The Kroog Versus Insane-O-Vision

Paul Krugman makes an excellent point:  if you're only now questioning the GOP as nuts, you bear much of the blame for them wielding so much power over our country right now and driving America to the brink.

Recently, however, all restraint has vanished — indeed, it has been driven out of the party. Last year Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, asserted that the Bush tax cuts actually increased revenue — a claim completely at odds with the evidence — and also declared that this was “the view of virtually every Republican on that subject.” And it’s true: even Mr. Romney, widely regarded as the most sensible of the contenders for the 2012 presidential nomination, has endorsed the view that tax cuts can actually reduce the deficit.

Which brings me to the culpability of those who are only now facing up to the G.O.P.’s craziness.
Here’s the point: those within the G.O.P. who had misgivings about the embrace of tax-cut fanaticism might have made a stronger stand if there had been any indication that such fanaticism came with a price, if outsiders had been willing to condemn those who took irresponsible positions.

But there has been no such price. Mr. Bush squandered the surplus of the late Clinton years, yet prominent pundits pretend that the two parties share equal blame for our debt problems. Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, proposed a supposed deficit-reduction plan that included huge tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, then received an award for fiscal responsibility.

So there has been no pressure on the G.O.P. to show any kind of responsibility, or even rationality — and sure enough, it has gone off the deep end. If you’re surprised, that means that you were part of the problem. 

It's possible that this might finally be a turning point for sanity, but the reality is pretty grim at this point.  Chaos driven by greed has been very, very good to corporate America over the last three decades and continues to be.  A scant few years after the financial meltdown, the biggest titans are stronger than ever and have gained solely at taxpayer expense, while average Americans are suffering.

Yet the same "both sides do it" mentality of the Village and its corporate masters that allowed the GOP to take power has damaged this country to a far greater extent.  It's not just the Republicans who should be made to pay for their intransigence, but the Village idiots who helped elect them in the first place...and the corporations that control them.