tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post5740698632763488265..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: COKIE ROBERTS, STILL IN DENIALSteve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-45504456892624321062015-10-13T09:14:16.002-04:002015-10-13T09:14:16.002-04:00The dirty little secret is that the DC press corps...The dirty little secret is that the DC press corps knows where all the bodies are buried. But they play the game to keep their cushy jobs. retiredenghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11693405694592881395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-73985553790157237352015-10-12T21:10:40.709-04:002015-10-12T21:10:40.709-04:00Like a lichens infested tin of Powder Milk Biscuit...Like a lichens infested tin of Powder Milk Biscuits in your pantry from 1982, NPR just can't let go of stale product. They're still running Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers every Saturday and one of them has been dead for a year. Extrapolate from there and one can expect NPR to be serving up Cokie's senile privileged musings for another 30-40 years.petrillihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17889489779105405703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-89659119672837260262015-10-12T19:53:57.364-04:002015-10-12T19:53:57.364-04:00Cookie is only partly wrong. Its not just the Repu...Cookie is only partly wrong. Its not just the Republican presidential candidates who are out there saying "If you get anything done, you're a sellout". Its most of the base. Obstruction is a lot easier than governing. <br /><br />The other problem is I dont think they have a clue as to what they want to do as a party other than lowering taxes and cutting spending in the abstract. Its when you get out of the absract that you get into that governing thing and well... obstruction is a lot easier than governing.<br /><br />Blackstonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13223950796885238684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-46970902806761581022015-10-12T16:05:20.420-04:002015-10-12T16:05:20.420-04:00No Ben, I don't think so. They're too far ...No Ben, I don't think so. They're too far gone.<br /><br />If they realize anything at all, it's their culpability in the crime, the consequence of that culpability, and so have no choice but to continue as they have as the alternative is to accept responsibility for what they've done. They say Marie Antoinette had no idea what was coming but, come on, they had only been chopping people's heads off outside the garden gate for weeks.Ten Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594307610015584119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-22275921084731058352015-10-12T14:20:31.506-04:002015-10-12T14:20:31.506-04:00Ben may be correct, though it doesn't explain ...Ben may be correct, though it doesn't explain their continued reticence to point out the obvious after so many years. Surely, even beltway media figures are smart enough to understand that their own denial IS enabling the lunacy.<br /><br />Right? <br /><br />Right?<br /><br /><br />Yeah, I know-- establishment insider "journalism" is a constant, ongoing profile in cowardice. Even if they do recognize their culpability in creating this dysfunction, they'll never admit to it.BKThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15780381542236932101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-17298765596171559452015-10-12T12:47:41.418-04:002015-10-12T12:47:41.418-04:00Have you considered whether this insistence on &qu...Have you considered whether this insistence on "just an anomaly" is rooted in fear? Posit, for a moment, that the Beltway punditocracy actually recognized the GOP's radical insanity for what it is, and understood the implications should they gain total control of the federal government. Wouldn't they feel a sphincter-tightening stab of dread, a terrifying vision of hell unleashed that would spook them into shutting their eyes and whistling desperately past the graveyard?<br /><br />They may show flashes of recognition, but the grim prospect is too alarming to allow into full consciousness and must be ruthlessly buried under business-as-usual and misty memories of a bygone era of (relative) comity.Never Ben Betterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17814767173601107270noreply@blogger.com