Lame Duck Republican Strategy - Scorched Earth

[ThoughtCriminal]

They know that they are going to lose and probably lose big. It appears to me that now they are engaging in a strategy of "Scorched Earth". Set up the economy for a long term meltdown that they plan to blame on the next Administration and Congress.

It does not mean they are giving up. They want to keep it as close as possible, keep enough control for obstruction and set up the "told you so" rhetoric for 2010 and 2012.

In particualr, the fiscal wreck of nearly doubling the National Debt, is going to limit effective recovery programs.

[navarth]

1. very plausible. n/t

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. S.O.P for the repukes.

Look at the last two NJ repuke governors, Kean and Whitman. They went out of their way to leave scorched earth when they left their office for a Dem successor. We are still dealing with the awful prices of that, too. I have had a number of people in NJ Dem political circles agree that they could not fuck things up, enough for their tastes, at the end of their terms. It was done with malice aforethought.

It allows the repukes something to whinge about once a new administration takes over. That is a reason they hated Clinto so much: The government was doing well, so they had to go to other things to get him. Poppy Bush did not leave enough wreckage for them to exploit. That is why the extreme right hated Poppy so much.

[OwnedByFerrets]

3. All ya have to do is look back on President Carters

administration to understand what they are going to do.

[nels25]

6. I have to respectfully disagree

IMHO Carter did quite enough to dig his own political grave, absence any GOP help, do not forget he operated with both a Dem senate and a Dem house.

[OwnedByFerrets]

8. TThen I respectfully ask you to go back and read your history....

President Carter was left with a terrible situation after the Vietnam conflict and had few choices in how to handle it. Left to his own devices, would have had us on track to be oil dependent. Raygun changed ALL that.

I had my disagreements with him on the "christian" thing, but he was no where as bad as the right wing neocons have become with using religion.

History "proves" that he was undercut in Iran by the same thugs who got us into Iraq.

Over the years I have come to greatly admire the man for the visionary he really was.

My original point was not to canonize Pres. Carter but to point out that BO will be demonized by the right. If he doesnt walk on water and solve every problem in the universe, he will be hailed as a tragic mistake.

My biggest hope is that he doesn't turn out to be like Clinton and make a hard turn to the right once in office.

[BOSSHOG]

4. The GOP and their conservative values in a nutshell

People don't like what we are doing so we'll just do more of it. In 2000 they told the ingnorant masses that government does not work, put us in charge and we will prove it.

- Petitions of impeachment for President Obama are probably already written, at least in rough form.
- Right wing radio is planning to tout the recession as starting two days after the next inauguration.

Amazing how those who proudly proclaim their membership in the party of responsibility never take responsibility for anything. And said proclamations come admidst their never ending touting of their values and their integrity.

Please would some lurker jump right in here and tell me why I shouldn't loathe republicans and their supporters with every fiber of my patriotic body.

[The Blue Flower]

5. 2012 is a long way away

This won't be the same country by then, so whatever they're planning, it will not be the same ballgame. A hollowed-out economy renders everything moot.

[nels25]

7. But if we act like intellectual superiors

and lord it over the so called sheeple (as some here on DU are wont to do) than we better not be surprised if there is a blow back.

At the risk of being banned, I really believe that their are more than a few snobs both intellectual and otherwise here on DU.

[KharmaTrain]

9. The Money Crunch Of 2009

There's a lot to agree with what you say. The GOOP "ideology" has proven itself to be inept and corrupt and the electorate is about to pass judgement on this party's arrogance and abuses. The result will be a repugnican party in confusion and the one thing you won't hear is anyone taking the blame...only offering "solutions". Their bona fides will be determined by how well they can obstruct a Democratic president and to attempt to slow down or stop both the House & Senate. We've seen it already in the House where those asshats have spent the past year and a half attempting to revise history and blame the Democrats for all problems. They're trying it right now with the gas situation....somehow it's the Democrats who made the prices go up, and the corporate media just whistles along.

The big mess will be the result of all the financial chaos we're currently going through. Combine a weakened dollar with high oil prices with greatly reduced income taxes and next year promises to see state and local governments on the brink of shutting down. Between the billions lost in interest and capital gains by a collapsed market, the billions of lost property taxes on houses that sit empty, an endless war for profit and defecits as far as the eye can see...the fiscal future is gonna be a very difficult one.

I have long said whomever takes over next year will spend the better part of their term just cleaning up the messes from the past 8 years of mismanagement. And don't count on any help from our "friends across the aisle".