The Republican Party has officially become hostage to the Tea Party lunatics, and now the Tea Party is holding America hostage, and Speaker John Boehner seems unable to do anything about it, so we are now in a very difficult economic and political crisis! The government will now be “shut down”, with no end in sight!
The government is being undermined by these anarchistic, radical, anti government whackos who hate government and hate progress, and hate anyone but the rich and powerful!
They are mean spirited, and will do everything to keep the middle and lower classes in desperation, while enriching the elite, and they answer to the Koch Brothers and other despicable oligarchs of wealth!
The Republican Party, now 159 years old, is on its last legs, and soon will be part of history, with a sad ending, as a more moderate party will emerge, as this extreme, regressive, right wing party does not represent America and its democratic values!
America is not about to wipe out the advancements of the progressive movement of the early 20th century; the New Deal; the Great Society; and other political, social, and economic advancements over the past century, which have made America a better place, a country of hope and change and progress for all, not just the elite wealthy!
Hello Professor,
The embracing of the “Wanted Ignorance” is once again harming the Working Middle Classes.
Self inflicted economic devastation via ignorance…..thy name is Teabagger.
Excellent post about this Professor!
Great to see Obama taking a firm stance againist them in his speech yesterday!
I dread when we get to the debt ceiling battle later in October. The 17th I think it is.
The shutdown is backfiring for the GOTea! New polls show Democrats leading for the mid-terms! 🙂
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/10/01/2014-warning-poll-democrats-win-republicans-43-34.html
Let us hope that this trend continues, but it is a long way to 13 months from now!
Newt Gingrich and the Republican majority did this exact same shut down the government tactic in the early 1990′s. The results were the voting public was so outraged that Newt lost his position and the Republicans were voted out of the majority.
As noted in mid-September in the CNBC poll, in spite of the phony excuses that they are listening to the will of the people, the right wing fringies are clearly not.
Although that would be consistent with the tin foil hat wearing crowd, who want to take the country ‘back’ from the rest of the citizens of our fair nation. Â They want to install the dominance and dominion of the old white crabby and flabby ignorant-but-religiously-fundamental-elite that is the essence of the tea party conservatives.
I guess you start this process in their minds by shutting down the government.
Like this piece says, part of this came about because some on the left decided to sit it out in 2010.
http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2013/10/through-rabbit-hole.html
That’s why I stress that it’s important to vote even if it isn’t a presidential election.
Actually, Engineer, Newt Gingrich did NOT lose the Speakership until 1998, and the shutdowns were in 1995-1996. The GOP lost seats in 1996, while Bill Clinton won, but they did NOT lose control of the two houses of Congress until 2006!
Yes Professor, I stand corrected….maybe it was an old memory or just wishful thinking. 🙂
I share that wishful thinking, that the GOP had not controlled Congress from 1994-2006! LOL But they did! 🙂
Rachel Maddow:
Republican Shutdown Evil And Planned (VIDEO)
http://m.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/01/1242940/-Rachel-Maddow-Republican-Shutdown-Evil-And-Planned-VIDEO
Make no mistake, Tea Party Right Wing Republicans have been clamoring for a government shutdown even before they were elected. During the 2010 elections they so debased government with their entire base and with gullible independents that many Tea Party candidates were talking about shutting the whole thing down while their voters (fans) cheered.
Of course most of their fans are dependent on the government, from social security, to veterans’ benefits, to government employment. The problem was that these candidates did not lead. They misled.
They promised to cut spending in a draconian fashion and blackmailed the president into sequester. Interestingly, the effects of the sequester on the economy and on federal programs have a much larger effect on the Republican base since Red State are much more dependent on the government than Blue States.
They promised to kill Obamacare. Obamacare has been the law of the land since 2010. There was no constitutional avenue to kill it barring it being ruled unconstitutional. When the Supreme Court ruled it constitutional there was only one option left, win the presidency.
Mitt Romney ran on repealing Obamacare and lost the election in an electoral landslide and by more than five million votes. Moreover, they lost seats in the Senate and the House of Representatives. In fact, absent gerrymandering Democrats would be running the House of Representatives as well. Democrats won over one million votes in the House races than Republicans. So when one hears any Republican in the House of Representatives say they represent the majority of Americans, it is imperative that one remembers they do not.
The Tea Party Right Wing Republicans answer to having no constitutional method of killing Obamacare is to hold the entire country hostage. It is to do what the Tea Party faction of their party claim they wanted to do.
