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Bill Kristol Begs Obama to Become a Republican
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Bill Kristol Urges Obama to Become a Republican
For a faction that spends so much of its time dissing Obama, the Right never stops trying to co-opt his inherent popularity and the general trust the American people have in his character. To that end, this morning Bill Kristol is begging Obama to become a Republican. Wouldn’t that give their faux populist bent some super cred that Michael Steele somehow never managed to pull off?
Oh, you think it’s unfair of me to assume that they’re just looking for some color cred and you’re right. Why, the diversity in the oxymoronic modern day Republican Party takes my breath away. Especially I love how they kept their promises to the Mama Grizzles, who are now running the world from what only appear to be powerless positions, but we all know that the kitchen rules the roost.
Here’s Bill on the November 14 edition of Fox Broadcasting Co.’s Fox News Sunday, finally figuring out how to solve the national crisis his party created. His solution? The President should bang his head against the same brick wall of failed ideas that the Republicans refuse to give up, regardless of reality! Who can say Bill doesn’t love America?
Video courtesy of Media Matters. mediamatters.org/mmtv/201…
As a way to deflect from the glaringly obvious upcoming civil war among Teapublicans (starring Mitch McConnell against tea paper dragon Jim DeMint) over earmarks and other awkward promises of fiscal conservatism they are already walking back (in their own districts, much as anti-choices are against abortion unless they need one), Kristol tossed out that Obama will join the Republican agenda, and things will be blissful:
“Republicans will be against earmarks, President Obama will be against earmarks and we’re going to have a wonderful moment of blessed bipartisan bliss. We’re gonna have agreement on extending current tax rates for three or four years, an agreement we shouldn’t have earmarks, agreement on spending cuts, agreement on prosecuting war in Afghanistan. We’re gonna have the Obama, Boehner, DeMint agenda for the next three or four months and it’s gonna be good for the country.”
You can hear Bill’s shaky breath on the exhale after he utters this most absurd Willie Wonka version of how government works when his Party only has one branch of government locked up. But don’t get mad, you know Republicans don’t do reality. Props to Bill, though, for daring to explain on Fox News that Obama doesn’t have totalitarian control of discretionary funding as some in his party are suggesting. Even these small drops of knowledge regarding how government actually works can be viewed as betrayal by the base, so good on ya’, Bill!
Thinkin’ on Bill’s plan, if you leave reality at the door, I have to agree. I mean what says I love my country more than signing on to continue policies that have brought your country to her knees, conceived of by men who brought down every sector of the economy during an 8 year dry drunk binge, who are still refusing recovery?
The only problem I see with this plan, Bill, is that the Republicans have no agenda. Remember? Ya’ll have a Contract on America that was slick and cute and oh so energizing, but it had no…. plan. Where’s the beef, Bill? Oh…that’s right. Bill probably wants Obama to just become a Republican so as to minimize this entire losing the 2008 election thing by a landslide because so far, what he’s proposing is extending unpaid for tax cuts for the wealthy and cutting spending…now, that would be fine and dandy if Republicans ever cut spending, but we all know they have a problem with their own sense of entitlement to our tax dollars. So, it’s kinda more of the same, Bill. More of the same ideas that drove us into this dark, dank ditch of despair.
Someone should tell Bill that winning the House of Representatives in the midterms against the incumbent presidential party during a recession isn’t exactly a mandate from the people, so the “Obama, Boehner DeMint agenda” is quite simply a pipe dream. Bill seems to forget that they didn’t win the Senate. Will someone please tap him gently when he wakes from his delusional stupor of entitlement and denial and remind him of the election results and maybe a quick Civics 101 refresher?
No, I think the President might do best to steer clear of Bill’s GOPPER Titanic jihad against America Contract. These “ideas” didn’t work for the last 40 years and I dunno, call me a cynic, but something tells me they’re not gonna work now. We were hoping for a real recovery, Bill. Not more failure. And since we only have another 6 years to balance the budget and get the economy moving before you clowns take over again, we’d really appreciate it if you would just sorta stay on the fringe where ya’ll live. You know, with your party leader, Ms Palin.
Smirking must be contagious in the GOP, because even after epic failure, they all still walk around with those impervious to reality, plastic Bachmann smiles. Only the crazy eyes give it all away. Thank goodness our President isn’t foolish enough to cater to Bill Krazy Kristol. Hey Bill, you do know that the President is just being courteous and hopeful when he asks what your ideas are? Because, you know, we all know that when he tries to implement your ideas, y’all vote against your own ideas just to prove that you’re still the man. And with leadership like that, it’s a wonder the American public refused you the Senate.
