The GOP Circular Firing Squad

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A Forbes mag published an op-ed about the Obama Administration spending habits compared to past presidents, citing MoneyWatch as a source. We have a couple of threads on that here because of the hackles it raised. The same crew who was crowing over a Newsweek op-ed that made the mag's cover are now lambasting the Forbes op-ed cuz it's just an op-ed. Go figure.

They're even sounding like liberals, complaining about all of Obama's "broken promises" and whining about jobs like union guys. WTF? The GOP's usual song n dance was about how no employer owed any employee a job and howled at anything the government did if it smelled like a "make work job". These days, they claim that a president is responsible for providing jobs to everybody without expanding government. The GOP has become one jim-dandy whopper sized head scratcher...yeah, pretty much a herd of cats.

Oh, I do recognize the underlying tactic of whining like liberals: the goal is to attempt to make an actual lib despondent because he's been as snookered as Jon Lovitz who bought the whole act hook, line and sinker. I'll grant you that some libs are that stupid. Independents are smart enough to be independent, though, and among independents, the GOP fools no one.

What we see on this forum is the con faction debunking a Forbes op-ed.  FORBES!  Whoaaaaah, Nellie! Among the presidential challengers in the GOP, you find a guy who was recruited to be veep because of his ideas only to have the veep nominee himself flee from his ideas.  A veep who pays taxes at a higher rate than his boss. A lot of GOP loyalists pay a higher tax rate than Romney and I can smell the intramural jealousy from here. Sure, they're going to stand for that.  For now.  But for how long?

The con world has been held in a death grip by Baptist-type evangelicals because Billy Graham was such a regular at the White House for decades.  Now, the GOP has made as much history with Romney, the first nominated Mormon presidential candidate as the DNC had made history with Obama.

Let's see...we have millionaires debunking billionaires and vice versa; we have the fall of the traditional evangelical crowd over Washington and cons gritting their teeth while playing up a member of a church they've been vilifying for decades. Yup--what we have here, friends n neighbors, is a circular firing squad.