yeay culture wars!
The Wonk Gap, By PAUL KRUGMAN
"... Mr. Barrasso was inadvertently illustrating the widening ?wonk gap? ? the G.O.P.?s near-complete lack of expertise on anything substantive. Health care is the most prominent example, but the dumbing down extends across the spectrum, from budget issues to national security to poll analysis. Remember, Mitt Romney and much of his party went into Election Day expecting victory.
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Modern conservatism has become a sort of cult, very much given to conspiracy theorizing when confronted with inconvenient facts. Liberal policies were supposed to cause hyperinflation, so low measured inflation must reflect statistical fraud; the threat of climate change implies the need for public action, so global warming must be a gigantic scientific hoax. Oh, and Mitt Romney would have won if only he had been a real conservative.
It?s all kind of funny, in a way. Unfortunately, however, this runaway cult controls the House, which gives it immense destructive power ? the power, for example, to wreak havoc on the economy by refusing to raise the debt ceiling. And it?s disturbing to realize that this power rests in the hands of men who, thanks to the wonk gap, quite literally have no idea what they?re doing."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/09/opinion/krugman-the-wonk-gap.htmlhere's another doozy:
Fox News host: Atheists 'don't have to live here' http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2013/09/09/fox-news-host-atheists-dont-have-to-live-here/wingnuts don't have to live here either... take your oppression elsewhere.
