Monday, November 09, 2009

Draining the Tub

The Shrill One, as quoted by Molly Ivors at Eschaton...but is really the whole Grover Nordquistian point of the movement conservatives:

...if Tea Party Republicans do win big next year, what has already happened in California could happen at the national level. In California, the G.O.P. has essentially shrunk down to a rump party with no interest in actually governing — but that rump remains big enough to prevent anyone else from dealing with the state’s fiscal crisis. If this happens to America as a whole, as it all too easily could, the country could become effectively ungovernable in the midst of an ongoing economic disaster.

The point is that the takeover of the Republican Party by the irrational right is no laughing matter. Something unprecedented is happening here — and it’s very bad for America.


I honestly don't know why the point is to shrink government by creating a Third World state where 90 percent of the populace lives in misery, but that does seem to be the idea.

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