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Friday, July 29, 2011

Suicide Watch in Crazytown

Steve Benen endorses Kevin Drum's very sensible observation and recommendation about the GOP's entirely self-manufactured debt-ceiling crisis,
tea partiers just aren’t willing to deal, period. They want to burn the house down... So walk away from the tea partiers. Instead, strike a deal that a hundred non-insane House Republicans and 20 or 30 non-insane Senate Republicans can support. Add that to a majority of the Democratic caucus and you’re done. You’ve saved the country.
But then Benen asks the obvious and chilling question:
Kevin envisions 100 or so non-insane House Republicans joining a similar number of House Democrats to save the country. Sounds good. But are there 100 sane House Republicans? I honestly have no idea. Is there a reliable count of such things?
Quite apart from the math here, it is likely that saving the country is now antithetical to saving Boehner's Speakership (a "political" consideration which is just a matter of looking at the Crazytown math from a slightly different angle). Anyway, this is what it has come to. Thanks, again, dumb disgruntled mid-term voters and dumb disgruntled non-voters!

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