Friday, December 14, 2012

There's also no off switch on "crazy"

Matt Taibbi, who has been right about many things and at least entertaining on the rest, responded to Jim DeMint's resignation with this:
The Tea Party is about purity, and DeMint doesn't want to sully himself with the congress's probably-inevitable decision to raise taxes to avoid this budget collapse. So his highly-symbolic resignation is his wing of the party's Picking-Up-The-Ball-And-Going-Home moment. The message of the DeMint move is simple: We tried to work within the system, but the system turned out to be dirty, so we are leaving the system.
That, of course, would be a-w-e-s-o-m-e. Like Kos, I also think it will not happen. Delusional people don't suddenly because reasonable like any good cult they just believe more than ever. Maybe, just maybe, Jim DeMint is not crazy -- but rather just an opportunist who sees a chance of a seven-figure salary where he doesn't have to suck up to rich douchebags anymore -- because now he'll be the rich douchebag being sucked up to. The rest of Teabaggers will remain crazy, or at least vote that way until their slot opens -- to be replaced by the next aspirant. Unless there's a Red Adair for puke funnels, they'll still be more of them flowing out for a while. [cross-posted at Firedoglake]

2 comments:

StonyPillow said...

Republicans are angry at their Tea Party base for costing them a few Senate seats. Dems just give them away after November.

But I guess that’s okay. It’s only sporting that Scott Brown has another shot. Cheerio, old bean, and all that.

Anonymous said...

Group insanity like the Tea Party is a Bose-Einstein Condensate. As the more reasonable elements leave the group, the group moves further away from reality as the nuttiest element, who will never leave, are "balanced" by people whose grasp of reality is greater than their's but less than those who left.

I picked this up from Noah Smith.