Yikes

I've always been a liberal leaner, but I've become even more liberal over the years as I see what's happened to the Republican party. Mainstream Republican events that compare attempts to provide all citizens healthcare to the Holocost are disgusting in the extreme. And what's with calling Obama a communist and socialist (as if they are the same thing)? It's as if the conservatives have all gone insane, because they've stopped offering any good ideas (some might argue, any ideas at all) and just rant and rave and foam at hte mouth these days.

It would almost be amusing if the consequences weren't so scary. Krugman summarizes the issue:

And if Tea Party Republicans do win big next year, what has already happened in California could happen at the national level. In California, the G.O.P. has essentially shrunk down to a rump party with no interest in actually governing — but that rump remains big enough to prevent anyone else from dealing with the state’s fiscal crisis. If this happens to America as a whole, as it all too easily could, the country could become effectively ungovernable in the midst of an ongoing economic disaster.
The point is that the takeover of the Republican Party by the irrational right is no laughing matter. Something unprecedented is happening here — and it’s very bad for America.