What ever happened to the Eleventh Commandment?

According to a report posted at Politico by Ben Smith January 21, 2011, Michele Bachmann will deliver a  rebuttal to the State of the Union Address on Tuesday January 24,2011. The Republican Leadership has made their choice of Paul Ryan, to deliver a rebuttal to President Obama's speech. Is the Republican phalanx, elected in November and just seated, already fissuring before our eyes? Bachmann's reply will be streamed on www.TeaPartyExpress.org. The American Political Melodrama can only be deepened and enriched by the assertion of the Tea Party Jacobin's power of dissent, of the sowing of the seeds of an exploitable political nihilism. The coming conflicts over a whole range of issues will be highlighted by a conflict between a Republican Establishment and its Jacobins and The New Democrats presently governing. What ever happened to the Republican's Eleventh Commandment of nearly a generation ago? Where is the GOP that once carefully controlled its every step of a continuing campaign, with an unbeatable public relations machine? Nothing was left to chance or the inevitable but disastrous improvisation.        
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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. 'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary
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