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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPlease check in if you believe the GOP has gone insane.
I believe the GOP is insane. There is no other way to say it. They are hanging themselves. Dems just need to be tough and give them nothing except more rope. This is a watershed moment. It is THE quintessential way for the people to see the difference between these two parties. One is willing to destroy the nation and the economy to try to force ransom on their radical agenda. The other says reopen the government, pay our bills, and we can talk about the big issues. Look at the most recent polling. The GOP is entirely in the toilet on this.
If Boehner doesn't get the message ASAP and still keeps the government shut, that is just NUTS. No other way to say it. The TeaBaggers are NUTS. And that party is quickly going entirely NUTS.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)magical thyme
(14,881 posts)so at their most dangerous.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)To get the cockroaches in the corners.
Kablooie
(18,631 posts)The Jihadi's have inspired them to become copycat suicide bombers.
kairos12
(12,858 posts)seems frustrating to those of us who have watched this for so long but I'm all in right now. I don't care when it gets done but I'd like to be alive to see it and see my girl flourish along with the rest of humanity.
-p
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)I want to see at least a little breakthrough for my now adult kid, who started out with way more advantages than I did, and ended up with way fewer prospects.
Phlem
(6,323 posts)-p
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)They should be headed to individual padded cells with straight jackets and high doses ofThorazine.
kardonb
(777 posts)they are a whole newly discovered genus : republicanus idioticus .
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)mike_c
(36,281 posts)Buddaman
(503 posts)Triana
(22,666 posts)They've been the Certified Batshit Loon Party for quite a while.
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)DJ13
(23,671 posts)No toy either.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)and I hope this Re-Thug insanity, ultimately results in huge increases for the Dems!
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)TBF
(32,056 posts)I hadn't seen that one.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)You'd think those conservative morons in DC would get the message.
Salviati
(6,008 posts)displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)over the looming default crisis, and the rabid right was blaming "O Bama" for causing this mess by spending too much money and driving up our debt to the brink of disaster, then creating this crisis by not agreeing to the great deals offered to him by the House Republicans.
My head is spinning from the stupidity.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)morans will never believe otherwise.
It's Obama's fault and that's all they'll ever believe.
This is a serious problem
GoCubsGo
(32,080 posts)I suspect that many of them were born that way.
summerschild
(725 posts)understand that fully and expect irrational reactions.
MORE IMPORTANT: if there's any sane Republicans left, they need to step up and try to save the country from their demented colleagues.
elleng
(130,893 posts)Prez O playing it well, watching them dig (tho its difficult for MANY, in the interim.)
blue14u
(575 posts)he can do to them, for the way they have treated President Obama. He
has worked with them, and given in so many times, much to the dismay
of his own constituent's and party... Hang strong President Obama... we love the way
you are handling this!! <3
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Checking in!
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)BluegrassStateBlues
(881 posts)This criminally insane shit is frightening.
longship
(40,416 posts)I saw it back with Reagan, and saw it ramping up since then. It started with Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority -- Christopher Hitchens said that if he had an enema he could have been buried in a matchbox -- and Pat Robertson and the Christian Coalition.
Throughout the 1980's the evangelicals and fundementalists built their base in the Republican Party. The ominous rumblings of these efforts was Robertson's victories in state caucuses. When a religious cabal seizes the precinct delegations, they can takeover the district delegations, and the state delegations. If one replicates this in enough states, one can take over an entire national party.
That's what's happened. The sooner we all realize that a major political party in the USA, one of only two, has been co-opted by religion, the sooner people may know how to respond. We have to call them out as just that, a political extension to extreme religion.
It won't play well, and they will fight hard. But it may become very apparent soon enough that we did not fight soon enough.
Just listen to them!
duffyduff
(3,251 posts)Religion is just a cover to con people to support what amounts to fascism.
I have been watching this takeover for many years.
madashelltoo
(1,698 posts)And they have infected lots of others who were border nuts on meds.
Generic Brad
(14,274 posts)They are trying to bring us all down with them to fulfill their apocalyptical death wish.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)dionysus
(26,467 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)heirlooms/history are my specialty, but I've lead a big team to breed new dwarf growing tomatoes for space challenged gardeners.
dionysus
(26,467 posts)garden you have going! didn't think I did at the time, but your sig line reminded me
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)Was fun -great hobby.... keeps me out of trouble!
