Sunday, September 4, 2011

The Rotten State of American Politics


Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult. (Truthout, 9/3/2011)

Excerpt:   But both parties are not rotten in quite the same way. The Democrats have their share of machine politicians, careerists, corporate bagmen, egomaniacs and kooks. Nothing, however, quite matches the modern GOP.

To those millions of Americans who have finally begun paying attention to politics and watched with exasperation the tragicomedy of the debt ceiling extension, it may have come as a shock that the Republican Party is so full of lunatics
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