unhinged, harried & heedless

Senator & presidential hopeful Marco Rubio totally (and unintentionally) nails why the GOP is hopeless at stemming the craziness that has seized the Republican Party - it has & continues to lay blame for whatever comes up amiss somewhere else, anywhere else, any place other than at its own door.

The person responsible for inciting the uproar at the Trump rally in Chicago?  None other than President Obama.  

Per The Washington Post, "Earlier Saturday, Rubio lashed out at his rival Trump for failing to condemn violent protests at his recent public events and lamented that the increasingly nasty nature of American politics "is now bleeding over into the broader culture." But he also faulted Obama, saying the president had contributed to the coarsening political debate.

"Asked in an interview to give a specific example of how Obama has divided the country, Rubio cited an April 2011 speech used to criticize a budget proposal written by then-House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). With Ryan sitting in the audience, Obama said that the GOP's budgeting vision "is less about reducing the deficit than it is about changing the basic social compact in America.

"He basically said, 'If you agree with Paul Ryan’s budget, you don’t care about the disabled, you don’t care about the elderly, you don’t care about the poor.  There’s been numerous instances where he basically implies that if you don’t care with his gun control agenda than you didn’t care about the kids who died at Sandy Hook. Time and again he’s done that. There’s no doubt that he’s been a contributor to this."

That would sound funny & absurd if it wasn't so tragic.  Sen. Rubio equates what the president said with inciting the sort of violent energies we saw in Chicago.  

Reread what Sen. Rubio himself cites.  WHERE is there anything that could be perceived as coarsening the debate, let alone the childish behavior & vulgarities that hallmark debate after debate among Trump-Cruz-Rubio in the president's comments? 

The GOP has, alas, been Foxified.  They hold whatever they wish to be true to be self-evident, rather than what actually is.  That's been the Fox modus operandi since Day One.  

Let this sink in - the man who alluded to the size of Donald Trump's penis is now angling to lay fault for the shattering of our norms of political mores & inflaming emotions at the door of both parties, in particular at President Obama's.  And he uses as part of his ammo a quote from the president's previous term, one that's about as politically genteel as they come -  that the GOP's budgeting vision "is less about reducing the deficit than it is about changing the basic social compact in America."   

Sen. Rubio might be playing to his politically coarsened base by sticking it to the president, but it will not go over well with independents & the few remaining moderate Republicans.  

Balance what Sen. Rubio himself used as indictments against the president (see above) & then remember what we've seen on GOP debate stages.  

Sen. Rubio is apparently coming unhinged & harried - he's certainly heedless of any political costs to making such a wild, absurdly unsubstantiated claim.