Sargent thinks the GOP game plan (sabotage process, blame Obama, ????, POWER!) can still work:
Republicans will argue that this shows that the public wants the GOP to stall the Dem agenda. But I think something else is going on: People don’t seem aware that the GOP, in addition to wanting to obstruct the Obama/Dem agenda, is successfully doing so in the Senate through the skillful application of fundamentally undemocratic procedural tricks. The press has largely failed to inform the public of of this fact, and when it does, people tune it out as so much Beltway white noise. Result: The GOP is paying no price whatsoever for obstructionism, and may well reap rewards from it.
I find it hilarious to read this from a Beltway insider. As a member of the “liberal media,” Sargent and his colleagues have full control over whether the public sees the obstructionism. Please, Mr. Sargent, I implore you to continue. Ahem. You were saying?
It’s the bloody elephant in the room. Need we embed the full C-SPAN coverage of the Senate’s cloture debate on health care reform to prove that America’s Grand Old Party consists of plastic people telling lies and making loud noises?
It’s all they have left, and they’d clearly rather see the country fail than cooperate in fixing things. In fact, I’d call it empirically proven. They are divided into two camps: those who want to stand still, and those who want to move backwards.
They are no-gressives and re-gressives.
Beck is rallying them with Teh Stupid™, but his audience share is slipping. Any decision to cover tea party events is totally up to the gatekeepers of “mainstream media,” isn’t it? I mean…you can leave that stuff to “fringe” media. Right? So let Glenn Beck be fringe.
No more CNN on the bus with Victoria Jackson.
