The veteran WashPo columnist suggests that the "Tea Party Ideologues" have metastasized within the GOP to the point that "Establishment Pragmatists" are now on the defensive.
"More sensible Republicans have been so eager to take advantage of the Tea Party’s energy and emotion that they have essentially allowed the inmates to run the asylum. You will recall that it was the GOP, led by the Tea Party types, that threatened to send the Treasury into default last summer rather than approve a routine and necessary increase in the debt ceiling. ... Maybe they are so blinded by ideology that they no longer care about the impact their actions might have on struggling American families. Or maybe their only guiding principle is that anything Obama supports, they oppose."
Source: Robinson, Eugene. "The GOP’s slip is showing," Washington Post. 12/22/11.
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