NP: Allan Holdsworth, "The Un-Merry-Go-Round"

Joe Klein is getting worried.

We are heading toward a cliff and the usual brakes of civil discourse are not working. Indeed, the Republicans have the pedal to the metal--rushing us toward a tragedy far greater than the California health care forum finger-biting Karen describes below. I'm usually not one to panic or be overly worried about the state of our country--even when we do awful things like invade Iraq and torture people, we usually right our course before long--but I have a sinking feeling about where we're headed now. I hope I'm wrong.

Now, I realize the left had some pretty serious problems with the Bush administration, but the degree to which they got whipped into a frenzy about it seems orders of magnitude lower than what we're seeing now. Although maybe the abject lack of subtlety makes it easier to protect against something truly horrible happening?

And iTunes came up with an oddly appropriate soundtrack for this post, which you can't see if you're reading via the RSS feed...