Have fun with your House o’ Crazy for the next two years, Bill. I’m afraid that’s all you’re likely to get. America is still waiting for the GOP to actually own up to even one of its failures. Until then, it’s sorta hard to trust you.
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8 Responses to Bill Kristol Begs Obama to Become a Republican
Anne
Nov. 14th, 2010 at 1:31 pm
I thought I’d heard and read it all, but this takes the cake in terms of goofy detachment from reality. The GOP used to be about something, but now it has degenerated into a state of derangement. If the president or any other Democrat went over to the side of Crazy, they would lose any and all respect I ever had for them. That would show they valued expediency over principles.
AFM
Nov. 14th, 2010 at 8:04 pm
Wow. The republicans and teapublicans are the party of delusion. Just when you think you heard everything. I hope Obama finally realizes he needs to move more to the left because he lost the people who voted for him. By the time the republicans and teapublicans get through the next 2 yrs I think the public will be ready to move back to the left and realize that government isn’t bad. Even the teapublicans scream at government yet they take advantage of all the government programs around. Just look at Bachmann.
JayInDallas
Nov. 14th, 2010 at 5:42 pm
I, for one, don’t give Kristol a moments thought. Perhaps because he constantly reminds me of how good a job he would have done if Heath Ledger had turned down the role of the Joker. It’s that meaningless sociopathic smirk of his.
My only issue is why does the media continue to promote the stars of political porn like Kristol? He doesn’t contribute anything meaningful to the debate over where this country needs to go and its blatantly obvious that he has absolutely nothing in common with anyone who actually agrees with what he says. The trend seems to be pure sensationalism. Coulter, Bachmann, Palin and the rest are a pox on the soul of this country.
Smarg
Nov. 14th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
What a stupid diatribe, Sarah.
Odumbo is not popular anymore. He has been exposed as a community organizer with a fatherless welfare constituency.
Please post something with more credibility, okay? Thanks.
Anne
Nov. 14th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
Troll alert!! Do you think you can post anything else but regurgitated nonsense that says absolutely nothing?
majii
Nov. 15th, 2010 at 11:53 am
Is your stupidity practiced or just inherent in your psychological make up? I think your dig about the president having a “fatherless welfare constituency” is a direct dig at African Americans and others who still support the president in spite of all of the lies that those like yourself have created and circulated about him in an attempt to deny his many accomplishments. I’m African American, over 50, hail from a two parent family, and still support President Obama, and there are millions of African Americans and others who fit my profile.
As a retired high school teacher, I know for a fact that African Americans are NOT the only segment of society in which you can find those who have children out of wedlock and children who don’t have fathers present in their homes. You really need to open your eyes. If you do, you’ll find that whites receive more of what you call “entitlement payments” or “welfare” than any other group in this country. The reason is simple: whites make up the majority of the population, and therefore, receive the largest amount of the money set aside for these payments. For example, where Social Security payments are concerned, whites come in #1, followed by Hispanics at #2, and African Americans at #3. Asians are at the bottom of the list in receiving these payments, so when you and the republicans advocate eliminating Social Security, you’re talking about affecting yourself and your other elderly family members’ ability to live well in their old age. For myself, I could live rather well without receiving one Social Security payment as I’ve planned rather well for my retirement with my pension and other investments. It’s never a good idea to lump every member of a particular group into the same category since you have NO way of knowing the status of each member of that group. When you do that, it is an indication of your flawed thinking and inaccurate conclusions based on the rankest, vilest type of racism and bigotry, and shows that you have no desire to know what the facts are and are only seeking to “score” some kind of point(s) for your own personal satisfaction, facts be damned. It must suck to be you.
You really need to find the source of your frustration. Could it possibly be that your life is not what it could/should be because of your own failings, and to cover up for your own shortcomings you have to find some innocent person/group to use as a scapegoat to make yourself feel better about yourself? It would seem that this is the case based on the fact that every one of your rants on this blog is an ad hominen attack and never a direct comment on the content of the posts. You need an intervention, and you need it ASAP.
Shiva (Moderator)
Nov. 15th, 2010 at 12:24 pm
One thing we can be sure of is this:
there will never be tax reform.
There will never be earmark reform.
the Republicans will never own up to their failed policies.
the Republicans will never stop presenting their failed policies.
Bill Kristol was one of the number one cheerleaders for the Iraq war. As far as I am concerned he is absolutely no credibility. Which is probably the reason that he is on Fox news.
Basheert
Nov. 15th, 2010 at 2:27 pm
I have to give Krystal credit. The man has NEVER EVER been right about anything. He has an awesome track record. Whatever he says is wrong. Always. All the time. He is the most consistently wrong individual in the entire world.
I love that he’s a Thuglican – he looks enviably dense constantly.
He makes me laugh…