Obama blasts GOP: They 'put up with crazy'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Former President Obama on Thursday slammed the Republican party for tolerating “crazy” behavior from its leaders.

“What you’re seeing is Republicans in Congress who are bending over backwards to try to shield and deflect oversight of this behavior and accountability and consequences," he said, speaking at a rally in Ohio for gubernatorial candidate Richard Cordray. "This is serious. You know it is. And frankly even some of the Republicans know it is. They will say it, they just don’t do anything about it. … [They say,] 'we’ll put up with crazy'" in exchange for tax reform and deregulation.

Obama called for a return to “checks and balances” in the upcoming election, calling it a chance to "restore some sanity" to politics. Although he avoided mentioning President Trump by name, throughout the speech he blasted the Republican party's leadership.

“This is not normal what we’re seeing. It is radical,” he said. “It is a vision that says that it’s more important for those who are in power to protect that power even when it hurts the country.”

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/406641-obama-blasts-gop-they-put-up-with-crazy

[Grassy Knoll]

1. The Whole World Knows This To Be True..

Such A Great Man.

[Cha]

2. Mahalo, President Obama!!

[certainot]

3. they know they ride the limbaugh bandwagon and when dems/left finally figure that out

and destroy the talk radio monopoly we can have a real democracy again

take trump's denial of the puerto rico death toll - this morning limbaugh explained to the base that trump was right, that the studies were flawed, and so on

what's trump paying limbaugh?

it's crazy from 1500 radio stations

[Kablooie]

4. Republicans accept 'crazy' as normal in order to keep their fingernail holds on power.

They are willing to discard every value they vowed to stand for, except lower taxes for the super rich, in order to retain power even if that power doesn't allow them to do anything except lower taxes for billionaires.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. stacked courts

Don't forget the stacking of courts. This allows them to continue to distort the voting system and the legislative system to maintain power. They are rushing to consolidate power to avoid having to pump so much money into the propaganda machine, and before too many cultists wake up and recognize the disinformation barage.

They desperately need Kavanaugh installed before midterms. Call and stop them.

[spanone]

5. K&R...

[Upthevibe]

6. Good for him! He's just stating the truth and what a majority

of us believe (except for the fringe which I think is shrinking - at least a little). And Limbaugh is going to ROT. IN. HELL!

[JohnnyRingo]

7. Word

“This is not normal what we’re seeing. It is radical,” he said. “It is a vision that says that it’s more important for those who are in power to protect that power even when it hurts the country.”

Help us Obama wan Kenobi. You're our only hope. *ffritzz*

[dalton99a]

8. Republicans put a piece of stinking dog shit in the White House and called it president

[raging moderate]

9. It's not radical. It's reactionary.

The radical Republicans of the Civil War era were those who favored the most progressive policies. They currently have no spiritual heirs in the Republican party. During the Civil War era, the Democratic party was the party that was harboring most of the worst reactionaries, especially in the pro-slavery states. They longed for the good old days back in the Middle Ages or the Iron Age, and reacted with rage to any suggestion that the intervening centuries might have uncovered better ways of living than feudalism or slavery. The twentieth-century reactionaries stormed out of the Democratic party during the nineteen-sixties, and they found a welcome mat out for them at the Republican party. They still sound amazingly like their spiritual forebears, a century and a half ago. Or a millennium and a half ago. Or longer than that.

[lpbk2713]

10. A patriot would do what is right for the country.

And put individual and party agendas aside.

[Caliman73]

12. I would argue that there is no "normal" for conservatives.

The thing that President Obama calls "normal" was fearful moderation from Republicans prior to their gerrymandering spree in 2010 and 2014. I said in another post either today or yesterday, that the Republicans painted themselves into a corner. They embraced that extremism that allowed them to retain power despite their inevitable diminishing numbers. The Republicans in the modern era (the pre-WW2 era too, but significantly in the modern era) have been for policies that consolidate power to a wealthy White Christian power base. That is it. That is their core constituency policy wise. They throw bones to Christian dominionists with anti-LGBT policies and to racists and xenophobes with immigration policies (though they have to walk the tightrope not to piss of all of the big donors who rely on an exploitable labor force.

Trump really has not as much to do with it as we would like to think. He isn't some right wing messiah. He is just the natural culmination of all of the ugly sentiment and thought processes that under-gird right wing policy.

I know that President Obama can't say that because of who he is and what he represents, but I would bet real money that he knows it is an accurate description of the GOP as it has marched on through the decades since Eisenhower. Just how many rich, White, Protestant, men can you have in a population?

I may be getting off on a tangent but I think that Conservatism isn't really even a coherent political ideology. It is a longing for some nostalgic time period when White Protestant Men were unassailable in their social dominance. That is it. Small government my ass! No, it was about government protecting MY property (White Men) against all of the unworthy "others" who wanted equal status and opportunity. Personal responsibility my ass! No, it is about me (White Men) taking the credit for all of the cumulative work of society, and blaming any failure on degradation of society due to giving women and people of color any kind of rights. Fiscal responsibility my ass! No, it is about government protecting my (White Men) investments and prioritizing dominance domestically and over seas using police force at home and military force around the world.

There is no "normal" in conservative ideology, there is only a fuzzy nostalgia for a time when White was right and protected by might.

[Scurrilous]

13. K&R