Enough is Enough

Even Time realizes Republicans have jumped the shark:

In short, just as the radio spot claimed, the Frosts are precisely the kind of people that the SCHIP program was intended to help.

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Politics has never been a gentle game. As far back as 1895, satirist Finley Peter Dunne's fictional saloonkeeper Martin Dooley observed that women, children and prohibitionists would do well to stay out of it, because "politics ain't beanbag." But surely, even Mr. Dooley could never have imagined a day would come when a mere seventh grader could be swift-boated.

As has been pointed out before, this is about their tribalism, and anyone who attacks their leader will feel the full brunt of their wrath. They revel in their orgy-like bonding and collective venting of rage. We're past the point where society should recognize these brutish and nasty tendencies for what they are and work to exclude people who act in such a manner.

The longer this goes on the larger the pit of ice in my stomach grows.