Pat Buchanan: Republicans Should Bring America Down With Them
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Pat Buchanan, in a column appropriately titled “Republicans, Stand Up – Polls Be Damned!,” calls on Republicans in Congress not to give up on the push to derail Obamacare, even if it means the collapse of the Republican Party.
If the GOP goes down, Buchanan writes, Republicans should bring America down with them as he urges the GOP to be like Samson, who killed himself along with countless Philistines in bringing down the temple.
“Republicans should refuse to raise the white flag and insist on an honorable avenue of retreat,” Buchanan claims. “And if Harry Reid’s Senate demands the GOP end the sequester on federal spending, or be blamed for a debt default, the party should, Samson-like, bring down the roof of the temple on everybody’s head.”
He urges Republicans to ignore three new polls showing the GOP approval rating tanking over its role in the government shutdown, because time will prove the Republicans were right about Obamacare all along.
According to Gallup, approval of the Republican Party has sunk 10 points in two weeks to 28 percent, an all-time low. In the Wall Street Journal/NBC poll, approval of the GOP has fallen to 24 percent.
In the campaign to persuade America of their Big Lie – that the House Republicans shut down the government – the White House and its media chorus appear to have won this round.
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Republicans should refuse to raise the white flag and insist on an honorable avenue of retreat.
And if Harry Reid’s Senate demands the GOP end the sequester on federal spending, or be blamed for a debt default, the party should, Samson-like, bring down the roof of the temple on everybody’s head.
This is an honorable battle lost, not a war.
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America is at a turning point.
If she does not stop squandering hundreds of billions on liberal agenda items like Obamacare and if she do not end these trade deficits sucking the jobs, factories and investment capital out of our country, we will find ourselves beside Greece, Spain, Illinois and Detroit.
Even if America disagrees, as in 1964 when it embraced LBJ’s Great Society plunge to social and economic disaster, Republicans need to stand up – current polls and corporate Republicans be damned.
If the right is right, time will prove it, as it did long ago.
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Interesting
I just saw a clip that had Pat Robertson saying “we fought the good fight, but don’t let the nation default” (okay, it’s really not a direct quote, but that really is what it boils down to). I still think Robertson’s a looney Bible thumper, but I guess it can’t be absolute last on my list anymore. Buchanan’s demonstrably worse.
Apparently, the religious reich doesn’t believe the biblical admonishments about caring for the poor, which is something the ACA tries to do.
But being hypocritical has never bothers them, has it?
There is also the matter of sedition, that I addressed elsewhere. This could definitely lead to some serious events in the USA.
I thuink Obama’s best bet is to ignore them and continue to stare down the Republicans and allow them to implode.
I’m just fine with Buchanan killing himself. I’d offer to help if it wouldn’t get me into trouble, but I’m sorry, I’m not willing to have my country pulled down by a psychotic who thinks he’s Sampson.
The news has begun to look a lot like some SNL spoof except that no comedy writer could do enough drugs to be able to make this crap up.
Is there no tar? Are there no feathers?
As I recall, the late ’60s were quite prosperous times.
And does not the Constitution mention a little thing called treason?
This is E.A.Blair, by the way. I forgot that this blog doesn’t remember my name between on comment posting and the next.
there is something to be said for honesty
There is nothing to be said for idiocy.
“..urges the GOP to be like Samson and the Philistines in bringing down the temple…” This is typical of conservative Republicans, using quotes from the bible. Just like their mythical book and their Jesus thumping beliefs, they shall bow to the science of reality.
Buchanan is representative of the far right wing of the GOP. What he says is likely what that handful of Tea Partiers and their constituents thinks as well.