Paul Krugman: The Right’s Stuff

[DreamGypsy]

1. Here's a great line from the New Republic article by Sam Tanenhous ...

...which Krugman references Original Sin Why the GOP is and will continue to be the party of white people (emphasis mine):

Neither can Romney be blamed for the party's whiter-shade-of-pale legislative Rotary Club: the four Republicans among the record 20 women in the Senate, the absence of Republicans among the 42 African Americans in the House (and the GOP's absence as well among the six new members who are openly gay or lesbian). These are remarkable totals in a two-party system, and they reflect not only a failure of strategy or "outreach," but also a history of long-standing indifference, at times outright hostility, to the nation's diverse constituencies—blacks, women, Latinos, Asians, gays.

That's how I think of the GOP from now on - trip light fandango, turn cartwheels 'cross the floor, I was feeling kind-of sea sick....

Good luck with that Rotary Club in 2014.