Quote of the Day: Andrew Sullivan on What the GOP Has Become

Like many rational former Republicans I find what has become of a party that once viewed itself as responsible and guided by logic and reason beyond abhorrent. Indeed, I am frightened for the future of the USA because today's GOP is no more rational that Islamic fundamentalist terrorists. Congressional Republicans truly do not what damage they cause to rank and file citizens and who they may ruin financially. It's all about their extremist agenda. Andrew Sullivan who once held more hope that I did that somehow the few remaining grown ups in the party would regain control lets loose. Obviously, the only way to send a message to today's GOP is to vote against the party at every level and in every election until the GOP is not in a position to hold the nation hostage and put the interests of crazed extremists ahead of the nation as a whole. Here are highlights from Andrew's indictment of the GOP:
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The Republican refusal to countenance any way to raise revenues to tackle the massive debt incurred largely on their watch and from a recession which started under Obama's predecessor makes one thing clear. They are not a political party in government; they are a radical faction that refuses to participate meaningfully in the give and take the Founders firmly believed should be at the center of American government. They are not conservatives in this sense. They are anarchists.
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Their fiscal anarchism has now led to their threat to destabilize and possibly upend the American and global economy because they refuse to compromise an inch. They control only one part of the government, and yet they hold all of it hostage. I cannot believe they are prepared to allow the US to default rather than give an inch toward responsibility. Except I should believe it by now. Everything I have written about them leads inexorably to this moment.
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But this is who they are. I longed for Obama to bridge this gulf in ideology. But he cannot bridge it alone, especially when the GOP is determined to burn the bridge entirely, even when presented with a deal so tilted to the right only true fanatics could possibly walk away from it. And so the very republic is being plunged into crisis and possible depression by a single, implacable, fanatical faction. Until they are defeated, the country remains in more peril than we know.