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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Crazies...

"How crazy is the Tea Party?"  
"How crazy do you want us to be?"

Here is Bruce Bartlett, former Bush and Reagan official, saying something true.

The Tea Party is crazy.  And therefore the GOP is infected with crazy.

And we might all be doomed.

http://www.salon.com/news/debt_ceiling/index.html?story=/tech/htww/2011/01/05/bruce_bartlett_on_tea_party_monumental_insanity

It is basically an exegesis on what happens if the Michelle Bachmanns of the world keep us from raising the debt ceiling.

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