The Boehner Bunglers - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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The federal government is shut down, we’re about to hit the debt ceiling (with disastrous economic consequences), and no resolution is in sight. How did this happen?
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The main answer, which only the most pathologically “balanced” reporting can deny, is the radicalization of the Republican Party.
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the G.O.P. has become “an insurgent outlier — ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.”
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