This past Tuesday, Daily Kos featured writer Hunter, whose main gig at the lefty blog is to trash the sayings and doings of conservatives, wrapped up a twelve-part series looking back on righty activity in 2013. Highlights from those posts follow.
According to Hunter, last year yielded "general political incompetence, frothing buffoonery and self-made disasters" from the GOP:
It was the year a chastened Republican Party did a lot of soul-searching as to why the voters no longer liked them, and followed it up by doing all of those same things twice over. We continued our tradition of not being able to accomplish even the most basic of legislative tasks; we were introduced to new battle lines declaring that however many children needed to be shot down in their classrooms, it was the price we were willing to pay for maintaining the collective white male gun erection...
the House undertook [the government shutdown]...apparently based on the say-so of a certain Sen. Ted Cruz that if they shut down the government, they would win things. What those things were was never clear—demands revolved primarily around delaying or defunding Obamacare—and in the dismal end the House got approximately none of those things, as was readily predicted by, well, everyone who was not Ted Cruz...
Hunter opined that the shutdown "finally came to an end with the necessary and expected Republican surrender. It ended as it began, with a lot of crazy hard-right nuts saying incredibly stupid things."
Finally, here's Hunter's take on the IRS scandal:
Efforts to pump IRS treatment of conservative political-minded groups into the next big scandal took yet another hit with the revelation that the IRS had approved twice as many conservative-leaning groups as liberal ones; as efforts to suppress conservatives go, it seems to have been uncannily unsuccessful. I don't suppose we could suggest Darrell Issa's "investigation" of all this as the "lie of the year", could we?...
