Sunday Morning Reading - Rethuglicans "Estranged from America"

Pollster Andrew Kohut has a great analysis of the problems facing the Rethuglican/ New Confederate/ Stupid Party in today's once great Washington Post Kaplan Daily.  A few samples:

The Republican Party’s ratings now stand at a 20-year low, with just 33 percent of the public holding a favorable view of the party and 58 percent judging it unfavorably, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. Although the Democrats are better regarded (47 percent favorable and 46 percent unfavorable), the GOP’s problems are its own, not a mirror image of renewed Democratic strength.

Kohut goes on to identify three factors in the emergence of the far-right bloc that holds sway in the party:  the "Obama backlash" =cough=racism=cough=,  the changing face of America =cough=racism=cough= , and conservative media that serves as an echo chamber and only source of "news" for the base =cough=racist know-nothings=cough=.  Not surprising considering this far-right bloc is 92 percent white, mostly male, married, Protestant, well-off and over 50.  Kohut concludes:

I see little reason to believe that the staunch conservative bloc will wither away or splinter; it will remain a dominant force in the GOP and on the national stage. At the same time, however, I see no indication that its ideas about policy, governance and social issues will gain new adherents. They are far beyond the mainstream.

In other words, the Rethuglican/ New Conservative/ Stupid Party will exist only to frustrate the will of the majority of the American people for the forseeable future.

Sunday Reading

From Michael Tomasky, more on the saboteurs of democracy (a.k.a., the Rethuglican Party):

Really, what is to be done about this Republican Party? What force can change it—can stop Republicans from being ideological saboteurs and convert at least a workable minority of them into people interested in governing rather than sabotage? With the failed Plan B vote, we have reached the undeniable crisis point. Actually we’ve been at a crisis point for years, but this is really the all-upper-case Undeniable Crisis Point. They are a direct threat to the economy, which could slip back into recession next year if the government doesn’t, well, govern. They are an ongoing, at this point almost mundane, threat to democracy, subverting and preventing progress the American people clearly desire across a number of fronts. They have to be stopped, and the only people who can really stop them are corporate titans and Wall Streeters, who surely now are finally beginning to see that America’s problem is not Barack Obama and his alleged “socialism,” but a political party that has become psychologically incapable of operating within the American political system.

And, from the guru of Beltway bipartisan centrism, Tom Friedman:

Republican politicians today have a choice: either change your base by educating and leading G.O.P. voters back to the center-right from the far right, or start a new party that is more inclusive, focused on smaller but smarter government and market-based, fact-based solutions to our biggest problems.

But if Republicans continue to be led around by, and live in fear of, a base that denies global warming after Hurricane Sandy and refuses to ban assault weapons after Sandy Hook — a base that would rather see every American’s taxes rise rather than increase taxes on millionaires — the party has no future. It can’t win with a base that is at war with math, physics, human biology, economics and common-sense gun laws all at the same time.

The Rethugs might want to get the memo out to Fox "News" and the ranting dimbulbs of the far-right infotainment complex/ Angersphere, too. But, whether it's the Wall Street money boys who cynically fund this on-going pathology, or the propagandists who fill the otherwise empty heads of the base with misinformation and lies, the Rethugs have been living off this unstable witches brew for at least two decades. It's going to be difficult, if not impossible, for them to survive this crisis of politics intact.

Which Way Forward for Rethuglicans?

Dear Rethuglicans:

Which way forward? Please follow the advice of Charles "Kraphammer" Krauthammer in today's Kaplan Daily.

Whatever you do, don't follow the advice of Michael Gerson, also in today's Kaplan Daily.

Always trying to help!

A Concerned Citizen

"He Who Shall Be Obeyed" Is Obeyed

Just the other day, some Rethug elites, including Jeb "Little Shrub" Bush, Eric "Cancer" Cantor, and Willard "Mitt/Mutt/Mousse" Romney, went on a bogus tour to "listen to the American people" in an attempt to con the public after two disastrous losses at the polls. Well, "He Who Shall Be Obeyed" apparently didn't sign off: Pills Limpballs is angry that these Rethugs are "listening" and not lecturing the American public on what a great mistake they made in not voting to continue the awesome policies of Chimpy, Dead Eye, and their wingnut Rethuglican Congress.

Now the Rethug elites have backed down, and are claiming they weren't listening to the people after all. (pause to snicker) As good dittoheads, they just listen to Pills.

(photo: the effects of OxyContin and cheap cigars have taken their toll on Limpballs)