Todd Purdum takes to the pixels of
Tiger Beat On The Potomac to make this case. Ezra Klein also seems to be
aboard, too. These are both pretty smart guys, so why they've decided
to believe this nonsense ees-a-puzzlement to me. Let us get the goopy
humanity stuff out of the way first. Both a government shutdown and/or a
debt-ceiling catastrophe will have savage real-world consequences for
millions of people who do not live in Washington and who do not appear
on panel shows, and who already are making due with the cuts that came
from sequestration, the previous attempt to shame the inhabitants of the
monkeyhouse into a return to sanity. How's that working out for
everyone? Now, granted, the stakes are immeasurably higher, but what
leads anyone to believe that even being blamed for inflicting
incalculable pain on millions of people is going to result in the kind
of national revulsion that will cause the Republicans to come back to
the pack? Purdum writes:
"Like an insistent teenage driver,
determined to see how fast he can take that blind curve on a rainy road
at night, the GOP seems unwilling to abandon its particular brand of
brinkmanship until it winds up in the emergency room. If that's the
case, mightn't it be better to let the crash happen, if only so the
reconstruction can start?"
To what "reconstruction" is Purdum
referring here? If he's talking about the economy and we, somehow, we
come out out of this with a bogus "bipartisan" solution along the lines
of the bogus Simpson-Bowles extravaganza, the Republicans will have won
more than the Democrats have, because feeding Vaal on entitlements is
their policy, not that of the Democrats. If he's talking about the
Republicans coming to their senses, he's just wrong. I know I can get
boring on this point but, to reconfigure the party the way Purdum and
others seem to believe the party will be reconfigured in the wake of the
fiscal apocalypse the Republicans have brought upon us, you would need a
party establishment powerful enough to force the issue, and
there...is...no...Republican...establishment. There are independent
centers of power, none of whom are particularly indebted to the party,
and all of which have the money to pursue their own interests and their
own imperatives regardless of what may happen to Reince Priebus and
Mitch McConnell, and, frankly, regardless of whether or not the party
ever elects another president. These independent centers of power
already are working their wills out in the state legistatures, which is
where the next generation of Republican congresscritters will be
produced. Those people are deeper into the izonkosphere than Ted Cruz
is. When will this great reconfiguration show itself? Two decades from
now? Three?
Moreover, have the Democrats ever shown any
inclination to make a meal of the simple, self-evident fact that the
other party has gone completely out of its mind? It's not enough to
decry the ongoing vandalism. The nihilism behind it has to be brought
out and hammered home, day after day, election after election. Letting
the crazy people work their crazy will while the rest of us suffer in
the vain hope that voters will figure out on their own what happened to
them, and why, is a fool's errand.
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/government-shutdown-not-a-good-idea-092713
***What I have noticed is the willingness to
"Shoot off your leg to save your toe." attitude of the Tea Party types.
As if they don't know or care about the consequence of their actions.
Many will hurt from their natural selection of stupidity!
But in my view, from where I am it is needed, to shut them up!
"Shutdown odds spike as GOP unveils new funding bill."
On
Friday, Obama said at the White House that Republicans "are so
concerned with appeasing the Tea Party that they’ve threatened a
government shutdown or worse unless I gut or repeal the Affordable Care
Act."
The president added: "Let me repeat it: That's not going
to happen … Those marketplaces will be open for business on Tuesday no
matter what — even if there’s a government shutdown."
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/28/20732222-shutdown-odds-spike-as-gop-unveils-new-funding-bill?lite
***In fact Obama should veto the stupidity, just to the fact
they are stupid! I hope Obama reads the above story and press on!
America does not need the GOP like they are!
The Affordable Care Act, is not funded by the government anyway.
From the beginning it got other funding, being the Republicans, made
sure the funding was not there! Where they should be helping to make
it work better for the people! People need it!
And I said People! "Corporations are NOT people. People are people."
