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If you’re puzzled over Republicans’ apparent inability to offer timely, creative and effective solutions to help dig America out of this economic black hole — one into which their own failed policies have sucked us lightyears from where we began — you’re not alone.

Fresh ideas nowhere to be found, GOP leaders still seem pre-programmed to try bamboozling the citizens of this land using the very same stale gimmicks — more tax cuts for corporations and the affluent — that helped get us into this mess.

In one of the most disconnected-from-reality moments I’ve seen in a very long while, U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), appearing Sunday as part of a panel discussion on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, even went so far as to suggest that further deregulation may be necessary to allow the free market to work its magic!

Frank Rich in Sunday’s New York Times offers a frank, brutally disturbing perspective on what’s driving the GOP these days. It should be required reading for any regular viewer of Fox News. Or any regular listener of Rush. Or…well, you get the picture.

Speaking of theatrics…pssst…has anyone told Republicans that voters canceled their unreality show back in November?

Memo to GOP:

It’s over. Catch it in syndication if you really insist on looking backward rather than forward. But we’re in a fresh new season now. And your career isn’t over, yet anyway; but it may be soon if you don’t learn that “esprit de corps” is a shared way of life, not a branch of the French military.

Good news for you — voters have just cast you in this new reality show called “Deep Sh*t: Crisis Governance.” Bad news — you were selected to play a supporting character — not the lead role of protagonist you had wanted. Must be tough for a legend like you to accept such a bit part, but swallow your pride, work for the greater common good, and show us you’re the professional you pretend to be.

Furthermore, this is one drama that most definitely is not in need of an antagonist. So, enough already with the obstructionism. Play the role you were assigned to play. Nothing more. Else, we’ll make sure you never work in this town again. (That’s if there’s even a town left for any of us to work in after this is over.)