It's a terrible thing to live in fear

Our chief weapon is fear...fear and resentment.
Fear and resentment.... Our two weapons are fear and resentment...and anger.
Our *three* weapons are fear, resentment and anger...and an almost fanatical devotion to self-deception....
Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, resentment.... I'll come in again.

“I just hope the Congress, the Senate and the president recognize that people are afraid of what's going on.” All fear all the time is what the Republicans want. Everyone should be afraid of everything except whatever bullshit policy the republicans are cramming down our throats at any given time.

The middle aged white person temper tantrum show of 2009 must be read in context: The Republicans have governed won elections for so long using these three four weapons that they cannot understand how the dems and the voters will not respond to them now.

Of course the Congress still does, because they are led by DINO cowards Reid and Pelosi and crippled by blue dog "democrats" that vote republican.

The WH seems to capable of standing up to them in some ways. I wonder what's different about this president that he could confront a large powerful organization designed to generate and multiply fear and resentment.