The narrative is already shifting from "Republican Vandals Blow Up Democracy!" to "Feckless Congress Can't Tie Its Shoes!" The inevitable desire of the corporate press not to get yelled at by the crazy people on the radio, and by the crazier people who listen to the crazy people on the radio, and by the crazy people who get elected by the crazy people who listen to the crazy people on the radio, will result in this whole mishigas being interpreted as a bipartisan failure. which it obviously is not. The tell is the number of stories we're reading now about the "impasse" in Washington. This is not an "impasse," This is a deliberate act of political sabotage on the part of one of our two political parties. It is a hostage-taking. Call it an "impasse" and you've abandoned truth for neutrality.
Read the entire article, it's a laser—and makes me despair for both our media and politics.
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