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Monday, September 26, 2011

Obama on Today's Republican Party

via Politico:
President Obama, “Has anybody been watching the debates lately? You've got a governor whose state is on fire denying climate change… It's true. You've got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don't have health care and booing a service member in Iraq because they're gay.”
More like this, please. Whatever the moderateness (so-called) of his temperament, Obama must take no prisoners with today's Republican Party. A Presidential blow-out creates the only possible conditions in which Democrats will regain the House and hold on to the Senate (which will take something like a miracle). I have little fear that Obama will beat this dismal GOP field, but the point is that his victory needs the kind of coat-tails that give him a Congress that will work with him, else the victory is pyrrhic. In this atmosphere of unprecedented right-wing obstructionism and extremism to the point of madness, there is no alternative but to go Negative and go Big. Oddly enough, this ever more fascistic self-marginalizing Movement Republican cul-de-sac will only benefit from such a drubbing itself, since only in utter defeat can the Republican Party pause to find its way back to some semblance of sense and national relevance: It's not just that the GOP must be burned if America is not to burn, but that the GOP must be burned to be saved itself.

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