BOB HERBERT: GOP Is 'The Party Of Trickle Down-WMDs-Birthers & Lunatics'

[kpete]

An Absence of Class

By BOB HERBERT
Published: March 22, 2010

For decades the G.O.P. has been the party of fear, ignorance and divisiveness. All you have to do is look around to see what it has done to the country. The greatest economic inequality since the Gilded Age was followed by a near-total collapse of the overall economy. As a country, we have a monumental mess on our hands and still the Republicans have nothing to offer in the way of a remedy except more tax cuts for the rich.

This is the party of trickle down and weapons of mass destruction, the party of birthers and death-panel lunatics. This is the party that genuflects at the altar of right-wing talk radio, with its insane, nauseating, nonstop commitment to hatred and bigotry.

Glenn Beck of Fox News has called President Obama a “racist” and asserted that he “has exposed himself as a guy, over and over and over again, who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.”

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The G.O.P. poisons the political atmosphere and then has the gall to complain about an absence of bipartisanship.

more:
http://www.nytimes.com//2010/03/23/opinion/23herbert.html

[Happyhippychick]

1. Succinct and spot on

[SpiralHawk]

2. He forgot torture

Republicons are the torture party

[belpejic]

3. Bob Herbert gets it right again.

What those idiots did to John Lewis really pisses me off. What they did to Barney ranks second (this as pro-war hero Petraeus recommends a repeal of DADT). This crap really can't stand. It would be great to run a big media campaign highlighting this bigotry. Some shots of civil rights era Lewis compared to what happened to him last weekend. Some shots of prominent supporters of ending DADT and people supporting gay marriage (Ted Olsen, anyone?) compared to what happened to Frank.

[polichick]

4. k&r - wish I could subscribe to Herbert's pieces on my Kindle. nt

[msongs]

5. dems could score a knockout by labeling repubs and tea party subsibiary but they won't for some

reason. now is the time for a coordinated and concerted effort in the PR realm but for some reason dems are unable or unwilling to do such a thing.

Msongs

[butterfly77]

6. Kick &Recommended!!!