DeLong on the State of American Politics

Here is a noted UC Berkeley economist, Brad DeLong, commenting on the level of political discource in the USA:

Newt Gingrich:

Newt Gingrich: The secular-socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did...

Fox News:

Fox News: Gingrich said that he stands by his argument that the "secular-socialist machine" represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union...

As I have said before, no American patriot has any business giving money to, working for, or voting for these clowns who run the Republican Party. Nobody. No way. No how.

Hey... I think he has nailed it: clowns. That is what the Republican party has sunk to with its Sarah Palins and "death panels" and "socialist threat" and other scare mongering.