Obstructionist, always. But now Republicans are barmy

[FarCenter]

Beyond shutting off all of Obama's initiatives, the party harbours deniers of everything from climate change to his citizenship

Michael Tomasky - guardian.co.uk, Sunday 26 July 2009 21.00 BST

Last Friday, Orrin Hatch, the veteran Republican senator from Utah, announced that he would vote against the confirmation to our supreme court of judge Sonia Sotomayor. Hatch is a devout conservative, and Sotomayor seems pretty liberal, so on the face of it, you might say, so what? Here's what.

Hatch has been in the Senate for 32 years and has never voted against any president's high court nominee. True, most of the nominations in that time have been made by Republican presidents. But even so, Hatch's history means he has voted for two nominees who were obviously liberal, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer. Sotomayor's record does not mark her out as appreciably to their left, and in terms of years of service on the bench, she towers over them. So what's changed?

Hatch's decision reflects the degree to which, during the Obama era, American conservatism – already fiercely ideological and obstructionist, operating according to sets of "facts" produced and paid for by oil companies, pharmaceutical manufacturers and other corporate interests – has contrived to go completely barmy.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/26/republicans-barack-obama-citizenship

[ThomCat]

1. Yup. Republicans have become the part of delusion and

mandatory insanity. :(

[opihimoimoi]

2. Barm Sign #4: Continuing efforts to garner mind control with losing messages

[donco6]

3. No matter how infitisimal their base gets -

They've chosen to stick with it. Gun nuts, poor grammar, missing teeth and everything.

[stuball111]

4. Hatch is just another stupid fickin.. Moron Oops, did I say Moron?

I meant MORMON... well.... same difference:puke: