GAIL COLLINS: "This month, the pope made some sensible remarks about sex, and the presidentof Iran made some reasonable comments about nuclear weapons, also the Russians proved to be extremely helpful during an international crisis. Meanwhile on the home front, our Congress appears too crazed by internal conflict to keep the lights on. Our elected officials are loonies thanIran. Than the pope on sex. Less useful than Vladimir Putin.
NICHOLAS KRISTOF: "When Sen. Ted Cruz of La Mancha jumped on his trusty steed and
charged the windmills, he explained: "Everyone in America knows Obamacare is destroying
the economy." He added that accepting the ACA would be like appeasing the Nazis."
"The right-wing echo chamber breeds extremism, intimidates Republican moderates and
misleads ppl into thinking that their worldview is widely shared."
...the 2009-10 swine flu epidemic which eventually killed up to 18000 Americans, according
to the CDC. Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh refused to take it. Some on left said the same
but Democrats were 50% more likely to get flu vaccinated according to the peer-reviewed
Health Politics Policy and Law.
Michele Bachmanm denounced the HPV vaccine which protects against cervical cancer.
"The right-wing bubble makes it harder to elect Republican presidents by enforcing an ideological
purity in primaries that weakens candidates in general elections."
"Don Cruz of La Mancha and other extremists threaten a cataclysm that could damage the national
economy, we have not just self-inflicted harm but a threat to the national well-being."
FROM ABRAHAM LINCOLN SOUNDING LIKE HIS SUCCESSOR FROM ILLINOIS:
The parties change but this appears to be a cultural inheritance.
But again, in what universe are we even talking about this? There’s a majority in the House and the Senate to keep the government open and running, and yet the Speaker will not allow a free vote on it. This is not about the governance of the United States. It is about the crazed shenanigans of something that looks like a religious sect. This is a party not only unfit for government, but also for opposition.
SULLIVAN'S REACTION TO YUVAL LEVIN OF NAT'L REVIEW:
NICHOLAS KRISTOF: "When Sen. Ted Cruz of La Mancha jumped on his trusty steed and
charged the windmills, he explained: "Everyone in America knows Obamacare is destroying
the economy." He added that accepting the ACA would be like appeasing the Nazis."
"The right-wing echo chamber breeds extremism, intimidates Republican moderates and
misleads ppl into thinking that their worldview is widely shared."
...the 2009-10 swine flu epidemic which eventually killed up to 18000 Americans, according
to the CDC. Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh refused to take it. Some on left said the same
but Democrats were 50% more likely to get flu vaccinated according to the peer-reviewed
Health Politics Policy and Law.
Michele Bachmanm denounced the HPV vaccine which protects against cervical cancer.
"The right-wing bubble makes it harder to elect Republican presidents by enforcing an ideological
purity in primaries that weakens candidates in general elections."
"Don Cruz of La Mancha and other extremists threaten a cataclysm that could damage the national
economy, we have not just self-inflicted harm but a threat to the national well-being."
FROM ABRAHAM LINCOLN SOUNDING LIKE HIS SUCCESSOR FROM ILLINOIS:
The parties change but this appears to be a cultural inheritance.
SULLIVAN ON SHUTDOWN:What is our present condition? We have just carried an election on principles fairly stated to the people. Now we are told in advance, the government shall be broken up, unless we surrender to those we have beaten, before we take the offices. In this they are either attempting to play upon us, or they are in dead earnest. Either way, if we surrender, it is the end of us, and of the government. They will repeat the experiment upon us ad libitum.
But again, in what universe are we even talking about this? There’s a majority in the House and the Senate to keep the government open and running, and yet the Speaker will not allow a free vote on it. This is not about the governance of the United States. It is about the crazed shenanigans of something that looks like a religious sect. This is a party not only unfit for government, but also for opposition.
SULLIVAN'S REACTION TO YUVAL LEVIN OF NAT'L REVIEW:
The tone of this piece is its perfection. The studied civility when talking with complete fanatics, the careful reason when interacting with constitutional know-nothings … it’s like reading Ross Douthat, as the excruciating reality keeps surfacing that his party is a disgrace to the very idea of a political party, more extremist than any in the West save Hungary’s neo-fascists, unteachable and proud of it, a nub of Palin’s id quivering in its fervent frisson of pure vandalism.
If only one of the last remaining conservatives with brains would get it over with and simply scream at the top of their lungs what everyone else is thinking: “ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MINDS?”
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