Bluff And Bluster

Right now, all the GOP is holding is a pair of deuces, and in spite of the right wing histrionics the deuces are not wild.  The GOP wants us to believe that the “Benghazi scandal” will defeat Hillary Clinton.  The problem is that the allegations are so obviously disingenuous and the scandal is so obviously trumped up that even many of the dumb asses are inclined to ignore it.  Ah, but there is still Obama care.  Yes, there is; in spite of the fact that the Republicans shut down the government and threatened the full faith and credit of the United States in an effort to extort a repeal of the Affordable Care Act, the act is actually being implemented.   Therein lies the problem for the Grand Old Plutocrats.  No one with an IQ above eighty is going to cut off his own nose to remove a pimple there.  My point being that a repeal of the Affordable Care Act is not a viable option, regardless of its flaws.

What do the Republicans want to do?  Do they want to let the insurance companies use coverage caps and alleged preconditions to deny people the coverage those people thought they were paying to obtain?  Do they want to let the insurance companies charge women more than they charge men for any meaningful coverage?  Do the Republicans want to roll back the clock on who can buy insurance and how long you can keep your child on your policy?  Do the Republicans want to relieve the insurance companies of the requirement to pay for preventative care?  The answer to all of those questions is apparently “Yes, they do.”

Given the fact that the Republicans have shown absolutely no concern about the increasingly great disparity in wealth between the top two percent and everyone else; that they have opposed extending unemployment benefits to the victims of Bush’s recession, that they have opposed raising the minimum wage and have successfully demanded an increase in the payroll tax in order to spite the Democrats for making the rich pay a fairer share of the taxes, it is not unreasonable to believe that the Republicans are tools of the special interests they really represent, and that they do not care about the health or wealth of the middle class.  So let the Republicans run on the phony issues of Benghazi and Obama care; those issues only serve to demonstrate how morally and intellectually bankrupt the Republican Party has become.