No Commentary Needed Really

TW: Below are quotes from just the past couple of days from the leaders of the Republican Party such as it is. Steele's quote should be expanded to "we Republicans" as with these attitudes of sneering, patronizing, disdainful glibness are not the words of folks who should be running anyone's party much less a great nation.

From Taegen Goddard:
"I'm the gift that keeps on giving."
-- RNC Chairman Michael Steele, quoted by David Corn, "almost as if he were proud of that."

Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) -- head of the House Republican campaign effort -- cited rising unemployment in asserting that the Obama administration intended to "diminish employment and diminish stock prices" as part of a "divide and conquer" strategy to consolidate power, reports the New York Times.Sessions said Mr. Obama's agenda was "intended to inflict damage and hardship on the free enterprise system, if not to kill it."

Newt Gingrich, in an interview on Fox News, compares the charm of Barack Obama with that of Bill Clinton:"Well, he's not charming in the same sense that Clinton is. I mean, President Obama is a very smart, very gifted person, a very good strategic thinker. He's a very pleasant person. The fact is Clinton was charming, but we got welfare reform. And he was charming, but we got a tax cut. And he was charming, but we balanced the budget. So I'm perfectly happy to be charmed with somebody who says 'yes.' "
[TW: to be clear ZERO Republicans voted for Clinton's 1993 budget that set the table for the balanced budgets and in fact the Republicans stuck ayes votes for that budget up the backside of numerous Dem House candidates to the Republicans gain in the 1994 election]

"Well, if I had to choose in terms of being a Republican, I'd go with Rush Limbaugh, I think. I think my take on it was Colin had already left the party. I didn't know he was still a Republican."-- Former Vice President Dick Cheney, in an interview on Face the Nation, on whether Colin Powell or Rush Limbaugh were a better spokesman for the Republican party.

"People that are social conservatives are also economic conservatives. But a lot of the economic conservatives are not social conservatives. Throw the social conservatives the pro-life, pro-family people overboard and the Republican party will be as irrelevant as the Whigs."-- Mike Huckabee, in an interview with the Visalia Times-Delta."