Saturday, April 24, 2010

The Irrelevant Right: Minus The Crazies, What Else Is There?

Can anyone deny that the most trenchant and effective criticism of President Obama today comes not from the right but from the left? Rachel Maddow's grilling of administration economic officials. Keith Olbermann's hectoring of Democratic leaders on the public option. Glenn Greenwald's criticisms of Elena Kagan. Ezra Klein and Jonathan Cohn's keepin'-them-honest perspectives on health care. The civil libertarian left on detainees and Gitmo. The Huffington Post on derivatives.

I want to find Republicans to take seriously, but it is hard. Not because they don't exist -- serious Republicans -- but because, as Sanchez and others seem to recognize, they are marginalized, even self-marginalizing, and the base itself seems to have developed a notion that bromides are equivalent to policy-thinking, and that therapy is a substitute for thinking.

The "untethered" Right taking back the House and Senate? Hahahaha.

The Right has lost their mind. Republican "success" is based on a bad economy and the consequent anti-incumbent feeling. And as the economy starts to improve, the feeling will be the Democrats have not done enough.

Posted via web from liberalsarecool.com

No comments: