Through the looking glass...

Gee... how did we get in the mess we're in?

Oh, yeah.

8 years of the GOP calling the shots.

I was a Republican for a decade... but it's neither the party of Teddy Roosevelt or Abe Lincoln any more. By a long shot.

Not only have they proven themselves to be incompetent and unqualified "to run government like a business" -- I'm convinced that they put their own advantage above the welfare of the nation.

Of course -- why shouldn't they?

Short-sighted selfishness and expedience are at the core of the political and economic philosophies that currently dominate the party.

Like any good fiscal conservative -- I'm scared crazy by the amount of deb the US has undertaken.

They GOP had their shot and they took a robust economy running in the black and they plunged it into a crazy spiral of unguarded, reckless speculation and debt.

We are already through the looking glass here.