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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBill Moyers: Tea Partiers ‘have sucked the last bit of soul’ from GOP
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/07/bill-moyers-tea-partiers-have-sucked-the-last-bit-of-soul-from-gop/Bill Moyers laid into Republicans in a blistering critique on Moyers & Company on Friday, particularly former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA), whom he accused of using his platform as a CNN host to egg the party on in the ongoing government shutdown in spite of its harmful effects on the U.S.
At least lets name this for what it is sabotage of the democratic process. Secession by another means. Moyers said. And lets be clear about where such reckless ambition leads. As surely as night must follow day, the alternative to democracy is worse.
Meanwhile, Tea Party Republicans and their rich supporters, Moyer argued, have sucked the last bit of soul from the Grand Old Party of Abraham Lincoln, turning them first delusional, then rabid, with the aid of conservative mouthpieces like Fox News and multi-millionaire fabulist Rush Limbaugh.
Moyers also blasted the GOP for taking their opposition to the Affordable Care Act and related demands to extremes that threaten to damage the U.S. as a whole.
When the president refused to buckle to their extortion, they threw their tantrum, Moyers said. Like the die-hards of the racist South a century and a half ago, who would destroy the Union before giving up their slaves, so would these people burn the place down, sink the ship of state, and sow economic chaos to get their way. This says it all: they even shuttered the Statue of Liberty.
Watch Moyers call the Republicans out, as aired on Moyers & Company on Friday, below.
http://vimeo.com/76122572
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Bill Moyers: Tea Partiers ‘have sucked the last bit of soul’ from GOP (Original Post)
Playinghardball
Oct 2013
OP
We have lost so many old school JOURNALISTS, what are we going to do....
Rebellious Republican
Oct 2013
#6
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)1. K&R
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)2. So true.
I've been an admirer of the the way Bill sees things for years.
And he continues to get it right here.
Jim Warren
(2,736 posts)3. In trouble tossed times such as we're living through
with all it's confusion, it's good to have a signal fire like Moyers to know one is on the right course.
May you live long Mr. Moyers and know your work is appreciated.
lastlib
(23,241 posts)4. One of the great Texas treasures, that man!!
Along with Molly, Ann, and Barbara!
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,010 posts)5. Yep
In spite of Cruz, Goehmert, Nuebarger and Perry there are still intelligent people from Texas.
Rebellious Republican
(5,029 posts)6. We have lost so many old school JOURNALISTS, what are we going to do....
when we lose Bill.
Yes I am older, true JOURNALISTS are a thing of the past!
Uncle Joe
(58,364 posts)7. Well that couldn't have been more than a light appetizer.
Bill Moyers: Tea Partiers have sucked the last bit of soul from GOP
The soul leeches are probably still hungry, watch your; back Democratic Congress People it would probably be best to use the restroom in groups of at least two or more.
Thanks for the thread, Playinghardball.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)8. Tea Party/GOPee, from 2012:
LET HIM DIE!
LET HIM DIE!
LET HIM DIE!
LET HIM DIE!
LET HIM DIE!
ffr
(22,670 posts)9. An unfiltered looking glass into our system.
Refreshing and informing.
"Call it what it really is; secession by other means."
Well said, all!