Richard Cohen gets one right. "Republicans under a spell"

[sinkingfeeling]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/20/AR2010092004256.html

Similarly, only a spell can explain why much of the Republican Party insists on calling Obama a socialist. To apply this label to the very man who saved Big Finance, who rescued Goldman Sachs and the rest of the boys, who gave a Heimlich to the barely breathing banks, can only be explained by witchcraft or voodoo or something like that. It has caused the GOP to lose its mind. Obama did something similar to the American auto industry, saving it from itself. He did not let it fail or nationalize it, as a socialist would have done, but pumped cash into it so that -- this is me speaking -- it can fail later on.

.... This party is not fit to govern.

So now it has a candidate in Delaware who truly is a career politician. She seems to have no means of support except campaign funds. She supposedly lives in her headquarters, although this is somewhat in dispute. Whatever the case, she has no job and no views worth a moment's consideration. (She even appalls Karl Rove.) She's not likely to win, but the way things are going this year, she just might. People are angry. People are mad. The night is dark.

[SteppingRazor]

1. Good summation of recent Republican thought, but...

I haven't been able to stomach Cohen since the "fool or a Frenchman" column back in the run-up to the Iraq War.

It's amazing how these people can be so horrifyingly wrong and keep their jobs.

[COLGATE4]

2. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. That's Cohen.