Watching the Death Throes

[phantom power]

I didn't think I'd be saying this two or four years ago, but I don't think the modern Republican Party is redeemable. The signs that it is in retreat come every day, but yesterday was a particularly bad day for them.

Sen. Jefferson Sessions of Alabama spent hours on the floor yesterday, railing against the confirmation of Jack Lew as Treasury Secretary, but in the end he could only get 24 Republican colleagues to join with him. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was humiliated by a Milwaukee police chief during a hearing on gun violence held by the Judiciary Committee. The previously feared and revered journalist Bob Woodward was busy trashing his own reputation as he transformed himself into a Donald Trump caricature. Sean Hannity had his ass handed to him by a black Muslim congressman from Minneapolis. Justice Antonin Scalia made one of the most racist and inappropriate comments from the bench of the Supreme Court that we've seen in modern history. Meanwhile, the whole world is aligned in stupefaction that the GOP would rather trash the economy than make modest compromises with the president on the budget.

There is no party left for the center-right. I think that that one will be created.

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2013/2/28/9532/08913

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1. the democratic party is now a party for the center right. in fact everyone except the lunatic fringe

what would be really funny would be if the republicans gave up on the right-wing ideology, ceded the ideologues to the dlc and decided to take their religious zealots and try to create a coalition with disaffected liberals and greens who think the democratic party has become too conservative.

then the republican party would be the party of the religious and and the lefties and the democratic party would be the party of business and conservatives, bringing the history of the parties to a complete circle!

[CrispyQ]

2. It should read, "There is no party left for the left."

The center right is fine - they have the democrats.

[phantom power]

3. Amusingly, I first read that sentence as "there is no party left *of* the center right"

Then again, I read it that way because it's true, so... less amusing.