A Year After Historic Gains, GOP Caucus in Disarray

[marmar]

from Washington Monthly, via AlterNet:



A Year After Historic Gains, GOP Caucus in Disarray


A year ago, congressional Republicans were an exuberant bunch. Riding high after massive midterm gains, and with President Obama’s approval ratings faltering, GOP leaders and rank-and-file members felt very good about themselves, their standing, their agenda, and their future.

A year later, Republicans aren’t smiling quite as often. Thanks to their style of “leadership,” the GOP-dominated Congress has seen the bottom fall out of its public support, while Obama’s numbers steadily improve. Republicans haven’t gotten anything done, and probably won’t have anything to show for the entire Congress by the end of the year.

This has not gone unnoticed by the GOP lawmakers themselves, and Jake Sherman reported late yesterday that Republicans are now fighting amongst themselves over just about everything.

A year to the day since Ohio’s John Boehner and 87 eager freshmen took Washington by storm, House Republicans are bruised from battle, irritated with each other and have lost trust in their leadership.

The president whose agenda they came to Washington to stop is vowing to spend the year scoring political points against Republicans now, and they don’t have much leverage against him. ................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/759868/a_year_after_historic_gains%2C_gop_caucus_in_disarray/

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Are we zoning in on the resposibility?

Winning is fun until your team screws you.

[muntrv]

2. Teabagging is irritating.

[opihimoimoi]

3. GOPer Mistake, Blunder, Boo Boo, fuck up.....letting amatuers into the Super Bowl Game....clearly

out matched, out played, and out witted....

It was TOO EASY....

The DEMs are so lucky to see the GOPers Selfdestruct with arrogant hubris in their public display.

[Major Hogwash]

4. I agree with this assessment 100%. They are totally discombobulated.

The tea party faction of the Republican party keeps putting a finger up in the air to gauge which way the wind is blowing. But, each one of them is so full of fartgas that they can't tell where all of the hot air is coming from.

The Presidential candidates they have this election cycle are acting like a group of spoiled, rich, snobbish boys who are on the 9th grade football team who didn't play more than 2 downs during the game. Their jerseys aren't dirty, they don't have any grass stains on the knees of their football pants, and their helmets are unscuffed. They've been running around for the last 10 months very similar to the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus in the "Twit Contest" sketch, and you have to wonder if they even know the camera has been on them the entire time.

Surely someone must have mentioned to them that cameras would be involved somewhere along the line after they announced they wanted to be the President of the United States.

And yet, even unto this day, they're still running around acting like they just won the game, even though the score was 28-3 when the game was over, and they are on the team that lost! Now they're snapping towels at each other's naked butts in the locker room, yukking it up amongst themselves, bragging to each other how hard they played in this game, and didn't their coach know how they almost saved the day when they nearly tackled that one guy who broke through their arm tackle like he wasn't even there.

They are the most immature, ill-prepared, smartass, know-it-all, psychological misfits I have ever had the displeasure of watching participate in a political debate on tv in my whole life. They are the biggest group of pathological liars I've ever seen gathered in one room at the same time ever before. The only one who has displayed any brains at all is Michele Bachmann. And that's only because she just dropped out of the race. Fully realizing, as the Chairwoman of the Tea Party Caucus in the House of Representatives, that the GOP's tea party faction is wholly despised by voting members of their own party!!

She realizes that doesn't she? She must, she's their leader in the House. She wanted to be their leader so bad that she jumped 3 feet in the air at the chance of creating a caucus group within the GOP party "just for them". It is a "member's only" group whose only qualification was their complete lack of understanding of just how the federal government functioned.

Now it's going to be interesting to see what the ridiculously named Tea Party Caucus offers during the next session of Congress. There is no way for them to recover from their ludicrous position of "just say no" to whatever President Obama wants. They can't do a 180-degree turnaround fast enough to walk back all of the absurdity of the last year that they have forced on to the American people.

Where are the jobs, Mr. Boehnor?

No answer yet, not even after e whole year.

Well, the few million jobs that have been created in the last year are a direct result of President Obama having to do an end run around the obstructionism of the past year pulled by the Republicans in Congress. Let this year's crop of GOP Presidential candidates defend that nonsense. Let 'em try!!

That would result in a crop failure of humongous proportions, and every damn farmer in the country knows it! Every grocer in the country knows it. Every teacher in the country knows it. Every student in the country knows it. Everyone who owns a refrigerator knows it. Everyone who eats knows it!!

It's not a secret -- obstructionism isn't going to stop President Obama from doing his level best to solve the problems created by President Bush and the complicit Republicans that were in Congress from January 2001 to January 2007.
It's just absurd for them to try and stop him, so they should can the "he's a socialist" crap, for crying out loud!!

[lovemydog]

5. they've been pathological liars for some time now

I hope voters recognize this and reject them at the next election. In Congress as well as the presidency.

[jimlup]

6. I wonder why the electorate faltered and went Reptilian in 2010...

I understand the political theory of it all but geez. I'm surprised that that many people were duped.

I guess typical democratic voters didn't turn out in the numbers we need and that is actually most of the problem.