NYT editorial: Time for Obama 'to abandon his hopes of reaching a grand budget bargain' with GOP

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65. "Republicans used to be rational although wrong."

Blame Newt.

Before he came along the goal of all of the Conservative "Think Tanks" was to craft language with spin to sell their unpopular ideas to get Liberals to go along with them.

Then along came the bombastic Newt who told everyone in DC that since Reagan the country had swung to the right. He introduced his "word list" which painted Liberals as the cause of all of the nation's problems and Conservatives as the nation's saviors. As a result he accomplished two things - He made those Think Tanks use all of their energy and focus on attacking the very people they were created to be their customers and he installed a bunch of assholes in Congress that didn't know how to govern but knew how to run a negative campaign.

Now those same assholes have been in long enough to ascend to seniority status as the old guard ages and retires.

What's really funny is the Republican Party has become a party that really ADMIRES a nasty campaign. The more insulting, the more they cheer.

Then they really blew it by abandoning Reagan's 11th Commandment - "Thou Salt Not Speak Ill Of A Fellow Republican".

The resulting free-for-all of assholes on assholes has been a riot.

In more ways than one.