To: bentway who wrote (621950 ) 7/29/2011 11:45:42 AM From: tejek Respond to July 29, 2011 11:15 AM ‘A self-inflicted wound of monumental stupidity’ Here’s Time ’s Joe Klein [S]o, here we are. Our nation’s economy and international reputation as the world’s presiding grownup has already been badly damaged. It is a self-inflicted wound of monumental stupidity. I am usually willing to acknowledge that Democrats can be as silly, and hidebound, as Republicans-but not this time. There is zero equivalence here. The vast majority of Democrats have been more than reasonable, more than willing to accept cuts in some of their most valued programs. […] The Republicans have been willing to concede nothing. Their stand means higher interest rates, fewer jobs created and more destroyed, a general weakening of this country’s standing in the world. Osama bin Laden, if he were still alive, could not have come up with a more clever strategy for strangling our nation. a recent point NYT columnist recently argued that Republicans represent a kind of domestic threat Are Klein and Kristof suggesting Republican extremism has become dangerous? It certainly sounds like it .
