Something To Warm Your Heart Before The Scott Brown And What’s Her Name Special Election
January 18, 2010 / 7:04 pm • By Dr. Melissa ClouthierA profoundly distressed Andrew Sullivan:
I can see no alternative scenario but a huge – staggeringly huge – victory for the FNC/RNC machine tomorrow. They crafted a strategy of total oppositionism to anything Obama proposed a year ago. Remember they gave him zero votes on even the stimulus in his first weeks. They saw health insurance reform as Obama’s Waterloo, and, thanks in part to the dithering Democrats, they beat him on that hill. They have successfully channeled all the rage at the massive debt and recession the president inherited on Obama after just one year. If they can do that already, against the massive evidence against them, they have the power to wield populism to destroy any attempt by government to address any actual problems.
This is a nihilist moment, built from a nihilist strategy in order to regain power … to do nothing but wage war against enemies at home and abroad.What comes next will be a real test for Obama. I suspect serious health insurance reform is over for yet another generation.
If this is any indication of the gnashing of teeth after a Scott Brown win, it will be a sweet victory, indeed.
7 Responses to “Something To Warm Your Heart Before The Scott Brown And What’s Her Name Special Election”
January 18 2010 / 7:07 pm
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I think Andrew ought to go out to the Cape and get stoned.
January 18 2010 / 7:12 pm
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AWESOME!!!
January 18 2010 / 7:26 pm
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You don’t think he already is? LOL It would be really sad if he’s actually sober and this emotional.
January 18 2010 / 8:00 pm
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Perhaps credit should be given appropriately & it’s NOT the Republican Party at ALL!
It’s We The People, the Tea Party Movement.
Concerned American’s who Did NOT want anything Obama & his destructive machine offered.
January 18 2010 / 8:38 pm
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Andi, like most leftists, has yet to internalize that the Tea Parties were organic, spontaneous, and largely composed of people who were new to organized politics. They (we) also took no cues from Fox News except for news of what was happening elsewhere. Even in that regard, various Internet communication methods were/are far more vital. To pin the Tea Party movement on FNC is to miss a civilizational shift.
January 19 2010 / 1:41 am
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I agree Loren, but it’s a facile answer for people groping for scapegoats and fearful of saying blatantly what they secretly believe: the American people are morons.
January 19 2010 / 2:05 am
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Loren, You are spot on. I attended 9 12 in DC along with what the UK newspapers claimed to be 2.5 million other American Patriots. Where the democrat/leftists and Andrew just don’t get it, WE are America, WE are the Majority, WE DO NOT want to live in a communist or socialist nation. WE know our Constitution, we will lay down our lives for our country. I have worked since I was 16, I am now 58, I am not insane, I love my country and want to keep it free for my children and grandchildren. Now, we are NOT republicans, or democrats we are Americans who want to keep our country strong and free, not controlled by a government. You people are SO out of touch. I stood on the Capitol steps with a Chinese immigrant that knows communism and told me that is what Obama et al are pushing for, she is fighting agianst that too along side of me and millions of others.