In a week in which Republicans have been compared to suicide-bombers and other violent Islamic militants, it’s only natural that the Daily Kos blog would go back to comparing the GOP to the Old Confederacy. A blogger called “Avenging Angel” proclaimed:
As the two sides met with President Obama at the White House Thursday in search of a debt ceiling compromise, it's clear, as Abraham Lincoln famously put it, "one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive."
In Kos-land, either you increase taxes or America dies. And you thought liberals hated notions you could call “simplistic.” This is how this post began:
As the South teetered on the edge of calamity near the end of the Civil War, the Confederate Congress refused pleas to arm the slaves. "If the Confederacy fails," CSA President Jefferson Davis lamented, "there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory." Almost 150 years later and with Davis' political heirs having moved en masse to the Republican Party, the same might be said of the American economy.
This exercise in history-mangling concluded with the declaration that the Republican cause is barely better than chattel slavery was:
Now, Republicans are pushing the United States to the brink of default and economic perdition, all in the name of the theory. And that supply-side theory, which wrongly claims that "you cut taxes and tax revenues increase" and "overtaxing" job creators is "holding them back," was debunked and discredited long ago. The Republicans' cause may not be "one of the worst for which a people ever fought," as Ulysses Grant described slavery.
But it's close.
