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Originally Posted by roachboy
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.
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It is completely mind boggling. I have a friend who still lives in Oregon he's retired from the local paper mill (if you've bought Costco TP 10 yrs ago chances are he had a hand in making it) Anyway he retired a few years back and began listening to Rush, Hannity and Beck daily. Last time I went to check on my rental I stopped in to see him and he had a yard full of Tea B crap in front of his house. I just let it go in one ear and out the other and changed the subject to fishing, hunting or the local HS basketball team. Well about a week ago I ended up on the phone with his adult son (happens to live next door to dad) and he said "Dad's out tearing all the TEA B signs out of his yard." "Why what happened?" "He said the Tea B'ers wanted to cut his SS and medicare." What the hell did he think was going to happen? Did he not understand the term "entitlement programs?"
Ya gotta hand it to the Koch brother et el. They managed to get a bunch of folks to shout and scream they wanted their benefits cut. I mean the GOP has been doing that for years but the Koch brothers et el have really raised the bar on getting people to vote against their own interests.