Ezra Klein: "The Obama administration deserves all the criticism it's getting for the poor start of health law and more.... But the GOP's complaints that their plan to undermine the law worked too well and someone has to pay border on the comic."
I'm afraid the GOP has exhausted my sense of humor. Yes, Eric Cantor is sinisterly comic, and Louie Gohmert & Cast is pathetically comic, and Ted Cruz is frighteningly comic, and the party's erstwhile extortion scheme was so ineptly handled, even it bordered on the comical. But its current charade of outrage at Obamacare's technical flaws is the party's lowest, unfunniest fraud yet.
For me it's largely a cumulative thing. The Republican Party's least-presidential campaign ever--that 2012, suppurating boil of plutocratic arrogance and tea-party ferment--should have rested in peace. In the names of both honor and pragmatism the party should have forsworn the laughable swindles of Mitt Romney, and moved on. And for a few minutes after Election Day it seemed the GOP might, just might do the honorable, reasonable thing. But soon came its anti-immigration foaming and its anti-gun-safety slobbering and its Benghazi obsession and its IRS fixation and, and, and ...
Then the ineptest "comedy" ever, the Seinfeld Shutdown. But these abominations going on now--the party's glee at potentially screwing millions of the uninsured and its accomplished glee at having already screwed millions of the poverty-stricken uninsured and its faux rage at Obamacare's inadequacies and its absurd pretensions of competence and its sudden concern for surgical goo-gooism--all of it coming atop those brain-piercing months of Romney's swill and in general the GOP's grotesquery?
We are no longer amused.