Rachel Kleinfeld:
Meanwhile, ideas that were 25 years old no longer match reality. A platform of tax cuts made sense in 1980, when the top tier bracket stood at 70 percent. But tea parties when the top tier pays 35 percent? In the midst of two wars, that’s frankly unpatriotic — and no longer connects to fiscal sense, as it did in the 1980s.
Glenn Greenwald
The G.O.P. now resembles a religion more than a political party, where any deviance from established dogma is considered heresy that warrants excommunication. Its collapse into a Southern regional party has taken one large step forward. It is remarkable to watch an already marginalized party purposely shrink itself further. Nonetheless, given that Arlen Specter will still be Arlen Specter, the Republicans’ loss is not necessarily the Democrats’ gain.
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