...For one thing, we learned that the modern conservative movement, which dominates the modern Republican Party, has the emotional maturity of a bratty 13-year-old.
But more important, the episode illustrated an essential truth about the state of American politics: at this point, the guiding principle of one of our nation’s two great political parties is spite pure and simple. If Republicans think something might be good for the president, they’re against it — whether or not it’s good for America.
Now, before my friends on the right counter with a "b-b-b-b-but Democrats under Bush!" argument, relax. Take a deep knee bend. You have a point there as well.But Krugman's larger argument, while sprinkled liberally (ha!) with partisan hackery, is spot on with what I've been saying for years. The two-party system is tearing this country apart. Your side goes down in the elections? Then you go into a prevent defense for 2 years at a time until you get the ball back. Utter BS. In my head, I keep hearing echos of Ross Perot harping about partisan gridlock...
Can't disagree with you there.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't really matter which party caused the partisanism, because the both did. Is one party being more partisan now than the other? Possibly, but does that matter? No.
I think the most important thing is that we call BS on everything that is in fact BS and not give up calling it BS simply out of spite for the system.
Calling BS on everything that is BS would be a full time job, and unfortunately, this blog gig doesn't pay nearly as well as it should.
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