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)tclambert
(11,085 posts)Almost made it to their mailbox.
Didn't even have to leave their own driveway.
Car didn't make it all the way out of the garage.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Back since i studied Communism vs. Democracy as a high school course!
Too bad the Birchers took over the Republican Party.
Ian David
(69,059 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)icymist
(15,888 posts)You just have to understand that they're just not that bright. I first noticed this when asked by one of my GOP representatives if I believed in evolution, answering in the affirmative. All this produced was a snide remark about "if the dinosaurs evolved into birds then why can't we squeeze oil out of chickens?" Yes, this really happened. They are of a slow mind. It was only when proof of the existence of Hell was declared because molten lava is know to be under the Earth that I have begun to see the GOP as bat-shit crazy. Now they are seeming to have trouble determining the difference between a Senator and a Congressman, something I learned in a seventh grade civics class. To answer your question; yes, I believe the GOP has gone insane!
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)ReRe
(10,597 posts)... all of them.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,233 posts)gopiscrap
(23,758 posts)House of Roberts
(5,168 posts)Yes they are insane. They do the same thing over and over and expect to get their way each time!
Th1onein
(8,514 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)I have mental illness and paranoia but I am nothing like them. They are pure rage and unadulterated evil. They hate so much that they don't know what they hate anymore. They are condescending, ruthless, vapid, and take extreme pleasure in crushing others beneath their boot heels like cockroaches while masturbating to Hank Williams junior and Ted Nugent and receiving scotch enemas.
They are that stuff you scrape off your toilet bowl when your greedy uncle comes to thanksgiving dinner.
And they know exactly what they are doing.
They remind me of Aerys trying to burn kings landing with wildfire killing the whole city instead of letting Robert Baratheon take the Iron throne. We need a Jaime Lannister to metaphorically stab them through the heart so we can reopen our government.
RKP5637
(67,107 posts)polynomial
(750 posts)These Republicans usually snatch the lime light from seeming failure. If they know the situation is such a failure as defeat in this government shut down they will not admit it. They may be whipped, but they are not aware of it. What really stares at everyone is the lack of gallantry; yes that good old southern style unselfish gallantry. Dont see it. The red state gallantry is gone with the wind.
The contentment in this selfishness is so self-centered it is confusing all Americans especially those with in their own Republican Party. What really sticks out in this government shutdown is sharing of neglect. If the very mature way of thinking prevails such as sharing is caring The Republican party is a total Grand old Pyramid scheme.
There is no opened mind with the Republican Party even though that notion is constantly said. America has in your face death panels its called the Republican majority in the Congress. Death to employment, death to new jobs, death to all certainty, and families pay for own dead soldiers.
Thats what they call negotiation thats what the Republican Party call governing. YUK.
calimary
(81,224 posts)and deteriorating mental state of the present GOP.
Glad you're here! Those bastards don't fool us here! We've already been paying attention. Happy to have you join us. This place is a great port in the storm sometimes. Almost essential to staying sane!
Phlem
(6,323 posts)better late than never!
Rec!
-p
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,412 posts)they were just wrong about what it was going to be about (i.e. them)
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)Bat-shit crazy.
LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)remember, but they've finally gone so far off the deep end that it's impossible for all (except FAUX) to excuse.
lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)They take the GOP crazy and ramp it up.
dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)It used to be that I would look at any woman or minority that professed allegiance to the GOP with suspicion. Now it's just anyone with an IQ over 100.
mwb970
(11,358 posts)I cannot understand why ANYONE is drawn to the horrible pile of crap that is today's republican party.
kairos12
(12,858 posts)He's only winning strategy is to toss out the steering wheel and keep the pedal to the metal.
Efilroft Sul
(3,579 posts)When they didn't, I ended the conversation. Then they took it to their walls and before you knew it, the wingers were making physical threats on the Democrats. That crap wouldn't have ever flown back in school.
I de-friended the entire group and haven't looked back. They are completely unhinged.
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)Warpy
(111,254 posts)designed by a handful of fascist billionaires and implemented by right wing hate radio and Pox News.
They are now in a fully delusional state, actively rejecting any reality based idea that they are exposed to in favor of fantasy.
Crazier than shithouse rats, the lot of them.
texanwitch
(18,705 posts)I had to be around some of them at early voting.
