"Middle of the Roaders Get Run Over & Squashed"

Mon. August 27, 2012:


Worthy Readers, a handful of articles here, deserving of your time.

                                     PERILS OF MIDDLE-OF-THE-ROAD


1.  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/27/opinion/keller-the-last-bipartisan.html?ref=todayspaper
Senator Ron Wyden [D-Oregon] learns the dangers of trying to be a moderate in this Congress.

            Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR] tries to work with House Budget Chair Paul Ryan [R-WI]

2.  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/27/us/politics/republicans-worry-about-keeping-factions-reined-in.html?ref=todayspaper
GOP will close ranks to support their Romney/Ryan ticket,
BUT:  Win or lose, the Republican party has dangerous & serious divisions.

3.  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/sunday-review/romneys-first-100-days.html?ref=todayspaper
An optimistic forecast of the Romney/Ryan Administration's first 100 days.

4.  Quotation of the Day

"The philosophy you hear from time to time — which is unfortunate — is one of exclusion, rather than inclusion."

                                                             -- DAN QUAYLE, the former Republican Vice President, on the Republican Party.

5.  

Even Bob Dole, known as the conservative Hatchet Man in his day, is warning that his party could curdle if it doesn’t start appealing to ethnic minorities, young people and the “mainstream,” and stand up to the far-right lunacy. The G.O.P. has veered so far right that Jack Kemp, Dole’s running mate in 1996, now looks like Teddy Kennedy compared with Kemp’s protégé Paul Ryan.

“We have got to be open,” the 89-year-old Dole told The Daily Telegraph of London. “We cannot be a single-issue party or a single-philosophy party.” He added that he was concerned about the “undercurrent of rigid conservatism where you don’t dare not toe the line.”

6.  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-26/romney-may-signal-end-of-establishment-republicans-rule.html

This piece predicts that the
Far Right will soon take over the entire GOP,
AND the White House, AND the Congress, AND even more
of the Supreme Court.