Republican majority as victims Republican majority as victims

April 22, 2005

As if it needed another one, America has developed a new class of victims. They're called Republicans.

It used to be that the Republican Party was where you went when you were tired of the victim mentality peddled by liberals. Now it's where you go when you feel victimized by liberals.

To listen to the leaders of the GOP, their tormentors come in threes: the liberal media, left-leaning academics and what House Majority Leader Tom DeLay calls an "arrogant, out-of-control, unaccountable judiciary."

When it comes to playing the victim, DeLay deserves an Academy Award. Speaking to religious conservatives during the Terri Schiavo ordeal, DeLay tried to relate the poor woman's ordeal to his own alleged ethical indiscretions and said that his political opponents were out to get him. Later, when the story broke that DeLay's wife and daughter had pocketed more than a half-million dollars by working for his political action committee, he could have pointed out that this is common practice in Washington. Instead, DeLay whined that his detractors in the media were trying to "embarrass" him.

It's a line he picked up again this week when he blamed his troubles on the "legion of Democrat-friendly

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What a bunch of fucking crybabies. :D

which makes it all the more cutting.

They're no longer leaders eh? :eyes:

That's where I'm at alright... "Screw um'! Each passing day makes me even PROUDER to be a Democrat.

we should play the personal responsibility angle. We should challenge him to take responsibility for his unethical and illegal actions.

with an exclusive membership AND victims at the same time. It just doesn't wash.

That's what they remind me of. A elite country club and they never take any responsibility for their actions so they blame us instead. Shame.

wanting everything one's own way ...feeling "entitled" to the money and taxes of others. Liberals may have suffered from it but at least liberals were stealing from the rich to give to the poor. These modern day conservatives steal from the poor to give to the rich. They will get their Karma....

caused by kicking the little people so the rich can be richer. It's not even Christian philosophy.

... to some segments of the population because victimization and persecution have been persistent themes of the fundies on the religious right... something to the effect of, "those damned liberals won't let us run the country like our religion says we should, so they're discriminating against us because of our religious beliefs." That's the sort of solipsistic thinking involved.

It's pure sophistry, but not every observer is going to figure out that that's what it is.

Now, if we could just get them all to form the Whackjob Theocratic Party, at least they'd all be under one leaky roof and we'd know where they were.

contents and try to stick in their own inappropriate issues. Which tells
you a lot about how they think: The point is the spin, not wether its
true or not.

Its true that Liberals have played the victim card too often, but at least
we have done so in the name of those who have truely been victimized!

Someone needs to tell Republicans that playing the victim when you are
rich, in the majority, and in power sort of misses the point. :eyes: