Totaler Krieg from the Reps

"But for the new GOP, compromise of any kind defeats their central purpose, which is political totaler krieg. This party's entire reason for being is conflict and aggression. There is no underlying patriotic instinct to find middle ground with the rest of us, because the party doesn't have a vision for society that includes anyone outside the tent."

You may have read that Boulder had recently become overrun with squirrels. They ate everything: flowers, fruit, vegetables. Multiplying exponentially, finally Mother Nature finally stepped in and mercifully gave us a dose of bubonic plague which wiped practically all of them out. That may be our only hope with Republicanism. There seems to be little that can be done to out-maneuver the Koch-Topus even when they are kept out of power. So we'll have to ride out their grip on us like the way you'd ride out a bout of meningitis or the plague and watch nature take its course. For some reason 'Blade Runner' keeps popping up in my mind.

Bill Jellick is a Robbinsense correspondent