BarbinMD links to a Matt Miller piece on how "seemingly well-adjusted Republicans have been driven insane by the passage of Obamacare." Putting aside the cognitive dissonance involving "well-adjusted Republicans," it's always interesting to see the innate bankruptcy of Rethuglican policies acknowledged in the WaPo.
Miller focuses on HCR's aftermath and how it supposedly is causing GOP introspection, disorientation and anger. Disorientation, perhaps (after all, they haven't lost a legislative battle this big in some time) as well as anger (I'd be pissed, too, if all my political beliefs were lies) but I don't see the introspection. Perhaps among some Rethuglicans, but I'd suggest those guilty of such aren't *really* in the GOP. Instead, they're most likely rightist indies who got there by refusing to embrace their inner Al Gore and still cling to the GOP's underpants gnome economic theories and policies.
Anyway, I don't for a minute think the GOP's current funk will result in anything a) long-term or, b) useful in confronting significant policy challenges. Would that they were jumping out of windows, though someone would be forced to clean up the mess.
It's always interesting when supposedly intelligent commentators lend Rethuglicans anthropomorphic qualities they simply don't possess.
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