It Bears Repeating

Through bad times or good, the inconsistent GOP message has had a single consistent goal: defend and growth income and wealth for the rich.

Most of the wealthy are no longer tied to production and job growth: they are no Henry Fords. They churn their wealth across international lines, using loop holes, tax holidays, currency spreads, tax breaks, and developing markets.

And providing additional tax breaks for job growth is a marginal effort, constrained by diminishing returns. It has little utility.

The Republicans have anchored on to never, which means for them anyone who directly addresses changing reality is inconsistent--and this is proof their changing policies are wrong.

It bears repreating the GOP plans to deconstruct the economy; it is already happening at the state level: witness the MN government shut-down, the Ohio auction of its turnpike and lucrative liquor business, the WI union smashing, among hundreds of other overt actions.

Could any Democratic president stop the GOP juggernaut, no matter his or her personal vision, without a clear vision of the Republican paradigm? I fear too many still see the old GOP mission of shared governance as only slightly out of whack or immoral--as Obama does. Not so. Their paradigm also now includes an age-old, traditional scorched earth policy, going back to Genghis Khan: take the country down to take it back. Rebuild and superimpose its power over the ruins, recover the treasury and state authority. Cower the population, restrict the vote, divy up the spoils--which will still be huge--and private--even in the abject failure of Obama or the electoral system.