has fired this Fort Sumpter-style shot at South Carolina [the heart of the rebellion] Republican Senator Lindsey Graham.

Lindsey Graham's perfectly happy to be in the ruling class as a loser. He was elected as a freshman in 1994 of the House? He was in that freshman class and he was one of the House managers in the Clinton impeachment. And that's what did it, the treatment that the House managers got on that impeachment of Clinton, that's why he's gone 180 and become effectively a bootlicking liberal Republican.

Watch out Rick Snyder.

[Big Dog]

Reagan was to liberal, for todays republican party. The divide btn parties is going to be much worse, for years to come,

[ddaydetroit]

Rush Limbaugh and Beck are today versions of McCarthism

[bailey]

The war has already been won. Whack-job Michelle Bachman, tea party darling, has been sent to detention and denied the leadership role she was running for.

[oladub]

Reagan was to liberal, for todays republican party. The divide btn parties is going to be much worse, for years to come,

On the other side, moderate Democrats were the big losers in Congress. "of the 60 seats that the Democrats lost in the House, 48 of them, by the calculation of one senior party strategist, were moderate to conservative.So, the sort of middle of the Democratic Party has been carved out."
-Mark Shields, NPR

My guess is that the more radical/socialist leaning Democrats exist in solid Democrat voting areas so they were not touched. In voting districts in which independents had a lot of say, incumbents with a 'D' attached went out with the tide. Too bad about Russ Feingold but he would make a good chief of staff replacement for Rahm.

[Mikeg]

Meanwhile, the civil war being waged by the septuagenarian House Democrat leadership goes largely unnoticed. In a round of "musical chairs" that is about to be repeated in the Republican-controlled state legislatures during the upcoming congressional redistricting, Democrats are finding themselves pushing and shoving each other to fill a reduced number of available positions. As Rush has said many times, "Elections have consequences".

[johnsmith]

Too bad about Russ Feingold but he would make a good chief of staff replacement for Rahm.

I just looked up Russ Feingold, I never knew much about him. I agree with him on a large majority of his votes and introduced legislation and his reasoning behind them. I agree about the chief of staff position, he looks like a guy that would steer this president in a better direction. You know it would never happen though.

I bet it was his misguided vote for Obamacare that sunk him.

[GOAT]

I think as both sides become more entrenched in their vision of where the USA should be headed, the moderates of BOTH parties will rise to fill the middle. Then you will have your third party politics.
If not, kiss the USA good-bye economically because for 40 years these two ass-bag parties have shredded the USA totheir own gain.

[johnsmith]

I think as both sides become more entrenched in their vision of where the USA should be headed, the moderates of BOTH parties will rise to fill the middle. Then you will have your third party politics.
If not, kiss the USA good-bye economically because for 40 years these two ass-bag parties have shredded the USA totheir own gain.

Not just the "moderates", but actual sensible people. We don't need moderately socialist/fascist/communist/megalomaniac/insane politicians. We need sensible statesmen. period.

BTW, what's an ass-bag? LOL! When you get your ass handed to you, is it the bag you get it handed to you in?

[Bearinabox]

I think as both sides become more entrenched in their vision of where the USA should be headed, the moderates of BOTH parties will rise to fill the middle. Then you will have your third party politics.
If not, kiss the USA good-bye economically because for 40 years these two ass-bag parties have shredded the USA totheir own gain.

There is no middle in American politics. There's right-of-center and further-right-of-center. There are a handful of left-of-center members of Congress [[Kucinich, Sanders, Feingold for a few more months), but there is no mainstream left-of-center voice of any consequence in our politics.

[1KielsonDrive]

Let 'em all kill each other.

[Big Dog]

Fuggetaboutit, The worlds coming to an end. Read the papers, turn on the boob tube and the radio.

[1KielsonDrive]

Fuggetaboutit, The worlds coming to an end. Read the papers, turn on the boob tube and the radio.

Gosh, you are so right. That's why I don't read papers, watch the tube and I listen to the radio very little.

[oladub]

GOP civil war on defense spending

A proposal to slash $100 billion from the Pentagon budget threatens to spark a civil war within the GOP, POLITICO's Gordon Lubold reports, one that pits "hard-core deficit hawks against some members who view military spending as sacrosanct and others who represent districts reliant on defense-related jobs."

[gdogslim]

Goober Graham, he might be enlisted a a general to the confederates.
The GOP would welcome a major slashing of the pentagon, go for it Obama.

[gibran]

Kantor said to BIBI we got your back with this administration ... whose has the American peoples?

[Mikeg]

Meanwhile, the civil war being waged by the septuagenarian House Democrat leadership goes largely unnoticed.

Well, Nancy Pelosi certainly came up with a novel solution to the Democrat leadership's game of "musical chairs" - let Steny Hoyer have the second-on-command leadership spot and just add another leadership "chair" for Rep. James Clyburn.

Lot's of parallels here to Jennifer Granholm's 2003 Michigan Democrat Party leadership "dilemma". In case you've forgotten, following her Gubernatorial win in 2002, Jennifer Granholm didn't even have the clout to name her own ally to the chairmanship of the Michigan Democrat Party. The UAW let her "save face" by naming her guy Melvin "Butch" Hollowell to the newly-created post of "executive co-chair" while their guy Mark Brewer basically continued running things until Hollowell resigned a few months later.

Perhaps Rep. Clyburn ought to give "Butch" a call before he accepts his new position.

[ddaydetroit]

I think your Right Lowell
http://www.examiner.com/political-bu...palin-comments
Glenn Beck launched an unprecedented verbal assault on former Barbara Bush in response to the former First Lady's comments regarding Sarah Palin. In the audio segment to the left from Beck's radio show, Beck goes after Barbara Bush based on her looks in response to what he called "insulting" comments. The "really insulting" comments in question came from an interview Bush gave to Larry King. When asked about Sarah Palin, Barbara Bush said she was "beautiful" and that she hopes Palin "stays in Alaska." Some saw that comment as signal that Bush does not believe Palin should run for president.
In response, first Beck states that Larry King makes "Barbara Bush look like she's 30." Then Beck take offense that Bush called Sarah Palin "beautiful." According to Beck, it somehow offensive to mention how someone looks even if it is a compliment. Beck must have not read the most recent stories involving his co-worker Megyn Kelly. Kelly describes how she is not bothered by the fact that some of her call her "hot" and Kelly clearly did not have an issue with selling her body image in the article's photo shoot. Beck must also be oblivious to the comments of Chris Wallace regarding Palin. Wallace has become somewhat infamous for commenting on Palin's looks. At one point Wallace described how he hoped Palin would sit "in his lap" during an interview. Beck curiously did not condemn Wallace for those comments.
Beck then goes on to call Barbara Bush the "oatmeal box lady." Evidently it is not acceptable for Bush to comment on Palin's looks in a positive way but completely acceptable for Beck to negatively comment on the looks of the former First Lady.
Finally, at the end of the segment Beck launches into a typical tirade about how President George H.W. Bush [[Bush 41) was a progressive. Beck ignores the fact that progressives universally despised Bush during his one term in office.
Beck seems to take any verbal jab at Sarah Palin very seriously, even from someone like Barbara Bush. In defense of Palin Beck seems willing to attack their physical appearance and even bring out the "progressive" label if necessary. Palin clearly has an ally in Beck should she chose to run in 2012.