They lack common sense, this is dangerous.
They would be more then happy to take down this country.
Then they can take out their guns and shoot all the liberals.
That is about it.
They don't think liberals might shoot back.
liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)I'm checking in at that point, and every year thereafter. They've been insane since the 1960's, really, but I'll give them some slack until Reagan came into office. I didn't think the GOP could get any nuttier than they did in 1998, but they have consistently proven that there is no bottom of the barrel as far as "crazy" goes for them. The crazy is like a black hole, and maybe when they get sucked into some other universe, they'll be sane, but only then.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)that the pressure is so HUGE that he believes any capitulation would result in:
a. end of the Repuke party or its splintering
b. end of his life, a bullet may find him, or he'll drown himself in drink and kill himself by losing his job
This is what it's like to have an addict as a leader. Alcoholics should NEVER be leaders as their disease filters down and hurts all concerned.
landolfi
(234 posts)Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)Nac Mac Feegle
(970 posts)That the guano industry is planning on suing the Republican party.
For giving batshit a bad name.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)The Republican Party has been insane for quite some time, they just keep concentrating the stupid the same way seafood concentrates pollution through the food chain...
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)we may problems that can not be solved by an election!
deutsey
(20,166 posts)means insanity, then, yes, they are batshit insane.
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)That question seems about 35 years too late.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I think I'm going to need a new word, to describe what they are now.
dchill
(38,481 posts)It's much worse now, though.
Turbineguy
(37,322 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)Last edited Sat Oct 12, 2013, 11:53 PM - Edit history (1)
extremism in defense of liberty is no vice - That simply was the beginning of a trend that got increasingly extreme in its definition of liberty - The Tea Party movement is essentially the same movement - focused primarily on ideologically purifying the Republican Party like Mao's Red Guard was focused on purifying the Chinese Communist Party.They don't know that they are nuts because they don't talk to or listen to anyone else. They think they are the vast overwhelming majority.
The Wizard
(12,545 posts)to shit house rat, bat crap crazy. Shock treatments would help. Cognitive dissonance compounded by thought disorders and loose associations and constipation.
nevergiveup
(4,759 posts)Many of these psychotic kooks will likely be re-elected even if they crash the world's economy. Hopefully we will be able to knock off enough of them to win back the house in 2014 but it won't be easy. Many of them are gerrymandered into safe districts and they have googobs of of corporate cash behind them.
airplaneman
(1,239 posts)The current republican bunch are so far into lying and ideology they have completely left the realm of reality. They are incapable of implementing anything and have any control on how it turns out. Its frightening what they are trying to do which is radically change our country forever. The religious and money interest mixed into this has made an insane and out of control GOP. We absolutely must vote them into extinction. If they gain control we are lost. 2014 and 2016 will determine our future good or bad.
-Airplane
Southside
(338 posts)No more threat, no more leverage, but another recession, possible global crisis.... Sounds like a plan
texanwitch
(18,705 posts)The teabaggers have no idea how bad it will get.
No medical for anyone except the rich.
No SS checks every month, no medicare.
It will like living in the Walking Dead tv show.
Southside
(338 posts)We get the same news (unless they are listening to Rush Limbaugh all day) we work together, go to church together, are kids are educated together, so why the disconnect?
We should all agree that default will never happen, but they don't care.
texanwitch
(18,705 posts)I spent two weeks around them working early voting.
The stupidity of these people.
They were mean and nasty to be around.
They were poll watchers, so sure that we election workers were doing something wrong.
I cannot tell our bad it got.
Southside
(338 posts)I don't know is the difference between liberals and progressives, but I'm definitely in the left echo chamber, but I know what is going on with the right. Even understand some of it while disagreeing, but the Tea Party faithful want to burn stuff down. They hate Boehner, Rubio, McCain, now they hate McConnell. They love Palin and Cruz, the two with the least power but the most reckless.
Happy to be on our side, we fight, but we come together when it matters.
JohnnyRingo
(18,628 posts)...the flames of which were fanned by neo-con politicians and news contributers. The White House stoked those flames as well to lever fear into public support for a war or two. The level of insanity was still of the temporary sort, and would have worn off after the shock, but...
After seven years of this living with the fear of another attack, and the hatred needed to maintain our vigilance, a black man was elected president.
The right never saw it coming.
