Brilliant, I tells ya, it's just brilliant!

 

While the Republicans say they would cooperate with Democrats to repeal the sequester, what they want in return makes the whole exercise pointless. More precisely, they are willing to stop the spending cuts triggered by the sequester only if the Democrats agree to even bigger spending cuts and for even more public services! 

Another way of parsing this is that the GOP is offering us ten dollars in exchange for a hundred. 

Have these guys gone over the edge? Sorry, that might be painfully obvious but I am making a distinction here between the Republicans just being obstructionist and Machiavellian (which is their natural state until recently) to becoming outright rubber-room loonies. When someone has the temerity and poor judgment to offer the type of deal that they are offering, and then get angry that people are not dumb enough to accept it, you have to ask yourself if you are dealing with someone who is not really playing with a full deck.

I fear for our country. It's bad enough that we have a political party that is devoted to promoting special interests and to turning a blind eye to gross inequality and exploitation, but it's incredibly frightening when the party in question is no longer functioning from even a politically rational place. There is a fine line between being crazy like a fox and being just plain crazy, and the Republicans have now crossed it.