David Bromwich’s dissection of what he calls Obama’s Delusion (in the October 22, 2009 London Review of Books) includes this gem:

The Republican Party of 2009….has become the party of wars and jails, and its moral physiognomy is captured by the faces of John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, faces hard to match outside Cruikshank’s drawings of Dickens’s villains, hard as nails and mean as dirt and with an issue still up their sleeve when wars wind down and the jails are full: a sworn hostility towards immigrants and ‘aliens’.

Read the whole thing.