They viewed it as an unexplainable event in an all too rapidly changing country, and they went from the edge right off the cliff.
I absolutely believe the Tea Party, and the GOP by proxy, have gone completely insane. I don't think there's any coming back for them either. They'll have to either die off over the years, or get mental help.
...I don't mean regular help either, they'd have to go to Austria or some country where those kind of doctors live.
OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)Their view is that the worst case scenario is that the debt ceiling will be reached, and that the Government will be forced to live on receipts and nothing more. They further reason that, in order to avoid default, that the Treasury will have to pay the interest and principal on the loans first, and then use whatever is leftover to pay the military, Social Security, and everything else. By this reasoning, the entire social safety net will be taken down. Game. Set. Match. GOP.
The reality: The nation has become ungovernable, and the electorate-at-large is completely fed up with both parties. Most voters don't want deficit spending. I realize that this is not the prevailing view here at DU, but most don't want it. And most voters also don't want to pay taxes. But we also want national parks, a farm bill, Medicare, the ACA, NASA, a farm bill, a strong defense, and the ability to play global badass. Something has to give. At this point, I suspect that something will be the rise of a third party. In the meantime, look forward to 1.5 years of Greek-style austerity. No deal will be forthcoming.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)A partial shutdown suits the deficit hawks in both parties just fine, since it's been adjusted so it doesn't actually impact payrolls in the military and Intelligence agencies. That's precisely why I don't believe the BS about 40 Teahadis being responsible for the "crisis."
This is simply austerity and cuts to social programs without anyone having to actually vote for it, and that's making the Center-Right smile.
Of course, they won't allow actual default on the debt - the "threat" of that is just another psychological device to make this seem like a real crisis. It's not - it's simply austerity by default.
If 40 members of the House could force this sort of thing, the House Progressive Caucus would be running the frickin' government.
Hell Hath No Fury
(16,327 posts)and many other Dems are perfectly happy with big cuts -- just so long as their fingerprints are not on them, which is why I have long said allowing the sequester to happen was part of O's plan all along -- it was a great way to achieve cuts yet deflect blame.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)The rest is pure drama for the masses.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)The Sequester and selective shutdown are quite rational, and this is the means the American political system has arrived at to deliver it Austerity is the point - the means are the ends, wrapped in a face saving theater of the absurd cast with its designated villains and heroes, depending upon which side of the audience one is sitting in.
A week ago, I likened it to Kabuki Theater, "Selective Shutdown Over for Pentagon. The Light just got turned on the Kabuki Theater Stage", http://election.democraticunderground.com/10023791304
But, the American version is more akin to something cruder, and seemingly mindless. Mexican Masked Wrestling:
Austerity in action is driven by the same global bankers who have their own designated Bad Guys, the global hedge funds that attack currencies and interest rates of states that resist austerity. Tag-team Mexican wrestling. The loud shouting and elaborate maneuvers of legislative bodies and mainstream political parties are largely a choreographed show intended to distract and mobilize the seated audience of rubes.
questionseverything
(9,654 posts)this scares the stuff out of me because as i understand it,that means big money is betting on no extension of debt limit...if the people taking out these bets are congressmen that are also voting against any sane solution then aren't these congresscritters guilty of treason? or at least insider trading?
if you could explain any of this,i would appreciate your take
this is what you said that brought it to mind.....global bankers who have their own designated Bad Guys, the global hedge funds that attack currencies and interest rates of states that resist austerity
mwb970
(11,358 posts)You say "the electorate-at-large is completely fed up with both parties", but current polling does not show this. It shows that the public is completely fed up with the republicans!
What exactly have the Democrats done that would make the public be "fed up" with them? Brought government spending down faster than any time since Ike was president? Cleaned up bush's horrible fiscal mess and restored the economy? Passed health care reform after many decades of trying to overcome conservative screeching? Ended bush's idiotic wars? Restored the value to our 401Ks? What?
To me, your statement boils down to "both sides do it". The problem is, both sides DON'T do it.
OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)Both sides don't do it, but both sides are being blamed. The electorate-at-large is completely fed up with both parties because public perception is that they cannot work together in any productive way. The failure to pass a farm bill is case-in-point.
