The Republican Party Is Self-Destructing Before Our Eyes

THE collapse of John Boehner's "Plan B" reveals the Republican Party to be in a politically disastrous position. The media narrative is shaping up to pin the full blame for sending the country over the fiscal cliff on the Republicans. News coverage of Mr Boehner is characterised by a mixture of disdain and pity. The tea-party congressmen who have sabotaged his position are portrayed as delusional zealots unable to connect their professed goals to their actions in a rational fashion. In the other...