More on the decline of Talking Points Memo — main page blogger David Kurtz approvingly quotes reader “RB” saying the following:

Why doesn’t a progressive with an audience say something to the effect “This is who and what the once proud and honorable Republican Party has turned itself into. It is a party of hate, intolerance, incompetence, greed, treason, fanatical, hostile to science and reality, and totally corrupt. They have no honor and no shame. They’re fascists and a cancer on our great nation, plain and simple and this is just another example of that.”

Kurtz endorses the sentiment, with only the mildest parenthetical disclaimers about blanket accusations that the GOP is a party of “treason” and “fascists”:

Around here we focus on showing it rather than just saying it. But with Coulter and her ilk, it’s probably necessary to just say it from time to time. So, yeah, what RB says pretty much covers it. (Treason is not a charge to throw around lightly, so I’ll hedge on that; and we probably flatter ourselves by saying the GOP is fascist, although I agree its fascist tendencies are alarming.)

The reason that TPM has become far more strident and one-sided since becoming a large commercial enterprise is left as an exercise for the reader.