GOP Really Has Become Party of Insanity

[The Dharma Bum]

[Spider]

Thats a pretty significant thing to take away, though....

Its like cutting out Lady Gaga's vocal cords.

[Mr.Bill]

[Spider]

You're GOP OG. There are lots like you out there. You guys just can't scream louder than Glenn Beck.

[The Dude]

[Mr.Bill]

[Indy]

People keep saying that the party is moving to "the right," which I find odd. This isn't "the right" this is moving over the cliff.

Shutting down the gov't, defaulting on the debt (again), sequester, obsessing over bizarre non-issues like Benghazi, birtherism, black people and Muslims. This is flat-out batshit crazy.

BTW there was a story I believe on NBC News this week about formerly middle-class families crushed by the recession, including one in Naperville, IL (a nice Chicago suburb) where the wife lost her job and then the husband. They went from making like $180K/year to zero. Then he got a job--a part-time one. So now they make $30K/year. That means they need help--not just from the gov't, but from food banks, etc. They're trying to help neighbors who find themselves in the same boat.

Not quite the visual you get from FOX now, is it? As they wield their boners for slashing all social programs because according to them (and the GOP) these programs are nothing more than schemes to take money from you, hard-working white guy, so that lazy black folk can buy flat screen TVs and play Xbox all day while using food stamps to buy malt liquor and smokes.

I also saw this week that one out of FIVE American children live in poverty. WTF? And of course there's the war on health care--the insane, jihadist war on health care--because somehow this is socialism and these same bozos keep claiming we have the "best health care system in the world." Really? For whom?

But of course all will be solved and nirvana will be achieved if we just keep slashing taxes for the top 10% and corporations (who are people too), bombing Muslim countries and having investigation after investigation into Benghazi.

How. Did. This. Happen?

[eynon81]

[eynon81]

[Indy]

I think the Dems-same-as-GOP argument works if you talk about selling out to corporate American and clearly with our foreign policy (at least now) when it comes to Lezza-bomba-somma-otha-Muzlim-country mentality.

But this whole idea that we have to burn the gov't to the ground and damn the consequences if we default on our debts or shut down the gov't--remember, we're still in a recession--are entirely the domain of the GOP.

That, and the idea of: hey, you don't like Obamacare? How many years have you had--before AND after--to address the healthcare issue? Where's YOUR plan?

*crickets*

I've said it before, half-seriously: it's almost like the current GOP is nothing more than a creation of Michael Moore--a clownish cartoon that drives voters to vote Democratic. This can't be real.