Friday, September 25, 2015

Impossibly Worse

I know, I was with you when you said Congress cannot possibly get worse than it has been since the 2014 elections.  In fact I have been saying that this congress under John Boehner's speakership is the most dysfunctional congress since the Civil War! Now John Boehner is resigning. I know many of you are tempted to cheer his departure, but before you do that take a minute to think about what has caused this congress to become so dysfunction.

Thanks to the low voter turn out in two mid-term elections and the Republicans' gerrymandering of Congressional districts, the right wing lunatics were given enough power in the House of Representatives to all but force the resignation of Speaker John Boehner. What this means is that even though they are in the minority, the nihilistic extremists have gained control of the House and are close to seizing complete control of the Republican Party. That is what happens when the Republican Party panders to the fears and prejudices of the right wing extremists; the McCarthyites, the John Birchers and the Tea Partiers all attest to that!

As sad as it is to say: the anti-government insanity of the Republican Party combined with the defeat and departure of Mr. Boehner will probably make him seem like the poster boy for reason and compromise. Believe me things can and will get worse if we do not do something about it!

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