GOP Now the “Grotesque Old Party”

Sidney Blumenthal has a good article in which he shows that the GOP has finally shrunk from merely being the party of the conservative establishment (but still civically minded) to nothing more than a craven, shrill, obnoxious platform for the lunatic far right. His cute little description of Barak Obama’s opponent for the US Senate seat in Illinois is as “Keyes, who has worn a lapel pin featuring the feet of a fetus, is Jerry Falwell as played by Little Richard.”