re: #238 Dr Lizardo

He’ll make a great Senator, I’m sure.

One of my former students, who now works for the Czech National Bank - the central bank here - told me a short while ago that a mounting sense of panic is starting to take hold at the office.

She was asking me questions as though I have anything to do with US economic policy. Flattering, but not much I can say, to be honest.

I just told her it’s because a segment of one of our two major political parties has gone violently insane. She’s frankly flabbergasted that there’s Teahadis who think a debt default would be “no big deal”.

I labor under the impression that much of the civilized world looks at us like the heavily armed neighbor who scares the shit out of them when he’s on his meds.

It’s embarrassing as an American to see how this is playing out. I might be using the word wrong, but it’s seems like the GOP has gone from ultra conservative to straight out suicidal nihilism.

Someone else mentioned yesterday that this level of crazy took them by surprise; that they didn’t think the Tea Baggers were capable of this. I’ve often said that if the Republicans win back control of the country like they had from 2001-2007, we’re fucked.

I’m beginning to see now that I severely underestimated how fucked up these people are when I made those statements. There’s, what? 50 of them, 80 at most, causing this chaos?

Can you imagine having one of these psychos in the White House?