Rachel Maddow did a well-researched piece last night on what Republican obsession with killing Obamacare, irresponsible view of the national debt, and hate for government have caused. In the piece Maddow shows clips of many Republicans talking about shutting the government down in a very jovial manner. It is an important chronology of Republican intransigence and irresponsibility.
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And I’d love to meet the STRATEGIC TBagger GENIUS who thought , Hey We are in the middle of a budget crisis and creating a government shutdown for which the REPUBLICANS will be blamed for so this is the perfect time to remind Americans we are also against contraception access and for allowing employers to decide what health care their female employees can have! Come on boys let’s add it to the CR!!!
Get this, in the MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT on Saturday, House Tparty imbeciles slid a rule into CR to fund the government that would allow employers to deny their employees insurance coverage of contraception on moral grounds.
The so-called “conscience clause,” is the same proposal Rethuglicans have trotted out again and again during the health care law debate, making various religious and individual-liberty arguments! It’s almost certain not to become law, but the symbolic attempt alone is a reminder of where the party still is on reproductive health.
Empowering employers to block workers’ access to birth control and attempting to sneak it into this colossal disaster of a CR? Seriously??
FROM THE DISH:
The Nullification Party
I’ve been trying to think of something original to say about the absurdity now transpiring in Washington, DC. I’ve said roughly what I think in short; and I defer to Fallows for an important dose of reality against the predictably moronic coverage of the Washington Post.
But there is something more here. How does one party that has lost two presidential elections and a Supreme Court case as well as two Senate elections think it has the right to shut down the entire government and destroy the full faith and credit of the United States Treasury to get its way on universal healthcare now? I see no quid pro quo even. Just pure blackmail, resting on understandable and predictable public concern whenever a major reform is enacted. But what has to be resisted is any idea that this is government or politics as usual. It is an attack on the governance and the constitutional order of the United States.
When ideologies become as calcified, as cocooned and as extremist as those galvanizing the GOP, the American system of government cannot work. But I fear this nullification of the last two elections is a deliberate attempt to ensure that the American system of government as we have known it cannot work. It cannot, must not work, in the mindset of these radicals, because they simply do not accept the legitimacy of a President and Congress of the opposing party. The GOP does not regard the president as merely wrong but as illegitimate. Not misguided illegitimate. This is not about ending Obamacare as such (although that is a preliminary scalp); it is about nullifying this presidency, the way the GOP attempted to nullify the last Democratic presidency by impeachment.
Except this time, of course, we cannot deny that race too is an added factor to the fathomless sense of entitlement felt among the GOP far right. You saw it in birtherism; in the Southern GOP’s constant outrageous claims of Obama’s alleged treason and alliance with Islamist enemies; in providing zero votes for a stimulus that was the only thing that prevented a global depression of far worse proportions; in the endless race-baiting from Fox News and the talk radio right. And in this racially charged atmosphere, providing access to private healthcare insurance to the working poor is obviously the point of no return.
Even though the law is almost identical to that of their last presidential nominee’s in Massachusetts, the GOP is prepared to destroy both the American government and the global economy to stop it. They see it, it seems to me, as both some kind of profound attack on the Constitution (something even Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts viewed as a step too far) and, in some inchoate way, as a racial hand-out, however preposterous that is. And that is at the core of the recklessness behind this attack on the US – or at least my best attempt to understand something that has long since gone beyond reason. This is the point of no return – a black president doing something for black citizens (even though the vast majority of beneficiaries of Obamacare will be non-black).
I regard this development as one of the more insidious and anti-constitutional acts of racist vandalism against the American republic in my adult lifetime. Those who keep talking as if there are two sides to this, when there are not, are as much a part of the vandalism as Ted Cruz. Obama has played punctiliously by the constitutional rules two elections, one court case while the GOP has decided that the rules are for dummies and suckers, and throws over the board game as soon as it looks as if it is going to lose by the rules as they have always applied.
The president must therefore hold absolutely firm. This time, there can be no compromise because the GOP isn’t offering any. They’re offering the kind of constitutional surrender that would effectively end any routine operation of the American government. If we cave to their madness, we may unravel our system of government, something one might have thought conservatives would have opposed. Except these people are not conservatives. They’re vandals.
This time, the elephant must go down. And if possible, it must be so wounded it does not get up for a long time to come.
http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/10/01/the-nullification-party/
Hey Juan Roberto Eugene and the german woman you pretended to be,
Any response ?