Here is the current post from Frank Rich at the NYT:

The current G.O.P. acts as if it — and we — have all the time in the world. It kept hoping in vain that the fast-waning Blago sideshow would somehow impale Obama or Rahm Emanuel. It has come perilously close to wishing aloud that a terrorist attack will materialize to discredit Obama’s reversals of Bush policy on torture, military tribunals and Gitmo. The party’s sole consistent ambition is to play petty politics to gum up the works.

For the past 8 years, John Boehner and his party have worked overtime to divide this nation politically. No one, however, more so than Boehner. His sour puss glared at those on the left with arrogant scorn through the lens of Fox News and the Sunday morning talk shows. During Bush’s reign, he was his most enthusiastic lapdog, lamblasting anyone who had the gaul to even faintly criticize Bush’s execution of the war on terror, his negligence during Katrina or his asleep at the wheel approach to regulation.

Boehner is like alot of republicans - cowards with their chest pushed out in fake machismo. The first to scream, “Yeeaahhh!! Lets get them!” but the last to actually participate. There’s a world of criticism that can be laid at the democrats door, but the republicans of the last 8 years have embodied the worst in human beings - and the fact that some of them are sympathetic to issues that don’t fit with the party line is commendable, but curious. Personally, I think the far left are wackos. I don’t agree with their stand on immigration, the welfare system, big government in every facet of our lives, but at least they rarely come to the fore - democratic leaders are so scared of seeming like “hippies” that they go out of their way to forge a centrist agenda. Just fine with me.

Republican leaders today are the opposite. The party is in the extreme right and they refuse to acknowledge it. Limbaugh is their most powerful voice. They are a sad reminant of the Reagan era and deserve to be stuck in the political wilderness.

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