What a Week

Paris Hilton, tire gauges, drill now pay later, this week, the GOP was surging ahead in the race to the bottom. It is so depressing I do not want to write about it. Paul Krugman sums it up best with his summary of GOP electoral strategy:

What I mean, instead, is that know-nothingism — the insistence that there are simple, brute-force, instant-gratification answers to every problem, and that there’s something effeminate and weak about anyone who suggests otherwise — has become the core of Republican policy and political strategy. The party’s de facto slogan has become: “Real men don’t think things through.

The sad thing is, I can see this plan totally working. Americans love leaders who absolve them of the heavy lifting.