Carville: GOP’s March To Folly
by Buck • Thursday, February 26th, 2009 - 7:25 pmExcellent commentary by James Carville regarding recent shrieks from members of the feckless republican party.
Tagged: Carville, GOP, Jindal, march to follyCommentary: Jindal leads GOP on a ‘march to folly’
(CNN) — Over the course of history, governments, political regimes and leaders have done some stupid things despite all arguments to the contrary, at times even against their own self-interest. [...]
Fast forward to 2009. The Republican Party has just suffered a bad but not unprecedented defeat. The U.S. economy is in shambles. And the patch of ground some leading figures in the GOP have chosen to occupy to rally back is to oppose expanded unemployment benefits in the middle of a recession. [...]
Gov. Jindal is being joined in this folly by Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, whose states have high jobless rates and could use the most economic assistance.
Worse, the right’s new hero is CNBC’s Rick Santelli, a man who on September 2, 2008, said the economy was healthy and blamed the business media for the financial crisis.
He has taken a similarly small, eroding patch of ground to mount a charge against the government’s recovery package by suggesting that the government should let more homes needlessly fall into foreclosure. [...]
Today’s Republican Party, the lowest-held political party in the history of modern polling, should be in agony. They have just committed a serious blunder, a folly have you.
February 26th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
Carville is as much as a koolaid serving whore as the rest of them. When I see or hear his voice it reminds me of that asshole who outed Valerie Plame, Robert Novack. Both are slimy to look at and make me queasy inside when I hear their whiny crybaby voices. Both are also married to politico pundits.
February 26th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
It's easy to say you are against the bailout when your state legislature can still accept it. Politicians will be playing self-interest politics all the way till we are eating rats in the street.
February 26th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Buck, I've come to mistrust Carville on most anything that comes out of his mouth. But I think on this, he's right on the mark.
Hope all is going well for you in NM. As always, nothing has changed around here.
Chicher, exactly. I used to tell people we're headed to being a slave nation. I think we're there now. I know that'll make some people laugh, but it's true.
February 26th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Yeah, but those people will laugh even when the shackles get bolted on.
February 26th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Carville's a hack, but here he's pretty on.
February 27th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Even a broken clock is correct twice a day.
February 27th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Did you ever consider providing a cliff for these lemmings to dive from?