Fiscal cliff: Republicans vs. Republicans

 We have a crisis in governance because of the Republican ideologues in the U.S. House who seem willing to plunge America over the precipice.


 


All sanity seems to have left the ranks of those in charge of the GOP. Increasingly, it is becoming clear that the party is against everything and for nothing. That's not governing. That's just lobbing hand grenades. And the GOP is shrinking daily before our eyes.
But those aren't my words. That stinging assessment comes courtesy of Mark McKinnon, a Texas-based Republican consultant and adviser to George W. Bush.
At this point in the fiscal-cliff crisis, with House Republican ideologues seemingly so willing to plunge America over the precipice, there is indeed no need for me to state the obvious. I can just quote the sane Republicans, as they assail their unhinged brethren. For instance, here's Congressman Steven LaTourette of Ohio, lamenting the tax-phobic conservatives who refuse to face fiscal reality:
"It weakens the entire Republican Party. ... It's the continuing dumbing-down of the Republican Party, and we are going to be seen more and more as a bunch of extremists."
And as a result, we now have a crisis of governance.



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