Politics The Elephant in the room...The GOP today

Storm Isaac: Bobby Jindal to Obama: More Isaac aid - POLITICO.com

Here is a response I heard today.

Why should workers and businesses in Ohio and other states pay the State's (LA) share (25%) of the cost of this storm? They choose to live in Louisiana where they know hurricanes are a possibility. The cost of living and doing business in that state might be higher than the Midwest if they make the states cover 25% or more of the cost to provide rescue services and food aid (charity aid excluded) during these natural disasters.

 

One would have to ask, WHO or WHAT Pat Robertson will blame Isaac on. It's funny, in a sad way, that as I was on the way home from the hospital (thanks Obamacare), that Rush Limbaugh was making a JOKE out of how Jindal was complaining Obama wasn't doing enough to help and how Obama was making all kinds of excuses. Now, excuse me but when Katrina hit, Limbaugh bitched about how the Democratic Governor and mayor were blaming Bush. Limbaugh was defending Bush by saying, "what more can W do?" The hypocrisy of the BAIN OWNED CLEAR CHANNEL talking heads is incredulous. I truly have come to the belief they don't expect people to remember yesterday unless they tell the people what happened.

 

The racist elephant in the room - Oh wait! There are no racists in the Republican Party.

At the Republican Convention: Racism the Main... | Gather



As to the OP piece, I think it's a storm in a teacup.

 

Chris Christie kicks off his 2016 Presidential campaign at the 2012 GOP convention.

Transcript: Gov. Chris Christie's Convention Speech : NPR

The worst speech I've ever heard.

Amazing he got through it without a snack break.

 

Holy shit! I can't believe that at the GOP convention, that kind of bullshit happened. Actual delegates at the convention were shouting down a representative of Puerto Rico, because she wasn't white, or because she spoke with an accent?

Why isn't this big news? Why isn't there more outrage in the media?

 

well three reasons i can think of (a) the primary beneficiary of people taking the disaster that is the republican party seriously at this point is the dominant media. elections as sporting events--->good for business. (b) it is big news depending on what your news channels are and (c) that the republican party is loaded with racists may not be a surprise at this point. you'd think that would be also very big news. but think (a). maybe.

 

America can be so much more. Why does there appear to be a race to the bottom?

 

There seems to be two stories regarding the video Joniemack posted. 1 is what we have here where it appears delegates were chanting USA! and Get Them Out! in reference to Zoraida Fonalledas. The other seems to be that these cheers/jeers were going on before she stepped out and it was directed to some Ron Paul supporters and a "clash" had broken out.

I think the truth is somewhere in the middle, with both stories holding some measure of truth concerning the GOP.

 

In all fairness, I dont think the shouts of "USA" were directed at the speaker from Puerto Rico. It appears to be more of a spillover effect over the previous speaker, the Chair of the Credentials Committee, and the Party chairman pushing through the Credentials Committee report that refused to seat some Ron Paul delegates who wanted to challenge the report on the floor but were denied the opportunity.

But this is something I've never seen before...from the most recent NBC/WSJ Poll:

While 0 percent of black votes is probably a statistical anomaly, achieving even McCain's level of 4 percent of black voters in 08 might be a stretch for Romney.
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And while trotting out numerous black and hispanic speakers to demonstrate the party's diversity, one only need look at the audience to recognize a sea of white faces.

There are far more birthers among the delegates than blacks.

 

I had read the alternate explanation before posting the video and it was probably unfair of me to put it out there as a solely racist response to the speaker walking to the podium. But it occurred to me when I watched it again that though there was a bit of shouting here and there, prior to her introduction, it quickly expanded into an outright roar of voices shouting a wide arrange of mostly unintelligible phrases, some of which could have been (and I assume were) directed towards her by those who chose to start chanting only after she was introduced.

Even if my assumption is wrong, it showed a huge amount of disrespect for her - disrespect which might not have shown itself had it been a white non-Hispanic delegate.

 

I agree with you on the disrespect.

This is a party that has become so extreme in its rhetoric and policies, disrespect of opposing views is now commonplace.

 

I think Jeff Daniels (via the writers of "The Newsroom") has managed to do what Republicans and Democrats have not - frame the issue, isolate the Tea Party/Christian right wing chaff from the wheat of true Republicans, define the stark differences between the two and nail the threat down clearly, concisely, and all at the end of an hour long fictional program.

I wonder if "The Newsroom" will be back for another season? If not, both Democrat and worried moderate Republicans alike would be well served by getting some of the writers on board for the mid-term elections. Unless of course there is nothing left but the radicals to run the country after this election.

 

I can't stop laughing.

I feel like a passenger on that plane in the Stephen King movie "The Langoliers" as the aircraft makes it narrow escape from a world crumbling behind it into oblivion.



Glad I made it out.

 

Does anybody else get seasick watching that blue wavy background behind the speakers or is that just what they are saying?

 

why are these conventions televised? seriously.
what good do they do the electoral process?
they're nuremburg rally-like televised fictions in which a sequence of personalities deliver long sequences of memes. the idea is to be likeable. it's not what they say, it's not what they propose. it's a one-way form of infotainment delivery brought to you by all your favorite corporate sponsors. it is itself advertising.
the only possible beneficiaries are the television networks, which have an interest in acting as though even idiots like romney and his sorry cast of ultra-reactionaries and cast-offs from the bad old days of the bush period (check out his foreign policy team) is serious because then television gets to mediate a sporting event we confuse with a democratic election. it really is a fucking joke.
what possible difference is made by the endless protestations of hardscrabble lives by these---and i like this bit of old-school invective--running dog lackies of american corporate imperialism?
what does anyone learn from these paper-thing sentences about aspirations and values and other horseshit on that order?
and are we supposed to take this fatuousness more seriously because of the assembled cast of glassy-eyed enthusiasts assembled in these tastelessly decorated auditoriums? maybe we identify with them sitting on their asses and consuming on the one hand...and on the other hand, when the camera is trained on the talking head behind the microphone, they become the laugh track. so we don't even have to construct our own reactions.
pull the plug on them.
criminy.