Republicans are in retreat

[damnedifIknow]

Like all mood changes that take place in a mass society, it takes a great deal of groundswell for there to be any uprising that forces government to change. The cycle we are in has been 40 years in the making. The Republican Party has been masterful in using culture war wedge issues as a means of attracting and distracting voters, while they used their time in office to repeatedly pass legislation that favored business over workers and downshifted costs to individuals, which accelerated the erosion of stagnant wages. They have smugly gone about the business of enriching themselves and their sponsors, comfortable in the knowledge that Americans are largely uninformed and do not pay attention to the details of the legislative process."

*The internal disputes within the Republican Party have further indicated that a more isolationist approach to foreign policy as articulated by Paul has been throttled by the knee-jerk emphasis on "terrorist" threats, military might, American hegemony and tough-guy posturing. These policy positions will undoubtedly prevail as we move toward the election, and the probability is that they, too, will ring hollow to an increasing number of Americans who are simply sick of war and sick of American leaders who misguidedly pursue policies promoting American solutions, an American political model or American exceptionalism at the expense of its domestic economy. Americans are increasingly coming to the opinion that military leadership cannot be the reason for impoverishing its citizens.

It is clear that circumstances have changed in this country. The good news for progressives is that the trends favor them.

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/national-party-news/246502-republicans-are-in-retreat

[Baitball Blogger]

1. Is that what you call it? Retreat?

I call it rounding up the wagons. They are bunkering down and you can expect them to protect their turf, wherever they think they still have an advantage.

[babylonsister]

2. 'Cept their turf continues to shrink.

They've ostracized latinos, blacks, women, and I'm sure a lot more people, so what wagons? I think they have a definite problem.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. Nope. They call it reloading.

You see, especially over the last 12 months, they managed to empty their tanks of the last remnants of bullshit and cow manure, spewing it so often, without aim, and with such regularity, that they never bothered to check their gauges. You could see their weapons start sputtering on empty this week, with every new decision from the Supremes.

Now, they have issued emergency orders to refill their tanks, because, gawd forbid, without fully loaded weapons of crap deception, they are basically unarmed.

The problem is that their brand of bullshit has not only a limited shelf life, but a finite supply. (see generally - Ann Coulter) Finding sources of bullshit is becoming ever harder. Scarce resources like their bullshit take years to build up. This leaves them in a major heap of . . . . something.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. We must win the next election.

That's the bottom line.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. yup.

I almost said, ewe baaad, but my puns don't kick in until 7pm EST.

[irisblue]

5. they haven't retreated far enough yet

[0rganism]

7. i'll believe it the day we win back the house

until then, i'd say not only are the republicans NOT retreating, they've got a real stranglehold on a lot of decisions that matter to this country.

my crystal ball tells me Democrats won't win back the house before 2030, and that's assuming we win big in the states in 2020 and 2028.

[jimlup]

8. Beware of cornered animals...

They are likely to lash out irrationally. They basically do that already so nothing has really changed I guess...

[PowerToThePeople]

9. Imo, bigotry is in retreat.

Their trickledown economic policy lives on with 3rd way Democrats. Imo, this is going just as planned. Bigotry was going to lose, but Reagan's legacy must live on and it will unless we get people who are not bound to the corporatists into office.