Republican leaders and several hard-right groups are displaying the classic signs of a political divorce, including bitter name-calling and reprisals against one another. The recent eagerness of House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to lash out at groups that have given them fits has unshackled others in the Republican ranks to publicly question the motivation of organizations like the Senate Conservatives Fund, Heritage Action, Madison Project and Club for Growth.Such organizations disparage Republicans they accuse of following the path of least resistance in Washington and vow to replace them in primaries with conservative purists.

This will make things interesting leading into 2016…and will probably determine whether the Republican Party survives or just gets assimilated into a Democrat-Lite organization. If that is the case, it may be time for a third party because the current “go along to get along” bunch ain’t gettin it.

You may ask why we should be concerned? Here are a few items that Washington spends money on and the above mentioned backers of this budget apparently don’t see a problem. Read the entire .pdf here.

UNCLE SAM LOOKING FOR ROMANCE ON THE WEB – $914,000

The Popular Romance Project has received nearly $1 million in federal funds from the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) since 2010, “Wastebook 2013” reported.

The purpose of the program is to “explore the fascinating, often contradictory origins and influences of popular romance as told in novels, films, comics, advice books, songs, and internet fan fiction, taking a global perspective—while looking back across time as far as the ancient Greeks.”

A MEGA-BLIMP THAT DOESN’T WORK — $297 MILLION

The U.S. Army spent nearly four years and $300 million developing a mega-blimp that it eventually scraped. The blimp was designed to be the size of a football field and would be used to perform surveillance duties in Afghanistan.

But in 2013, the Army decided it had enough of the blimp .

“(T)he Army closed the blimp’s eye forever when it brought the project to a halt after spending nearly $300 million,” Coburn’s report reads. “The Army sold the airship back to the contractor that was building it for just $301,000.”

NEARLY $300,000 FOR A VIDEO GAME

The National Endowment of the Humanities has awarded a professor at Hope College nearly $300,000 for a multi-player game that connects Civil War re-enactors online.

The game, titled “Valley Sim,” allows students to “take on the identity of one of 25 real-life citizens of two communities that were on opposite sides of the Civil War.”

The game is based almost entirely on an Internet chat system.