The Republican Party Is a National Disgrace

[flamingdem]

** just like this article title, surely there are more to come

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-weiler/todd-akin-republican-party_b_1812564.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

excerpt:

Missouri Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin has been appropriately pilloried over the past 24 hours for his amazing "legitimate rape" comments. And clearly that phrase and its potential electoral implications are alarming enough to other Republicans that numerous party leaders have strongly condemned his comments. But should we any longer be surprised? Isn't this what the Republican Party has come to? The litany of outrageous views and worse, of course, policy advocacy related to those outrageous views is staggering. This is a party populated by public officials who are witch-hunting, science-denying extremists, oozing contempt for those who are struggling to make ends meet and frothing mad at anyone who dares challenge the privileges of the already-privileged. It is now replete with officeholders who lie repeatedly in pursuit of their policy goals, bathe themselves in self-pity when they actually get called on their lies and proudly strut their staggering ignorance and contempt for the less well-off -- both badges of honor in the GOP.

It doesn't help, of course, that the lamestream media (there's one Palinism that should stick, if not in the manner in which she intends it) plays along with this ridiculous charade of a political party. The unbelievable defense offered by Politico's Dave Catanese -- that real problem is liberal meanies attacking Akin and shutting off the possibility of a "nuanced debate" about rape and pregnancy -- shows the depths of the pathology afflicting the fourth estate. It used to be a somewhat hyperbolic rendering of the nature of media coverage to say that, if someone spouted holocaust denial, for instance (or in Krugman's rendering, differing opinions on the shape of the planet) media balance would render them unable to deny the validity of that position. But Catanese's astounding comments represent a kind of apotheosis of such logic: if attacks on Akin's mind-numbingly moronic assertions can only be construed in partisan terms -- the necessary premise of Catanese's comments -- then there is no legitimate rejoinder to insisting that holocaust denial (or the earth being flat) be a valid part of our national conversation. more at link..

[spanone]

1. they're also an international disgrace

[tularetom]

2. The liberal media are also a national disgrace

This article points that out nicely.

[flamingdem]

3. We saw such a contrast when Romney went to England

and the press eviscerated him

[madrchsod]

4. to have a healthy government...

we need at least two healthy parties .unfortunately todays republican party is on it`s death bed.

there was a time when republicans and democrats worked together to make sure each other got what they needed. those days ended when bush sr was appointed to the vice presidency.