Republicans are the problem

[SniperFire]

Republican extremism is scaring even hard core Republicans

Strict adherence to dogma, unwillingness to compromise, brinkmanship pushed to the limits all to force a position held by only a small percentage of the party

yawn.

Gallup: Twice As Many Conservatives As Liberals - Real Clear Politics – TIME.com

 

[rightwinger]

Fear fueling Republican extremism - CNN.com

. "In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party.
"The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.
"When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country's challenges."

ROFLMAO at the Simple mindedness of this Thread.

How else would you describe todays Republican Party?

 

[Dot Com]

lets not forget the corner they paint themselves into at the beginning of each term w/ their "pledge".

 

[SniperFire]

Fear fueling Republican extremism - CNN.com

. "In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party.
"The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.
"When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country's challenges."

ROFLMAO at the Simple mindedness of this Thread.

How else would you describe todays Republican Party?

'Fact Sheet: December 2007 Marks Record 52nd Consecutive Month of Job Growth

More Than 8.3 Million Jobs Created Since August 2003 In Longest Continuous Run Of Job Growth On Record


White House News
In Focus: Economy
Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released new jobs figures – 18,000 jobs created in December. Since August 2003, more than 8.3 million jobs have been created, with more than 1.3 million jobs created throughout 2007. Our economy has now added jobs for 52 straight months – the longest period of uninterrupted job growth on record. The unemployment rate remains low at 5 percent. The U.S. economy benefits from a solid foundation, but we cannot take economic growth for granted and economic indicators have become increasingly mixed. President Bush will continue working with Congress to address the challenges our economy faces and help facilitate long-term economic growth, job growth, and better standards of living for all Americans.

The U.S. Economy Benefits From A Solid Foundation

Real GDP grew at a strong 4.9 percent annual rate in the third quarter of 2007. The economy has now experienced six years of uninterrupted growth, averaging 2.8 percent a year since 2001.


Real after-tax per capita personal income has risen by 11.7 percent – an average of more than $3,550 per person – since President Bush took office.


Over the course of this Administration, productivity growth has averaged 2.6 percent per year. This growth is well above average productivity growth in the 1990s, 1980s, and 1970s.


The Federal budget deficit is down to 1.2 percent of GDP (in FY07), well below the 40-year average. Economic growth contributed to the highest tax revenues on record and a $250 billion drop in the deficit over the last three years.


U.S. exports in October 2007 were 13.7 percent higher than exports in October 2006.
The President Will Continue Working With Congress To Address Challenges And Help Keep Our Economy Sound'


Fact Sheet: December 2007 Marks Record 52nd Consecutive Month of Job Growth

And then came.... Pelosi.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Republican extremism is scaring even hard core Republicans

Strict adherence to dogma, unwillingness to compromise, brinkmanship pushed to the limits all to force a position held by only a small percentage of the party

Read the following keeping in mind what conservatives have posted in this thread and in the forum overall:

Modern American conservatives often refer to their movement as a ‘three-legged stool’: one leg is the libertarian/free market; the second leg is the national security/militaristic state; the third leg is religion and cultural traditionalism. If the kind of romantic disruption I saw in Gray and Luttwak was propping up two of the three legs of the stool – I’ve since come to believe it props up the religion/cultural traditionalism leg as well – perhaps it’s more central to the conservative tradition as a whole than I or others had realized.

So I went back and started reading and teaching the canon of conservative thought. And once you have this partiality to disruption and agonistic struggle in mind, you begin to see it all over the place: in Burke’s moral psychology and counterrevolutionary writings; in Maistre’s attack on the French Revolution; in the slaveholder’s defense; in Nietzschean and post-Nietzschean thought; in fascism; and in the mobilization of the free market ideal against communism, socialism, and the welfare state.

I’ve come away from all of this convinced that conservatism is not really about conservation at all – except in one sense: the conservation of established relations of hierarchy and privilege. But what matters there is not the conservation per se – in fact, as I show in my book, conservatives will turn the world upside down in order to turn it right side up – but the hierarchy/privilege.

[C]onservatism is a theory, a moral and political argument, of hierarchy and elitism, which believes that all that is good in the world – all that is fine and beautiful and superior and excellent – is the product of not only superior people but superior people presiding over a society of unequals. Inequality, in their minds, is the condition of greatness – individual greatness and the contributions that greatness makes to all of civilization.

[E]xperiencing or identifying oneself as a victim…is a consistent feature of conservative thought. Regardless of whether the ideologue or camp follower of conservatism sees him or herself as a victim, the idea of victimhood plays a critical part in conservatism.

Philip Pilkington: The Reactionary Mind

Perfectly spot-on.

 

[Annie]

Extreme partisans from both the Democrat and Republican Parties are the problem. The tea partiers are not part of the Republican Party, though some that claim to be conservatives aren't. The violent OWS's are though, fully part & parcel and embraced by the DNC.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

But the earth is going to end if O doesn't get trillions more for his spending.

 

[blackhawk]

Fear fueling Republican extremism - CNN.com

. "In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party.
"The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.
"When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country's challenges."

ROFLMAO at the Simple mindedness of this Thread.

How else would you describe todays Republican Party?

As people who believe in the free market system for taking personal responsibility for ones life and actions and for helping people to get back on their feet when they are down but not supporting them indefinitely. I see nothing extreme or radical in this.