In what would amount to a slap in the face to a sitting Republican president and the party's Senate and House leaders, national GOP officials, including the vice chairman of the Republican National Committee, are sponsoring a resolution opposing the resort to "socialist" means to save capitalism.

"We can't be a party of small government, free markets and low taxes while supporting bailouts and nationalizing industries, which lead to big government, socialism and high taxes at the expense of individual liberty and freedoms," said Solomon Yue, a cosponsor of a resolution that would put the RNC -- the party's national governing body -- on the record as opposing the U.S. government bailouts of the financial and auto industries.

civil war in the Republican Party

stuff like this always reminds me of the Godfather and the discussion about how every 10 years you need to have a war to clear the air ( and I think in practice it brings forward new leaders and provides a learning curve in the practicalities of politics ) however the article reminds me how the political right has fallen in love with ideology which for so long was the scourge of the left and interminable arguments about angels on pins, ownership of the means of production and other points of dogma and related nonsense. Internecine warfare over "principles" hahhaha. The joys of true religion, they could do with watching the Life of Brian and learn about the history of the Popular Front

Reg Right. You're in. Listen. The only people we hate more than the
Romans are the fucking Judean People's Front.
PFJ Yeah
Judith Splitters.
Francis And the Judean Popular Peoples Front.
PFJ Oh yeah. Splitters.
Loretta And the peoples Front of Judea.
PFJ Splitters.
Reg What?
Loretta The Peoples front of Judea. Splitters.
Reg We're the Peoples front of Judea.
Loretta Oh. I thought we were the Popular Front.
Reg Peoples Front.
Francis Whatever happened to the Popular Front, Reg?
Reg He's over there.