How Conservatives Cooked A Blue Meth GOP
Howard Fineman, HuffPost, Posted: 09/25/2013 4:17 pm EDT | Updated: 09/25/2013 5:12 pm EDT
WASHINGTON -- The Republican Party used to be dull and relatively reasonable. It stood for spending restraint, free markets (for big companies) and gentle regulation of business. But it also stood for, or accepted, federal public works and scientific research, a foreign policy that was neither isolationist nor war-mongering, the use of federal power in the name of racial justice, progressive taxation, and a public piety of the most anodyne, “In God We Trust” kind.
The party of Dwight Eisenhower -- of Scotch and soda and sotto voce -- is all but extinct.
What’s left of it is barricaded in the U.S. Senate, under fire in a deadly turf war with Blue Meth Republicanism, a movement at times so angry, reductionist, apocalyptic, God-invoking, fear-mongering and obsessed with purity that it seems to have been concocted in the sub-basement of "Breaking Bad."
One of its younger, more aggressive leaders, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, just delivered a grandstanding faux filibuster against Obamacare. Insiders and “mainstream” media weren’t impressed, but then they weren't his audience. The Blue Meth Crew was, and they will be back.
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WASHINGTON -- The Republican Party used to be dull and relatively reasonable. It stood for spending restraint, free markets (for big companies) and gentle regulation of business. But it also stood for, or accepted, federal public works and scientific research, a foreign policy that was neither isolationist nor war-mongering, the use of federal power in the name of racial justice, progressive taxation, and a public piety of the most anodyne, “In God We Trust” kind.
The party of Dwight Eisenhower -- of Scotch and soda and sotto voce -- is all but extinct.
What’s left of it is barricaded in the U.S. Senate, under fire in a deadly turf war with Blue Meth Republicanism, a movement at times so angry, reductionist, apocalyptic, God-invoking, fear-mongering and obsessed with purity that it seems to have been concocted in the sub-basement of "Breaking Bad."
One of its younger, more aggressive leaders, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, just delivered a grandstanding faux filibuster against Obamacare. Insiders and “mainstream” media weren’t impressed, but then they weren't his audience. The Blue Meth Crew was, and they will be back.
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Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, just delivered a grandstanding faux filibuster against Obamacare
Hmmm ... yep, I guess it was a case of faux grandstanding ... or at least a lesson in never believing what a salesman is peddling ... as fans of Breaking Bad know, the current manufacturer of "Blue Meth" is not Walter White but instead by Jack Welker who is the leader of a White Supremacist Gang. His nephew Todd Alquist is in charge of "production" (i.e. the "cook"). The Blue Meth product is currently being sold through employees of Madrigal Elektromotoren GmbH - a German-based corporation.
So when you hear Senator Cruz evoke that opponents of his plan to defund Obamacare are Nazi appeasers, maybe we have to look a little deeper.
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