A Lack of Imagination

Over in Balloon Juice, John Cole commenting on Newt Gingrich's new twelve-point plan, say that the radical-right Republicans are out of ideas. But they never had any--haven't in a long time. If you were in charge of the world’s only hyperpower, wouldn’t you do something other than start a pointless war? They have no imagination, only fear. And after enough deaths, and enough misery, people get tired of fear.