Melting Elephant

You'd never know it from listening to CNN and all the other corporate shills, but the Republican Party is melting down.

Tom Tomorrow's cartoon strip this week, "The Incredible Shrinking Republican Party," includes some essential information about this phenomenon and leaves out some.

It includes the factual nugget that there are only five states left where a majority of voters identify themselves as Republicans (I don't now which ones they are, but I'll bet Idaho is one of them).

TT left out mentioning former Senator Phil Gramm's incredible insulting and demeaning of ordinary voters with his "nation of whiners" speech in which he said we're suffering a "mental recession." Gramm's stupid, callous, and factually wrong remarks received wide press coverage and did more damage to the Republicans during the last election cycle than anything McCain or Palin said.

However, TT DID include Limbaugh's now-famous "I hope he fails" comment, and notes that it cmes after eight years of the same guy accusing Democrats of disloyalty because (Rush says) they wanted Bush to fail. To understand the amount of damage such talk does to the Republican Party, you have to take into account that Obama is the most wildly popular president since JFK.

I wonder if the Republican Party is going to die and the Democratic Party is going to split in two? That's my prediction, and I give it five years.