The Gap Between Mainstream Republicans And the Real Wing-Nuts Narrows

TW: Two comments today from Republicans:

From Taegen Goddard:
"XX tells Esquire that President Obama didn't tell voters what he was going to do during the presidential campaign.Said Bush: "Barack Obama would not have gotten elected if he'd let us in on his secret plan prior to the election. He would not have gotten elected if he'd said, 'My idea is to create a $1.8 trillion deficit for the next fiscal year. My idea is to spend $750 billion over the next ten years on a government-sponsored, government-subsidized health-care policy. My idea is to create a massive cap-and-trade system [based on the idea] that CO2 is [a] pollutant and we need to tax it in a massive way to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.' Those ideas, which are now embedded in his budget, and the ideas in the stimulus package, weren't central in his campaign."

From Andrew Sullivan:
"I don’t know why I’m telling you this, but maybe now you’re beginning to understand the high-stakes game we’re playing here. This ain’t John McCain’s logrolling senatorial club any more. This is a deadly serious attempt to realize the vision of the 1960s and to fundamentally transform the United States of America. This is the fusion of Communist dogma, high ideals, gangster tactics, and a stunning amount of self-loathing. For the first time in history, the patrician class is deliberately selling its own country down the river just to prove a point: that, yes, we can! This country stinks and we won’t be happy until we’ve forced you to admit it,"
-- YY , revealing that National Review is now circling the drain of Glenn-Beck-insanity.

TW: The first is from former FL governor, scion of the Bush family Jeb Bush, the latter from David Kahane wing-nut writer in the National Review. It is one thing for crackpots like Inhofe from OK and Demint from SC and even Alaska to make really crazy claims but Jeb Bush was meant to be the brains of the Bush family. Folks always want to equivalize Dems and Republicans but our leaders generally are not out there claiming our POTUS has "secret plans" and then just butchering truth.

Obviously Obama ran on a platform of health care reform and energy policy reform to claim they are part of a "secret" plan is just drivel. He twists reforming energy policy into making "CO2 a pollutant". These are the simplistic attacks that try to turn legitimate political discourse into twisted battles of ignorance. CO2 is not a pollutant it merely has huge negative externalities. Obama and others are attempting to deal with them.

As for the deficit, Jebya naturally neglects that Obama inherited about 80% of the deficit from his bumbling brother. The vast majority of the balance being related to stimulus measures.

How far is Jebya's comments from the right-wing nuttery, not far which is a problem for American democracy. Craziness will not solve our growing challenges domestically or relative to the rest of the world.