The Washington Post ran a story today on the splintering and divided Republican Party that sums up what we here on the rational Left have seen coming for almost 20 years.

The Republican Party is a bastardization of Social Conservatives, War Hawk Neo-Cons, Anti-Communists, small government enthusiasts and the pro-corporate order elite who wish to unite the nation under the banner of capital with extensive privatized law and order. The Cold War or the War on Terror were the only things that held the fabric of the party together.

As the article describes, now that Social Conservatives are becoming increasingly irrelevant (abortion and gay rights are faltering as issues), now that Bush spent more money than anyone in history fighting an unprofitable war and nationalizing our country’s failing bank system, now that the whole “trickle-down” theory has been utterly disproved, the party is spinning out of control. Even the War on Terror seems irrelevant and far from people’s minds. With Bush scoring the highest disapproval rating of any President in the history of polling the Party has lost its direction.

The Party of Reagan is in shambles. All philosophies have been rebuked by …