How many times did the Republicans vote to raise the debt ceiling for President George W Bush? How close are they and their Tea Party radicals to defaulting on the nation’s debt or cutting Medicare, Social Security and other vital spending so much that it would stall all the progress of the rebuilding of our economy just because they want to use the debt as a talking point in 2012? How is this good for the US?
The GOP and Tea Partiers have done nothing in eight months to rebuild the economy, create jobs or curb spending. They’ve accomplished nothing they promised their base, from ending abortion to stopping health-care reform. They’ve done nothing the Independents and the political middle wanted them to do, nurture the slow growth out of recession and stop the bickering and fighting in Washington.
If our nation can forget in the two years from 2008 to 2010 why they voted for Democrats and then put 33% of Tea Party candidates in office, they will soon forget why they voted for those idiots in 2010. The Tea Party is tearing the Republican party apart and you can see the death throes of a sad, outdated movement toward staunch conservatism as even libertarians are tired of the religious right wanting to use political offices to beat people over the head with their own ideas of morality.
Best case scenario, Congress and the White House raise the debt ceiling with a real solution rather than Bohner’s politically-motivated crap bill and we move on, scarcely averting disaster. Worst-case scenario, they screw it up, the economy grinds to another halt and we can thank Republicans for putting politics ahead of people as we go into the next election cycle.
A real solution would be to rework the Constitution so that this pathetic, outdated system of Government that allows this two-party bickering is finally thrown out for a more sensible solution, but that’s just wishful thinking. Considering the Constitution an unchangeable, infallible document (which was not what the writers intended) has created a situation in this country where the document itself will be the downfall of the country.
The Bill of Rights and Amendments, I would keep, but there is nothing liberating about the way our partisan system is set up, nothing inherent in our governmental bodies that actually ensures anyone’s freedom. In fact, all it protects these days are rich people and corporations who don’t pay taxes and whose subsidies are bleeding the middle class dry. If I rewrote the Constitution, I’d include in the Bill of Rights an amendment that states that corporations are not people and should not have the same rights as an individual. It would be written into the document that the government’s job is to protect the people from these greedy fucks that break health and safety laws, hire people below living wages and send jobs overseas without paying a cent to the country that made them billions of dollars. That’s just dreaming though.
