Even Republicans hate the Republicans

From The Political Carnival...
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Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-KS) was on Fox News Sunday saying what more and more people have been thinking for awhile now. The GOP has morphed into a bag of inbred mixed nuts who have O.D.'d on Filibusterol.

Rational types need not apply. In fact, they're becoming extinct.

Chris Wallace: "In your first two years as a Senator, there were 7 motions filed - cloture motions to end debate. In the last two years, there were 115 cloture motions. Is the filibuster being abused…?"

Bob Dole: "No doubt about it."

Wallace: "What do you think of your party, the Republicans today?"

Dole: "I think they ought to put a sign on the national committee doors that says "closed for repairs" until New Year's Day next year - and spend that time going over ideas and positive agendas."

Wallace: "You describe the GOP of your generation as Eisenhower Republicans, moderate Republicans. Could people like you, even Ronald Reagan - could you make it in today's Republican Party."

Dole: "I doubt it. Reagan couldn't have made it. Certainly Nixon couldn't have made it, 'cause he had ideas. We might have made it, but I doubt it. I mean… I just consider myself a Republican, none of this hyphenated stuff."