I know I’m supposed to do more current events than I do, but this an excellent example of why I don’t. For weeks the conservative press and new media have been engaged in a circular shooting gallery about defunding ObamaCare and potentially shutting down the government.

Two items pushed me to comment today. Kirsten Powers, one of Fox News’s house liberals wrote a completely idiotic op-Ed at the Daily Beast called The Republican Party is Destroying America.

Lede paragraphs:

Harsh words, yes. But inescapably true. It’s a bit of a murder-suicide. House Republicans’ willingness to lay waste to the country to satisfy their fringiest faction will ultimately guarantee the GOP irrelevancy as a national party, unless they change their ways. In the meantime, they seem determined to take us all down with them.

There isn’t even a feint toward decency. In what has become a recurring nightmare, House Republicans are using budget negotiations to play chicken with the stability of the American economy. This time, they want President Obama to agree to defund his signature achievement, the Affordable Care Act. If he refuses to strangle his own baby in the crib, Republicans are happy to retaliate. They’ll shut down the government. These are not people with whom one can work…

Said Ornstein: “The bizarreness of this monomaniacal focus on Obamacare, given that it is fundamentally a Republican program from the 1990s mixed in with Romneycare,” says it all. “Obamacare relies on the private sector; there is no public option. That you are willing to bring the country to its knees to sabotage it … just shows this is a party that has gone off the rails.”

Are you kidding??!! The ongoing destruction of America is the fault of Republicans??!! Stability of the American economy…? No growth recession is stability?… Bring the country to its knees…? Really? We’ve been our knees since this Narcissist pretender first started pretending to be president. And I really think Kirsten knows this. Why I’m so, uh, perturbed by her essay. What’s going on? The hive mind. Which she’s not in charge of. Which isn’t because she’s not pretty enough to be queen.

I hasten to stipulate that she IS a pretty girl. Very. And far more polite than the killer bees she normally swarms with.

That said, she’s a moron. Or if she isn’t that, she’s something else, which I think she is, because of the other item I heard today, this one courtesy of Jeb Bush, who is pleading for Republicans in Congress to give Obama what he wants and not shut down the government at ANY cost.

Meaning establishment Republicans who have done nothing to defeat or even deter the radical policies of President Obama are the tail obliged to wag the dog because, as Jeb puts it, Republicans in the House are half of one third of the government and no good can come from obstruction.

Karl Rove piled on in his own WSJ op-Ed. The American people are looking for moderates, not Tea Party radicals and all the electoral math is against principle. Because moderation got Romney elected, and Reagan was never regarded as a radical. In other words, Rove and Jeb Bush agree with Kirsten. Bzzzz.

So. The Tea Party folk are the demons. Impractical, suicidal, careless of the great need for constant huge government of the people, without which the masses would be desperate and poisoned against one of the two parties of the status quo.

Got it. Republicans who want to save the nation from the biggest leftward lurch in its history are between a rock and a hard place. Could they lose by winning? Yes. Could they lose by losing? Absolutely. No wonder Krauthammer and the smart guys at NRO are worried.

Seems all dark and horrific, yes? But it isn’t. Not really.

When a system is ossifying, petrifying, dying — pick your own favorite term — look to where there is still ongoing debate. These are the people who are grappling with ideas. The Republican Party has a Tea Party problem. Alternatively, it has an entrenched power structure problem. Geez. The conflict might blow the GOP apart. Oh me. Oh my.

Conversely, the Democrat Party has NO problem. When push comes to shove, they all close ranks on every major policy issue. Abortion. Nonsensical gun control fantasies. Unlimited penalty-free illegal immigration. Obsolete Keynesian economics that have never ever worked. Country-killing allegiance to public sector unions. A foreign policy so careless and feckless that it can’t be held accountable for anything it does. A racialist strategy so determined to rend and rive the American body politic that they don’t care if anything is left afterwards, as long as they still control the federal government. An incredibly simple mindset that encouraging and institutionalizing more dependency on that government is good for everyone who matters, meaning the inside the beltway parasites and media who keep changing jobs with one another and enriching themselves at public expense while they show off at Sally Quinn’s parties.

When one of them gets out of line for a moment or on an issue or two, somebody yanks on their chain, and suddenly here they are, good Democrat soldiers again. What happened with Kirsten Powers today is exactly what we’ve seen with the schizophrenic TV appearances of Juan Williams. Catch him in an off moment and he’s reasonable. When the Talking Points are in neon, he shouts them at Brit Hume. Same with the despicable Bob Beckel, who has never had a principle he wouldn’t trade for party favor in a moment. (The dirtiest little unscrupulous sonofabitch I’ve ever seen. If he ever looked at Twitter, and if I ever looked at Twitter, I would haunt him with his lies, hypocrisy, and disgusting displays of crude lefty propaganda… Sadly, never to be. He lurches from trying to cop a feel of Kimberly Guilfoyle’s tits on The Five to his NA meetings. Must make him feel virtuous.)

I’m sorry about Kirsten. Not for anybody else. They’re all part of the hive mind of the dumbest, most destructive political philosophy in my lifetime. None of what they advocate works. Never did. I’m past understanding how they rationalize it to themselves. They clearly don’t. The hive sings and they buzz their wings in the prescribed way.

But the Republicans are fighting tooth and claw with one another. Maybe it doesn’t bode well for immediate electoral victory. Still. They’re struggling and fighting like the 300 at Thermopylae. They still remember the mission, which is, uh, serving the American people, restoring the economy, and preventing absolute presidential tyranny by edict. Right or wrong, it’s enough that they’re fighting.

For the time being, I’ll settle for that, even acknowledging that there really IS no good answer about “Obama’s signature achievement,” meaning the sharpest dagger ever aimed at the heart of America.

Grow up, Kirsten. Dunce doll.

Raebert would like to watch her take a shower. But, truthfully, that doesn’t make her smart. Makes him naughty. But he doesn’t care. Me, I’d give Maddow a towel. Because I’m a gentleman. Raebert will learn. Or not.

She was hot. Anyone have a problem with that? She has really nice points.