On today's speech. Charles Pierce.

[Joe Allonby]

As the campaign went on this year, and as the Republican party fought
through a primary season that was conducted primarily in the paludal
and lizard-drenched terrain of the party's Id, and then presented a
national campaign in which the party and its two standard bearers were
quite plain in their desire to roll back even the tattered rags of the
country's social safety net and to proclaim they were doing it on
behalf of "freedom," I wondered if the experience was a clarifying
moment for the president. I doubted that anything else had been. He
was still chasing chimerical Grand Bargains with the vandals and feral
children in the Republican congressional caucus long after it was
plain that the effort was ridiculous.

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