Historic Quote of the Week

Mike Lofgren, a former Republican Congressional aide, wrote this back in 2011:

A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this obstruction and disruption. Should Republicans succeed in obstructing the Senate from doing its job, it would further lower Congress’s generic favorability rating among the American people. By sabotaging the reputation of an institution of government, the party that is programmatically against government would come out the relative winner.

I'm not surprised that this is what Republicans were doing.  In fact, I've pointed out before that this has always been the GOP plan. Last year I wrote:

The reason Republicans are intentionally causing gridlock is because it plays into their long-term strategy to destroy government. Sure, it makes them look like worthless pieces of America-hating shit in the short term, but the ultimate effect of what they are doing is that people trust government less and less because they continually see it as ineffective.  And that's just the way the Republicans want it.

What surprised me with regard to the quote from Lofgren is that the GOP actually (and proudly) admitted that this was the plan all along.

Fuck these people.