"It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice in Alice in Wonderland
October 16, 2013
We always knew Democrats were nasty pieces of work, but now we know why Democrats applaud when Republican Sen. John McCain walks into a room.
He’s one of them.These past weeks McCain (R-Ariz.) and Peter King (R-N.Y.) may have decided to throw their lot in with the "popular kids,” but like the boss who listens to a prospective hire bad-mouthing his old boss in a job interview, no one likes a turncoat.
Ask Benedict Arnold.
While McCain and King were busy viciously skewering their Republican colleagues, they didn’t even have the moxie to know Obama and the Democrats were sitting back, laughing, letting Republicans do their dirty work for them.
But McCain and King weren’t alone in their cowardly behavior. There were the faceless, nameless Republicans who happily piled on the "Hate Cruz and Lee” bandwagon, including some senators who decided to breach the Senate rule of never discussing business conducted behind closed doors.
They gossiped about Cruz and Lee, but when they did, they did it without having the guts to attach their names to their quotes. And when Cruz and Lee were being maligned behind those closed doors, not one of them came to their defense.
There are plenty of "should haves” and "should not haves” here.
McCain and King and the GOP in general should have had the class to present a united front, they should have supported the right of their colleagues to stand firm for their beliefs even if they couldn’t support the essence of those beliefs.
They should have displayed dignity and unity and fairness. They should not have aired their dirty laundry in public to any news media that would listen. And it was shameful for grown men to act with so little dignity and unity and fairness.
But they did.
McCain and King should have defended the Constitution Obama is shredding.
They should have called out this imperial president, this teenager in the White House on the economic destruction he is visiting upon America in the guise of "healthcare reform.”
He never talks about it and when he does he misrepresents it, so they should have talked about it.
But they didn’t.
They should have brought to the fore the vast number of jobs already lost because of Obamacare, the high monetary cost that this misrepresented law has exacted from Americans, the number of businesses unfairly destroyed, the favoritism and the sloppy way the president has implemented it.
They should have struck at the clear racial and religious division that this vain, angry president has created during his time in office and been indignant about the war this president has waged against the American spirit, crushing it worldwide with his victim-in-chief mentality.
They should have done what they were sent to Washington to do.
They should have listened to the American people who said they never wanted Obamacare. They should have supported those American citizens who sent them to Congress.
But they didn’t.
Instead of supporting fiscal responsibility, instead of pointing out the glaring problems with Obamacare, they stood and waited and actually wondered out loud how and when and where and what the president would say when he negotiated with them, a president who never negotiated anything except to give directions to his way or the highway.
Is it possible they are that naïve or are they just plain scared of being called racists?
Could be either, but it seems clear they didn’t do what they didn’t do because Congress in general, and the president and this administration in particular have lived so long in the rarified air that is Washington, D.C., they have no idea what goes on in the America in which the rest of us live.
Couple that with the fact that they were too busy being arrogant and looking out for their own political futures to care about representing anyone or anything but themselves and you have a losing combination.
And we’re the ones who lose.
All of what we see going on is a campaign to purge the Republican party of conservatives. We saw the same thing at the GOP National Convention when Mitt Romney excluded any and all Tea Party and conservative representatives.
This is precisely why they resent the Cruz’ and the Lees. McCain, King and RINO’s like Karl Rove, the Republican Establishment and Obama have a meeting of the minds in ridding America of not only conservative voices, but any dissenting voices.
In not standing up to this president, the Republicans are helping as much as they can to crystallize Obama’s vision for America.
Which makes you wonder, whatever happened to the two party political system in our country?
These past weeks we have watched Republicans who were more content to eat their own young than open a discussion about anything Obama has done. They never have said what was apparent from day one.
The man in the White House is incompetent.
No, Hollywood’s Redford and Noth say, it’s only about race. Chris Matthews says it’s only about race, but none of them have the guts to say this president hasn’t many arrows in his quiver that work.
Even though he is the first elected black president, he still has to do the job. And, unfortunately, he doesn’t know how.
You have to ask these race card devotees, if it were about race, why are former Rep. Allen West and Dr. Ben Carson so highly regarded?
How is it that West and Carson don’t need Redford and Noth and Matthews to play the race card for them?
I’ll tell you. It is because we the people know where these men stand, we know what they are prepared to defend and that they will stick by their principles, not vacillating with the vagaries of every political wind that blows.
Fortunately for us in this country we have real patriots in our history to whom we can turn.
That made it easy to see how the dignified and principled Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) measured up to the original defenders of our United States Constitution.
And how the Republicans fell so miserably short.
So, true to script, after the Republicans embarrassed themselves with their childish behavior, caving in again, these "Loyalists” to the Crown, bowing and scraping to their "king," giving the president everything and securing nothing for the people, now Obama wanted to talk.
He couldn’t wait to grab the microphone, take the podium and lecture us, to tell us we are "fed up with Washington.”
But he’s wrong as he usually is. We’re just fed up with him.
Hold the line, America.