Denial Ain't Just A River In Egypt

This past November's elections seemed to me to represent the implosion of the current Republican party-- the bastardized version that began in the 1980s. But, refusing to learn any lesson of any kind, the loss may have actually made them insaner (is that a word?). And faced with the likely loss of the White House in a year and a half, expect to see an endless parade of crazy shit (see: the Barack Obama is a terrorist story).

The Iraq war remains the top issue they've reality behind on, but a new poll on global warming also blows my mind. Andrew Sullivan takes a look:

Do the Republicans realize how swiftly they appear to be headed for the exits of serious political debate? A National Journal poll shows that 84 percent of a selected group of influential Congressional Republicans deny that there's a human component to global warming "beyond a reasonable doubt". The international scientific community puts the likelihod at 90 percent. Whoever these Republicans are, they are not reasonable people, or even vaguely in touch with reality. Then, from the Christianist wing of the party, we are asked to believe that Ted Haggard is now "completely heterosexual." (Yes, I know Haggard's team of reparative therapists are not Republican officials; but their tight connection with the Rove machine has been integral to previous electoral strategies.) Even the "ex-gay" people don't buy Haggard's story. Check out this exchange from AC360 last night.

I have a feeling that we may be about to see not the slow decline of the GOP as it is currently constructed - but a complete implosion. It appears that many Republicans are privately thinking the same thing.

Their implosion is America's gain.