The Republican Party - No way out

 Republicans:  when it all blew up in their faces…when Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction and the Iraqis met us with IED's instead of flowers and chocolates…when starving the government of revenues didn't create economic growth…when the Republican congress proved more corrupt than their predecessors…when lack of Wall Street oversight led directly to economic collapse…when the country reached it's lowest level of effective taxation since the Truman administration…that's when they launched the Taxed (T) Enough (E) Already (A) Party. Has anything more stupid ever happened?

The disastrous culmination of a 28-year campaign to make the rich richer and the middle class poorer was interpreted as the perfect time to launch a tax revolt on the behalf of people who had never paid lower taxes. At the peak moment for government spending, they launched a war on the only available economic stimulus that might save them their job, their home, and their savings. It was no surprise that the whole venture was financed by plunderous plutocrats in their desperate (and successful) attempt to cause a distraction big enough for them to evade accountability for their actions.

The conservative movement is too stupid to live, but the Republican Party is too advantaged by law to die. It would like to remake itself into a party that reflects the values of enough Americans for them to win. But conservatives would rather wallow in their own impotence and rage than change their core beliefs. The GOP will remain bitterly divided for quite some time. The splits will grow when we debate guns and when we debate immigration and when we debate climate and energy. The coalition cannot hold. The most reactionary of the bunch have the advantage of being correct about one thing. Without race-hatred and religious tribalism and gay-bashing and attacks on women's rights, the GOP has no coalition at all. It would simply scatter to the winds. So, they will persist.
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2013/1/6/105318/4727

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2013/1/6/105318/4727http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2013/1/6/105318/4727