[lbo-talk] Tea Party: less than meets the eye

[Alan Rudy]

Yes, all of Chuck's and other evidence to the contrary nothwithstanding,
there is surely absolutely no reason to think that they've done what they've
done on purpose and because we can't read there minds - and, again, all the
things they've done in the same fashion in support of the same folks, not
others, when they could have done differently -- there's no reason to think
that they are at all competent, or capable of dealing with situations you
seem to feel might be beyond their control (like setting policies that
reflect the campaign, or calling Reps on their BS, or actually proposing and
defending policies that have wide public support rather than waiting for
obstructionist bipartisanship to play itself out) or anything.
BTW: no one's saying its evil, its just whop they are...
APR

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:


> Chuck: "Obama had a majority in the Senate and House. You just can't blame
> the Republicans, a filibuster threat, or the tender sensibilities of the
> white male swing vote. What is that bullshit about?"
>
> [WS:]  You may be right or not.  All I am saying is that we have no way of
> knowing what motivated Obama administration to take the course of action
> they did.  There are many possible explanations ranging from political
> ineptitude, to dealing with force majeure, to a machiavellian
> manipulations,
> and anything in between.  But none of us has any way of knowing it for a
> fact, at least now.  So imputing evil motives to Obama administration
> sounds
> to me like a child who did not get a candy saying to his mother that she is
> evil and does not love him anymore - a bit infantile.