The Stupidy Crescendo

Well, it has been a pretty good week for the left.

Mitt Romney said that he did not really care about the poor because they had a safety net. Gingrich is having a hard time convincing even himself that there is any viability left in his candidacy. Santorum has said that global warming is a myth. Bachmann, trying to remain relevant and getting her own Congressional seat re-election campaign off the ground said that she was the "perfect" Presidential candidate. John McCain got into the crazy act by saying that he thinks military action may be warrented in Syria. Is there anyone he doesn't want to bomb? Today, restricting gay marriage was considered unconstitutional. Even Bill O'Reilly had to admint that Obama is leading Romney in the polls.

Another decision that put the right on the wrong side of an issue was the Susan G. Komen Foundation's plan to no longer fund donations to Planned Parenthood. This was a short term PR disaster for the Susan G. Komen foundation. Within hours of their proclaimation independent donations streamed in and Planned Parenthood found themselves with nearly the amount of the total donations provided by the Susan G. Komen Foundation itself. Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City donated $250,000 of his own money to Planned Parenthood. Why was this a huge loss for the right wing of the Republican Party? They have been trying to starve Planned Parenthood of funding throughout the Obama Presidency. But as the smoke cleared from the 48 hour Susan G. Komen debacle, they reversed themselves on their own policy and apologized for mixing themselves up in a political firestorm they themselves created. All this because a portion of the privately funded revenue goes to providing abortions.

This activity was all in the last week and does not include the good news about jobs and the economy. Too bad the election will be not held today.

But the biggest evidence that the Republicans are not serious about winning the elections in the fall may have come over the weekend. The tell was a simple commercial that ran during the Superbowl. It was the commercial that was all the buzz Monday morning. It featured largely a voice over by actor Clint Eastwood. A Republican lauding that fact that the auto industry and manufacturing in America was on the rebound and that it was "halftime" in America as far as our return to economic prominence. There was definitely a subtext that without assistance the car industry would have been a thing of the past.

This was THE commercial of the Superbowl. More people were buzzing about the commerical than the New York Giants win. Rather than just leaving it alone the Republican elite were out with a venomous zeal. Who led the response? Karl Rove. He said that he was "frankly offended by the commerical." He called it "Chicago style politics." Rove went on to say that the car company, Chrysler, paid for the two minute spot with money from loans that were yet to be paid back. Which in itself is inaccurate. Chrysler paid back the loans early with interest. And yes Mr. Rove, it was no thanks to the Republicans that the auto industry has for the time being averted disaster. Your party and particularly your likely nominee for President, Willard Mitt Romney wrote in a Michigan newspaper that he thought the auto industry should not receive loans. It was a gutsy move by the Obama administration and one that had it not gone as it did, the Republicans would have roasted Obama for his ineptness. Need proof of that? See what they have said about Solyndra.

But Rove's hurt feelings means nothing more than him being outsmarted and not thinking of something similarly genius himself. After all, it looks to be like something right out of his own playbook.

As we stray farther away from the Bush years and close in on the election in 2012 there seems to be a distinction that the Democrats are making between themselves and the Republicans. Pro-worker vs. the 1% in this country that have benefited greatly during the first eight years of this century. Did the Republicans have a bad week or are they just showing the rest of us what they really believe in?