So, lemme see - we've got Peter King saying there's a buncha nuts in the GOP.
Remember, this is the guy who wanted to put all Muslims under surveillance; and he said mosques are incubators for terrorism. Now he's saying the GOP has a radical wing made up of people who're 'self-righteous and delusional'. Peter King is not exactly the voice of rhetorical moderation, and he said a buncha his guys on his end of the spectrum are delusional - things gotta be pretty fucked up if you're so far to Peter King's right that he calls you delusional.
We've also seen a pretty constant barrage of wingnuttery coming down on John Boehner's head (eg) - and we've seen him (imo) struggling mightily not to say something like, "these idiots don't care if everybody dies as long as they get their version of conservative purity in place by lunch tomorrow."
There are others in the GOP who have to be well past jumpy about some of the weird Monsters-Of-The-Id running around scaring the fuck outa people. Must be more than a few, and I'm guessing the numbers are more than a few dozen just in Congress.
So here's the thing: When will we see the first defection(s)? Which Repub(s) will finally step up and tell these bugbrains to fuck off, and declare that they'll be finishing out their terms as Independents (prob'ly) or even as Democrats (fat fucking chance, but wouldn't that be nice?)
I wonder if Howard Dean or Steny Hoyer or any of the Blue Dogs have been dispatched to wheedle away at some of these guys. It happened the other way around in the 50s and 60s, and again in the 80s and 90s, so there's obviously a precedent for it. I just don't know how it works.
It's a wonderment.
Remember, this is the guy who wanted to put all Muslims under surveillance; and he said mosques are incubators for terrorism. Now he's saying the GOP has a radical wing made up of people who're 'self-righteous and delusional'. Peter King is not exactly the voice of rhetorical moderation, and he said a buncha his guys on his end of the spectrum are delusional - things gotta be pretty fucked up if you're so far to Peter King's right that he calls you delusional.
We've also seen a pretty constant barrage of wingnuttery coming down on John Boehner's head (eg) - and we've seen him (imo) struggling mightily not to say something like, "these idiots don't care if everybody dies as long as they get their version of conservative purity in place by lunch tomorrow."
There are others in the GOP who have to be well past jumpy about some of the weird Monsters-Of-The-Id running around scaring the fuck outa people. Must be more than a few, and I'm guessing the numbers are more than a few dozen just in Congress.
So here's the thing: When will we see the first defection(s)? Which Repub(s) will finally step up and tell these bugbrains to fuck off, and declare that they'll be finishing out their terms as Independents (prob'ly) or even as Democrats (fat fucking chance, but wouldn't that be nice?)
I wonder if Howard Dean or Steny Hoyer or any of the Blue Dogs have been dispatched to wheedle away at some of these guys. It happened the other way around in the 50s and 60s, and again in the 80s and 90s, so there's obviously a precedent for it. I just don't know how it works.
It's a wonderment.
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