The current polling I've seen shows the public wants members of congress thrown out, regardless of party,
We have brought government spending down - but in the minds of much of the public, we get no credit for it. We've yet to shed the image of the tax and spend Democrats, despite the fact that the last Democratic President ran surpluses. We need to do a better job of reminding the electorate of that, and also to explain why -- even 5 years later -- yes, it really is Bush's fault.
By the way - we've ended one of Bush's idiotic wars. We've yet to end the second.
PDJane
(10,103 posts)I realize that it's fashionable to take some pride in the family lunatics, but really...this has gone much too far. It's fine to prop them up in the living room to entertain the guests, but you aren't supposed to elect them to public office, for heaven's sake.
landolfi
(234 posts)It's just that they've now put their illness into action instead of being content with obstructing the acts of others.
nolabear
(41,960 posts)mike dub
(541 posts)But I think the GOTP has gone toooooootally insane.
M.G.
(250 posts)They aren't insane, but they've become political fundamentalists and zealots. Not all fundamentalism is religious.
In another era, they would have been bolsheviks, or wild-eyed anarchists, or kamikaze pilots.
joshcryer
(62,270 posts)And naturally the administration and the Democrats often got called out on it as opposed to putting the blame where it lies.
Now we're seeing the effects of Democrats not capitulating. And it hurts. Bad.
That's not to say that the Democrats were right to capitulate, only that there were reasons that they did.
The whole states opening national parks thing is actually a very bad precedent. It will allow these insane fuckers to say in the future "well it worked out fine, didn't it, why even have a federal parks service?" And thus the erosion of progressive legislation.
Julian Englis
(2,309 posts)They are the party of the big lie. The lies have just come to roost.
Consider the lies. Here are just a few of them:
"Secret plan to end the war in Vietnam"--No, Nixon and his fellow war criminal dragged that out for what was worth
"Not give in to terrorism"--Reagan's people negotiated behind Carter's back and Reagan cut, run, and caved in 1983 in Syria after the Marine barracks bombing
"The party of small government"--nope, not did the Republican oversee federal government growth, but a more intrusive government.
"Fiscal Responsibility," "Deficit Reducers"--the numbers speak for themselves
I could go on but we all should know the score. They are the party of lies and hate, of fear and greed.
Chaco Dundee
(334 posts)When St.Ronald wieseled his way into the presidency,I thought it would take a while for things to come around and get better.33 years later I'm not convinced any longer.but should this be the time the right nazi politics come to an end,at least my grandchildren will enjoy what little is left.
Corruption Inc
(1,568 posts)and they're following through with it. That's not insane, it's sedition. It'd be great if the general public would start calling things what they are, it would be a great way to begin to prosecute all the corrupt 1%ers for their massive banking schemes, war crimes and conspiracies to commit war, just to mention a few of the crimes.
But all that's apparently "off the table", LOL. We live in an era of corruption.
GReedDiamond
(5,311 posts)...Forty Plus Years of Insanity!
They are just now reaching their peak, apparently.
Rincewind
(1,203 posts)loonie tunes.
cristianmarie533
(51 posts)However, its insanity seems to have intensified at a frightening speed lately. I hope that they will eventually get back to their senses before it's too late, but I'm not optimistic.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)and burning down... is normal... no, its not. Tea baggers are freaking Insane. All of this is scary right now. What if they decide to pack it up, and all leave the House to go home, back to their original states. What if they Flip off everyone and leave if they don't get their way?
There IS NOTHING, that can be done, right?
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)it's just that Obama's presidency and his very existence are what have driven them off the wall. Prior to November 2012, they were 100% convinced that they could replace him and trash his signature achievement, but...nothing doing. All of this is out of spite, period.
oldtime dfl_er
(6,931 posts)BATSHIT. WACKO. NUTS.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)ffr
(22,669 posts)Brilliantly insane too, if you're into shooting yourself in the foot.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)and they need a lobotomy.
Cha
(297,187 posts)are a Ruthless Breed of Sociopathic Narcissistic Monsters. They have gone stark raving rabidly insane on their own idealogy and power.
When they were sworn into Congress they swore to uphold the Constitution and protect the USA. They're Breaking their Oath of Office.
Mahalo for the thread, RBInMaine~
stage left
(2,962 posts)But it is really evil. Only an evil entity would take such pleasure in the contemplation of destruction.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)That it's just being shone on by a really abnormally bright light right now.
onethatcares
(16,167 posts)n/t
B Calm
(28,762 posts)people in the USA.
