Dirty Bird In The Mirror

“GOP Accusation Confirmed: Obama Out to Break It.” That is the headline for Jennifer Rubin’s article in the Washington Post. But she is one of those factually challenged right wingers who accuses Obama and the Democrats of doing whatever the Republicans are doing. A more accurate description of what is happening would be “Democrats accusation confirmed: Republicans out to fake it.” Here you have the Republican Party’s leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, saying that the primary goal of his party is to make Obama a one-term president. In pursuit of that goal, the Republicans used the filibuster so often that Senator McConnell even boasted about it now taking a super majority to pass anything. At worst, President Obama is merely defending himself. At best, he is defending the nation against outrageous attacks on its credit and prosperity.

The Republicans lost the last elections because they chose to ignore the polls showing that a majority of the people disagreed with GOP’s obstructionist tactics and failed economic policies. The Republicans are still ignoring those polls and are accusing Obama of trying to destroy them by pointing that out. Their attempts to put an Obama mask on the mirror image of the dirty bird they are fighting did not work during the last election and it will not work now!

John Boehner Is A Bad Guest

I am using “Bad Guest” metaphorically. What I mean is that John Boehner is acting like a guest who shows up at a potluck dinner empty handed, demands to know where all the food is, and then criticizes everything on the table. The constitution states that all budget matters must originate in the House of Representatives. This would include legislation regarding the spending cuts specified by the sequester. Yet here we have John Boehner, the speaker of the house, demanding that the President propose a bill to replace the spending cuts specified by the sequester. Mr. Boehner is also lambasting the Senate for not passing a bill to replace the cuts specified by the sequester. He seems to be defying all logic as he tries to convince us that everyone except the Republican controlled House Of Representatives is responsible for the consequences of letting the cuts in the sequester take place.

So why would John Boehner ignore the constitution and his responsibilities as the speaker of the House of Representatives? I am afraid the answer to that question is that when the Republican Party decided to become the party of “deny, obstruct and lie” it made the legislative branch of the government dysfunctional. In doing so, it also unleashed the nihilistic right wing dogs that have an irrational hatred of all government and authority anyhow. To state it succinctly, John Boehner rose to a position of leadership at a time when his party has become too dysfunctional to follow any responsible leader. He simply cannot get any reasonable legislation through the house without risking his position as the Speaker of the House. Sadly, this once proud party has strapped an economic bomb to its body and is threatening great harm to the country as it commits suicide.