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mk  ·  3358 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: House Republicans in chaos as favorite McCarthy quits Speaker race

I'm not sure this breed can be put to use. Many of these folk measure success as not getting things done. If government works, they've failed.





kleinbl00  ·  3358 days ago  ·  link  ·  

"This breed" is probably 70% "that breed" with about 20% crazy-ass teabagger loonies. Which sort of puts the looniness effect in perspective.

user-inactivated  ·  3358 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That chart shows what the impacts of Gerrymandering do to your government. It is also why the system feels like it is stuck in the 1970's.

kleinbl00  ·  3358 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh, it's a catastrophic chart, no doubt. But the idea that "ZOMG Tea Party has taken over teh govermintz" flies in the face of just how stupefyingly incumbent American politics tends to be.