VIDEO REPORT: Conservatives’ 100 Days Of Opposition
VIDEO REPORT: Conservatives’ 100 Days Of Opposition
In the first 100 days of the Obama presidency, the conservative movement has undergone a period of radicalization. From knee-jerk opposition to the President’s policies, to petty insults and conspiracy theories aimed at smearing Obama, to the embrace of the radical tea party protests, the Republican party has responded by lurching further to the right. ThinkProgress’s Victor Zapanta compiled a video report on the radical right’s 100 days of opposition. Watch it:
In pivoting to the extreme right, the Republican party has all but abandoned moderates and independents. Yesterday, Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter left the party to become a Democrat, and today, Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) warned that “being a Republican moderate sometimes feels like being a cast member of ‘Survivor.’”
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Hey KKKarl Rove, how’s that ‘permanent Rethuglic party majority’ working for you these days?
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April 29th, 2009 at 11:29 amRepublicans based their ideology on the theory that they could fool ENOUGH of the people, ENOUGH of the time.
Almost.
April 29th, 2009 at 11:34 amKeep it up wingnuts. You can have your base of religious nuts and KKK haters. We’ll take the reasonable Americans off your hands. Maybe you guys are really on to something.
April 29th, 2009 at 11:37 amLooks like the Regressive Party of No is about to go super nova! It is now blowing off moderate layers and will soon be just a cold shell and some radioactive isotopes flitting about aimlessly, throwing off x-rays and blaiming Clinton and Obama for the universe’s woes.
April 29th, 2009 at 11:44 amRecent Senate Votes
Confirmation of Christopher R. Hill to be Ambassador to the Republic of Iraq – Vote Confirmed (73-23, 3 Not Voting)
The Senate confirmed Christopher Hill to be the Ambassador to Iraq.
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison voted YES……
Sen. John Cornyn voted NO……
Recent House Votes
COPS Improvements Act of 2009 – Vote Passed (342-78, 12 Not Voting)
The House authorized this five-year, $1.8 billion bill funding the Community Oriented Policing Services grant program.
Rep. Jeb Hensarling voted NO……
Other than KBH who’s up for re-election, my local reps have done NOTHING but vote AGAINST virtually every piece of legislation to come through this year.
Stupid fcuking partisan hacks, and sore losers to boot.
April 29th, 2009 at 11:46 amThe more these guys talk, the more they separate themselves from mainstream America.
April 29th, 2009 at 11:47 amYesterday, after reading some insane letter some insane Republican had written to Obama, I thought about why the far right has becomes so insane. And I don’t mean that as a perjorative – but quite literally. They shoot people, imagine things that aren’t real, get hysterical to the point of hyperventilation, etc.
I realized that these people are not used to those of us on the Left standing up to them. So, I think that they are doing what they always do – just a lot more of it, with the volume turned louder.
The Radical Right truly has become a home-grown terrorist group.
April 29th, 2009 at 11:47 amOff topic, but in rebuttal to Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) correlation of the swine flu outbreak to Democratic presidents, I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s that the corruption of our justice and intelligence agencies for partisan politics broke out then under Republican Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H W Bush, and George W Bush. And I’m not blaming this on President George W Bush, I just think it is an interesting coincidence.
Just wondering…
April 29th, 2009 at 11:48 amWhat is too hilarious to me is how they’ve managed to screw themselves with all of their obstructionist, negative behavior. ROTFL! I laughed so hard yesterday when Arlen Specter defected. That was icing on my cake. Too sweet!
April 29th, 2009 at 11:50 amThe Republican Party has become nothing more than a reactionary party that’s only response is to say ‘no’ and not offer any alternatives.
Is it any wonder that, like a rotten onion, layer after layer is peeling off until, ultimately, all that is left is a rotten core.
April 29th, 2009 at 11:52 am“A Centurnia of Waaaah”.
April 29th, 2009 at 11:55 amRantingTommy Says: Republicans based their ideology on the theory that they could fool ENOUGH of the people, ENOUGH of the time.
Precisely why they hate the internet so much – it’s an unfettered bastion of information that has educated so many Americans. Once educated, a population cannot help but become more Liberal. All one has to do is look at all other Westernized nations with quality socialized education systems that provide ALL students an equal opportunity to learn.
Capitalistic Conservatism as we knew it is dead. And the internet killed it.
April 29th, 2009 at 11:56 am“You put your reich foot in and you shake it all about, that’s what I call balling the jack… You put your other reich foot in and shake it all about, that’s what I just called balling the jack…”
Loony toons for a loony reich-wing world…
April 29th, 2009 at 11:59 amrepublicans keep forgetting…the tribe has spoken.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:01 pmIn the words of Boz Scaggs:
Why can’t you just get it through your head? It’s over, it’s over!
PEACE
April 29th, 2009 at 12:03 pmOne of the editors on Americablog is thanking all the Fox employees, and Boehner, McConnell, Rove, Limbaugh, Coulter et al. for their assistance in turning people away from the republican party.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:05 pmSend in the clowns, there ought to be clowns. . .
Don’t bother they’re here
April 29th, 2009 at 12:06 pm.
Good one!
Gotta give the Repukelickin’s a break this week, though. They all have the right-wing-swine flu.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:11 pm.