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
So then I'm right about being wrong.[/center][/font][hr]
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)consider me "checked in"
Ivywoods55
(131 posts)Insane is not the word, we need to coin a new word to describe these folks!
GeorgeGist
(25,320 posts)underthematrix
(5,811 posts)99Forever
(14,524 posts)... then yes, they are insane and have been for a long time, at least since the days of Ronnie Raygun.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Or, they are letting the insane extremists have too much say.
LeftishBrit
(41,205 posts)Though I don't know whether 'gone insane' is the word; didn't they try similar stuff with Bill Clinton? Seems to have been the Republican way at least since the 90s and Newt Gingrich.
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,721 posts)My yet to be, but on the way to being born (January), grandson comes up to me and asks
"Grandpa, what's a Republican?"
Hokie
(4,286 posts)I didn't get a reply of course but I expect to be added to his mailing list for his glowing reports about all the good things he is doing for me in Washington and please send money.
randr
(12,412 posts)and Limpballs has poisoned their hearts and they no longer have any rational thought.
CanonRay
(14,101 posts)Destroy the Government. That's not insanity, that's success.
Pakid
(478 posts)Brain dead zombies would have more sense than they do
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)rock
(13,218 posts)But what's driving them is fascism. The republic party has been drifting for more than a decade away from democratic principles and more into fascist principles. A clear line of demarcation occurred in the 2000 presidential election. They would not except the results from the voters so they used illegitimate means to select the winner. Other examples of their inability to accept the results of the vote are: abortion, gay marriage, background check for guns, immigration laws, debt ceiling & federal budget, etc.
On Edit: how could I forget Obama Care?
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
So then I'm right about being wrong.[/center][/font][hr]
rpannier
(24,329 posts)Been that way since Howard Baker retired and has just gotten worse
dsharp88
(487 posts)Nanjing to Seoul
(2,088 posts)warrenswil
(60 posts)We said exactly the same thing when we first noticed the GOP losing its grip on reality back in August.
Republicans seem unable to participate in governing process
Its gone from bad to worse
MUCH worse.
They have become lunatics.
In the (K)now
gopiscrap
(23,758 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)Shamash
(597 posts)I mean, the John Birch Society still gets new members. But, if this ruins Republicans as a brand and generates a decent center-right party to replace it*, I won't complain.
*As much as we might like the idea, historically single party rule by anyone has not worked out well, so we need an opposition party or parties sufficient to keep any of them from being arrogant or complacement.
ElboRuum
(4,717 posts)I suspect that the inception of DU was predicated on this notion.
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)ColesCountyDem
(6,943 posts)Either way, the answer is 'yes'.
Joey Liberal
(5,526 posts)JimboBillyBubbaBob
(1,389 posts)They're taking laps!
doc03
(35,328 posts)they are willing to take the country down.
Taverner
(55,476 posts)mrsadm
(1,198 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)They haven't been sane in decades.
kenichol
(252 posts)D23MIURG23
(2,850 posts)which doesn't involve flying planes into the global economy. A lot of people are going to be damaged if they go all the way with this.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)glinda
(14,807 posts)They have now put our Country in jeopardy and the Planet in peril. Isn't this enough to jail them? I would think so for the sake of humanity.
rurallib
(62,411 posts)by definition these days if they are Republican they are extreme RW
Zorra
(27,670 posts)But it seems that their collective insanity grows more bizarre and deadly with each passing year.
haele
(12,650 posts)Denial is not just a river in Egypt. These people are delusional and I truly belive they are willing to die and take everyone else down with them rather than give up their delusions.
Haele
Duval
(4,280 posts)AikidoSoul
(2,150 posts)MarianJack
(10,237 posts)PEACE!
mwb970
(11,358 posts)I am so TIRED of these DAMN RIGHT-WINGERS that I could scream! What did America do to deserve this attack?
I'm not a hater, but I will make an exception for the worst of the treasonous right-wing extremists.
Hayabusa
(2,135 posts)we're talking full out batshit insane.
Unrepentant Fenian
(1,078 posts)Sanddog42
(117 posts)ronnie624
(5,764 posts)I interact with wingnuts daily. They aren't insane. They're just brutishly ignorant and easily led when one appeals to their preconceptions about the world.