A Permanent Republican Majority (original) (raw)

The Republican party has managed something that few, in the spastic, delirious throes of the unforeseen complete majority of January thought it possible to do: come up completely empty, policy-wise; utterly impotent. And powerless to change the outcome. The current gang of "535 plus one" are brutally, fatally fractured, and no amount of Pollyanna happy talk can change that reality. It is failure, of the worst possible type; the record is shameless, wretched and miserable. But it is also understandable.