Now if you’re wondering how Grover Norquist, a rather homely little man with limited reasoning and kindness skills, came to be the most powerful man in the world, it’s because he devised a plan to get people to sell their souls and their belief in America to him in exchange for an ego boosting congressional seat.

Darth Grover is the Sith Lord of the Galactic Empire while disguising himself as Jar Jar Binks.

When I am sad, I read the Psalms.  When I am sad about my country going to heck in a handbasket, I read Paul Krugman.  Paul says that having the Super Committee fail is cause for celebration.  I suspect he’s right.

Also, any deal reached now would almost surely end up worsening the economic slump. Slashing spending while the economy is depressed destroys jobs, and it’s probably even counterproductive in terms of deficit reduction, since it leads to lower revenue both now and in the future.

We’ve tried their way or the highway for a decade.  It does not work.  George Bush made it into the fast lane and then shifted into reverse.  And when Grover says he wants to make government small enough to drown in the bathtub, I suspect he means that we all go down the drain when he’s finished.