re: #139 goddamnedfrank

After this is all hashed out it’d be nice if McConnell went to Reid and both sides agreed to eject Ted Cruz from the Senate for fomenting insurrection. It would send a nice message to the tea baggers to watch their step, that the moderates will join with Democrats to cut the cancer out of the national body politic.

While that would be an amazing thing to see, I agree with you that it won’t happen. It would just make Cruz a martyr to the teabagger morons and they’d keep doubling down on the weapons-grade stupid.

However, in theory they could find a way to procedurally marginalize him for the remainder of his term. Voting to table any legislation he writes, moving him off the Judicary and Armed Services committees and giving him lesser assignments, etc. Make it clear that he doesn’t get to bring the nation to the verge of default for his pet causes and still have any sort of real part to play in the Senate.

In the end, if I’m being honest, they’re a dying party of old white men. A collection of rigid, inflexible, stolid old fools, bigots and self interested pricks. There’s no way they pull this off.

Oh, they know they’re a dying party. Demographic trends are death for the GOP. It’s why they work so hard to gerrymander districts and make it harder to vote, and why they’re acting so incoherent during this whole shutdown.

I’ve said before that a Mondale-style national beating would be the one thing to get the GOP establishment to finally kick the bigots and idiots to the curb the way the Dems marginalized the hippies and moonbats. I’m not so sure anymore. I’m thinking that the kamikaze actions of the GOP these past weeks and their fanatical determination to burn the country down to stick it to Obama finally woke the corporate establishment up from their stupor.

It will be really interesting to watch the GOP races in the next election. I suspect the teabaggers bringing us to the edge of default will be met with a whole lot of money going to their more moderate opponents.