Farmer: GOP's politics unraveling before our eyes

[jpak]

http://blog.nj.com/njv_john_farmer/2012/12/farmer_gops_politics_unravelin.html

As it approaches its rendezvous with the fiscal cliff, the Republican Party in Washington shows all the signs of a national nervous breakdown.

Its majority in the House of Representatives acts like an outnumbered, already-beaten rabble, with would-be moderates and tea party conservatives pointing rhetorical fingers at one another and exchanging charges akin to treason on the issue of taxes.

Earlier, these same House Republicans were compelled to undo an embarrassing mistake in handing out top committee assignments — not one went to a woman. Only when the oversight was pointed did they move lickety-split with a remedy — the appointment of one woman to chair a minor committee.

When you consider the shellacking Republicans as a whole took from women voters in the recent election, it’s hard to fathom how they could make such a blunder. The best explanation is probably one given by Tallyrand, the great French diplomat of the late 18th and early 19th century, about the Bourbon dynasty and its mistakes before and after the French Revolution: “They learned nothing and forgot nothing,” he said.

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[Flashmann]

1. it’s hard to fathom how they could make such a blunder.

No.....Not so much.....When you consider that they ARE totally out of touch,it's not at all hard to grasp how they'd make such errors......

What does surprise me,is that they don't step on their own cranks even more than what we hear of.....

“They learned nothing and forgot nothing,”

Isn't that their mantra?....

[safeinOhio]

2. When you think the far right has hit bottom,

just toss them a pick and shovel.