When the GOP is stupid: No numbers in their budget?

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Back in the days before electricity and running water, I took a Poli Sci 101 course and discovered the textbook meaning of the phrase "glittering generality."

Now, the messiah's entire campaign was one, giant, glittering generality; vague and with few specifics. As time has gone by, the basic strategy of the campaign was inarguably brilliant in conception and execution. They were able to take a wholly unqualified, far left individual puppet; package him like gum (FABulous! Ding!) and get the ignorant, the gullible, the illegal and those insidious forces who believed they could control this clown to literally buy into his shtick.

I won't go into the fact that most of his campaign was a lie, or the level of disaster this man has brought us to, the uncounted decades of fiscal pain... the massive expansion of government on the backs of the next several generations of America.

What I WILL do is point out the following: In the war of clashing "glittering generalities," we do not have a warrior who comes close to the polished, empty perfection of The One. When we send up Christian Jindals, they're going to be eaten by Lion Obamatons. Last weeks debacle, orchestrated by an apparently clueless John Boehner (House Minority Leader) and the House GOP Leadership, did nothing positive to enhance the budding issue of financial destruction The One is wreaking on this country.

Timing is a critical element in the world of politics. Utterly crucial, in fact. You set the table, which they did by setting up the word of an "alternative spending plan" (When it should have been called an "alternative budget plan" where cuts were the order of the day.) AND THEN YOU DELIVER BY PROVIDING THE SPECIFICS, SPECIFICS WITH DEVASTATING EFFECTIVENESS THAT GIVE THE RANK AND FILE SOMETHING TO GO TO WAR WITH.

Here's what you DON'T do:

You DON'T set the table in the restaurant, pull out a menu for the customer that seems to vaguely say "food," shows no meals, has no prices and then come out and tell you that "we'll have all that for you... next week, and none of that matters anyway."

After weeks of promising a comprehensive alternative to the president’s budget that Republicans have painted as excessive, bloated and wasteful, Boehner was unable to provide specific information about their proposal.

His colleagues were unable to answer line-items questions as well. Boehner dismissed those details as “just a bunch of numbers.”

Even though aides insist that GOP leaders had no intention of releasing their full budget substitute, the press event was a public relations disaster.

“It looked like a disorganized blunder,” one GOP aide said. “It’s the worst messaging snafu at a time when the party can’t afford one.”

Meanwhile, the restaurant with thousands of patrons across the street, with at least the sheen of respectability, laughs its collective ass off at the ineptitude and incompetence of GOP leadership... not scaring the leftist leadership nor increasing the stature of the Republicans, but instead, reinforcing the idea that they can do whatever they want to us and our best response if to cry "wolf."

And frankly, I can't argue.

Clearly, before we embark on the "Republican Road to Recovery," House leadership needs to embark on "The Republican Road to Rehab." With "leadership" like this, even with the golden opportunity the Moron in Chief hands us every day, we can expect to remain in the minority for a long, long, time.

Leading The News

House GOP goes from united to fractured

By Molly K. Hooper

Posted: 03/28/09 09:03 AM [ET]

House Republicans, who put Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on her heels as they voted unanimously to reject the economic stimulus bill two months ago, are now pointing fingers. The unity of the GOP Conference was strong when all Republicans voted, on two separate occasions, to oppose the stimulus championed by President Obama, who had approval ratings in the 60s at the time. While many Democrats touted the passage of the stimulus, they privately acknowledged that the extent of the Republican opposition surprised them. But that harmony has been fractured, days before a special election in New York that some Republicans characterize as a must-win. Some of the differences appeared Thursday over how they handled the rolling out of a much anticipated budget alternative, “The Republican Road to Recovery.”

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