Maureen Dowd has been supporting Leftist atrocities for… how many years now?

I’m not getting that vibe anymore. One good thing about the Obama presidency is the way the race card has been overplayed.
I can’t remember the comedian (Carlin?), but someone said that taboo subjects only have power because they’re forbidden. The more you use them, the less they mean.
O’s presidency has been like that, so that a Republican could go on MSNBC and mock, “I’m insulted…aren’t you going to call me a racist?”

Also, Obama’s stock is way down after the Syria thing. Nobody likes a loser, and it’s much safer to dogpile on him now than it ever was before.

They haven’t run out, fyi.

Even if the GOP had the spine and the will to fight, they would not be able to do so. Such is the strategic vise the Leftist alliance has engineered.

People underestimated them, called them clowns, talked about Ayers and Soros like they were regular fools or people spending money and never making any real change.

Well, here’s some real change for you.

All politicians are primarily worried about the next election, and they are in quivering fear of the PR nightmare of being branded “racist.” We see what Democrats do. We see what low-information voters inexplicably believe. We know it will happen – and so do GOP politicians who don’t plan to go home after the next election.

There is no other rational reason why a seasoned politician should pull punches on a topic, such as the Syrian conflict or Obamacare, in which there is demonstrable public support against the president’s position. Obama is able to take ever-more-absurd positions on things, because no one dares to oppose him.

That sounds like a great strategy, but who’s going to give that “Braveheart” speech? Boehner? McConnell?
Remember, this is not the first opportunity they’ve had to bash Obama over some folly or other. But as I keep saying, it’s a funny thing to have a Speaker of the House that can’t speak.
After 2012, it dawned on me that the real problem was that we needed to clean house and get rid of the deadwood in the Republican party first, before we could try to fix anything else.

The Republicans in Congress are incompetent and totally lacking in strategic sense. All they are doing is playing into the hands of the administration and its allies. They cannot govern with their present majority in the House while being in the minority in the Senate and not holding the Executive branch.

Time is on their side, but only if they are patient. They have made their point with repeated passage of bills the Senate will never consider. Now they need to require the Affordable Care Act to be enacted as the statute was passed, and do what they can to prevent President Obama from delaying or granting exceptions. Make them implement it now, to the original timeline. Let the voters feel the pain before the 2014 election, then contest the election as follows:

“Our party provided no votes for the passage of Obamacare, and voted repeatedly to repeal it, but veto threats and Senate non-cooperation prevented repeal. You now see how this badly flawed law hurts your families and will never give the promised benefits. Give us a new House majority, and a new Senate, and punish the Democrats who inflicted this harm on our nation and its people.”

Quit playing cutesy games that only turn people off, and let the system work the way it’s supposed to. If the voters accept their proposition, the new Congress can repeal the law and enact other changes to widen coverage and undo the damage, at least in part, let Obama take the heat for a veto if he dares. If the voters despite it all decide to keep the Democrats in a position to decide matters, then the public will have the outcome it wants, and unfortunately would then deserve.

Whether people believe it or not is immaterial to the reality of the Left’s utopia.

Most of said friends go out their way to work for teeny-tiny companies because big, for-profit companies are evil. They then complain incessantly about the inevitable downside of working for teeny-tiny companies, such as nonexistent benefits. This is one of the reasons that they were so jump-up-and-down-excited about Obama and Obamacare – the idea that they could continue to work for tiny companies and get cheap or free health care.

I work for a big company and have already seen the effect of Obamacare – higher costs for lower levels of coverage and service. Any rational observation of the cobbled-together mess that is Obamacare explains why this is inevitable. But my lefty-left friends, who are still working for tiny companies with no benefits, are still jumping up and down in excitement waiting for the free/cheap health care coverage they think they’ll be getting.

Unfortunately, when reality lets them down, instead of grudgingly accepting the root causes, they will simply blame Republicans, conservatives, the evil GOP and horrible for-profit insurance companies. It’s just how they are. I am truly beginning to wonder if any amount of obvious leftist-progressive stupidity leading to obvious consequences will be enough to slap them in the face with reality.