GOP "National Council for a New America" only reminds Americans who broke the 'old one'

It's hollow laugh time scanning the headlines this a.m.

The Republican Party is apparently slowly waking to the fact that something like 70% to 80% of US citizens see them as a BIG part of the problem and not much of any solution at all. (I say this as someone who was a Republican, himself, only about a year ago -- although it had been a number of years since I'd actually voted with my party in national elections.)

Of course, it doesn't take a long memory or a deep analysis to see that it was, indeed, the GOP who delivered the US to the doorstep of economic collapse.

Yet, somehow, the base -- the core Republicans who some wags and cynics have begun to dismiss as "the crazy quarter" of the population (more like a fifth at this point, though) -- continue to buy into the nutty fantasy that the GOP is capable of running America "like a business." (Ever seen how many failed businessmen are in the ranks of GOP pols? It's a lot.)

The base somehow manages, year after year, to find ways of avoiding looking at the economic facts with regard to US debt: every since the mid-70s, it has been the policies and budgets of Republican presidents which have primarily resulted in the huge growth of American debt which has delivered us to the sorry state we're in now -- requiring even more borrowing just to keep the economy from seizing up like an old truck engine someone forgot to keep oil in...