The Kommisar's in Town...

Officials at the Republican National Committee have signaled they will try to pass a resolution next month accusing George W. Bush of  “embracing socialism”.  Top GOP members say they are fed up with the President’s bailouts to Wall Street and Detroit, a betrayal of the party’s core principles of laissez-faire capitalism.

With 2008 coming to a close, it is truly delightful to observe the Republican party in such a state of disarray.  NRA approved guns have not only been turned inward, after the GOP’s devastating losses in the November elections, but are now being discharged on rapid fire.  Add to this an internal Red Scare, where the onetime champion of the Conservative Movement is being schizophrenically demonized as a Commie in an incredibly lame effort to distance these very same Republicans from the President they enthusiastically followed off a cliff.  Disastrous policies have consequences, as these politicians and policy makers are quickly learning.  However rather than own up to their failures, the GOP is apparently trying to pull a switcheroo on the public by claiming that it was somehow the man, and not the policies, that got us where we are today.  I just hope Republicans keep up the infighting and these ridiculous stunts rather than do any soul searching that might get their organization back on track.  These clowns deserve as much time in the political wilderness as possible, and stupid human tricks like the one described above will ensure a long exile from power in Washington.  

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LINKS:

Washington Times: EXCLUSIVE: RNC Draft rips Bush’s bailouts

The Times (UK): Is George Bush a socialist?  He’s spending like one.

Seattle Post Intelligencer: Bush brings socialism to citadel of capital