Lately, news stories on a republican “civil war” are as numerous as fruit flies in a Starbucks pastry display.
Apparently it is a new phenomenon when during primaries opposing candidates of the same party bicker and fight like the Kate Gosselin family.
“Tea Party’s wins fuel a ‘civil war’ within GOP” read a USA Today headline this past week. CNN limped in today with their contribution to media setting the political narrative: “Inner-GOP sniping increases in wake of Tea Party successes.” Geek-dom got its two cents in on the implosion of the GOP with Alan Colmes’ little liberal-and-proud-of-it web posting. The Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, and Reuters are just a few that have joined the fray like stains on a Lewinski dress.
I’m sure MSNBC’s contribution to non-professional journalism, Keithy Olbermann, has had his little thesaurus working overtime on this story line.
And it wouldn’t surprise me if ‘columnists DeWayne Wickham and Leonard Pitts (truly) found a black angle to the conventional press opinion by which to meet their deadlines.
Critics are trying to marginalize a segment of the Republican Party, placing them to the right of President Ronald Reagan and knocking them for their inexperience, as if to say, “Give me a break,” mimicking democratic President Bill Clinton’s criticism of democrat obama’s run for the White House.
Let’s focus one eye on the cracks that have appeared in the once-thought-impenetrable democrat controlled government of obama; “change has come to America.”
During the summer of 2009 debate over obama-care, democrats were in disarray over what the final plan ought to look like and obama’s democratic administration took to making deals and promises with democratic legislators to bribe…to gain their support and help make obama look presidential with a later afternoon Rose Garden signing.
ABC News reported in March 2010 that “tension at the highest levels of power” in the obama White House (Rahm “I want to be mayor” Emanuel vs. David Axelrod) brought a reminder from obama that they need to be “playing on the same team.”
A Washington Times story in June reported that Democratic strategist James “I am Bill Clinton’s brain” Carville was railing against democratic president obama for lack of action following the BP oil spill. Democratic House member Charlie Rangel of NY also got into the act, telling an interviewer that the democratic administration of obama doesn’t have “the slightest clue” about what to do about the oil spill.
In July 2010, a Four-Star General is obama-retired over publically-aired disdain for the ways of his boss.
obama mouthpiece Robert Gibbs reportedly “infuriated” fellow Democrat Nancy “Plastic” Pelosi in July when he conceded that Democrats may lose control of the House of Representatives during midterm elections against the Republicans/Tea Partiers.
In August 2010, democratic non-tax-paying tax committee chairman Charlie Rangel (out of this one) took to the floor of the U.S. House to say “Hell no, I won’t go!” after democrat obama inferred that Rangle ought to resign his House seat rather than air the party’s dirty laundry in a quasi-public ethics trial.
On September 16, an Associated Press story reported that Democrats “are facing deep divisions in their nervous ranks” (emphasis mine) over whether to support no new taxes for anybody or nervously support democratic president obama’s call for further redistribution of wealth from those people and businesses making over $250,000. Yes, Virginia, some democrats are now favoring Republican President George Bush’s tax cuts.
Democratic House member Chet Edwards of Texas is running a campaign ad that states: “When (democratic) president obama and (democrat) Nancy Pelosi pressured (democrat) Chet Edwards, Chet stood up to them and voted ‘no’ against their trillion-dollor healthcare bill.”
Currently, there are rumblings from fellow democrats that democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ought to take her tax-payer funded airplane and her petrified hair-do on a one way trip back to California.
On September 18 the Wall St. Journal ran a story over the “dissent” Pelosi is facing from her own party.
The story states that democratic members have signed a Republican petition for a vote to repeal the Pelosi-supported obama-care healthcare bill;
other democrats (like Chet in Texas) are airing campaign ads that distance themselves from obama and Pelosi’s majority democrat run government; Alabama Democrat Bobby Bright’s ad states: “Bobby stands up to (democrat) Nancy Pelosi;”
31 democrats joined republicans in the house to tell Pelosi they will support President George Bush’s tax cuts rather than her call for unity on obama’s spread-the-wealth tax plan;
Democrat Congressman and Iraq War vet Brett Gordon of Tennessee said Pelosi should step down as Speaker and should not seek the top House role during the next legislative session (assuming she has the chance);
and democrat leadership aides are acknowledging that Pelosi is a “liability” to their party in this years elections.
Common sense and poll numbers tell us that all cannot be so sparkly in the land of Oz-obama.
There have been no obama beer-fests in the Rose Garden; no vacations for at least 3 weeks; and no Amy –Carter like inquisitives from little Malia concerning the job obama is doing.
With RealClear Politics poll numbers showing more people disapproving of obama’s presidential performance than those still wearing rose-colored glasses and approving of his muddling blindly along, as well as nearly 75% of those polled feeling non-too impressed with the work of obama’s democratic controlled Congress, you can be sure that egos and self-preservation are making huge scratching noises in obama’s changed Washington D.C.
