All in all, it was one hell of a good week for fear. National Public Radio decapitated itself because a pasty-faced little charlatan — who, by all rights, should be shucking crawfish in a Louisiana prison farm — faked another tape, and an NPR executive got caught telling the truth about the Tea Party in such a way that would agitate anyone's chamomile. Since the Republicans in Congress once again have NPR in the crosshairs, the executive got fired and the CEO got tossed out a window.
But NPR was not alone in being scared out of its Dockers by legions of misinformed elderly people. Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, who has been a boring old senator since he was first elected by the Free Soil Party, bailed ingloriously on his stated opposition to the meat-ax budget that came out of the Republican House, largely because the toothless wolves had begun to howl back in Elkhart.
And let us not even discuss the ungainly gymnastics being performed at the moment by Orrin Hatch, who is apparently going to spend the next two years trying to convince his base that the several times he's made sense since 1966 were completely accidental.
And it's hard not to notice that Wisconsin governor Scott Walker decided to go Pinochet-like at least in part because his poll numbers were tanking and he didn't want to alienate the one group of voters who didn't think he was a buffoon...
Source: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/fear-mongering-in-politics-5376802?src=rss
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