A diseased party

I really wish I had something insightful to say about These Great Times in which a vast ponzi scheme is apparently counting as its victims such disparate folks as the owner of the Mets, hair stylists, and European banks, while a sitting U.S. president has shoes thrown at him in Iraq, but I don't.

What I can say is that Senate Republicans are a weird bunch. Their antipathy to unions has led them to act in a way that is against the interests of dealership owners (generally Republicans), automakers in their own states (as parts suppliers go out of business), and, ya know, people living in the United States.