Sunday, July 26, 2009

darmok and jalad at tanagra

eric kleefeld writes:
Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele warns that Democratic government intervention in health care will be even worse than the Schiavo case. Huh?
i think this is just another glimpse of the alternate reality the republican leadership is stuck in. to the denizens of planet earth, the terry schiavo matter was when the republican party jumped the shark for a lot of americans. when it became clear they were simply beholden to the religious right, even when it ran counter to the views of an overwhelming majority of americans. that's the point that GOP numbers really started going down the toilet, a toilet that they still haven't escaped to this day.

but on planet wingnut, things look totally different. their history books don't talk about political mistakes, just points when they diverged from orthodoxy. which is why their political analogies look so strange to us here on earth.