Must Reads

Jonathan Capehart: A response to 'Martin got what he deserved'

Matt Osborne: Jason Taylor is the Butthurt of Breitblogger Brooks Bayne

Steve Benen: The foolish embrace of self-defeating arguments

Jill Lawrence: Seven Things Republicans Were For, Before They Were Against Them

Kevin Freking: FACT CHECK: Romney Ignores Other Budget Players

Jeremy Pelzer: Daily News writer has no trouble arming up at stores that James Holmes patronized in Colorado

Zandar: London Mitt is Falling Down

Jonathan Freedland: Britain is an easy date. So how did Mitt Romney mess up so badly?

A must read, seriously.

POSTED BY JHW2212

If you are a regular reader of this blog, then you must read this article in the Guardian. Jonathan Freedland has nailed so many points like no one I've read.

Here's a tease:

The Republican shift is now towards an anti-government fervour that recalls the militia movement of the 1990s, convinced that every Washington move – even a plan to expand healthcare – is motivated by wickedness and constitutes a step towards tyranny. In that context, any action to thwart the government beast is justified. Such ideas were always around on the lunatic fringe, but they have entered and now dominate the Republican mainstream. Today's Republicans are less like a traditional political party and 'more like an apocalyptic cult'. There is a bitter irony here, that the party that insists it is conservative and patriotic now threatens the centuries-old political system that lies at the core of the US's national identity.