Vicious and Stupid

According to the Republicans, if a hostage taker's demands are not met he cannot be blamed for killing the hostage.  The Republicans are therefore justified in shutting down the government by not passing a budget or in causing the United States to default on its debts by not raising the debt ceiling if we do not meet their outrageous demand to repeal the Affordable Health Care Act.  Furthermore, the Republicans want us to believe that the results of national elections and/or Supreme Court cases should not determine what the law is because every congressman is also elected and is justified in doing whatever it takes to repeal any law the people of his district do not like.  This seems to me to be dumbassistan’s version of the nullification theory.  But why would the people of dumbassistan be so opposed to Obama care?  The answer to that question is that they are stupid enough to believe the GOP lies about death panels and such.

Aha!  Maybe I was wrong about the right wing extortionists being stupid.  Maybe they are just that immoral and vicious.  Maybe they know that if Obama care is fully implemented even the dumb asses will realize that all the fear mongering was a pack of lies.  That would not be good for the Republicans.  That is why the Republican reactionaries want to destroy Obama care even if they have to severely damage the economy of this nation to accomplish that.

Oh, crap!  I was right the first time.  The Republicans are both vicious and stupid!  Wall Street, the international corporations, and the multimillionaires who support the Republicans will lose billions of dollars if the Republicans carry through with their threats.  Those money people are not fools.  They know who is setting this dangerous and costly precedent.   What will the Republicans do without the support of those financial backers?  What will Congressman Shit for Brains do when the Democrats regain control of his state and do a little redistricting of their own?