Gail Collins. Awesome. Part 23455

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This woman can write.

Everything was thrown into an uproar by this week’s elections, when people in Virginia and New Jersey voted down a deeply unpopular Democratic governor and a deeply incompetent Democratic would-be governor. This has been interpreted as a sign that the much-beloved independent voter thinks Obama is not doing enough, and also too much....

....Meanwhile, there’s nothing but confidence and serenity among the right-wing tea-party types. They cannot get over the triumph in upstate New York, where thanks to their really extraordinary efforts, a completely safe Republican seat went to the Democrats. Think how far their movement has come! Only a few months ago, they barely had the power to disrupt a town meeting. And soon they will be able to destroy anything in their path, including their own party, like conservative locusts...

...Representative Todd Akin of Missouri led the rally in the Pledge of Allegiance — noting that the part about “one nation under God” always “drives the liberals crazy.” Then he promptly forgot the rest of the words. In most hyperpatriotic groups, the inability of a Congressman to remember that this is one nation indivisible might be a downer. But the crowd responded like a troop of pumped-up motivational speakers.

“Great job!” someone cried without the least trace of cynicism.

“That was awesome, Todd!” yelled someone else...

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/opinion/07collins.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

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1. Good article. "conservative locusts" That says it all to me.

They are killing their own party and more power to them. But they do have some of their clowns in office, people like Bachmann and Foxx and a few others need to go.