Wake up GOP: Smashing system doesn't fix itBy David Frum, CNN Contributor

[WingDinger]

Only about one-third of Republicans agree that cutting government spending should be the country's top priority. Only about one-quarter of Republicans insist the budget be balanced without any tax increases.

Yet that one-third and that one-quarter have come to dominate my party. That one-third and that one-quarter forced a debt standoff that could have ended in default and a second Great Recession. That one-third and that one-quarter have effectively written the "no new taxes pledge" into national law.

There was another way. There still is.

Give me a hammer and a church-house door, and I'd post these theses for modern Republicans:


http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/08/01/frum.debt.republicans/index.html

[WingDinger]

1. Dont lose heart. The backlash against the true believers, will be stunning.

[cilla4progress]

6. Gawd it can't come soon enough!

It must come before the 2012 Pres election or we are doomed.

[WingDinger]

7. It is within our power. Will we choose to do so?

[Skittles]

2. the teabagger tail is wagging the GOP dog

and ALL of them are clueless assholes

[Ruby the Liberal]

3. Frum??

I am going to need to start nailing blankets to my walls. The unlikely allies in this debacle are making me feel faint.

[markpkessinger]

4. I think Frum is trying to be a latter day William F. Buckley, Jr. ...

... who in the 1960s saved the GOP from the John Birchers by banishing them to the outer fringes of GOP respectability. Frum may have a harder go of it, though.

[Ruby the Liberal]

5. Buckley didn't have the 24 hour news cycle + internet to deal with

Good luck, Dave.

[Aerows]

8. Jesus Christ

When Frum starts making sense and sounding like a liberal, you know we are in deep shit trouble.