Now they've gone and nominated Trump and are seeing their chickens come home to roost as he and his campaign are falling flat on their faces.
“For years,” President Obama said in Las Vegas, “Republican politicians and the far-right media outlets have pumped up all kinds of crazy stuff about me, about Hillary, about Harry [Reid]. They said I wasn’t born here. They said climate change is a hoax. They said that I was going to take everybody’s guns away.
There are a lot of politicians who knew better. There are a lot of senators who knew better. But they went along with these stories because they figured, you know what, this will help rile up the base, it will give us an excuse to obstruct what we’re trying to do, we won’t be able to appoint judges, we’ll gum up the works, we’ll create gridlock, it will give us a political advantage. So they just stood by and said nothing. And their base began to actually believe this crazy stuff.
So Donald Trump did not start this. He just did what he always did, which is slap his name on it, take credit for it, and promote it. That’s what he does. And so now when suddenly it’s not working, and people are saying, wow, this guy is kind of out of line, all of a sudden, these Republican politicians who were okay with all this crazy stuff up to a point, suddenly they’re all walking away. “Oh, this is too much.” … Well, what took you so long? What the heck?"
All of this will now cost some of them their jobs in an election they could have won, and it could cost the GOP control of the Senate and /or the House of Representatives. Let's hope that on the way out, they don't let the door hit 'em where God split 'em!
So what do Moi, Transquesta, and our other usual suspects have to say now? The truth hurts, doesn't it?
Ah, those blinded by left-wing "idolatry", I mean ideologically . But let's look at your false banter . . .
A) The high interest rates in the late 1970s were due to the Federal Reserve in response to the oil shocks of the 1970s, largely the result of President Nixon giving in to Israeli nuclear blackmail during the 1973 war (leading to the OPEC oil embargo, leading to oil-price-driven high inflation)
Got a credible source for your anti-Semitic statement? No? The Federal Reserve's Paul Volcker had to raise interest rates in a effort to get the Carter administration's high inflation rate under control. (Ford's administration was keenly aware of the inflation problem and did had it in check and on the way down prior to Carter taking office.) And while the high oil prices were a contributing factor they were only a small part of the problem. (We have always had more than just the middle east as a petroleum source, by the way.) It took Reagan's economic policies to really break that inflation cycle. Interest rates remained higher, although not in the low 20%'s, for quite some time but the economy started to grow quite nicely once again. (And I seem to remember that Reagan continued the USA's great relationship with Israel so that "excuse" doesn't fly at all.)
B) KAL 007 was shot down in 1983, 2 YEARS AFTER REAGAN TOOK OFFICE, and, yes, because KAL 007's flight path intersected that of an EC-135 electronic spy plane (which the US had repeatedly flown off the Kamchatka peninsula in intelligence-gathering missions. Imagine how we'd feel in the Russkies had repeatedly flown similar planes near Vandenburgh AFB), the USSR military had SOME reason to suspect KAL 007 was a spy plane (Yes, they SHOULD have done more to positively identify it, but their suspicions were not entirely unwarranted).
Who said anything about KAL 007? But now that you bring up the fact that your countrymen under Andropov shot down a SECOND passenger airliner killing all 269 souls on-board . . . That might have almost been understandable if the Soviet Union had been in a hot war with someone, anyone, at the time; almost. But what they did for a second time would be more akin to the USA shooting down an Aeroflot passenger flight that passed a little too close to the Electric Boat Company's facility in Groton, CT on approach to JFK (something that happened on a very regular basis, by the way).
The senseless shooting down of the first airliner, the one that I refer to, the one that you gratuitously seem to forget, happened back in 1978, about 2 YEARS BEFORE REAGAN TOOK OFFICE, while Carter was our President and Brezhnev was still at the helm in the USSR. Fortunately KAL902 was shot down over land near Murmansk in the western Soviet Union. Fortunately, and by the grace of God, the flight crew was able to set down on a frozen lake with only 2 people lost. (2 too many, by the way). It served as a harbinger of things to come from "the Evil Empire" in their last-ditch efforts to survive. The second incident was on the Soviet Union, just like the first one, not on the USA or Reagan.
I get it. Saint Reagan is the greatest thing since sliced bread and no amount of empirical evidence to the contrary will dissaude you from that belief. As Maher noted, RAWFs are the party of blind religious worship....;-D...
No, you don't get it, and I doubt that you ever will. There was no "St. Reagan" as you sarcastically want to think. He was a human being, just like anyone else that has ever occupied that Office. He made mistakes too. But you're the one ignoring the "empirical" and actual evidence. The economy did get much better under his hand and the world again had (sometimes begrudgingly) respect for the USA. Even that "Evil Empire", the Soviet Union, fell, largely because of his efforts. And he even put "Qaddafi Duck" in check without killing him and setting the middle east on fire in the process. Sorry if your misguide ideology, your religion, caused you to miss the boat on all that . . . ;-D...
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