Friday, April 09, 2010

The Song Remains the Same -- Star Spangled Blather


While we on the Left engage in our usual round of 'why isn't Obama more liberal?', the Right always helps us demonstrate why that political pressure isn't more effective.

Because the Republicans talk like this:

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a potential presidential candidate in 2012, called Barack Obama on Thursday "the most radical president in American history" who oversees a "secular, socialist machine."


As a politician, why be so exclusively progressive in politics, when conservatives abandon the battlefield of sanity completely and leave the entire realm of rationality for you alone to occupy?

And with rare exception this has been the Republican playbook for every President since Wilson.

Just look at these likely Gingrich statements over the years:

1980:

"Jackie, Jimmy Carter is the most radical president in American history who oversees a "secular, socialist machine". And by the way, I've met someone else and I want a divorce. Good luck with your cancer."


2000:

"Marianne, Bill Clinton is the most radical president in American history who oversees a "secular, socialist machine", and he has no moral scruples. And by the way, I've met someone else, who's better in bed than you, and I want a divorce."


2010:

Uh, good luck Callista.


(pic from here)

[Cross-posted at Firedoglake]

7 comments:

StonyPillow said...

Bathroom goblins in New Orleans!

Major Woody said...

I have a secular socialist machine, but I can't get parts for it.

Montag said...

I have a secular socialist machine, but I can't get parts for it.

I'm sure Newticles will offer you a trade-in.

He's the used car salesman of Republican politics, after all.

DanF said...

I have a secular socialist machine, but I can't get parts for it.

It probably just needs to be greased with the entrails of corporate lobbyists. Banking and insurance lobbyists work best as they have just the right mixture of slime and viscosity.

Major Woody said...

See, that's my problem right there. I don't have any lobbyist entrails. I had some entrails of a king, but I used them to strangle a priest.

pansypoo said...

is that a log i see comin out his face.

guessed said...

even if there were no newt, beck, rush, palin, murdoch, etc., obama would still end up resorting to currying corporate favor.