How will the right wing punk AARP?
Not satisfied with alienating young people, women, Latinos and African Americans, the GOP is now setting out to alienate old people by attacking AARP. It is a matter of days, then, before someone approaches AARP pretending to be a producer of porn movies and wanting AARP to provide them with new stars. This will be good.
Rep. Dave Reichart, (R-WAAAAH) has already launched an investigation into AARP, or so he says in an interview with TPM. Reichart announced the attacks on AARP with Mike Pence (R-IN), the Chair of the House Republican Caucus, as seen here in an article from Talking Points Memo. And the GOP itself is targeting the group on the official GOP web site. This looks to be the next stage in the GOP war against healthcare reform. I’m amazed, and so appalled that I have joined AARP this morning.
The last target of the GOP was ACORN, and some aspiring right wing nutcases set up a sting against the organization involving prostitutes. It is unclear what undercover sting will be prepetrated against AARP, but such an action is all but certain with screeching right wing voices like Michelle Malkin on the case. Perhaps there will be a Maalox scandal, or some sort of Viagra angle? Personally, I’m thinking old people in porn will be the ticket to some low level Republicans dreams of making it with Rush Limbaugh and the right wing screechers. Hey, maybe Chuck Grassley will stop whining about how Obama is going to kill grandma when he takes up the attack on the largest organization in the country representing older people. It could happen, but it could also be that Chuck Grassley is comfortable with his cognitive dissonance.
Why would the GOP attack AARP, when they’ve already alienated so many blocs of voters, such as young people, women, African Americans, Latinos, etc.? Perhaps it is AARP’s support of bipartisan solutions that has the GOP all in an uproar. Cooperation just isn’t attractive to the GOP, as they’ve shown for at least the last 20 years.
Stay tuned. This could be good.
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The problem is that a number of other issues that need to be addressed for the sake of the nation have solutions that are unpalatable to many older Americans. Raising the retirement age being one of the biggest.
While I’m fine with the GOP alienating seniors and thus making it much harder for Republicans to get votes, I also don’t want the Democratic party to be held hostage by an interest group that has interests divergent from much of the rest of the country.
This is so out of touch with reality that it has to be Michael Steele’s creation. He has probably never met anyone over 65 that didn’t treat him like a blithering idiot.