Friday, March 26, 2010
We enjoyed the GOP squirming
As the HCR reached its final conclusion, but that was only the true Republican spirit breaking out of its cocoon. As Paul Krugman points out:
For today’s G.O.P. is, fully and finally, the party of Ronald Reagan — not Reagan the pragmatic politician, who could and did strike deals with Democrats, but Reagan the antigovernment fanatic, who warned that Medicare would destroy American freedom. It’s a party that sees modest efforts to improve Americans’ economic and health security not merely as unwise, but as monstrous. It’s a party in which paranoid fantasies about the other side — Obama is a socialist, Democrats have totalitarian ambitions — are mainstream. And, as a result, it’s a party that fundamentally doesn’t accept anyone else’s right to govern.And for that last reason, the Republican Party and all its unregenerate supporters need to be put to sleep.
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