It Stood Out

Driftglass:

By now, the life cycle of every GOP crisis --

• Fling the country into the middle of a manufactured nation-threatening cataclysm for craven, political reasons;
• Publicly shit the bed so hard trying to extricate themselves from their own clever scheme, the sheer force of it lifts them into orbit;
• Frantically scramble around trying to hang the blame for failing to defuse the bomb they built on the same people who [tried] to stop them from building the bomb in the first place

-- is such a baseline element of modern American political life that anyone who is actually surprised by any of this, or who continues to drop automatically into a "Both Sides Do It" crouch every time the Penguin figures out some new way [to] threaten Gotham City, should seriously consider having themselves put into a medically induced coma until the Second Coming. [Typo corrections mine.]

Because we don't get enough Batman references in our political discourse.