Republicans Cool With Country’s Failure, a/k/a – All Class

It’s like they’re in the Andrew Luck derby.  If the country sucks enough, it’s more likely their tribe will win.  Unfortunately, we’ve seen the debates. There’s no Andrew Luck in that crew. (Perry’s probably the closest – Texan with decent arm strength)

So though the country will still suck, they can sleep easy on their bed of concrete and McGriddle wrappers.

In the new CNN poll, Republicans are the only group that wants Obama’s policies to fail. From the internals:

In general, do you hope that Barack Obama’s policies will succeed or do you hope that his policies will fail?

Republicans: Succeed 39

Fail 51

By contrast, 66 percent of independents want his policies to succeed, and 67 percent of overall Americans want that, too.

Back in 2003, I was staunch in my opposition to the Iraq War.  Did that mean I didn’t want us to successfully bring glorious, oh glorious, corruption-free democracy to the Fertile Crescent? Eradicate all the (supposed) WMDs per Colin Powell’s polite request? Open up their first Citgo/Taco Bell?  Nope. I like to be right, but no correct prediction is worth $2 trillion and 100,000s of lives.

When the criminally immoral enterprise was exposed and the operation itself shown to be an absolute shitshow, did I speak about it with a sense of smug haughtiness? Yes. Yes I did. I ‘told you so’ people all over town. However, (dare I say) wanting the sitting president to fail is pretty anti-American.  You know who else wants America to fail? Terr’ists!!! and maybe the Chinese gymnastics team.

here’s the rub…

Even more interesting, when Republicans are then asked about some of the Obama policy ideas themselves — without Obama’s name attached to them — majorities support them.

So to sum it up: GOP 2011 – We’re going to scream loudly about what ails this country because it’s not sick enough to guarantee an election victory.

All class.