Pre-XMAS Musing in this Political Year

One view on gun control and it has a constitutional basis in the 2nd Amendment.

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Thomas Friedman's observation on the GOP.

"It can’t win with a base that is at war with math, physics, human biology, economics and common-sense gun laws all at the same time."

No wonder they can't govern the House with a sense of how to fit in the world that the rest of us live in.

And Ross Douthat calls Michael Bloomberg a center-left policitican.  I guess he is from a Republican view point but not from a Democratic view.  He would be a center right person by most people's definition because he supports Wall Street and Big Business and doesn't expect any support from unions.

But meanwhile, Mr. Douthat must be really depressed by the GOP performance in D.C. stating: 

"The right-wing view is embittered, paranoid and confused. It opposes anything the establishment supports but doesn’t know what it wants to do instead. (Defund government or protect Medicare? Break up the banks or deregulate them? Send more troops to Libya or don’t get involved? Protect our liberties or put our schools on lockdown?) Sometimes the right’s “just say no” approach holds the establishment at bay — as on climate change and immigration, to date. But sometimes, as the House Republicans are demonstrating in the budget showdown, it makes the eventual defeat that much more sweeping."

I am not sure why Mr. Douthat doesn't support climate change policies (it now appears that the ocean's absorption of CO2 is causing its acidity to increase potentially killing all all shell fish) or immigration reform (we need the 11mm workers to prevent the GDP contracting along with a 5% decline in the labor force), but at least he is acknowledging the reality that people want politicians to govern by working with the other side when they are in the minority and in the majority.