Quote of the Day

"With the Democrats' now pledging to restore the pay-as-you-go principle in Congressional appropriations - i.e. every new spending increase has to be balanced by a tax increase - it's clear which party formally represents fiscal conservatism. Whether the Democrats deliver is another matter. But one thing we know: the GOP hasn't delivered. They have spent and borrowed at rates that fully merit the 'criminal' rhetoric now lobbed by their own side. They deserve to be punished. Kick them out."
--Andrew Sullivan, on his blog yesterday.

Shhhh, don't tell your fellow conservatives, Andrew. They still think they're the responsible party. I expect much in the way of the standard "Taxes! Socialism!! The Dems are gonna take our money behave like responsible adults!! God and Limbaugh save us!" hysteria in the coming months. I never understood the logic.

If you were running a family, and you were spending your family's money like there was no tomorrow (with little to show for it), while at the same giving more money back to your source of income than you were actually taking in, would that not be insanely reckless? Would you not not end up being divorced for your complete disregard for the financial well-being of your family? Yes would seem the logical answer. Yet this logic gets turned on its head by Republicans, who give out tax cuts like bribes (much of it going to those who don't need it anyway) while raking up the largest deficit in the world's history. And in wartime no less! Did President Kennedy not say, "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country"? Conservatives used to like that sentiment. Somewhere during the Reagan Revolution it became "Gimmee gimmee, mine mine mine!". Now they dismiss the very idea of taxation on par with government spending as 'socialism' (and you thought red-baiting ended with the Cold War). They believe cops teachers soldiers etc the government doesn't deserve our money and to make it worse, they scoffed during events like Katrina when people suggested that, gosh, maybe the government had a responsibility to help take care of its most vulnerable citizens. And yet, for a group of people who show such disdain for the concept of government itself, they demand unquestioning loyalty to the political leaders of their party from all citizens. I guess I'll never end up being a Republican, because that just doesn't make any sense to me.

Sullivan's right. The modern Republican party is a failure. Kick them all out.