The attractiveness of American madness.

It's annoying really. Over the last eight years we've been pointing and laughing at the USA, and now we look over and see that maybe, just maybe, they've sorted their leadership out. Of course, the news today that the 'what is there to debate about' public option, or healthcare to you and I, may now have been crushed by Republicans and turncoat Democrats gives us at least one thing to be stand in awe of. To quote one prominent G20 leader, who Obama quoted but refused to identify, who said 'We don't understand it. You're trying to make sure everybody has health care and they're putting a Hitler mustache on you. That doesn't make sense to me.' It doesn't make sense to me either, nor to most people fortunate enough to have an IQ higher than 90.

The thing is, as ridiculous as American politics gets, it's consumingly fascinating. The mind boggles at the endless complexities at play, the way in which movers and shakers are clearly working for private interests, or in the pocket of a corporation. The delusion, the lies, the performances, the protesters, the talking heads, the teabaggers.

The teabaggers. I mean, honestly? How on earth did we get to a point where the religious right in the US of A are getting themselves in a tizz over their Presidents plan to provide them with healthcare whilst at the same time naming their movement after a gratuitous sex act. It's the sort of thing you just couldn't write, and yet America churns this hilarity out time and time again. I suppose it would be funnier if the whole situation wasn't so tense with one side having the flames of hatred fanned by egotistical maniacs with foresight other than to further their career.

Of course the teabaggers have rebranded themselves as of late, they're now a Glenn Beck creation by the name of the 9/12 project. Apparently he's trying to replicate that feeling people felt the day after 9/11, on the 12th of September 2001, a day when everyone on the planet seriously asked the question, "is this the beginning of ultimate chaos?" I guess that feeling of impending madness and chaos is the feeling Beck is trying to raise from the dead? This is the man that cried himself into a stupor live on television. This is the chap who joked about his collegue's wife having a miscarriage. This is the man who asserted Barack Obama had a "deep seated hatred of white culture". This is the man who boasted he was once an alcoholic and a compulsive liar, but we're to trust he doesn't lie any more.

It's chaos. Totally gripping chaos. At any moment it feels the US could descend into riots between people who have a clue, and people who don't. Here in the UK our politics is about as interesting as TV Wall Brackets. Where is our 9-12 project? If only for a laugh…