"Rational Idiocy"

Update: Great, Republican'ts ARE crazy, just not "batshit crazy."

Update #2: Republican't economic terrorist Lindsey Graham on TeeVee promises to use debt ceiling threats to extort concessions from Democrats.

How can anyone run a railroad like this?  Sheesh, such insanity on such a large scale actually boggles the mind of rational observers, even those somewhat inured to Republican't intransigence.

These sincere ideologues, safe in their gerrymandered sinecures, actually, actively aim to drive the American economy into the proverbial ditch due to born again fervor against federal budget deficits--deficits they recently embraced by voting for unfunded wars and Cheney administration tax cuts for the wealthy.

How could they for an instant think of wrecking the US and probably world economy?

Because they can, and doing so inoculates them against electoral challenge from even more right wing and irrational challengers.  Even President in Waiting Rubio voted against the Senate compromise.

[This makes the Republican Party look terrible: irresponsible, incompetent, obstinate. You can expect the stock market to open sharply lower tomorrow and Republicans to take all the blame for the voluntary economic damage caused by the fiscal cliff.

But this course still makes sense from the perspective of individual Republicans in the House. Voting for Plan B, or for the Senate fiscal cliff deal, or even for an amended version of the Senate deal, can open a Republican incumbent to attacks from conservative primary challengers and anti-spending groups like FreedomWorks and the Club for Growth.

Opposing everything and offering no plan to avert the fiscal cliff won’t encourage such challenges from the right. And if you represent a reasonably safe seat -- as the vast majority of Republican members do -- boosting the party’s national vote share, or governing in the national interest, is apparently no competition for the instinct of political self-preservation.]
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-01/house-republicans-rational-idiocy.html