GOP Debate: Are the Koch brothers being very clever or very stupid

I cried uncle on the GOP debates weeks before John did. What else do we need to know about the candidates? Bachmann, Perry and Cain are all so clearly out of their depth it is impossible to tell if the next stupid thing they say is a real policy position or just something they made up on the spot to bluff their way out of a difficult question. Romney is a transparent fraud who simply says whatever it will take to make him popular with whatever audience he is speaking to. Gingrich? What needs to be said?

With a field this bad, is the rise of Newt or Cain's ability to weather the allegation he is a serial sexual harasser really so surprising? It is not just progressives who find the GOP field to be an uninspiring lot.

Surely the Koch bros and the other 1%-ers could find some better standards bearers for their alleged $200 million investment in the 2012 election. Can't they see that their efforts to push the GOP beyond the hard right to the lunatic fruit-bat crazy right has made their party unelectable?

Well maybe they can and maybe they don't care because every time the GOP has shifter to the right, the Democrats have followed. It wasn't the GOP that ended 'welfare as we know it', that was Bill Clinton. And now the 1% is licking its chops at the idea of turning our pensions into their tax cuts they know that their only chance to get it through Congress is if Obama does their work for them.