Monday Reading: "Boehner's Bunglers"

Take a look at Paul Krugman's essay on the bungling incompetents of the Republican Party, many of whom, unfortunately, haven't a clue as to the depth of their incompetence:

Unfortunately for all of us, even the shock of electoral defeat wasn’t enough to burst the G.O.P. bubble; it’s still a party dominated by wishful thinking, and all but impervious to inconvenient facts. And now that party’s leaders have bungled themselves into a corner.

Everybody not inside the bubble realizes that Mr. Obama can’t and won’t negotiate under the threat that the House will blow up the economy if he doesn’t — any concession at all would legitimize extortion as a routine part of politics. Yet Republican leaders are just beginning to get a clue, and so far clearly have no idea how to back down. Meanwhile, the government is shut, and a debt crisis looms. Incompetence can be a terrible thing. 

It's giving the "business wing" of the Republican Party severe gastric distress, and beginning to affect some of the tea bagger revolutionaries in their home districts.