re: #26 GirlyMan

The obvious strategy would be to vote for the least generally electable Republican in the primary.

That’s a bad idea. What if he wins the presidency? What if Republicans go to voting in the Democratic primary to ensure that the least electable, and in consequence, least sensible, Democrat wins that party’s nomination?
Things are bad enough even when both parties at least try to put their best foot forward. Our problems are serious. Even the best leadership would be a bit at sea. *

Both parties have a duty to try to govern, and failing that, to try to be the loyal opposition, warning against errors that the enthusiasm of the majority may overlook.

Now, back to the thread itself: I love the way Markey pronounced “pile”. As in, steaming pile. Snark snark well done.

*AGW is real and the scale of stuff that must be done to cope with it is daunting. And, on the other hand, our entitlement spending schedule so far outstrips the revenue that can be reasonably expected that, if one projects feasible revenue against currently scheduled spending and does it with “generational” accounting, we show up 50 trillion in the hole. It’s a surrreal number and what it shows is that something must give.

And that’s before taking into account the cost of reacting to, and mitigating, AGW.