It’s getting harder to not hate Republicans

Obama hasn’t even named a replacement for Supreme Court Justice David Souter, yet Republicans are defaming each and every sane person on planet Earth he may select. The Republican Party has become a one-trick pony. And their one trick is to attack with as much venom as possible.

If Dems voted to save earth worms, Republicans would claim they are a needed source of food. If Dems voted more funding for cancer research, Republicans would claim it was going into “Obama’s secret Cayman Islands bank account.” If Obama appointed Jesus to replace Souter, Republicans would claim he was only appointing him because he was a Jew.

Let’s face it. No matter what you do, there’s no winning when you’re a Dem going up against the regional, small tent, racist collection of knuckle draggers who call themselves Republicans.

Hatred is a human quality that really sucks. For the most part, it probably damages the hater more than his/her target. Nonetheless, it’s getting really, really hard to not hate Republicans. My only wish for them is that they would just go the fuck away.

liberal policies?

Instead, we get a compromise between the thugs solid reich-wing NO and the DINO center-right "maybe."

Boy - I am so glad "we" won.

These days, I revel in hating the bastards.

I don't even consider them to be actual human beings. Maybe pieces of meat with human DNA in them, but nothing actually human, like empathy or compassion.

Just accept that Republicans will seek to block everything that Democrats do; they are the opposition party after all, so if you look at it that their role in goverment is to oppose the Democrats, it doesn't seem so bad. In British parliamentary systems, the Official Opposition (non-governing parties) are required to oppose the governing parties, whether they agree with government policy or not. If you simply accept that Republicans will oppose everything that Democrats do, you tend to worry less about their opposition. Also you worry less about trying to please them through compromise, since it can't realistically be done. So full steam ahead with liberal policies, since Republicans will oppose Democrats no matter what policies we put into play

on edit: I remember Bill Clinton explaining this opposition mindset this way; when you accept that that's just the way they are, you feel much more confident in your own policies and ideas, and worry less about Republican attitudes or opposition.

Blue-dog Democrats, -- Southern Dems or those from conservative districts elsewhere in the country -- will block liberal initiatives.

Unlike the Republicans, Dems don't march in goose-step. They are more independent and tend to vote for whatever it is the people in their districts want. They can't be "forced into line" like good Germans. That's both our strength and weakness.

But as I said in post #5, Dems don't vote in lockstep. Getting something passed with a Dem majority is much harder than it would seem.

They need to do what they need to do. Whether I like them or not, they will do it anyway. Let's just elect more of our guys and let them toddle off into the political wilderness muttering some sort of insanity all the way. These folks are lost in their own fantasy and are not recoverable.

Alternately, as George Carlin would say "If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten." The greatest punishment one can deliver is to make them a voiceless minority. They are headed that way anyway, so why not pitch in.

the more whining from the rwingers, the better off we must be doing.

fuck'em.

spoiled fucking brats who were forced to take a time out. that's all they are.