No matter how badly the private sector screws everyday Americans the GOP and the Tea Party (should we just call it the GOPTea Party?) never casts negative aspersions on the private sector.
About the only time you ever see the GOP railing on the financial sector is when someone like AIG ruins the fun for the rest of the obscenely rich and powerful and it affects their investment portfolio.
The GOP doesn't lack in confidence - supreme confidence - that no matter what presciption they propose, no matter what sound public policy they oppose, they are always right, even in the face of overwhelming evidence. It is always the opposition that is wrong. Always.
They act, in fact, like a man on trial for murder, doing whatever they possibly can to obfuscate, confuse, and deny in an effort to stave off the electric chair.
They say this election cycle reminds some of 1994. It reminds me of 1994 too, just not in the same way...
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