Marie Says:
Lol see Democrats are very nice people
April 29th, 2009 at 12:12 pmDid anyone see Lincoln Chafee on Rachel last night talking about the very real possibility of a third party emerging?
Go for it, GNOPers! You can fight over your members while the Democrats try to fix what you’ve done, beginning with Reagan.
PEACE
April 29th, 2009 at 12:15 pmPresident Obama and the Americans song should be ” We’ll still standing better then ever”. Remember that song by Billy Joel. The President must be doing some right, we’ve not in the dark anymore anyway.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:16 pmLooking forward to viewing, Part II: Conservative’s 100 Days of Any Solutions?
The below quote came to mind in looking at this video:
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:16 pm-Immanuel Kant
We can’t be sure if it’s the cause, too anecdotal. It is possible that one had to be truly crazy to begin with to fall for the crap the “Rebubes” have been feeding them. NOTE, I refuse to call them Rebublicans or the Republican Party until they stop call it the Democrat Party.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:20 pmunbelievable says:
Knowledge IS power. :-)
April 29th, 2009 at 12:27 pmMan…
That tape is funnier than a Three Stooges retrospective…
Hmmm… come to think of it, didn’t I see Larry and Moe in there somewhere?
April 29th, 2009 at 12:27 pmspencers mom: A Boz Scaggs reference — and now that song is stuck in my head for the day; well done!!
Here’s another one for you, that seems to fit the repukes just as well: “It’s a sad, sad scene; it’s a dirty lowdown…”
April 29th, 2009 at 12:28 pmWasn’t there some nonsense about the party of a thousand years?
April 29th, 2009 at 12:32 pmOh, never mind, that was Hitler…
I’m interested in what fault lines they could fracture across to create some number of third parties.
As I see it, they’ve got four main groups:
April 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pmB!tches for the Rich
Libertarians
Biblethumpers
Warmongers
George W. Bush has done more for the progressive movement than anyone.
These people are just flotsam in his wake.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:50 pmThey still have their “Audacity of Nope” and that`s all they have…………not to mention the three stooges of Govs and Flush,Beckey and insannity and Billo.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:55 pmElBruce Says
April 29th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
As I see it, they’ve got four main groups:
B!tches for the Rich
Libertarians
Biblethumpers
Warmongers
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You forgot bigots, their fifth group. While that group does shrink slowly over the years, it’s still all too viable. The xenophobes, homophobes, and misogynists are all included in this group (although some of the homophobes can be lumped in with the biblethumpers).
April 29th, 2009 at 1:00 pmExcellent list ElBruce!
I would add a significant subgroup that keeps the rest of these in power, and that’s the average Americans who’ve been so misinformed by fearmongering.Because they feel the democratic party and liberal ideology will be so harmful to the United States, they vote out of fear and a cynicism that’s been so effectively communicated.
I would say President Obama and the grassroots campaign, coupled with the economic crisis has really made some progress in this important group.
April 29th, 2009 at 1:02 pmIt was much the same with Bill Clinton, except the smears were all you heard.
April 29th, 2009 at 1:03 pmThe repubes hate themselves some black man.
April 29th, 2009 at 1:07 pmI’m sincerely hoping that this “100 days” part just ends without that big of a deal. I mean, you have every single media outlet judging Obama’s administration on a short-term performance, even though the non-apologist pundits out there claim that history will judge Bush.
With all that is happening in the world during these first hundred days, I don’t think anyone has the time to judge, let alone have the right to do it. It’s an arduous task. Save report cards for the election cycles.
April 29th, 2009 at 1:11 pmIt scares me that I know so many people who still proudly consider themselves Republicans, and embrace every one of the hate-filled talking points FOX spouts out.
We cannot become complacent. There are so many out there waiting for their chance to strike.
April 29th, 2009 at 2:00 pmRepublicans have nothing to offer except hatred, racism, greed, and more tax cuts for the rich.
April 29th, 2009 at 2:16 pmWhy won’t the republicans realize that the Rove calculus of getting votes wherever they come from including the vocal extreme right wingers has caused the implosion of their party?
April 29th, 2009 at 2:21 pmThe party is now lead by a mobster wannabe Limbaugh. Excellent, just follow that blowhard drug addict off the cliff. Oh, by the way, he won’t be taking that trip over the edge with you, he is booked for a sex junket to the Dominican Republic with some other doughy fiends and a gym bag full of ill-gotten Viagra and other such recreational aids for the pathetic among us.
April 29th, 2009 at 5:36 pmWhat are they down to now? 21%. The Republican base is the rice in the coconut trap. The GOP actors are one angry monkey.
April 29th, 2009 at 6:13 pmYglesias linked to an interview with President Obama in the NYT.
April 29th, 2009 at 7:29 pmOK, in deference to misscoleopteramolly and Realness, there are actually six groups within what is currently known as “the right wing.”
1. B!tches for the Rich
2. Libertarians
3. Biblethumpers
4. Warmongers
5. Idiots
6. Bigots
However, #5 only works for one of the other groups. They have no aims of their own, but they’re useful tools for someone else (usuallly #1).
#6 is still trying to fly under the radar, so they’ll gladly infiltrate any other group. However, they’re well aware of what happens to them when they organize openly on their own.
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