Maybe these two should get a room or something, because obvious ass-kisser is obvious:
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus says Sen. Rand Paul’s 13-hour filibuster was so “completely awesome” that he couldn’t fall asleep.
“I think it was completely awesome. I was excited about it myself. I couldn’t go to bed. I’m still excited about it,” Priebus told reporters on Thursday in Des Moines, Iowa, after meeting with grass-roots Republicans, according to video posted by The Des Moines Register.
The manner in which Priebus released all of this pent-up “excitement” is anyone's guess, though we're probably better-off going with a presumptive “TMI.”
And since the world has been collectively scratching its head wondering how a pandering, propaganda-peddling, faux-outreaching, 50-state-strategy-wannabe like Reince Priebus could be so hopelessly in love with a Republican Senator currently basking in more national spotlight than he deserves, thanks to his grandstanding filibuster antics the other day, Priebus provides us the answer:
“You know why I’m excited about it? I think our party needs some unity sometimes, and it’s not easy not having the White House, and sometimes you’ve got to scrap and claw for issues that can unify a party — now [it wasn’t] total unity. But this was a great issue in standing up against the president and asking some simple, important questions, and I was happy to see so many other senators support Mr. Paul.”
If recent history is any indication, Priebus and his party need a little more than “some” unity a little more often than “sometimes.” Seems like every time I turn around Republicans are flipping-off somebody new: Rove upsetting the Tea Party, the Tea Party pissing-off establishment Republicans, or Republicans just pissing-off by default anyone who isn't white, male, hetrosexual, or rich. Throw in a little
spat between a few Republican senators regarding the very filibuster Reince finds so unifying, and life is good for Republicans, or something.
It doesn't matter whether Paul's self-aggrandizing filibuster was protesting an unchecked executive branch indiscriminately droning US citizens on their own soil or if it was standing up for the rights of unborn drones unable to finance themselves, Priebus would have supported it just the same.
For Republicans, it's all political expediency, all the time. So they celebrate Black History Month while anxiously awaiting a conservative-majority Supreme Court to scrap the Voting Rights Act, eagerly try to lead the parade in honor of Women's History Month as they simultaneously demand regulation of their bodies, and hold hands with Rand Paul on an issue no other Republican spoke up about until all eyes were trained on the floor of the Senate the other day.
Reince Priebus and his merry band of fair-weather fraudsters are never too busy to accept donations, and will work tirelessly in counting the votes of unsuspecting citizens lulled into agreement with words like “growth,” “opportunity,” “liberty,” and “freedom.”
Rest assured, they'll be the first in line to take credit should they succeed in regaining power, and the first to leave the building once people realize the policies they're enacting don't look anything like those four words above.
So it's going to take alot more than a bromance with Rand Paul to save the Republican party, especially when Priebus has little choice but to embrace a Senator representative of the same Tea Party Karl Rove is concurrently working to neutralize.
And because votes are getting harder and harder to come by legitimately for the Republican party, an informed and vigilant electorate remains essential to preventing our country from once again being tricked into further destroying itself by the likes of Reince Priebus and the party he's trying to resell.