‘We’ll take her head off every day’
I’ve long believed that both of the major parties have relative strengths, but the last several years have put both sides in roles for which they were poorly suited. Republicans are in their element, for example, when they’re in the minority, railing against the majority, and complaining about government. Putting the GOP in the majority was an uncomfortable fit — they’re not about governing; they’re about complaining about government.
Likewise, Dems are lousy political bomb-throwers. They want to work on policy matters, hold hearings, pass bills … you know, govern. Put them in the minority and they’re lost. In this sense, the 2006 elections simply put things right.
And now that the GOP has lost its power, Republicans are ready to show Dems a thing or two about how to be a merciless minority party.
Looks like the Republicans in the House aren’t planning to play nice-nice with the Democrats after all. The emerging House Republican plan on how to address the new Democratic majority is turning toward an aggressive effort to portray Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi and her team as out of touch and liberal.
“Come January, we’ll take her head off every day,” said a top GOP aide involved in the planning. “It will be a pure war of ideas over the next two years.” […]
“We are going to re-establish that we are the party of ideas, that they got elected in a fluke, and we’re going to make that known every day, every way,” said the official.
And when Republicans pledge to take Pelosi’s “head off every day,” I’m sure they mean that in a strictly policy-oriented way, right?
Meet the new congressional GOP, slightly uglier than the old congressional GOP….
Surprised?
So much for the loyal opposition.
“We are going to re-establish that we are the party of ideas…”
Sure you are.
Impractical, stupid ideas that even you won’t bother to try to implement when you are in power. But lots and lots of ideas.
After all, what are all those conservative think tanks for if not coming up with ideas.
You know, like the idea that invading Iraq with a murderous military assault is just the way to establish democracy in the Middel East.
As opposed to say insisting the Kuwaitis out to embrace democracy in exchange for our liberating them in 1990?
Nope, I’m not surprised.
Meet the new congressional GOP, slightly uglier than the old congressional GOP…. —-CB
And if it were possible, slightly stupider. It sure would be nice if these guys would accept defeat and try to figure out where they went wrong, so they could do their job. Two more years of their BS? Incredible. Their gerrymandering is our pain.
Now that the Repubs don’t have to play defense they are going to reach new levels of nasty. I don’t think we can prepare ourselves for how bad it will be.
Hey Republican’ts -
Here’s an idea for you, go Cheney yourselves then STFU.
This should be the end of the “bi-partisan” crap. Treat the thugs (that’s Republicans) just like they treated the Dems during the Repub reign.
Republicans are such fascist scum.
“We are going to re-establish that we are the party of ideas…”
Sure you are.
Impractical, stupid ideas that even you won’t bother to try to implement when you are in power. But lots and lots of ideas. — Lance
Not to mention the fact that they were/are ideas that no one liked or agreed with, which might be helpful if you are trying to get elected.
By the way, Rush was spouting off about the “fluke” thing today, along with the usual “conservative Democrat” talking point, etc.
Wanna bet that this “top GOP aide” is a 25 year old spoiled rich kid, has never had a real job, and thinks war is just like the video games he plays?
We are going to re-establish that we are the party of ideas, that they got elected in a fluke, and we’re going to make that known every day, every way
See, this is how you liberals should think and talk. When we do so good like in the November elections, it’s not because of those of you who can’t shut up about how terrible regular people are, and how nothing can be done, and there’s nothing to do but sit around with your hands in your laps waiting for some Republican to show up and tell you what to do, no thank you very much.
“Come January, we’ll take her head off every day,” said a top GOP aide involved in the planning. “It will be a pure war of ideas over the next two years.” […]
“We are going to re-establish that we are the party of ideas, that they got elected in a fluke, and we’re going to make that known every day, every way,” said the official.
This assumes that the public will immediately suffer from amnesia on January 2. Somehow, I think that investigations into the conduct of the war and Jack Abramoff’s singing like a canary will keep the Republicans into the spotlight. And it won’t be pretty.
This also shows how stupid these people really are. They have not learned the lessons of 11/7.
