Our national debate today is dominated by the ignorant ramblings of Sarah Palin, talk-show lunatics, tea parties and politics as sports — not ESPN but PSPN.
As Arianna Huffington put it: the lunatic fringe of the party has hijacked McCain, like Bush before him.
I say lunatic because this tea party caucus actually believes a shutdown of government is a good thing because they want smaller government.
Especially after yesterday, unless something significant happens in Cleveland, the GOP will nominate a vapid, violent, xenophobic, troglodyte lunatic to represent its party in November.
They are the lunatic fringe of the party who will jump in and oppose anything the president suggests and who cater to a base of hillbillies that show up at the White House demanding a lynching -- yes, a lynching.
Let's see, McCain has bowed to the party's lunatic fringe on tax cuts, immigration, the intolerance of religious bigots, and torture... so exactly how is he reinventing what it means to be a Republican?
Rein in spiraling healthcare costs 14. Get the lunatic factions in your parties under any semblance of control 15.
To review how we got here: John Boehner had an impossible job, and he finally got fed up dealing with the lunatics in his own party.
In his work, the preoccupation with madness might be read as a coded assertion of independence, of the right to ignore any humdrum distinction between the rational and the visionary, between living in a cheerless, cultural backwater and remaining creatively alert, between being a normal bloke and throwing a party in a lunatic asylum.
She will be deserted by the lunatic fringe of the Democratic party, the Barbara Ehrenreichs of this world.
Imagine how quickly you'd peace out of a party if some lunatic unplugged the DJ and started screaming, "I only have 24 hours to get $5,000, everyone drop and give me $20!" Someone call the Facebook police!
