G.O.P. Implosion

Two pieces today illustrate for me perfectly how the G.O.P. has collapsed on itself and has become the party of nihilism. First Tom Friedman:

The G.O.P. used to be the party of business. Well, to compete and win in a globalized world, no one needs the burden of health insurance shifted from business to government more than American business. No one needs immigration reform — so the world’s best brainpower can come here without restrictions — more than American business. No one needs a push for clean-tech — the world’s next great global manufacturing industry — more than American business. Yet the G.O.P. today resists national health care, immigration reform and wants to just drill, baby, drill.

And Neal Boortz, conservative libertarian, nailing it on how the G.O.P. deserved to get their asses handed to them over Tuesday's education speech:

TeamObama must have loved this one. Talk about a hanging curveball. Once the manic inanity started all they had to do is sit back, prepare an innocuous speech for The One, and let the people scratch their heads wondering what in the hell the Republicans were so upset about! Now the next time the right comes up with an objection to some Obama concept, people who last week might have been on board will stand back and look at the Republicans with a jaundiced eye.... Thanks, Republicans! See if there’s some drug available for that rectal-cranial
inversion you’re suffering from.

Watch for Obama's approval ratings to rise starting tomorrow after his health care speech to Congress. His plan will make sense, be affordable (at $1 trillion over 10 years, that's only 3% of Bush's Medicare prescription drug benefit), and protect Americans against private insurance company gouging. He will eloquently hand Congress an order to quit bickering and come to agreement or he'll push through his own version.