“By the way, Rush was spouting off about the “fluke” thing today, along with the usual “conservative Democrat” talking point, etc.” - mikem
Wow! A Fluke! I suppose when you are losing a war that’s now a Fluke?
And now that they’ve lost Jim Webb as a “conservative Democrat” I suppose all we need to do is have Testor spit in Cheney’s eye and that meme will die the death it deserves.
This also shows how stupid these people really are. They have not learned the lessons of 11/7. D.A.
Yep, instead of the old “pre 9/11″ meme we used to always hear, we should use “that’s so pre 11/7 thinking” on them. It even has a nice ring to it…
In 1994 when the the Republicans won the Congress, they were the new restaurant in town with the exotic cuisine. Today, the Republicans have become tiresome, boring, and “stale.” The novelty has worn off. That’s not “a fluke.” Warmongering, boorish, over-spending, big-brother government is not a positive agenda.
I’m sure George Will (you shut up?) read this and (after he finished swooning over such a horrid comment) sat down to type a column decrying the lack of civility from this ReThuglican…
[crickets chirp]
Just as I’m sure that if a Democratic aide made a similar comment about a member of the ReThuglican minority…that felt good…Rethuglican minority, the ReThugs wouldn’t fall over themselves screaming blue murder and asking for investigations, recriminations and evacuations. Freaks.
When I read crap like that I want to rush down to the Capitol and dance around chanting “Ha ha, we won, you lost, nanny-nanny boo-boo!” But we’ve already got enough bad losers running about without being bad winners. Really. I mean that. Gloating at the Rethuglican MINORITY, is wrong.
Dems cannot possibly play the Repub game — it’s impossible for anyone not at that level to stoop to their level. The only way to triumph is for Dems to act like adults, and let the country see what petulant, (feel free to add your own string of adjectives) the Repubs are. Let them marginalize themselves in their race to ever lower standards of conduct. Just one guy’s opinion.
“Come January, we’ll take her head off every day,” said a top GOP aide involved in the planning.
Yeah, well while you’re trying that you better watch your balls. Pelosi knows how to handle them.
Republicans have ideas?
I was a member of a book club once in a small mostly Republican community…not one of the book club members was a Republican. We all thought that to be interesting. And one of the members who belonged to yet another club in a neighboring area…said that none were Republicans in that club either. Small annecdotal sampling…but perhaps suggestive that any ideas out of the Republican party are top down (authoritarian) rather than bottom up (thinking and reading for themselves).
Yeah, well while you’re trying that you better watch your balls.
And now Rep. Pelosi will perform her rendition of The Anvil Chorus, scored for screeching ReThugs getting their goolies flattened.
Not that I’m gloating or anything. That would be wrong.
Republicans in 08. 99% yarble-free.
It is delusional for Dems to expect the GOP to be bipartisan. It takes two to tango and the GOP only want to slam dance. The GOP is the ultimate Disloyal Opposition. They only know how to cheat and bully and whine and prevaricate, sending others off to war while they evade combat.
Pass the barf bags, please.
You have a shitty posting setup here…
As though the GOP has ever had any ideas that would do anything but cause this nation to flounder. They have no ideas.
Oh yeah, the Democrats don’t have Mark Foley, lies to get us into a war, illegal invasions, surveillance, and on-and-on…take her head off? They wish, dream-on.
Elected in a fluke. Yeah. That’s what they call a working electiony these days. A “Fluke.” Bet they wanna get back to the Boss Tammany way of doing things.
Petty little children who should be SPANKED. WWAAAAAAA!! MOMMY!!!! We LOST!!!! Can we pull the teachers pig tails??!! MOMMY!!!!!!! WWWWWWWAAAAAAAAA!!!!
These “adults” in the GOP need to grow UP.
As others have noted, their ideas suck.
Privatize Social Security? Nuh-uh.
Launch wars of pre-emption because it makes the Deciderer feel like his junk is bigger that Daddy’s? Nope.
Completely unmoor wealth from taxation? Uh, no.
Build a big-ass wall along the Rio Grande? I think not.
Demonize and brutalize gays, immigrants and Muslims? That’s not America at its best.
