What a delicious article I came across on HuffPo, entitled Worst Week Ever: Republicans Unhinged. Written by Wharton graduate and former banker Paul Jenkins, it pulls no punches in naming - and blaming - all the key Republican players.
Starting out stating that the Republicans thought inauguration week would be there worst - with their liberal nightmares Obama and Pelosi now running the show - he counters that instead last week was their worst ever, because
Republican leaders were called cheesy, off-putting, disastrous, untrustworthy, and inconsequential, not by Democrats, but by their party's own members, from high-profile commentators to Governors.
Linking every claim with supporting evidence, he starts with a delightful takedown of Gov. Jindal ("The best that can be said for Jindal's performance is that it channeled Kenneth the Page from 30 Rock, presumably not the objective, even for someone who willingly changed his name to 'Bobby.'"), he then devotes a paragraph to Richard Shelby, another to David Vitter and Jim Bunning, and eviscerates Michael Steele.
Having sufficiently taken down their leaders, Jenkins turns his attention to Republican destruction from within, quoting Charlie Crist and Jon Huntsman. He then focuses on Norm Coleman and Rush Limbaugh:
Republicans everywhere are throwing money at his challenge to the November election. From an electoral perspective, it is not entirely clear why, however. Republicans are busy trying to kick out the three Northeastern GOP moderate Judases from the Senate (and surely they know they don't have a shot at replacing them with anything but a Democrat, whatever Rothenberg may hope for), but they are fighting tooth and nail to keep the Minnesota moderate? The truth is, of course, that the GOP's Minnesota focus has to do with the fact that Franken is the author of Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and that Limbaugh, besides being a big fat drug-addled idiot, is also the actual leader of the Republican Party in 2009.
And speaking of former senators, Jenkins doesn't pull any punches with some other Republicans re-rearing their heads: Tom Delay ("run out of the capital because even by its standards he was woefully corrupt") returns, as does Newt Gingrich ("speaking of irresponsible, hypocritical, primordial and muddy") and everyone's favorite Mitt "who let the dogs out" Romney:
Yes, that's right, the man who spent $400,000 per delegate in the Republican primary is proudly lecturing others about fiscal responsibility. Any moment now, we expect Rudy Giuliani, who outdid Romney by spending $59 million for just one delegate, to share some of his own financial wisdom, probably spicing it up with his usual light-handed touch of 9/11 doomsday
And lest you worry about the true future of the Republican party, Jenkins closes asking what about Sarah?
one of the likely buffoons-in-chief in 2012? Well, her very serious documentarian took charge of her faltering public relations this week. He went on national television to tell us emphatically that she is not a "moron."
His writing is incisive and funny, and addresses pretty mcuh everyone we would want to see addressed. Best of all, everything he says is true and substantiated.
There are over 500 comments, and as you would expect, some are reasonable, some supportive, some angry, and some just totally red-statey whacked:
The GOP is not imploding... it's reorganizing a little for sure...
The Left are really the ones that don't get it. That is, spending ones way out of a recession (tried before = failure), Gov. can fix any problem (tried = failed... name one thing Gov. doe well, one)... to name a few.
The GOP generally (key word) tries to keep Gov small and that's better then the Left...
Really, bookmark this for when you're feeling down. It's a nice reminder of how the Republicans are handling everything.