Teahadis--and that is exactly what they are!--have long ago worn out their welcome in American discourse. They are recalcitrant obstructionists of the same feeble character and practices as the Russian Duma with precisely identical intentions: the U.S. is a second-world, failed political confection that mirrors exactly the Russian debacle into shabby neighborhoods and horrible plumbing. The American right is interchangeable with the dim-witted Russian deputies so despised by the Russian people.
Has it ever struck you that the smarmy American right has its reflection in the equally blind ninnies who’ve given Russia a precise analog of second-world decay and bad breath our rightist pals have given us? Same crowd.