Tom Coburn, who has admirably backed Bowles-Simpson, had a major far-right relapse today. I cannot believe this is the strongest GOP message next year:
You can’t tell me the system is better now than it was before Medicare.
Or maybe that's going to be Paul Ryan's bumber sticker. Then this racist smear:
Without specifying what he meant, Coburn said President Barack Obama has an "intent is to create dependency because it worked so well for him."
And for good measure, after Perry's "pretty ugly" threat to Bernanke, we get this only a short time after Gabby Giffords made it back to the Congress:
It’s just a good thing I can’t pack a gun on the Senate floor.
Seriously. Even as the incumbent, Obama, has a massive disadvantage from the economy, the GOP keeps throwing away their opportunities with bile, rhetorical violence and unprecedented policy extremism.
The Dish 