Let’s face it: the Republican Party is a fractured mess.
After the Speaker of the House, John Boehner, allowed the more extreme and non-compromising part of his party complain and vent their anger like children who found coal in their stockings for Christmas, he finally brought the Senate bill to “avoid the fiscal cliff” to a vote, which passed. However, as usual, the bill is thin and only addresses the bare minimum that was required to achieve (or avoid) anything of meaning, purpose, bravery, honor (insert other words that ought to apply to our elected representatives here, but up to which they never seem to live their lives).
The day after the US Congress passes a plain Jane fiscal cliff aversion bill authored by “sleep deprived octogenarians” (so much respect the House has for its fellow law makers, eh?) – because they can’t do anything else – the stock market seems to be rewarding them for their actions. But we must be reminded: they didn’t even do their job. The House republicans still kicked the can down the road to the new, incoming Congress – including the dreaded debt ceiling debate that, last time it was addressed by a congress peppered with Tea Party ideologists, resulted in the credit rating getting dropped and the markets plummeting.
We must remember: Congress CREATED the “fiscal cliff” problem. They created it and they haven’t fully solved it. They spilled red wine on your fine white carpet and just stared at it… waited for it to soak in, then threw a dry paper towel on top to soak up some of the mess.
We must remember: this is their job. They shouldn’t be rewarded for causing chaos and then only half-way repairing the problem they created to make an ideologically-driven (and factually void) political points. The car of a county still doesn’t run if you’re missing the engine. We should reward Congress if the do NOT intentionally create chaos. We should reward Congress if, without provocation, they actually do something that’s good for the country, rather than what’s good for their next stump speech. Right now the country is still at a huge net loss because of our representatives. When it’s all added up: they’ve still done more damage than good in this process.
We must remember: all the chaos and pounding from news media, and elongated “negotiations” were all politically motivated. We’re stuck with a Congress that CREATES problems for political reasons, and then refuses to solve them for political reasons. Yee haw, Tea Party ideology! Thank you for putting hot glue on the tires, and rocks in the cogs of economic and social progress – intentionally and with a smirk of moronic ignorance – so that you can preach paranoid propaganda at hunting lodges to your gerrymandered base back home.
We must remember: It’s not over, we still have the debt ceiling debate that it’s perfectly clear most Tea Party republicans do not understand. The debt ceiling has nothing whatsoever to do with borrowing more money. It’s deciding whether or not we PAY THE BILLS for money that CONGRESS has already spent. Note that: CONGRESS has already spent this money via their own budget, and suddenly, post Tea Party insanity entering the House, they’ve decided to not pay their credit card bills. In two months, Congress will once again have to raise the debt ceiling (as they have for decades, this is process is nothing new… it’s only new that the people spending the money are now refusing to pay the bills). Obama has said he’s drawing the line that Republicans must stop using paying its bills as leverage, and yet it’s clear they’re going to do it again: jeopardize the economy for the sake of political gain.
Congress created this mess and they performed the absolute smallest of patch jobs to try and fix it – all so we can repeat the fabricated drama all over again in two months. Even Mitt Romney would fire them for lack of job performance.
Same congressional crap, different day.
Published: by | Updated: 09-30-2013 22:34:29
