I don't think it's a spotlight effect, but I don't think it's caused by the right itself being inherently evil (or, as a whole, inherently anything but conservative). I think it's because a lot of them are dangerously unstable, but I don't impute motive to a rabid dog. Some of them are just exploiting mania (which IS morally dubious, but I'm not singling anyone out; it's ONLY suspicion), but some seem genuinely infected by it, and IMHO that means they should be put in a rubber room, not Congress, and certainly not the White House. Not all or even most Republicans, and not even in government, but some whose removal from power should be a civic duty, if not a mission of public safety. You noted before that I haven't thrown "personal insults at" you; I try to never do that to anyone, and believe (perhaps wrongly) my statements now and in the past few days accurate: The reason I haven't directed similar ones at you is because they would not be accurate, but consider the possibility that those toward others were born of more than pique or emotional stress.

Yes, it's worse now than it was. When the VP responds to greetings in the Senate with "go f--k yourself" and House members interrupt a Presidential address to Congress by shouting, "YOU LIE!" it's bad, worse than any time I can think of since a Representative beat a Senator on the Senate floor. I think we both know how that bit of partisanship ended, and neither of us wants it repeated.

An ironic statement, since that's what I'm suggesting certain Congressmen do, and why.