Having lived through the right-wing insanity of the Clinton years, I should have been better prepared for the insane response of the Republicans to a Democratic administration. For some stupid reason I guess I thought the Bush years woulda learned these people sumpthin’.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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It’s really something. The laws of incrementalism say it will only get worse.
It’s all far beyond ‘dog whistles’ now, and with the media playing into it the racists are having their day. I almost cannot wait until the riots break out.
nalbar
What’s insane is that Obama wants to compromise with these people. There’s only one way to handle a bully and it’s not compromise.
I just wonder .. if this is anything like Jackie Robinson’s rookie season was … and how long Obama will put up with it(and by that I mean .. when will he say screw it .. and go all single payer on us .. might as well .. since they’ll call him Socialist and what not no matter what he does) .. baseball fans know what I mean
It will get worse once someone makes an attempt on the President’s life.
It will get worse for them, especially if they succeed. Obama is a popular president, and if he was assassinated, he would be canonized overnight the way assassinated popular leaders always are. There would be massive public support for unleashing the full power of the state — its Bush-era powers ironically unchecked by the Obama administration — against the conservative remnant.
I’d like to think I’d be principled enough to speak out against it, but quite frankly, after eight years of Dubya and Guantanamo, while I don’t quite relish the prospect of sending the troops into the trailer parks, it’s hard to work up much enthusiasm for defending the rights of people who were so eager to strip others of theirs.
The roads to madness and chaos become more obvious all the time and while Rome burns the media dithers on regaling us with everything we don’t need to know about a host of irrelevant stories and people. Guess this empire is going to end more with a whimper than a bang.
“The media” should read “national media”.
It is very interesting how Obama uses local media when he does his Town Hall meetings. Most of those local media folks have no ambition of being the next David Gregory; by and large they report the event straight-up.
That is how Obama deal with the national media in his campaign and how he will deal with it governing–at least until it reforms itself.
For most folks, the national media is slowly becoming irrelevant to political discourse, no matter how fixated on it we are on the blogs.
The only problem with this is that most competent local paid media folks are getting laid off or leaving the industry, which at a local level is utterly collapsing, print and electronic alike. What’s mostly left is the young and pretty (and inexpensive), the lazy stenographers, and the ass-kissers. That might suit Obama’s purposes, but not ours.
That might be true, but the young and pretty do not dominate the local media to the point of making it completely worthless. And “The President comes to town.” coverage generally means some live coverage of the event because there is an interest in healthcare. And the event speaks for itself, because even the young and pretty are smart enough not to talk over the President. They know they’re not George Stephanopolous.
All of which means that the door isn’t completely closed locally, especially in the extremely small markets compared to the national media.
When it closes shut, we will just have to use our personal networks to get the news out; that seemed to work in Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe and seems to be doing something in Iran.
The subsequent “unrest” would make the French Revolution look like a tea party…
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And Watts a family brawl.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."The conservative entertainment industry still gets taken seriously by the Washington establishment and the mainstream media. Until such indulgence is taken away, why stop? Even places and people that would normally be considered policy oriented now exist solely as apologetic outfits, so as not to anger the God that is Rush.
With no real check on behavior there is no shame. With money pouring in, there is no need to care about electoral defeat.
Well said!
nalbar
what they learned was that there’s no penalty for cretinism.
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Is better equipped to adapt to recent failure of neocon power. Although there is military censorship, my favorite read are the op-eds in Israeli news outlets.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."What the Clinton and Bush years taught them is that it works for getting and keeping power even if you destroy the country.
But I think the public, even in the South, is beginning to get wise. The current insanity is a quantum notch up from the murder of Vince Foster, the black helicopters, and all that jazz because there are folks in Congress who don’t have the “restraint” of Tom Delay, Newt Gingrich, and Dick Armey.
The incredible statements have become a little bit too incredible even for the faithful. And severe recession changes the reception of the crap quite a bit.
Just remind car dealers that almost all Republicans outside Michigan were against the Cash for Clunkers program.
program? agree with your point (and on the local media upthread) – not just the severe recession, also the fact that they decided to make healthcare Obama’s “waterloo” and even stated as much. that was smart. We saw how well that was working as far as ppl’s perception of democrats goes in the q&as last week, e.g. at Kroeger’s. A person learns a lot by being a successful community organizer.
Ah, the restraint! I remember during the Contract With America days that Newt blamed Susan Smith’s drowning her two little boys on Bill Clinton’s immorality. Smith blamed it on mysterious “black carjackers”. Perhaps the same black men with backpacks that were breaking into Gates’ house.
Will the circle be unbroken?
Yep, compared to some of the rhetoric now, that was “restrained”.
You have no idea what is circulating through peer group networks.
Booman-you expect the impossible;
Jesse Ventura: They Spent 100 Million Dollars Investigating Clinton But Only 4 Million On 9/11!
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Providing some additional references and links to BooMan’s front page diary – Deep Thought on the insane response of the Republicans to a Democratic administration. See my diary – FreedomWorks and Armey’s Corporate Clients
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."it learned them that crazy works. It migh tnot be working quite as well as it used to, so they’re going to get crazier to compensate