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(Posted 5;00 a.m. EST Thursday, November 12, 2009)
Abraham Lincoln, the nation’s 16th president, who led the country through the Civil War, famously said that "A house divided against itself cannot stand." He was, of course, referring to the nation after the secession of 16 Southern states to the Confederacy.
But who would have thought that, nearly 150 years after he was elected president, Lincoln’s words would apply to the very Republican Party he helped co-found in Ripon, Wisconsin in 1854 with other anti-slavery expansion activists?
As commentator Cris Sautter writes, the GOP bears no resemblance to the Party of Lincoln and is on the brink of being torn asunder in its own ideological civil war.
For copyright reasons, I cannot post Sautter’s commentary in its entirety on FireDogLake. But I have been granted permission by his publisher to post it as a guest commentary on my blog site, The ‘Skeeter Bites Report, which you can read HERE.
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Ah, but don’t you know? Obama is EVIL! EVIL, I tell you! Which will of course cause people to stay home and let Republicans take over Congress even though they’re about as popular as anthrax right nowl.
I hope, but I doubt, because the DEMs are showing they can’t handle much of anything. Put that with the job problems and people will ready to vote for snakes.
The people put there trust in Obama and the DEM’s forgetting that the DEM’s in Congress were part of the problem, and that Obama was a politition with no leadership experience.
Things wouldn’t have been any better or any worse had McCain won, because He would have been a do nothing President, like He has a Senator.
When will we learn our Governemnt doesn’t work, and voting changing people and parties only changes people and parties.
My guess is that we are headed for a situation here like what they have in Argentina, where the economy is belly-up and nobody trusts the politicians.
Apparently, the GOP is lying not only to their followers but also to themselves.
At some point, they are going to have to say they are the MINORITY and MOST AMERICANS do not want the Rethug plan on anything.
I “hear” you, but I’m not sure that it makes any difference.
I disagree that it would been the same if Palin/McCain won. I think it would have been worse. But it’s only marginally better w/BHO.
Agree completely that Dems in Congress are mostly all a complete waste of time. Either know-nothing or incompetent, but mostly all beholden to the corporate trough from which they all firmly embed their snouts. Plus then they bunk down at C Street and get even more indoctrination there.
I will withhold any celebrations that the Republics will somehow shoot themselves so badly in the foot that the Dems will just sweep to victory in 2010. Seems like the Republics are doing just fine, even with the certifiably insane “running” things. I know some Independents and so-called “moderate” Republics aren’t happy, but many of them didn’t like Palin at all, yet squeezed their noses and voted for her anyway (yes, yes, I know McCain was the alleged Pres candidate, but seriously… it did end up being all about Bible Spice, didn’t it?).
It’s all pretty sad and discouraging. Saying that we should primary “better” candidates is a nice statement, but it’s unclear to me whether that will actually accomplish anything given the entrenched corporate structure that we have these days.
I’m willing to do whatever is possible, but I’m less sure that any kind of real solution is likely or feasible.
Personally, I think the country is heading toward a breakup, a la the Soviet Union.
We are SOOOOOO polarized in the trenches that what the Dems haven’t done will be what we are voting on in the next election. We need a third party, or at the least, a written manifesto for every Democratic candidate for any position that they will NOT accept any funding/gifts/ANYTHING from any corporate/PAC (non-human) interest, EVER. If they aren’t willing to do that, they should not be our candidate; their interests are not ours.