Seriously? Peter Grier doesn't believe that the GOP is worthy of ridicule and scorn?
If he actually attended a "journalism" school....he should get his money back.
Peter Grier doesn't believe that the GOP is worthy of ridicule and scorn? Even before I left the Republican Party -- the selection of Romney was my last straw -- I found the party worthy of ridicule and scorn: the only way they could be that ineffectual* is if they were (a) complicit, or (b) utterly incompetent.
* When was the last time they really stood for:
- Repealing current gun control: NFA and GCA?
- Abolishing government agencies?
- Actually balancing the budget? (see above)
- De-legitimizing government overreach?
- Restricting abortion? (Yes, I know about the partial-birth abortion ban -- and while I then thought it was good, I've come to think it nothing more than a scam.)
- Reigning in the judicial-abuse of the constitution? (The constitution gives Congress the ability to exclude classes of cases from the USSC; so it could exclude, say, death-penalty cases from them and keep them from ever telling us that we cannot kill traitors, murderers, and rapists.)
And even with all the above the sheer spinelessness of the party, even in standing against something as unpopular as gun-control, is staggering.