Conservative Ross Douthat: GOP "Shouldn't Be Trusted With Management Of Banana Republic"

The GOP

Gone bananas.

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"[T]he decision to live with a government shutdown for an extended period of time -- inflicting modest-but-real harm on the economy, needlessly disrupting the lives and paychecks of many thousands of hardworking people, and further tarnishing the Republican Party's already not-exactly-shiny image -- in pursuit of obviously,obviously unattainable goals was not a normal political blunder by a normally-functioning political party. It was an irresponsible, dysfunctional and deeply pointless act, carried out by a party that on the evidence of the last few weeks shouldn't be trusted with the management of a banana stand, let alone the House of Representatives." Ross Douthat in The New York Times