As recently reported in The New York Times, Republicans are in a virtual circular firing squad, already assigning blame for their expected disastrous showing in the midterms.

Kinda’ makes you reconsider your stance in favor of gun control.

But just how do these factions break down? True, they all share the common goal of ruining this country, but differ in their means to accomplish this end. As David Frum, a former Bush speechwriter, put it: There’s a battle between people who say ‘your tax cuts wrecked our war,’ and people who say ‘your war wrecked our tax cuts’.”

Since it’s hard to tell the betrayers without a program, here’s your handy guide to sorting out the riff from the raff, and the chaff from the chaff:

NeoConus Armageddonus: Invade foreign countries without rhyme or reason, until the United States is demoralized, bankrupt, morally compromised, and unable to deal with domestic needs or real foreign threats.

TaxCutasaurus: Mindless tax-cuts for the wealthiest one percent, until the United States is demoralized, bankrupt, fiscally compromised, and unable to deal with domestic needs or real foreign threats.

Sodom and Gomorrahus: Replace liberal education with theological doctrine until the United States is totally ignorant, brainwashed, and unable to compete with even 8th grade dropouts in Bangalore.

Nativis Buchananis: Arrest and deport millions of people living, working and raising families here for years, while corporations ship all of our jobs to 8th grade dropouts in Bangalore.

Constitutionalis Interruptus, a/k/a Habeas Corpse-us: Provide free room and water-board, and then an all-expenses-paid one-way trip, for an innocent man, to Uzbekistan.

But wait a minute, are these feuds about to explode into a full-scale civil war, to rival the centuries-old hatred between Sunni and Shia? Don’t despair, there just might be one unifying figure who represents the best of all these traditions. That’s right, it’s Bushus Ignoramus!

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