It looks like Democrats, progressives, and a majority of Americans aren't the only ones with a very low opinion of the current Republican Party. Some long-standing Republicans share that negative view. David Stockman (pictured above), former Republican congressman and budget director for President Reagan, had some pretty negative words for the current Republican Party. He called it merely "a coalition of gangs", and went on to say:"The Republican Party is not really a party. It doesn’t stand for anything except re-electing itself. The neocons are only oriented to an aggressive, imperialistic foreign policy of big defense establishment and suppression of our civil liberties. That’s bad.
"The Republican Party is basically irrelevant to the economic crisis that faces the country."
He also had some harsh words for Wall Street and corporations:
"When you have Wall Street and corporate leaders who don’t care about any principle except keeping the game going and stimulating it for one more quarter so they can report better earnings and get a pop in the stock and cash in their options, the corporate leadership in America today is basically sold out. They support everything."
I don't usually agree with much that Stockman says, but this time I think he hit the nail right on its head.
