Idiocy

What is with all but a handful of Republicans in Congress? Is all this yelling and virtually stomping their feet the only way they can express their dismay in the wake of their thorough defeat on November 4? Or are they just hypnotized by listening too long to Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson?

While President Obama urgently calls for rapid economic stimulus and restoration, his raving opponents are branding everything that's not a tax cut as "SOCIALISM!"

Bob Herbert put it very succinctly in the NY Times on Saturday: "It’s been clear for years that the G.O.P. is a party without a heart. But its pointless obstructionism, its overall lack of any serious response to what is a clear national economic emergency, seems to indicate it’s also a party without a brain."

Amen, Bob.