pleeeze....why hasn’t the GOPe run away with it?? 1) they fight like little girls 2) they’ve pissed off their base 3) the two leaders McConnell/Boehner, are both morons...
Gee, I wonder what happens when you alienate your base while at the same time helping your “opponents” manufacture a new base for themselves...
My thinking, as of today. is that the Republican Rinos (you know who they all are) are destroying their natural conservative constituency, because they fear losing of power and control in D.C., meaning the “donations” by those who really hold the power in D.C. - the lobbying firms fronting for big corps, banks, investment firms, unions, and other corrupted power groups.
This has been growing for years, and anyone who speaks the truth about what is really going on is marginalized, ridiculed, and slandered. Consider Palin, Paul, Perot, Cruz, and others that do not spring to mind at the moment.
In a way, these Rinos are in a hard place. They do know how fragile the economy is at present, and understand that a complete collapse of the U.S. gov, banks, pension funds, social security, medicare, etc. is probable within months.
Unfunded liabilities now are over 100 trillion, they have to borrow from abroad to pay the bills, and they do not know what to do, except hang on to power a bit longer, in hopes that they and theirs will be protected when final social disintegration occurs after the “state” runs out of money. They need some straw-men to blame. Tea Partiers and others might provide them cover.
Again, in a bleak mood today, and hope I am muddle-headed about all this.