Looking back over the past twelve months, I must sadly conclude that the Republicans have decided that, if they can't rule the country, they will destroy it. Remember last year when the economy looked as if the bottom was falling out and a depression was looming? Rush Limbaugh (the de facto leader of the GOP) took the opportunity to bray repeatedly that he hoped that President Obama would fail. Which meant that he hoped that the economy would tank completely. Which meant that he hoped that America would fail. He would rather see the U.S. and world economy fall into a depression than see a black Democrat succeed in office.

And then there were the town-hall teabaggers this summer, and the antics of the Republicans in Congress. And now this.

You know what the Republicans remind me of? They are like the violent, psycopathic husband in a nasty divorce case who burns down the family home with the children inside rather than letting his wife have them. That's their attitude to the United States. And yet they say that it's the liberals who hate America.

If anything happens as a result of this campaign of theirs, I pray that they be trapped in their own vision of the afterlife; I think their Devil would have a few things to say to them.

Brain, I don't think we could ask for better guidance. The current guidance paradigm is certainly insufficient.

Even the ones I disagree with.

(Oh, and to The Acid Queen: Great comment!).