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On Oct 10, 2013 7:55 AM, "John Clark" <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Speaking of stupid, that same political party has also come to think that not paying your bills will calm down your creditors. And the really amazing thing is that, although I'm embarrassed to admit it, I am a member of that very same political party. I think a few years ago that party must have suffered a stroke that resulted in massive brain damage, and so now I am ashamed to belong to the party of Lincoln. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Technically both parties are Lincoln's: the Democrats split off from the Democratic-Republican party. Moreover, ideological and candidate shifts mean neither party retains meaningful connection except in name to what they were in or before the 1960s - 1970s too, somewhat.</p>
<p dir="ltr">That said, "brain damage" is an apt way to describe the TEA Party's takeover of the Republicans over the past decade or so.</p>