What Were They Thinking? by Elizabeth Drew | The New York Review of Books
this is a good, detailed summary of the adventures of this confederacy of dunces leading up to this entirely unnecessary dive onto a sword.
the tea party is unhinged.
the republicans are weak organizationally.
the obama administration has continuously capitulated to the right, allowing it to frame issues with disastrous outcomes.
the idiocy of all this is mind-boggling.