Why is Anyone Litening to GOP--Herbert Spot on OpEd

[Still Sensible]

Bob Herbert in the NY Times

What’s up with the Republicans? Have they no sense that their policies have sent the country hurtling down the road to ruin? Are they so divorced from reality that in their delusionary state they honestly believe we need more of their tax cuts for the rich and their other forms of plutocratic irresponsibility, the very things that got us to this deplorable state?

(snip)

The question that I would like answered is why anyone listens to this crowd anymore. G.O.P. policies have been an absolute backbreaker for the middle class. (Forget the poor. Nobody talks about them anymore, not even the Democrats.) The G.O.P. has successfully engineered a wholesale redistribution of wealth to those already at the top of the income ladder and then, in a remarkable display of chutzpah, dared anyone to talk about class warfare.

(snip)

When the G.O.P. talks, nobody should listen. Republicans have argued, with the collaboration of much of the media, that they could radically cut taxes while simultaneously balancing the federal budget, when, in fact, big income-tax cuts inevitably lead to big budget deficits. We listened to the G.O.P. and what do we have now? A trillion-dollar-plus deficit and an economy in shambles.

This is the party that preached fiscal discipline and then cut taxes in time of war. This is the party that still wants to put the torch to Social Security and Medicare. This is a party that, given a choice between Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan, would choose Ronald Reagan in a heartbeat.

Why is anyone still listening?

Here's the link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/opinion/27herbert.html?_r=1&hp

[Skittles]

1. DAMN F***ING STRAIGHT

stick it to 'em Obama; tell 'em WE WON NOW SHUT THE FUCK UP

[snot]

2. Because they own the media.

[Doctor_J]

8. Ding Ding

Yep. They're the only ones who get any air time. Boner's on TV more than the geiko caveman and gecco put together.

Bring down Big Media, and much of the country's ills will soon be healed.

[tom_paine]

9. Smplistically said, but true nonetheless. n/t

[bobd0]

3. K&R We should ALL email Herbert's column to every Republican in congress. nt

[struggle4progress]

7. Why? Let the bozos figure out for themselves that no one is listening

If it takes then eight or ten years, so much the better

[bobd0]

11. Just to burn their asses. nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Bob Herbert is right fucking on!

K&R

The damn Republicans need to STFU.

[FrenchieCat]

5. You'd think they won something, when they didn't win shit.....

They should be kissin Prez Obama's feet considering how gracious he has been...to their ingrateful asses.

McCain was up there plugging his economic plan this past Sunday as though someone forgot to tell him that the election was over back in November.

[Seldona]

6. I disagree. I think we should pay close attention to repugs,

and do the exact opposite of what they say. LOL

[acmavm]

10. Because Obama insists that he need 'bi-partisan' support on

everything.

And most of our dem reps in the House and Senate are GOP lite.