“Washington (CNN) -- If all the recent wrangling over the fiscal cliff has
revealed anything, it's how tense and strained President Obama's relationship
is with Republicans in Congress.
And Obama's relationship with Congress reached yet another
low Thursday when House Speaker John Boehner confirmed to CNN that he has told
House Republicans he will no longer negotiate legislative deals with the
president.
And in an opinion piece on Thursday, Sen. John Cornyn
of Texas faulted the president for all the fiscal brinksmanship since 2010. The
new No. 2 Senate Republican also suggested that "[i]t may be necessary to
partially shut down the government in order to secure the long-term fiscal well
being of our country."
Cassi Creek: the GOP
tried a shutdown during the Clinton era.
They tried to whitewash the reasons for their action. However, the real reason was that Then
Speaker of the House Gingrich was displeased with his seat assignment on an
AF-1 flight. The outcome damaged the GOP’s
standing among voters and cost the party its dominance in the House.
The 2011 debt
ceiling clusterfuck was brought about by teavangelists and GOPers believing
that they could win their ideology’s demands by threatening to sink the nation’s
economy. They failed to achieve their
demands but did damage the economy and cause the United States financial status
to be downgraded. The world economy was
also weakened by their petty temper tantrums.
Now, in 2013
the stage is set for GOP/teavangelists to rewind and replay the 2011 debt
ceiling fiasco. The Congress has
incurred debt and the GOP/teavangelists refuse to pay those debts. They think that Obama will waffle again as in
2011.
The 2012
election was not, as Sen. Cornyn has stated, a mandate for austerity, massive
spending cuts, and tax cuts for the wealthy.
If the voters had wanted that image of government, Romney would be
working on a state of the union address.
The GOP seems
unable to process the fact that Obama is in office for a 2nd
term. The teavangelists don’t care what
Obama says or does; they plan to obstruct every action of his and anything that
the GOP votes for that isn’t hard-core teavangelism.
So we are
faced with elected representatives who intend to destroy the nation’s ability
to function and who think that they have a mandate to destroy the global
economy while simultaneously waging war on Afghanistan, Pakistan, North Korea,
Venezuela, and Iran.
The latest
round of gerrymandering is likely to yield numerical dominance in the House for
the GOP. The alliance between the old
GOP and the various teavangelist conglomerates will eventually become less
fixed; although how and when the dissolution manifests has yet to be seen. The demands for ideological purity will cause
and widen any future splits among the reactionary right-wingers. We can only hope for a rapid, vicious, and
highly venomous break up as personal greed interferes with the cooperation
between the moneyed hard liners who wish to dictate the party line and the even
more greedy financial backers who think that the world’s revenues belong to
them.
There is
still sufficient stupidity among the teavangelists in Congress to cause them to
cause a repeat of the financial meltdowns that took place in 2008. Obviously, they have yet to learn that their
financial owners who paid for their elections are not backing them merely to
assure party line purity.
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