Quote Of The Week

"In the modern Republican Party, making sense is a secondary consideration. Years of relentless propaganda combined with extreme frustration over the disastrous Bush years and two terms of a Kenyan Muslim terrorist president have cast the party's right wing into a swirling suckhole of paranoia and conspiratorial craziness. There is nothing you can do to go too far, a fact proved, if not exactly understood, by the madman, Trump."

- Matt Taibbi from Rolling Stone.

Taibbi is definitely on to something here.  Indeed, I've long thought that the GOP's weird obsession with Benghazi!! had more to do with frustration over the Bush Administration's failures than anything else.

Remember: Bush/Cheney was a dream come true for right wingers -- not one but two tax cuts for the rich, not one but two wars against brown people, sweeping deregulation, etc. -- and the whole thing ended in disaster.

Can you imagine how Republican extremists (i.e., the entire GOP) then felt when an uppity . . . gentleman named Barack Hussein Obama won the White House in 2008 and then had the temerity to not only prevent another Great Depression but to also kill Osama bin Laden a mere two years into his presidency? The Bush Regime wasn't able to do that, and it had eight years.

The GOP psyche just couldn't handle it. The passage of the Affordable Care Act and a second Obama term probably didn't help much either.  The result, of course, is that the Republican Party has gone completely insane.  And I can't get enough of it.