Neocon pundit: The right is committing “suicide”

In his latest column for the New York Post, titled “Suicide of the Right,” neoconservative pundit John Podhoretz nearly begs his fellow members of the right to abandon the government shutdown, which he argues is doing grave damage to the GOP “brand” and hurting the broader conservative movement.

“Every piece of evidence we have so far on the government shutdown shows the public is blaming Republicans most of all for the standoff,” Podhoretz begins. He grants that the shutdown has made it so “Democrats look bad” but argues “Republicans look considerably worse.”

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Neocon pundit: GOP acting like “blind fools”

In his latest column for the New York Post, Jonathan Podhoretz, son of  Norman Podhoretz and editor in chief of the neoconservative Commentary magazine, takes a huge swing at congressional Republicans, arguing that “segments of the right” have “blinded themselves” over the government shutdown.

“And since they fashioned themselves leaders of others,” Podhoretz writes, “in their blindness they have marched themselves and their followers off a cliff.”

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