Krugman schools Noonan: Don’t negotiate with Republicans who want to ‘blow up the world’

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23. Yeah, and that imperious attitude worked out beautifully for them in the Indiana Senate race

in November, too, didn't it!

That richard mourdock creep stated that straight out, fairly early in his days as a candidate anyone was paying attention to. Remember that? After he primaried Richard Lugar he stated that his idea of bipartisanship was the Democrats coming over to his side and seeing everything HIS way. Uh YEAH, pal. Up Yours, pal!

The thing was, though - that asshole-esque statement had an INDIRECT impact. Unfortunately for all reasonable people in this country, the nutcases and other assorted extremists on the far-wrong, there were enough people in Indiana who got all fired up and exuberant about that statement. They LOVED it! Gonna show them Democrat librul commie fascists but gooood!!! HOWEVER - it was also quite a symptom. A "leading economic indicator" if you will. A whole spread of calamity cards in your Tarot reading. A very large signpost decked out with neon and flashing lights and blazing sparklers and fountains and pinwheels on full-active mode!

It showed, basically, that richard mourdock is a selfish, imperious putz. I wonder how his marriage survives, unless this was all an act for the public and in private he's really a loving softie. That remark shows us all what he thinks of other people with different views. They're not to be worked with, listened to, or compromised with in any way. No room whatsoever for them OR their views, unless they drop everything they believe in and become clones of HIS side and HIS way of thinking. SHEESH - and THAT side complains about tyranny???

Maybe the yowlers and the bullies on the far-wrong resonate with that statement in their usual short-sighted, penny-wise/pound-foolish mentality. But they don't stop to think (Hell, do they EVER???? Just ANYWAY??????) that such a mentality feeds, informs, and buttresses a real asshole attitude on a lot of other issues. It's what gives him the "moral" backing to say what he said about a woman impregnated via rape. TOTALLY tone-deaf to any other view on the thought of a woman impregnated by rape. Gee, it's a terrible thing, but TOUGH SHIT ANYWAY, girlfriend. We don't have to do jack shit about how you feel about it, and relieving you of that pain and emotional turmoil just isn't worth putting on the table. You don't even need to be in the room, honey. WE distort, WE decide.

And if he feels that way toward Democrats, if he CLEARLY feels that way toward rape victims of child-bearing age, it's reasonable to be concerned as to who else also is expected to take delivery of that cavalier, dictatorial arrogance? Who else is on the receiving end of his "my way or the highway" attitude? (Which, by the way, went OUT with bush/cheney.)

That statement was indicative of his whole generalized world view. On EVERY issue. Good to know. The yahoos and ding-dongs and declining numbers of dittoheads may have eaten it up with a soup spoon, but when it filtered down to other issues - like, for example, that asinine comment about a woman impregnated by rape - just brought a critical mass of the public to the point of This-Is-TOO-Much. It finally was able to shine a light on what that attitude means when it's applied to a variety of different issues facing a U.S. Senator.

THANK GOD that enlightened the public, and illuminated the measure of that particular man, such that they decided he should be stopped. It went a LONG way toward giving us another Dem in the Senate, where no one realistically had expected that to happen.