Sen. Whitehouse: There Will Be A 'Reckoning' For GOP's 'Desperate, No-Holds-Barred Mission Of Propaganda' (VIDEO)

The day of reckoning was 2006 & 2008. The idiot-wave that the GOP rests upon will be on the rise for the next 3-5 years. They will be rewarded for this round of fear-mongering.

This guy is great. I love how it becomes possible to pathologize republican "thought" by putting it in its appropriate intellectual and historical context. Evolutionary context too, perhaps, if you consider knuckle-dragging.

Love it.

Americans have the attention span of fruit flies. They will be talking about American Idol between doctor visits. Remember "keep the government out of my medicare"?

Don't think so. This bill, if it ever gets through conference, won't even take effect until 2014, and by that time, nobody will remember the GOP's obstructionism.

Senator Whitehouse is an eloquent speaker. I HOPE we actually do remember and that there are some consequences for the obstruction.

Television commentators have alredy begun treating those excesses as yesterday's news. In five years, I fear no one will look back to remember.

The problem with Americans is that too few know who Hofstadter is and even fewer have read The Paranoid Style or any of his other fine books.
The Democrats deserve whatever they get at the polls in 2010. They lied to the people, the single payer option was never even seriously considered, and I will never see any politician as anything other than a thief. That includes Whitehouse, Feingold, Sanders, Kucinich, et al.

Evil corps win! No one will remember anything about anything! They lied to us! Woo woo!

Either there's some quality trolling going on here, or you are a bunch a hand-wringing, self-hating sissies. You thought you could win one election and the evil overlords would just roll over and give you what you wanted on a silver platter? Keep fighting, you pukes.

Whitehouse is right. Remember they said all the same things about Medicare before it passed, and now only the most fossilized libertarians still dream of abolishing it. Republicans had to pretend to be the protectors of this program they hate in hopes of defeating this reform.

More important though is Whitehouse is right about the conspiracy mindset, and the belief of the right that their country has been taken from them. That paranoia is why there's no reasoning with them.

Whitehouse is right. Except that Republicans will still manage to take credit, at least among those who are committed to believing what they say: "What was originally proposed would have been everything we warned about; thanks to our diligent and thankless opposition to the horror that the Democrats were attempting to foist on the country, what we have now isn't so awful."

Someone smart once told me when people are in an argument, the most important thing to do is to be careful about saying things that can't be taken back. The GOP leadership's performance disgusted me, as they stood before the camera and complained about a schedule THEY imposed, said the Democrats were trying to hide the truth with late night votes that THEY made necessary, and ignored the ramrod passage of the USAPatriot Act that THEY engineered. The GOP's base might have a legitimate beef on the abortion issue, from an ideological perspective, but it's impossible to take seriously any of their policy objectives when THEY have gamed congress on this one and know damn well the bill will help their constituents. It's all about who wins and who loses with them.

"EVIL, MALIGNANT and VINDICTIVE"

Just what I wuz thinkin' . .

The day of reckoning is not a partisan concern. Progressives are still lying to themselves if they think this will save them at the polls. They're using the same tactics now on their own constituents.

Fear: Support this bill because it's not going to get any better so we'd better pass this NOW NOW NOW--fear of loss.

Propaganda/Falsehoods: This bill has meaningful change and 'bends the curve' despite the fact that it simply doesn't control costs to the consumers it was supposed to help. This will completely bite them in the ass. THIS IS WHAT VOTERS CARE ABOUT; THEIR OWN POCKETBOOKS. This is what the public has been sold and they're going to realize it was a pile of crap.

Obstruction: Obstruct the popular opinion on the public option, obstruct Roe v. Wade, obstruct anti-trust rules, obstruct cheap generic drug importation. They can't even get out of their own way!

Democrats, go back to the drawing board and pass something you believe in!

The day of reckoning is near when Americans figure out how great this bill is? YOu mean the bill that doesn't take effect for another four years? YOu mean the bill that is hugely unpopular in every single poll? You mean the bill that starts raising taxes in 2010? You mean the bill that forces people to buy insurance from private companies?

That bill? Yeah sure thing Sheldon, you nut bar.

@RPS - Or is the "idiot wave" an illusion? We'll soon see, as we'll see how horrified people are at the spectacle they've created and resolve not to let the idiots take over.

I am so pleased that the Honorable Senator Whitehouse cleverly speaks to the minority in their own language, i.e. "Day of Judgement," reckoning etc.

Whitehouse could and should win the prize as a latter day Sinclair Lewis!

Lewis, for those that might forget, won the Nobel and the Pulitzer for literature. He was the author in 1935 of "It Can't Happen Here" about how fascism would come to America's heartland carrying a cross.

My cudos to Sheldon Whitehouse for his bravery and honesty. Carry on the good fight!

Read Paul Krugman in today's NYT. And try to see Matt Tabibi's appearance on the on the most recent Bill Moyer's Journal.

Welcome to Weimar.

The Dems got us nothing, the GOP got us nothing. I think next election will be a draw.

That shit was EPIC

We'll see in 2010 and 2012 who gets elected. I'm sick of these Democrats! I've never been politically active, but that has changed. I'm giving as much money as I can spare ( not chump change, either ) to anyone running agaist this crop of lying, cheating bastard Democrats. I'm going to give as much of my time as I can spare to see that these Democrats are removed from office.