The GOP Now

Nice one-two punch at Salon’s War Room: Steve Kornacki looks at how Islamophobia has replaced anti-Communism as the unifying force for Republicans (“The Republican Party of the Bush years had the same magnetic allure to Islamophobes as today’s does, even if it didn’t use quite the same inflammatory rhetoric.”), while Alex Pareene takes on a Wall Street Journal editorial about who’s to blame for unemployment (“While the actual ‘data’ show a miserable climate in which there are millions more jobless people than there are job openings (there are 3 million openings and 17 million jobless, according to the ‘chart’), the Journal’s Mark Whitehouse found anecdotal evidence of employers who desperately want to hire people, but simply can’t find any applicants. Sure, ‘many employers are inundated with applicants,’ but ‘a surprising number’ can’t find anyone to hire, anywhere!”). Good stuff.