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In reply to the discussion: I blame The Senator from Nevada who could have changed the filibuster rules but didn't!! nt [View all]hatrack
(61,475 posts)It took him 4.5 years to finally summon the energy/courage/determination/anger needed to point out to the nation what anyone who's been paying attention already knows:
That the paranoid fringe is running the show in the GOP:
That no one within the nuttosphere will ever, ever be called to account by the Republicans, no matter the absurdity of their claims or the eardrum-shattering volume of their calls to violence:
That Republican members of Congress include those who claim that PPV vaccinations cause brain damage, who claim that the government needs to apologize to BP, a member who publicly shouted "you lie!" during the State of the Union speech, and who claim that the Biblical Flood is evidence that global warming isn't real:
That the then-minority party in 2009 openly stated that its top priority was defeating Obama's bid for reelection in 2012:
And now he gets it? That's nice. And how many days will it be before he's back to "reaching out" and "seeking bipartisan consensus"? My money's on less than one week.