So You Say You Want a Devolution? 4
Jim Henley Thoreau explains why, even though he works in Virginia, he lives in Maryland (emphasis added):
He could have just as easily pointed to the worship of warm guns or a number of other examples of “Now we’re in power and we’re going to do this just because we can.”
Congressional Republicans seem to have taken up a campaign to repeal birth control. Folks who theorize about such things are trying to figure out what grand strategy this manifests.
There is no grand strategy. There is only rampant meanness and hatefulness.
What we are seeing in Virginia and other states which elected wingnut governors and legislatures in the last election is the politics of “I’ve got mine.” These folks are determined to do every crackpot thing they can while they can because they can. Searching for sense is futile.
Republicanism has devolved into a political movement consisting of one part selfish to two parts spite.
Addendum:
I miss-attributed the post at Unqualified Offerings. See the comment below.
February 19, 2012 at 6:17 pm
That post was by Jim, not me.
I live in California, land of fire, floods, and earthquakes.
February 19, 2012 at 10:22 pm
If I remember my California seasons properly, you left out mudslides.
Thanks for the correction. And thanks for dropping by.
February 20, 2012 at 3:11 am
Mudslides are part of flood season.
February 20, 2012 at 12:25 pm
No serious mudslides yet this year. We did have a windstorm in December that knocked out most of the power in Pasadena for three to four days for everyone. I still had it so wound up keeping other people’s food in my fridge/freezer.