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That was back before they purged the party of all but the true red meat eating zealots.  We didn't used to have idiots like Cornyn and Coburn and Bond, etc. in the Senate, we had old time legislators who guarded their power and prerogatives carefully.  Most of those people are gone, replaced by the faithful (literally) party hacks.

There has also been a change in the media, as Republican power has surged over the past generation.  The GOP in Congress know now that they won't be called to account by the press for supporting Bush, so they have no reason to change.

John McCain hates my wife because she's a "gook."

by Steven D on Wed Jul 25th, 2007 at 01:25:01 PM EST
Yeah, but unanimity one way switching to unanimity the other way?  That, to me, is still shocking.
by BooMan on Wed Jul 25th, 2007 at 01:31:43 PM EST
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I've been reading a History of Collective Joy, which argues that passion inducing rituals can turn commonplace things into religious items/ beliefs.

Perhaps the passion inducing rituals of Fox News (music, vivid imagery, repetition,with us or against us rhetoric etc) right wing churches, Rush, and all the in-group private Republican events have caused the Republicans to perceive their party with religious fervor and unquestioning obedience.  They may view their party with cult-like unquestioning obedience- and infallibility.

by Tehanu on Wed Jul 25th, 2007 at 01:42:38 PM EST
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It certainly operates like a cult in my extended family.  The GOP wing refuses to even listen to any objective evidence against Bush, claiming it is all from biased sources.  Only Faux News can be trusted.

John McCain hates my wife because she's a "gook."
by Steven D on Wed Jul 25th, 2007 at 01:45:26 PM EST
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No kidding.  That's why I came up with Tehanu's Law of Opinions:  The value of your opinion is directly proportional to the quality and extent of your research.  I have this printed up on business cards, which allows me time to get away while they're decoding.

This spring I finally realized I don't bear responsibility for fixing every idiot I come across. My old boss, upon me giving him an extensive printout of opinions FROM HIS SIDE stating the the ABC "docudrama" was falsely biased against Clinton, declared he didn't even know who these people (famous republican pundits) were.  

Hence, the law.

by Tehanu on Wed Jul 25th, 2007 at 02:06:39 PM EST
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well, they better wake up soon and realize that George W. Bush is not the same thing as the Republican Party.  
by BooMan on Wed Jul 25th, 2007 at 01:45:26 PM EST
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"Wake up" to the fact?  Hell, the lockstep Cult of Bush is the only thing keeping the peasants with pitchforks away from the gates.  The GOP lives or dies as the Cult of Bush at this point, and they all know it.

It's a self-correcting organism that has mutated out of control.  If one part of the Cult stumbles, it's either repaired or excised...that's why you see Arlen Specter with a (D) on Fox Noise when he's going after Gonzo.  One part of the cult will correct any other malfunctioning part, whether or not it's Fox, the White House, congressional Republicans, right-wing talk radio, wingnut bloggers, the beltway pundits or what have you.

When one gets out of line, the other parts "fix" the problem.  Bush on immigration.  GOP Senators on getting out or Iraq.  Rush on Oxycontin.  Wingnut mea culpas on the invasion.  The rest of them pressure the other parts to present a united front.

They know like organs in the body, too many simultaneous failures leads to a systemic crash and death for the whole body.  They know if one of them goes down, ALL of them go down.

So they all support each other.  You get all the Republicans on the committee voting against contempt.  I guarantee you when the larger vote is held, it will be along direct party lines, for the same reason.

To bring this mess down, we need something that hits all parts of the Cult organism at once so that the other parts are reeling before they can recover.  We need critical mass, the political version of the ebola virus.

I've been hoping Iraq would be it, but so far the Dems are just too scared to do anything.  Gonzo too appears to lack the heft...who's going to prosecute perjury and contempt charges against him?

So how do we kill this cancer?  They only way is to find something the Democrats and the people can latch onto and help us take the bastards down at once.

So far, we lack that issue.

More at Zandar vs. The Stupid.

by Zandar1 on Wed Jul 25th, 2007 at 02:51:41 PM EST
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Web of intrigue. Let's focus on tomorrow, this gang intends to run out the clock - personal gain before country.

Huffpost notes, "Bloomberg has just launched a website:"

Mike2008.com

Given the elephant's disgust, should be very interesting.

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

by idredit on Wed Jul 25th, 2007 at 02:14:03 PM EST
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I think that what explains it is that within Republican circles, there has been a shift in how the law is thought about. The idea that law functions as an impartial arbiter between conflicting parties is now seen as a preposterous liberal conceit. To Republicans today, everything is political. Not all of them may really believe this, but the moderates are forced to go along with it for fear of being treated as traitors by their peers.

This means that the Republicans are not really a "normal" party anymore, but must be treated as something akin to the Bolsheviks or Nazis: entering into the democratic process only to try to subvert it; all political parties other than the Republican Party are seen as inherently illegitimate. By rejecting the principle of legality, they have rejected a fundamental principle of modernity, and hence modernity itself.

But we have already know that for some time.

"Israel is a good friend of Israel." -- Barack Obama. Is that a Freudian slip indicating that Obama suspects that Israel is not a good friend of the US?

by Alexander on Wed Jul 25th, 2007 at 01:48:11 PM EST
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We did already see this, in the more wingnuttery comments about exterminating liberals.  People don't say this in polite company, but when you are with the libertarian right, it almost comes to the same thing.  The Republicans under the Southern leadership and the College Republicans have become a revolutionary party. No doubt about it.  Some of the true conservatives are now getting nervous, as they should, because they are beginning to understand that their wealth might not protect them either.  It's pay to play all the way now, for everyone.

Knut
by Knut Wicksell (b_didnn@hotmail.ca) on Wed Jul 25th, 2007 at 05:15:08 PM EST
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1983 - Economic Depression

Lowest approval 1/83
Approve       41%
Disapprove   47%
Don't Know   12%  

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

by Oui on Wed Jul 25th, 2007 at 02:34:15 PM EST
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The GOP representatives on the Judiciary committee are the worst of the worst, but I'm not holding out much hope that a full house vote will be any different.

I am a little surprised that they so unanimously embraced their own corruption and lawlessness in this vote, though. But as you say, the media won't call them on their destruction of the Constitution, so why should they stop?  This morning at the car repair, I saw that rag USA Today had the Gonzo Senate appearance story hidden on the third page today, and they appeared to have left out Specter's evisceration of Gonzo.  And we know that's bullshit, but how many people read that paper and think it's news?

And why the hell is congress going on a month-long vacation while all this is going on?  Can you imagine what's going to happen in their absence?

by CabinGirl on Wed Jul 25th, 2007 at 01:50:10 PM EST
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