Lance Mannion has a most excellent post today entitled A Matter of Principle in which he fulminates about the mysterious praise being offered to the GOP for its wholesale lack of cooperation with the Obama administration. Of course “the praise” isn’t all that mysterious for indeed there are plenty of bootlicking “I’ve Got Mine, Screw You” exceptionalists in the news media. I won’t digress and proferr an alphabetical list of journalists and talking heads for that would put me at risk of further aggravating my tennis elbow but you can see some of the miscreantswith their links over at Lance’s site.
I still stand by my earlier observation that the GOP is in The Charnel House alongside Victor Frankenstein. The Reaganite addiction to a bad idea is its own justification in the minds of the House and Senate Republicans. If you remember the novel, Victor Frankenstein is only moved to admit his mistakes after his creation attacks his own family.
Lance’s assessment is that the GOP is afraid of its own right wing which is to say that there’s evidence that some pols would have liked to vote for the stimulus package but they were afraid of the reactionary elements on the far right. I like that point of view but I’m still banking on the Frankenstein Theory. They’re just not haunted in their own private homes.
Shallow is as shallow does?
S.K.
Planet of the Blind 