You gotta love the inventiveness (is that really a word?) of the Republicans. 
In order to gain…and keep…..control of all political power in this country, you have to really be on your toes.

First, there's making sure that all the districts vote for the right party (yours). 
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/01/17/1459991/rslc-gerrymandering-house/

Then you make sure not everyone gets to vote…just those you want.
http://tinyurl.com/ktn4jja

Slowly offend and cut off all those 'objectionable" folks you don't really want in your party…even if they are white. Family Values, dontcha know...

http://tinyurl.com/krldywq

Always be the first one out of the gate with the outrage-of-the-day. It can get real tricky trying to keep the base riled up without offending a large portion of it.

Sometimes it is too obvious…

"……..the Republican side who have flip-flopped — flip-flopped in the most craven way." (Juan Williams on the Bergdahl exchange) 

http://tinyurl.com/krldywq

THEN…there is out and out old-fashioned bribery.

"The Washington Post is reporting that Republicans offered to move Democratic state Sen. Phillip P. Puckett and his daughter into prestigious jobs in exchange for Puckett's resignation, which will flip the chamber into Republican hands. Pucket will officially accept the offer on Monday, the paper reported."

http://tinyurl.com/lfsvttp
(And I don't have nice words for the fellow who's accepting this, if that is what he decides.)

I know….governing a nation can be a dirty business  And the Repubs are proving they are the ones for the job.

WHIPLASH...

I've gotten whiplash over the last two days or so…since the President exchanged five GITMO prisoners for one American soldier. The same soldier that the Right begged, tweeted, blogged, and hammered the White House to bring home, as he was the last POW in Afghanistan. The one they now denounce as a traitor who should have been left to die, or be shot NOW. And they don't stop with just the soldier….let's lambast his parents, too, while we're at it. And threaten the town that was planning to celebrate his coming home to them….

There is a reason for this, of course:

"According to White House sources, Marc Grossman, who replaced Richard Holbrooke as special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, was given a direct warning by the president's opponents in Congress about trading Bowe for five Taliban prisoners during an election year. "They keep telling me it's going to be Obama's Willie Horton moment," Grossman warned the White House. The threat was as ugly as it was clear: The president's political enemies were prepared to use the release of violent prisoners to paint Obama as a Dukakis-¬like appeaser, just as Republicans did to the former Massachusetts governor during the 1988 campaign."

http://tinyurl.com/lz847ox

The question of whether Bergdahl walked away, deserted, worked with the Taliban (doubtful) or was just pissed off should be and WILL be sorted out by the military. President Obama, contrary to talk on the Right, never said he was a hero. But I am sure the Right does NOT want everyone to be aware of this:

"Sgt Bergdahl had taken seriously the counter-insurgency strategy supposedly aimed at winning the “hearts and minds” of Afghans. Instead, he found that US soldiers regarded Afghans with aggressive contempt: “I am sorry for everything here. These people need help, yet what they get is the most conceited country in the world telling them that they are nothing and that they are stupid, that they have no idea how to live.”

http://linkis.com/independent.co.uk/y92l6

But as usual, the Repubs have their mechanization of outrage at full speed ahead. (Former Bush and Romney spokesman, as well as frequent FOX contributor Richard Grenell's public relations team helped connect the media and soldiers who served with Bergdahl.) Color me surprised.

Shoot first….and ask questions later…………and keep the FOX watchers stirred up.