Political Commentary
Collin Reischman
-Managing Editor-
Flip through the nightly news on any major network sometime, and see how many times a Republican refers to Washington as “broken.”
The GOP has been using the frozen, unmoving Washington as a rationalization for its own impending ascent to power. The GOP successfully feeds off of democrats misfortune.
Actually, that’s not true. What they lack is cognitive dissonance. You know, that part of the human mind that can’t hold two opposing viewpoints at the same time. Cognitive dissonance brings children to realize the truth about Santa Claus and superheroes but can’t seem to save the GOP from itself.
The GOP has submitted Obama and his democratic Congress to the most filibusters in history, and routinely, without thought or consideration, adopted the policy of “no” for any of the Obama medications for our ailing nation.
The GOP has voted against some of its own long-held opinions, simply to further inhibit the democratic agenda.
Poor Republicans, they are actually swallowing their own pill. Yes, of course Obama is a far-left socialist despite being criticized by his own party for not more strongly advocating for liberal agendas.
Obama, the man whose stimulus package created 2 million jobs and included the largest tax cut in American history, is a would-be dictator, a socialist, and wants to take away your paycheck.
Obama, who hesitated to push partisan agendas through when he had 60 senate votes, is an uncompromising communist.
Now there is talk of reconciliation. Not the real kind where two sides can agree, but the senate-voting-rule kind. A standing rule in the senate states that legislation that is purely concerned with the budget can be voted on in a simple up or down majority vote, with 51 votes required to pass.
The GOP is up in arms, calling the threat of passing facets of the health care legislation through reconciliation a “nuclear option” and “highly dangerous.”
The same GOP that has used every legislative maneuver, voting tactic and political ploy to inhibit the ability of our legislature to function is now opposed to a majority vote in the senate.
Cognitive dissonance – the Republican Party simply doesn’t have it.
The GOP seems poised to execute the master plan. They’ll stop the Democrats from getting anything done, and as the nation gets worse, they’ll point fingers at the White House and the party of our president.
Brilliant, if it didn’t reek of cynicism. Clever and inspired, if it didn’t have to come at the cost of the American people who’ll have to wait until the Republicans want to play with the other kids on the playground to get the insurance and jobs that they need.
Republicans aren’t playing fair, and the democrats shouldn’t either.
The party damaging America isn’t the one trying desperately to stem the bleeding. The party doing the most harm is the one that doesn’t want to treat the wound.
