Monday, November 29, 2010
An update on Republican/Teabagger bad faith
Actually, bad faith is a mild way of describing what may be motivating the reactionary right in their campaign to eliminate the black guy in the White House. Steve Benen reviews the various attempts to underdstand the Republican/Teabagger efforts to give aid and comfort to our enemies.
The problem with the GOP lately is that even those inclined to give the party the benefit of the doubt simply can't come up with a good-faith explanation for their actions -- which leads to awkward questions about whether they'd actually put their partisan goals ahead of the national interest. It's almost a modified, political version of Occam's Razor -- if one can't come up with a reasonable explanation for a party's actions on policy grounds, it necessarily makes questions about motivations plausible.It runs so counter to what anybody may expect, that the idea of an American political party so energized to defeat the other party's President that they would harm our country is only now being considered.
Dionne isn't the only one wondering about this. Brent Scowcroft, the former national security adviser to President George H.W. Bush, can't figure out why his own party would be acting this way, leading him to assume Republican senators are putting "the desire for the president not to have a foreign policy victory" ahead of the nation's security interests.
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