HOLD BUSH AND CHENEY ACCOUNTABLE


GOP: DISGUSTING AND OUT OF TOUCH

Right-wingers like to talk about "principles." Using the words "principle" and "Republican" in the same sentence is enough to make you gag. Now Republicans are suddenly deficit hawks, although they gave George W. Bush free reign to bankrupt the country. People who brayed about the "rule of law" during the Clinton administration had no problem with the Bush administration consistently breaking the law by authorizing the repugnant torture of detainees in the "War on Terror." People who are supposedly "strict constructionists" on the Constitution supported a guy who called the Constitution "a goddamned piece of paper" as he illegally spied on Americans and deprived people of their rights. Their economic policies would be a total joke if not for the absolute disaster they've created. This column by Bob Herbert is at www.nytimes.com:

The incredibly clueless stewards of the incredibly shrinking Republican Party would do well to recall that it was supposedly Abe Lincoln, a Republican, who said you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.

Not only has the G.O.P. spent years trying to fool everybody in sight with its phony-baloney, dime-store philosophies, it’s now trapped in the patently pathetic phase of fooling itself.

The economy has imploded, the auto industry is in danger of being vaporized and more than half of all working Americans are worried that they may lose their jobs in the next year. So what’s the Republican response? To build a wall of obstruction in front of efforts to get the economy moving again, and then to stand in front of that wall chanting gibberish about smaller government, lower taxes, spending cuts and Ronald Reagan.