Republicans: Sold Your Souls to the Teabagging Devils

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Fri Jul-29-11 12:23 PM
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Republicans: Sold Your Souls to the Teabagging Devils

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Congressional tea party Congressmen and women are becoming the bane of Boehner . . . they�re even drawing criticism from the likes of uber-conservatives Bill O�Reilly and Charles Krauthammer, who called Michele Bachmann �unbelievably irresponsible� for her refusal (shared by some 60 Republican Congressmen and women) to vote to raise the debt ceiling under any circumstances. Even John McCain, hardly a moderate, seems to have lost patience with the House Republicans, saying that they�re making �foolish demands� that will never pass the Senate. Democrat Chuck Schumer summed it up, saying, �Even if the Speaker is able to beg, borrow and steal his way to 217 Republican votes, the bill remains a nonstarter in the Senate and the president will never sign it . . . The Speaker is wasting precious time. Every day he spends twisting arms in his caucus we careen closer to catastrophic default.� The teabaggers want a Balanced Budget Amendment � a Constitutional Amendment � that will be tied to any increase in the debt ceiling. It�s nothing more than ideological pig ignorance out of the gang of teabaggers in Congress � it�ll die in the Senate and President Obama will never sign it.

It�s clear: The GOP has completely lost its middle, its moral center, its rational thought processes. In short, it�s completely lost its collective mind. Anyone who dares to voice a position that smacks of sanity is deemed a RINO (�Republican In Name Only�). Any GOP presidential candidate who isn�t signing pledges against abortion and gay marriage and Muslims and taxes and Medicare-killing budgets and a host of other socially unacceptable agendas is considered unfit to be in the Party. The GOP tent has gotten smaller and smaller � and those inside it are seeing a 21st Century version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo�s Nest. As noted by RealClearPolitics, �. . . ysfunctional is the too-polite term for the House of Representatives, specifically its dominant tea party Republicans, who can be described in far less dainty psychological terms. Even the most extreme Republican partisans in the Senate seem to realize that their House colleagues, seized by some combination of ideology, madness and pig ignorance, are propelling the country and the world toward economic chaos.� Even ultra-conservative senators like Oklahoma�s Tom Coburn and Georgia�s Saxby Chambliss � members of the Gang of Six who, though hostile to President Obama and the Dems, aren�t entirely insane � are trying to compromise on a deal, and believe that there�s no choice but to raise the debt ceiling.

We thought Reagan was a hot mess, with his Christian Right/Moral Majority followers � well, Reagan might have been a right-wing zealot, but he did something the current crop of teabagging Republicans would never do: Compromise with the Democrats to make deals. He may have been the Pied Piper for the far right, and he may never have met a tax hike he liked, but he wasn�t completely radical � he was a politician. Of course, Reagan was spared the trauma of being formally introduced to the Tea Party movement � and he was also spared the trauma of having to appease his base of �Christians� who violently and vehemently opposed our country�s first Black president. So he has that going for him . . . but I still think he�s flipping in his grave to see what the Republican Party looks like today. Hell, Dwight Eisenhower would have liked to see a 91% tax rate for the uber-rich, and would have definitely considered the teabaggers stupid: �Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are H. L. Hunt , a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.� Ironic, isn�t it, that conservatives who have served as the right�s icons can now be invoked to demonstrate to the right-wingnuts how utterly stupid, naive and ideologically insane they are?

For Republicans to invoke Reagan on this debt ceiling fiasco is barking up the wrong tree. In fact, Reagan, while president, letter to Congress saying, in part: �The full consequences of a default or even the serious prospect of default by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate. <...> The risks, the cost, the disruptions, and the incalculable damage lead me to but one conclusion: the Senate must pass this legislation before the Congress adjourns.� Noting that Congress routinely waits until the 11th hour to act, Reagan slammed �this brinksmanship� because, he said, �it threatens the holders of government bonds and those who rely on Social Security and veterans benefits� and threatened to raise interest rates and explode the deficit.

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