Looks like staunch conservative David Brooks has joined the slowly growing chorus of GOPers who are lamenting the right wing and it's complete stupidity. His piece in the Times is pretty spot on: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/opinion/the-republicans-incompetence-caucus.html?_r=2
One of the concluding paragraphs:
Welcome to Ted Cruz, Donald Trump and the Freedom Caucus.
Really, have we ever seen bumbling on this scale, people at once so cynical and so naïve, so willfully ignorant in using levers of power to produce some tangible if incremental good? These insurgents can’t even acknowledge democracy’s legitimacy — if you can’t persuade a majority of your colleagues, maybe you should accept their position. You might be wrong!
One of the concluding paragraphs:
Welcome to Ted Cruz, Donald Trump and the Freedom Caucus.
Really, have we ever seen bumbling on this scale, people at once so cynical and so naïve, so willfully ignorant in using levers of power to produce some tangible if incremental good? These insurgents can’t even acknowledge democracy’s legitimacy — if you can’t persuade a majority of your colleagues, maybe you should accept their position. You might be wrong!
