Blog Credo

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

Monday, May 16, 2011

Happy Debt Limit Day!


This week, watch as the GOP Congress simultaneously doubles down on ending Medicare "as we know it" and holds the global economy hostage by refusing to raise the debt limit, so that they can cut hot lunch programs for undeserving poor children who should have had the grit and rugged individualism to be born to richer parents.

I've wondered at the weird polytheism most Republicans have.  They manage to worship both the blond haired, blue-eyed Jesus AND Ronald Reagan.  The creepy Reagan necrophilia never made sense to me, until I realize that Reagan was the last prominent American Conservative who wasn't absolutely frakking bonkers.

UPDATE: Want more crazy with your cornflakes?  Roy Edroso walks through the RW blog reaction to Huckabee not running.  They are happy that one of the more credible threats to Obama's re-election has elected not to run.  Why?  Because this will help Herman Cain win the nomination.  No.  Seriously.

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