This From, "The Titanic sails at dawn"

We can begin Weds. by looking at a post by Bruce Schmiechen on his blog, "The Titanic Sails At Dawn -- Politics, Economics, And Culture" -- as always, please follow the link to the original.
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Paul Krugman's latest over-the-top, shrill, vituperative, anti-GOP column in the New York Times...

(T)he Republican Party may no longer be a normal party...it has been infected by a faction that is more of a psychological protest than a practical, governing alternative. The members of this movement do not accept the logic of compromise...

The members of this movement do not accept the legitimacy of scholars and intellectual authorities...

The members of this movement have no sense of moral decency...

The members of this movement have no economic theory worthy of the name....

The struggles of the next few weeks are about...an odd protest movement that has separated itself from normal governance, the normal rules of evidence and the ancient habits of our nation.

Oh wait a minute. That's not Prof. Krugman - it's that other Times columnist David Brooks, musing on the incoherence of GOP Mad Hatters, fearful of chickens that have come home to roost on his carefully trimmed front lawn, smelling the noxious stuff that has hit his "conservative" fan, chafing at the inmates taking over his asylum and obviously angered at long-go losing any shot at gaining the driver's seat in the GOP Clown Car.
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And so begins our day. Another day of our "interesting times", where anyone actively opposing the "ideas" of "Teh Reprobateicans", "Teh Rethuglicans", "Teh Reapwhatyousowicans", not only gets TRASHED, but, usually, his career is ENDED - while Republican "lawmakers" who actually do WORSE things stay in office.

I never quite understood why Republicans who get caught with either a "dead girl, or a live boy" tend to get away with it, while Democrats find their careers OVER. Very strange, don't you think?