New York Times columnist Paul Krugman hit the nail on the head on Monday when he wrote that Republicans are losing touch with reality.
Their increasingly fantastical – or is it fanatical? – policy proposals, demonstrate an inability to grasp the consequences of their “proposals,” if they can be taken seriously at all.
Details are on the blog in the (K)now this morning in
GOP losing its grip on reality
Examples are many. The House Republicans’ “plan” put forward last week for the Agriculture Bill would have slashed $40 billion from the food stamp program. Five million people would have been cut from the program.
Previously, the House in May passed a so-called “budget plan” drawn up by Rep. Paul Ryan’s Budget Committee.
Ryan claimed his plan would get the federal budget into balance, with no new taxes and no cuts to defense spending.
The Ryan budget is pure fantasy and is remarkably similar to the one he proposed last year. Isn’t the very definition of insanity repeating the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result?
Well, insane folks should not be allowed anywhere near the levers of power, let alone behind the wheel of their own cars!
Republicans are not now, if they ever have been, concerned with the interests of the voters or taxpayers.
The will do anything to protect their rich benefactors, and nothing at all for the rest of us.
“The sad truth is that the modern G.O.P. is lost in fantasy, unable to participate in actual governing,” Krugman wrote in in Republicans Against Reality
Amen.