Americans got another thing right

Give Americans their due... The constitutional separation of Church and State was brilliant. It meant that 'citizen' was a category that transcended other tribal or sectarian affiliations.

Now, however, by turning the Republican Party into a tribe whose interests are more important than those of the wider country; by being willing to destroy government rather than let any part of it remain in the hands of the other sect; by playing 'chicken' with the national credit rating and by sheer pig-headedness they abdicate their own citizenship.

They aren't even coherent. They obstruct health-care reform that would lower costs over-all, improve the physical well-being of tens of millions of fellow citizens and prevent half-a-million bankruptcies caused each year by health care expense.

They would rather inflict pain, sufferring and unnecessary costs on it than allow the country to benefit in any way during a presidential administration of the other camp. This is not fiscal prudence, it is a self-inflicted wound. These malice-crazed fools have a real shot at grabbing the steering wheel in November.
 
God help them all.