a little Brat flip and then flop?

has been co-opted by a tea party type republican.

It's just a matter of time until the whole 2008 financial crisis gets blamed on Obama.

Don't think that's possible? It's happening with Iraq. Right now.

The drain on the economy that is and was Iraq is back.

Democrats call the GOP crazy extremists during campaigns, then once Dems get elected, they try to enact as much Republic foreign, trade, budget, and tax policy as possible.

It's kind of like we have a choice between a mafia don and a cop, but the cop is Vick Mackey from THE SHIELD, who is a cop AND a criminal mastermind at the same time.

He will care about social issues and quietly drop economic ones - except those that benefit big business - i.e. he will fight regulations and environmental policies, because however much he pretends to hate wall street - he hates government more.

Bryant

Do you really think he'll quietly drop economics issues? He's not going to be effective, freshman congressmen have little power, but I doubt he'll just ignore them.

Unless he really is crazy, which would be gratifying.

Bryant

Couldn't even speak about the minimum wage because he hadn't given it much thought.
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He just didn't want it to sink his campaign.

That can't help, either.
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I doubt he expected to win, and hadn't composed a BS evasive answer to the question. He did know if he answered with his true opinion, he'd be toast. He's a political rookie, once he hires some spin-miesters he'll appear a bit more polished. But there'll still be some foot-in-mouth moments I hope Trammel can capitalize on.

Heilman and Halpern ignored it completely in a discussion with Charlie Rose. Apparently they couldn't hear my protestations ffrom where I was.

that tells us more about him than does his education or occupation

There was another post last week (sorry, can't find the link) that explained that Koch money paid for his professorship (as a named chair), and that the (Koch paid) pundits were all shilling for him.

So my guess would be that he'll do whatever they tell him to do, while he enjoys the good life.

He's their lapdog.

The natural check to people (and businesses) doing whatever the hell they want is more effective government. But they hateses nasty, fat government, don't they, Prescious?.
Whatever are they to do???
It will be fun to see what this Brat guy comes up with. It will be more so when we here figure out how to rip it to shreds on facebook. My bet is it won't take us all that long.
Yeah, I'm in a dick mood tonight =).

And I'm sure the Democrats will be delighted to comply.

As long as they can muzzle Elizabeth Warren.

If the teabaggers go anti-Wall Street, then the Turd Way will be Wall Street's best friend. Hillary and Company will be so awash in Wall Street money funneled through PACs that their message will dominate. This is shaping up to be a nightmare scenario for Progressives. Will they stick with a corrupt party owned by Wall Street or will they abandon the party and go their own way? If Brat's ideas spread through the GOP, will that make them the populist party and the Dems the establishment?

These are strange times; anything could happen. I think we can all sense right now that populism will sell to the electorate in this year's election and in 2016. Will the GOP turn things around and become the 'party of the people?' This is the kind of thing that happens with only two parties. The people running the show can constantly play one side against the other in order to assure that their objectives are met. This would be harder to achieve if we had more parties; the process would be much more complex and the variables would be much greater. But it's easily done when you only have two sides and those sides are more similar than they are different. Guess who wins again?

It's not like we've done anything to stop them from doing so.