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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

Friday, May 20, 2011

The Perils Of Group-Think

Tough to keep shooting down bad ideas when they won't stop coming.

TPM has a nice summary of how members of the GOP have convinced themselves that defaulting on the debt for "a few days" won't be such a bad thing.  The people they are talking to are a bunch of bond traders and fringe economists who all are telling them what they want to hear.  And I bet those bond traders who are saying it won't be a big deal have all shorted the hell out of US treasuries and the dollar.  I mean, why wouldn't they, freaking sociopaths.

The triumvirate of stupid who are buying this line are Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor and Pat Toomey.  Now, Toomey is a longtime loon and founder of the Club For Screwing the Middle Class Growth.  Ryan, as we know, can't do basic addition and subtraction.  Cantor is a whore for whatever fringe position the Teatards throw up on a given day.

These are what passes for wise heads in today's Republican party.

We are so screwed.

C'mon, Boehner, channel Bob Dole or Gerry Ford or whomever.  Save the world from your friends.

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