I am a big fan of John Dean. His book, Conservatives Without Conscience was a revelation. Highly recommended, very geeky, read.

"The Aauthoritarians" is free, on-line. It's a GREAT read and really explains alot about the thinking of the right-wing.

Patriotism isn't the word for what they purport to stand for; they're treasonous.

The current strong-willed acrimony against Obama reminds me of Seven Days in May, which I'd never seen before last month's TCM showing of it. It was a well-played-out piece of fiction that is alarmingly similar to the cushy relationship between the power-hungry higher military echelon & the Republicans' lust for war profits -- under the guise of "patriotism". As it happens in the movies, though, the treason was subverted & the generals were forced to resign.

In this current up-is-down attitude of the Republicans, & the fact that there are no script writers creating the moral ingredients needed to right the wrongs, I'm glad John Dean is around to help us understand it.

Example, our current choice is between Meatcleaver Austerity, the sequestration, or Austerity Lite, which is the deal that includes cuts to SS, Medicare and/or Medicaid.

There is absolutely no voices in power calling for what we really need, a WPA style stimulus to grow the economy and bring the people out of this deep dark hole many are still in. Instead, it is a foolish focus on lowering the debt at any cost, including the good of people of this country.

They aren't destroying themselves really. They're getting more and more radical nutcases into congress and making Democrats take the positions of more "reasonable" Republicans. The baggers are killing what's left of the Democratic Party. More and more we are the party of Reagan and they are the party of batshit insanity. Who is left to fight for the workers? No one. Who is left to fight for the safety net? No one.

The demise of the Republican Party is greatly exaggerated.

aside, a "sequestered GOP" is worth consideration. (On the other hand, let's let them take it to the extremes (photo ops and munchies to follow...if and when I get the digital world).

These Undead Freaks of nature will live on, or should I say "live" on sorta.

I agree with John Dean's comment he knows what he's taking about it.

The republicans our the cancer on our nation now. The not insane ones in congress are afraid of the nutjob tea party and losing in a primary to one of the misguided zealot true believers.

Sooner or later people like David Gregory and "Let's Leave It There" Wold Blitzer have to grasp, or be allowed to express that grasping, that both sides are not to blame equally - the false equivalency mania has to end, like Edward R Murrow calling out crazy drunk Joe McCarthy.

I'm not sure where all this is headed but I'd like to believe that a solid majority of people nationally will force real change and a much needed readjustment of the political baseline back to the left.

John Dean is one of several older republicans who have broken with this new inflexible far right breed, George Danforth, Bruce Bartlett, Craig Paul Roberts and more. As some have pointed out, even Ronald Reagan would be seen as almost a commie by this bunch and that's unbelievable.