I Don't Have To Pretend That Crackpots Are Not Crackpots Or That "Moderates" Who Enable Them are Moderates.

In the wake of Eric Cantor being successfully primaried out of his position, certainly as the successor to the Speaker of The House, by a tea party darling, lots of people have speculated on what it means.    One of the most widespread assertions is that the old Wall Street Republican aren't being entirely successful at defeating the frightening fanatics they'd believed they could harness even as they provided Republicans with the power to win power.

I have never been too impressed with the idea that there was a substantial difference between the oligarchs who didn't really care about social issues as long as they got to steal everything in and out of sight and those who are officially to be considered the real problem.   I didn't notice the Jim Leaches and Olympia Snowes doing anything to reign in the rabid tire biters who got them into committee chairmanships and prominence as members of that rare species, the "moderate" Republicans.   Their reputation for moderation was a useful smokescreen for their party, which produced the worst administrations of the past century, Nixon, Reagan, Bush II with the full support of the moderates, the rare and mild dissent expressed by them, signifying nothing.

How much of a fraud that thing is can be seen by the official "moderate" Republican, Susan Collins full and gushy endorsement of  the tea-party, Republican candidate for congress in my state's second district, Bruce Poliquin  and the paleo-crackpot, Republican and worst governor of my life time, the gratuitously cruel, dishonest and infamous Paul LePage.    Collins' moderation has always been a fraud and it is telling that she either feels it's in her interest to stop pretending or that she is willing to trade her alleged moderate principles in for the votes of the paleo-crackpot Republicans who put LePage in office.   Though, it should never be forgotten, her fellow "moderate" Olympia Snowe had previously supported him, even as she probably knew she had no electoral necessity to do so, noting that LePage, as a young man,  had been a protege of her first husband.

The idea that the "movement conservatives" whose motivations are economic principles are, in any REAL sense, different from the fanatics who they have used to win power, is wishful thinking, at best, a disastrous delusion, in fact.   The idea that the supposedly sane faction of the Republican Party is a safe bet, with the ability to keep their well armed crackpot army under control,  is disproved by their conduct in office.  If the complete criminal disaster, humanitarian, judicial, environmental, AND ECONOMIC that the Bush II regime was, didn't open the eyes of people like Paul Krugman to their danger more than a decade ago, you have to wonder what will.   They are merely the more genteel side of a massive and dangerous criminal faction which has murdered enormous numbers of people outside of the United States and whose policies include killing yet more.  That is called "foreign policy" in our media.  If you have to have proof of that, watch the official near "moderates" Lindsay Graham and John McCain on TV tomorrow morning during the most dishonest hours of TV during the week.

The Republican Party is the most dangerous entity in American life and, so, the world.  The disaster that is happening in Iraq is their baby, though they and their kept media will certainly deny paternity, blaming Barack Obama, one of the few prominent politicians who thought the invasion was wrong and would be a disaster, from the beginning.   I don't think Democrats do him the justice to admit that he was handed two terrible wars by the Bush II regime and enormous problems in Iraq, which couldn't have ended well.   We aren't Belgium in the 19th century, we can't invade and hold colonies which can be held through mass slaughter, despite what the Republicans and their media say.   We could never afford to maintain that and our oligarchs, the billionaire class, the ones who the Republicans, insane or merely evil, serve.   Those who produce the wealth of the country, The Workers, can't sustain that kind of empire.   Though our media is certainly willing and able to do their all to sell it.   If The People knew that's what they were going to be made to do, they would refuse to do it.  If they would go along with it, with full knowledge, we are in far more serious trouble than I've laid out, above.