"THE GRAND OLD PARTY IS NOW MADE UP OF NIHILISTS AND CRANKS"

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THE GRAND OLD PARTY IS NOW MADE UP OF NIHILISTS AND CRANKS

by Cynthia Tucker at Yahoo

http://news.yahoo.com/grand-old-party-now-made-nihilists-cranks-050010652.html

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But his intended audience has taken another lesson from Chambliss' bipartisanship: If you even consider it, you will be labeled a RINO -- Republican In Name Only -- by the tea party activists who now wield enormous power in the Republican Party. Having chased Chambliss off, they have taken to hectoring Georgia's junior Republican senator, Johnny Isakson, for his failure to jump with enthusiasm to the idea of shutting down the government over Obamacare.


Tea party types have also targeted longtime senator Lamar Alexander, Republican from Tennessee. In a letter urging Alexander to retire, they claimed that "our great nation can no longer afford compromise and bipartisanship, two traits for which you have become famous."

In response, Alexander penned a remarkable op-ed in The Tennessean defending his record as a politician who has occasionally reached across the aisle. "I know that if you only have 45 votes and you need 60 senators to get something important done like balancing the budget and fixing the debt, then you have to work with other people -- that is, IF you really care about solving the problem, IF you really want to get a result, instead of just making a speech," he wrote.


However, such time-honored traditions of governance have little effect on the white-hot rage of radicals who want to toss out any conservative who remembers the lessons of his middle-school civics classes. They have no respect for the basic give-and-take on which representative democracies thrive, no real interest in improving the nation's fortunes. So, no, Sen. Alexander, they don't care about solving problems.


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1. yup and it gets worse everyday