What else do they have? Their “majority” was never about any positive ideas, and the negative ideas that they had–small government, healthy skepticism as to spending and “big ideas,” they’ve run away from as part of a Faustian bargain to stay in power.
They’ve really got nothing.
“Come January, we’ll take her head off every day,” said a top GOP aide involved in the planning. “It will be a pure war of ideas over the next two years.” […]
‘pubs, having a “war of ideas”? With Pelosi??? I don’t think so; fighting an un-armed opponent is so… soo… ‘publican. I doubt she’d lower her standards that much.
Let’s see—the GOP invented no-debate; they created limited discussion; they instigated the policy of not giving everyone a copy of legislation before voting, and a host of other dirty tricks.
Has this “top GOP aide” thought about what happens to the GOP if Dems take these big guns of single-sided legislating—and turn them on the GOP?
I smell an extinction event in the making….
Republicans positing a “war of ideas” remind me that it’s generally thought unfair to pick on an unarmed opponent - which is why I never engage in argument with Republicans.
These guys have no clue about Pelosi. Fortunately, none of them go to San Francisco (whatever’s there, it might be “catching”) so they have no understanding of what San Francisco (and Bay Area) politics are like - none of them would survive in that gladiator school. It won’t be the anvil chorus crushing their balls, it will be a scalpel blade so sharp they’ll never know how their gonads ended up nailed on the wall (that’s assuming that once you pull down their pants you find they have any).
I hope the constituents of the Republicans who plan their daily symbolic beheading of Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi will tell their representatives to grow up or else grandmother Nancy will put these fools in their rightful place–the corner.
to the former GOP congress and their master frat boy:
from top to bottom
we will spend every waking moment
torturing them for their sins
crimes against democracy
singeing their flesh
fileting their backsides
THEIR PAIN WILL BE LEGENDARY
THEIR DEMISE ABSOLUTE
Pelosi has more balls in her one pinky than all the GOP combined.
But keep talkin’ shit… it’s not like you’re in power, and it’s not like it will make any difference.
This is status quo for the GOP — forget about legislating anything helpful for the country. It’s all about the gaining the majority!
“Fluke”? More like the whole damn whale!
“We are going to re-establish that we are the party of ideas…”
almost all of them illegal, immoral, unconstitutional, and/or just plain bone-headed.
I guess it was also a fluke that not a single sitting Democrat lost his or her seat in either house? Sure it was, Rush. And just wait for ‘08………
And I’d leave the rules that the republicans used against the Democrats in place, not for payback as much as because if let loose the minority will do nothing but make mischief. This group of republicans can’t be trusted to act in good faith (look at who they elected for their leadership, ffs) and shouldn’t be given the benefit of the doubt at all. And junior has already shown that he has no interest in working constructively with the Democrats in the coming two years.
Republicans will fight the Democrats at every turn so the majority might as well make it easier for them to govern effectively by neutering the republicans as much as possible. Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid have enough work ahead trying to undo the damage done these past six years without getting all tangled up with republican obstruction and stupidity. Just push them to the side and get going. And let it be known that that’s what you’re doing. Start governing and getting things done for the people and they’ll make their own comparisons. Like I said, just wait for ‘08………
And when the minority party has shown it’s willing to act in good faith and responsibly (if ever) start giving them priviledges again. Kind of like what one does with unruly children.
If Republicans are the party of ideas, then Democrats are the party of results,
We the people have heard the “ideas” of the GOP:
keep the minimum wage low; restrict access to healthcare; kill lots of people in Iraq; subvert the Constitution.
These are unpopular ideas and unpopular policies; I hope the Republicans keep running on them…because they’re idiotic and treasonous.
Americans like things to get done, and done right. Being the party of ideas doesn’t matter, since, when given the chance to act on those ideas, all they did was get us into a stupid war and enrich their friends, while letting the people of New Orleans drown. Once it became clear they were incompetent, people started questioning their ideas as well.
As far as I’m concerned, the House GOP should be encouraged to spend the next year whining and throwing insults, while the Democrats pass legislation and get some things done. Party of ideas. Ha.