Recently I’ve suffered from a bit of schadenfreude overload. Watching the Republican party regroup is a laugh a minute, funny enough to take your mind off how sad the Democratic party has already turned out to be.
Where, for instance, did they find Michael Steele? I mean, he looks good on camera, has a pleasant voice and so on. But, truthfully, does the GOP expect him to be their Howard Dean? Many of the things he says don’t seem calculated to draw in the so-called middle of the road types to whom both parties have paid obeisance for so long.
“The era of apologizing for Republican mistakes of the past is now officially over,” Steele will say in a speech to the RNC’s 2009 State Chairmen’s Meeting, according to excerpts obtained by CNN. “It is done. We have turned the page, we have turned the corner. No more looking in the review mirror. From this point forward, we will focus all of our energies on winning the future.”
It’s obvious why the Republicans have turned the page; unfortunately for them, most Americans haven’t. (And what does “winning the future” imply for the country at large?) So they’ve got the Mighty Wurlitzer in overdrive, grasping the opportunity provided by widespread economic distress, ramping up the fear factor with swine flu and socialism.
The RNC meeting wraps up on Wednesday with a scheduled vote on a controversial resolution that calls on Democrats to rename their party the “Democrat Socialist Party.”
Please, oh please, pass this resolution. It can be my birthday present! And if you’ll rename your party the False War and Corruption Party, it can be my Christmas present too.
If only the Republicans were correct…
I'm looking forward to calling them the Republican Fascist party from now on if they pass this resolution.
Posted by: Mahakal on May 19, 2009 11:46 AM