The GOP Elites Never Miss An Opportunity To Pick A Fight

In the midst of the Navy Yard attack, former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum took advantage of the chaos to attack gun rights advocates. Gun control is a repeated hobbyhorse for Frum, who blamed the "gun lobby" for the atrocity at Sandy Hook Elementary in December. His reaction to Navy Yard placed him in common company with a newly-adrenalized Russian diplomat, who used the event to mock America.

A few days before, Frum's ideological ally, David Brooks, took to the airwaves on PBS'Newshour to attack what he called "the rise of Ted Cruz-ism," his term for the efforts of conservatives to tackle such "fringe" priorities as ObamaCare, which is more loathed by the American people than ever. Brooks has been at war with the conservative grassroots since long before the Tea Party, calling Sarah Palin a "fatal cancer" in Oct. 2008.

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