After several days of scandal flame-fanning by Republicans, President Obama’s approval ratings are actually up just a tick.
The latest wrinkle in Benghazi gate is that President Obama may not have been in the White House situation room during the attacks. Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer, on Fox News, said that the precise location of the President during that attack was an “irrelevant fact,” and the wingnuts are getting huffy about this.
Dear Wingnuts: Do we want to review where President Pet Goat and Vice President Undisclosed Location were during the 9/11 2001 attacks? And somebody’s got the nerve to complain that the President may not have been in the situation room?
Republicans have never suffered from an excessive concern for morality or for moral consistency.
It was too long ago for me to remember the details, but back in the Reagan era, the Washington Press Corps wanted to know if Tip O’Neal was upset about some petty thing – hoping for a quote to stir the pot on a slow news day. To be sure, Reagan got his you-know-what in a wringer more than once, and the dems were not kind When Ronnie messed up, but Tip passed up a cheap shot. And that was an important distinction between then and now – the ability to discern trivia and pass up the temptation to exploit something meaningless. I don’t have an example on file, but up until Clinton’s election, Republican leaders were capable of that discretion as well.
I think the only appropriate response to wingnut questions about where Obama was during the Benghazi fighting is “Well, he was out practicing making Marines hold umbrellas for him, obviously.” It’s a comment that, to an intelligent person, points out how stupid BOTH of those controversies are, and yet, for a wingnut would sound like a serious, and scandalous, charge. Or a joke that they might have gotten from Coulter.
And that was an important distinction between then and now – the ability to discern trivia and pass up the temptation to exploit something meaningless.
Doug, you’ve always got an astute comment. I’d like to put Newt Gingrinch’s name forward to serve as that example that you don’t have on file. I know that Newt in himself isn’t the complete answer for the point that you’re making. but Newt, to my observations, should be credited as being a founding father of the current condition of our political mayhem. To me he’s font of all acrimony.
If my memory serves me correctly, Newt created political action committees and set the ground work for the corruption of language in the political arena. And God blessed him with a virtuous wife.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/19/30-titles-from-fox-and-the-onion-can-you-guess-which-are-from-where/
“After several days of scandal flame-fanning by Republicans, President Obama’s approval ratings are actually up just a tick.”
Maybe the GOP needs to ramp it up; it could help us in the mid terms.
Projection, fear, and hatred, are the “Default Setting” of today’s Republican party.
They are the new, “Know Nothing Party.”
They are proud of their ignorance, racism, misogyny, xenophobia, and/or homophobia. And they’re arrogant about their stupidity and arrogance.
They are The American Taliban, clothed in Fascist brown shirts.
FSM help us, if they regain power, before/if some sense of sanity returns.
But I don’t see that happening for a while – because, with the Tea Party, they have unleashed something that even they can’t control. That Genii is out of the bottle/they have loosed their Frankenstein Monster Id, on the land.