Incoming Republican labor chair says organized labor has 'lost its reason for being'

And yet there they are, fighting for worker rights anyway. Go figure.

The Republican Party is not so much a political party these days as an extended experiment in self-trepanation.

The incoming chair of the congressional panel that oversees labor issues on Monday questioned the need for unions and said she wants to repeal various Obama administration labor policies.

Organized labor has “sort of lost its reason for being” because of the many laws in place to protect workers, said Representative Virginia Foxx, a 73-year-old Republican from North Carolina who will become chair of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce in January, in a telephone interview with Reuters

Other things that the new Republican Congress believes have lost their reason for being: environmental laws, political ethics laws, public schools, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, civil rights legislation, the press, a Supreme Court that rules in any manner other than the one they prefer, and all remaining sense of shame.

Everyone will need to invest in a sturdy pair of shoes because it seems the only way we're going to keep intact any American progress from the post-Civil War era onward is to surround Republican offices in such numbers that they won't be able to reach their own front doors.