By JOSH MARGOLIN
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Updated: 6:25 AM, June 8, 2012
It’s bye-bye, Beltway for Cory Booker.
Newark’s mayor, who was
gunning for a spot in President Obama’s Cabinet, lost the chance after he shot
his mouth off during a blunderingly honest TV appearance last month, sources
told The Post.
“He’s dead to us,” one ranking administration official said of the
prevailing feelings at the White House and Obama headquarters in Chicago. . . .
. . .
Thinking highly of
Booker, Obama’s campaign asked him to appear on “Meet the Press” on May 20 to
act as a mouthpiece, but he proceeded to eviscerate one of the president’s key
campaign themes.
Booker told a national
TV audience the president’s attacks on Mitt Romney’s record at private-equity
firm Bain Capital were “nauseating” and made him “very uncomfortable.”
Now, a Clinton Liberal’s response and the rest of the story:
It is absolutely statistically provable that the GOP has become extreme where the Dems have stayed pretty much the same.
ReplyDeleteThe reality of the political situation is that Republicans have run off the rails and become extreme and obstructionist. This IS the view of a majority of Americans.
Much of this extremist is caused by fear, ignorance and misperceptions caused by misinformation. Smithson is an example of such an extremist.
Now it has been documented by Conservative constitutional scholars that the Republicans ARE the problem. American Enterprise Institute's Norman Ornstein's study affirms the fact...
Ornstein singles out the filibuster as a large part of the problem, because it is being “used routinely,” even on non-controversial legislation. However, he also pointed to Republicans voting even against their own bills in order to avoid giving President Obama anything that would look like a victory.
“Problem-solving used to be the name of the game,” he continued. “But problem-solving now — partly it’s the era of the permanent campaign — has taken a back sea to short-term victories.”
Mann added that any Republicans who were interested in problem-solving have left the party over the years, while those who remain are “vehemently ideological” and consider themselves to be “engaged in a holy war.”
Ornstein has described the Republican party as:
“an insurgent outlier … ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.”
Ornstein is no more a "Constitutional scholar" than is B Obama. He is an Establishment Republican. Go back and reread your talking points, dude. Norman Ornstein is labeled a "Congressional scholar," not a "Constitutional lawyer."
ReplyDeleteNorman Ornstein and Warren Mann believe in compromising Constitutional principles, view "science", including junk science, as sacrosanct, are dismissive of the legitimacy of conservative positioning, and, when compared to the historicity of this great nation, are, in fact, part of a one-time "implicit insurgency' that has crossed the "stealth" barrier and is now in full blown war against all that is has been held in high regard for 240 years of American history. November of 2012, is the beginning of the end for this bunch of Marxist Misfits. Indeed, we are involved in a holy war, but to pretend that only conservatives feel this sense of "holy" urgency is the bigger lie in your quote above. Maybe you missed the current news cycle, but Democrats are involved in an internal war of their own. Within that party, the Obama technocrats
and historically illiterate are every bit as non-comprising as anyone you can single out within the Conservative Movement.
With people like you, this Marxist paranoia we've seen before.... Joe McCarthy. It has transcended politics - in your case - into the delusional. For someone to be motivated as you to write this stuff - let alone believe it - speaks of a mental pathology: paranoid and delusional. A requirement of the delusional is to dismiss reality and evidence to create their own paranoid and threatening world rife with bad guys and conspiracies.
DeleteGet help. You're sick.