at home with the suicide bombers

[sheshe2]

The fact is that the Republicans have gone through the looking glass. They are no longer in the same reality the rest of us inhabit.

I’m not one given to hyperbole.

My boldest prediction has been that by their actions, by their brazenness, this iteration of the GOP is consigning itself to history’s dustbin, with which some people disagree.

But we have reached a point not faced by this Republic since the seven states of the Old Confederacy abjured their allegiance to the Constitution.

We have been mocking the hardliners among the House GOP as the “suicide caucus”. We’ve smugly assured ourselves that by their actions during the government shutdown they are dooming their party’s electoral chances for the foreseeable future.

But it has gone beyond a “suicide caucus”. It can now be accurately called a “suicide bomber caucus”.

It no longer merely wants to achieve a political victory. It wants to upturn our entire system of Constitutional government.

The rest~

http://theobamadiary.com/2013/10/09/at-home-with-the-suicide-bombers/#more-140546

[Cha]

1. Yes, of course, that's true.. we've seen evidence

building up to this. But, the teaKochs would be nowhere without the US corporatedmediawhores and the Kochs themselves. And, now they want to rein them in when they're seemingly in a position to bring down the USA Government?

From your link..

"I have no words of consolation save for these: Barack Obama is President. It’s a quirk of existence that history throws up the right person at the right place at the right time so that the human race manages to survive and thrive again after a great trauma. I can’t tell you where this will end, but if the Republic does manage to survive, and reinvigorate itself, it will be down to one man. This isn’t messianism. It is, really, blind luck. But sometimes luck is all we have to count on."

Thank you for the article from Liberal Librarian, she... another excellent writer at TOD~

Here's to a Good Luck Miracle, she~

[IrishAyes]

2. Great OP

I feel another letter to the newspaper coming on.

In order to make sure I don't even accidentally borrow too closely, what I do is to read an article, note the source, and then turn away to write my impression of the original, noting something in the manner of: "As I read in a fine article on __________ written by _______ , etc." and give a shortened account as well as my praises for the original.

I know that makes it legal, and I trust it's well inside the moral realm as well.

[sheshe2]

5. Thanks for hi-lighting that quote Cha~

Says a lot."Our consolation...Barack Obama is President"

BOG

[freshwest]

3. It is a marvel and consolation that Obama is in office now. As FDR said:

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

[sheshe2]

4. Great quote from FDR.

I love the graphic from U of Penn for the symposium too.

Thank you for sharing, freshwest

[freshwest]

6. Some people think it suspicious how fast Obama was elevated in the public eye. He is needed.

[sheshe2]

7. He surely is needed, freshwest.

However they can take their suspicions and......well you get the drift~