Krugman's Awesome Smackdown of the Republican Party!

I love reading writers who can, in a few words, say everything I was feeling and yet educate and stimulate me at the same time. Krugman's recent article is absolutely brilliant, because it's so eloquent, concise, and on-the-nose.

I'll give just a few snippets. Find the article and read it. (I provide a link at the bottom.) Friggin' Awesome!

Krugman's main thrust is that the Republican party, that took 40 years to build, is possibly going to hell thanks to George Bush. (Which raises the question: could Bush's victories be good for America in the long-term? Of course, they were certainly horrible in the short-term, especially for many American soldiers.)

At its core, the political axis that currently controls Congress and the White House is an alliance between the preachers and the plutocrats - between the religious right, which hates gays, abortion and the theory of evolution, and the economic right, which hates Social Security, Medicare and taxes on rich people. Surrounding this core is a large periphery of politicians and lobbyists who joined the movement not out of conviction, but to share in the spoils.

How did Bush ruin this?

Future historians may date the beginning of the right-wing crackup to the days immediately following the 2004 election, when President Bush tried to convert a victory won by portraying John Kerry as weak on defense into a mandate for Social Security privatization.

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In any case, just as the religious right was feeling betrayed by Mr. Bush's focus on the goals of the economic right, the economic right suddenly seemed to become aware of the nature of its political allies. "Where in the hell did this Terri Schiavo thing come from?" asked Dick Armey, the former House majority leader, in an interview with Ryan Sager, the author of "The Elephant in the Room: Evangelicals, Libertarians and the Battle to Control the Republican Party." The answer, he said, was "blatant pandering to James Dobson." He went on, "Dobson and his gang of thugs are real nasty bullies."

There's more good stuff. It's a great column.

http://www.truthout.org/...