Mississippi segregationist Governor Ross Barnett: today he would be a Republican in good standing
Digby writes down what most Democratic leaders and members of Congress are afraid to face. In Loss Of Control Hulaballoo blog 02/01/09, speaking of the bull-headed Republican Party in Congress she says, "But they don't really believe in democracy."
That's why they support voter-suppression tactics straight out of the segregationist textbook. That's why they defend torture. That's why they supported Dick Cheney's truly dictatorial Unitary Executive theory.
And that's why Rush Limbaugh is the leader of their Party.
I think Obama is going to have to flush this fruitless drive for "bipartisanship" with Republicans who aren't interested in it and take his case directly to the people. He's very persuasive. And without some "fireside chat" kind of approach, he's not going to be able to jar the Establishment press into even half-decent reporting.
I was struck today on Meet the Press, which was mostly about as nails-on-the-blackboard painful as usual, that David Gregory put up a clip of Rush Limbaugh demanding that Republicans in Congress oppose the Democratic economic recovery bill with Rush jerking around in his chair like he was in hillbilly-heroin withdrawal or something. And then afterwards Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison eagerly agreed with Mr. OxyContin's instructions.
Obama holding up Rush Limbaugh as the face of the Republican Party means that even in their brain-dead "this side says, the other side says" stenography, the press winds up taking some account of the Democrats' point. Maybe if Obama does that enough, even the Democratic leaders in Congress will learn the trick!
Tags: barack obama, republican party, rush limbaugh
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