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What scares the hell out of me? It ain't Trump. It's more of the same.
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/p-m-carpenter/63614/what-scares-the-hell-out-of-me-it-aint-trump-its-more-of-the-sameAll that GOP blabbering about Grecian bankruptcy, the dollar in free-fall and so forth? I doubt if any of the party's realistic presidential contenders (that would be two) believe a word of it. But who cares? Neither of them has a realistic shot at the White House anyway. For now, it's merely their job to frighten electoral children with grim stories of gotcha-bogiemen.
No, what makes me "very, very afraid" is a Republican Congress, or half a Republican Congress, or even a Democratic Congress with 41 Republican senators. Because it's not really the job of Republican congressfolk to give a damn about the country at large, as they have thunderously demonstrated over the past six years.
Their job is to pamper the cretinous prejudices of their carmine districts and crimson states and to gut any suggestions of sane legislative policy that might emerge from the Democratic White House. Their job is to inflict every possible pain on the American people so as (or so they believe) to reopen the WH doors for a Jeb! or a Donald or whoever the next kleines wunderkind may be. Their job is to destroy today, so that the worlds of Rhett Butler and Beaver Cleaver can be reborn.
We should be very afraid? I'm already there. But my fear has nothing to do with Donald Trump or Jeb Bush. I'm terrified of Texas' 1st congressional district — times 218.
No, what makes me "very, very afraid" is a Republican Congress, or half a Republican Congress, or even a Democratic Congress with 41 Republican senators. Because it's not really the job of Republican congressfolk to give a damn about the country at large, as they have thunderously demonstrated over the past six years.
Their job is to pamper the cretinous prejudices of their carmine districts and crimson states and to gut any suggestions of sane legislative policy that might emerge from the Democratic White House. Their job is to inflict every possible pain on the American people so as (or so they believe) to reopen the WH doors for a Jeb! or a Donald or whoever the next kleines wunderkind may be. Their job is to destroy today, so that the worlds of Rhett Butler and Beaver Cleaver can be reborn.
We should be very afraid? I'm already there. But my fear has nothing to do with Donald Trump or Jeb Bush. I'm terrified of Texas' 1st congressional district — times 218.
