If, on the other hand, you realize the Republican Party is a cesspool of racist, authoritarian human filth, then you should simply devise your governing strategy by doing the exact opposite of what Brian says.

For example, Brian says of this kind of dispute: “It’s a losing strategy.”

Wrong Brian; it’s a winning strategy. Just pick a juicy pile of Republican dogshit like Sarah Palin or Karl Rove and or Rush Limbaugh, (not to mention George Bush or Dick Cheney) and get into a vicious and highly public confrontation with it. Then expend enormous amounts of resources and energy demonizing and ridiculing the scumbags, and, even more importantly, polarizing the electorate as much as humanly possible. The last thing you want to do – and I mean the absolute LAST thing – is to buy into the transparent Republican hustle of “bipartisanship.”

Of course, the Democrats could listen to Brian, and the rest of the idiots and trolls who advocate the same moronic strategy. You know, allow Republicans to attack liberals as traitors and socialists, while Democrats “take the high road” and “stick to the issues.” In other words, to behave as gutless, craven pussies without the balls or brains to defend themselves, deserving of every ounce of contempt directed their way. Just take a look at Brian’s previous letters, where he urgently warns us about the ruinous dangers of “Bush-bashing,” and of failing to satisfy the public’s ravenous demands for “consensus” and “bridge-building.” (Except for Republicans, of course; they can do whatever the fuck they want.)

Accordingly, if you’d like to continue the trend of kicking the shit out of the Republican Party established over the past two elections, just look to what Brian says. And do exactly the opposite.

The Republicans' message regarding the origins of the crisis in the housing industry is a bit simpler:

"Its the Blacks."

Cause, you know, everybody realizes the government forced the banks and Wall Street and insurance companies and every other financial institution to give the Blacks free mortgages so they'd have more money to spend on crack, Hennessey, Cadillacs and voter fraud!

Guess whose message is going to resonate more effectively with the lazy, bovine herd of illiterate half-wits that spend their lives wallowing in the cesspool of Republican talk radio?

Obama isn’t a goddamn economics professor back at Columbia or Harvard, he’s the leading target of a proto-fascist political party that will tell any lie and commit any crime to claw its way back into power, and whose efforts are bolstered by a relentless and highly sophisticated propaganda campaign run by such human filth as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, William Kristol, and the rest of the usual suspects.

Incredibly, here’s the scope of Obama’s comment on the role of the Republican party (and only implicit, at that) in the soporific excerpt from Koppelman’s post:

“as the bubble grew, there was almost no accountability or oversight from anyone in Washington.”

Ooooohh, what a bold and damning indictment!

What would be much better for America – not to mention his own political party – would be for Obama to flush his obsession with bipartisanship down the toilet, and issue a far less pedantic analysis of the country’s ruinous economic situation. Something, say, along the lines of the following:

“America finds itself in a desperate economic crisis principally because of the Republican Party’s grotesque, fanatical pursuit of deregulation at all costs, an effort that has allowed a cabal of thieves and speculators to grow rich at the expense of ordinary Americans.”

Let’s leave the complexity and nuance to the academics, while Obama does his job and keeps this country from once again succumbing to the rancid stink of Republicanism.

I am getting SOOOOO sick of seeing Obama's face on the TV every single day. This is almost as bad as the stupid election.

Oh, I’m quite sure that you’re sick of seeing Obama on tv, and even less doubtful about your unbearable pain when confronted with “the stupid election.” But I really think you ought to spend some serious time in therapy, meditation, prayer, or any other method at your disposal to help accommodate yourself to the situation.

Cause, you see, Election Day is the joyous annual celebration when the citizenry of the United States joins together and collectively spits in the face of rightwing Republican scumbags, regardless of how we may feel on any number of other issues. And no matter how one feels about Obama, that is always an occasion to celebrate.

The Right's leading political philosopher and intellectual historian, Jonah Goldberg . . . .

Not to disparage the scope of Glenn’s considerable gifts, but that is one truly inspired bit of political satire!

Obama should fast-track healthcare and stop trying to court Republicans.

End of fucking story.

And not just on healthcare, but on every other issue of consequence as well. Most importantly, we have to demand an end to the all-consuming idiocy of “bipartisanship,” where the Republican Party gets to prosecute its ongoing undeclared civil war on American democracy, and Democrats get to kiss their asses. Guess what? The public at large doesn’t give any more of a flying shit about bipartisanship now (notwithstanding the ritualized whining sessions orchestrated by the media) than they did when they repeatedly elected lower order primates like George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Newt Gingrich to leading positions in the United States government. Progressives need to force Obama to declare war on the fanatical Republican fringe, not compromise with them.