Limbaugh said it and the Republicans echo it. It's more important that the Democrats fail -- that even if successful, Little Black Obama must be seen to fail in any attempt to fix anything, much less to end the recession. To be the party of business they claim to be isn't important, because the public is illiterate and it's cheaper to buy belief than to generate it through doing what you say you'll do. Wave flags and buy pins - that's all the patriotism one needs - the real purpose of politics is winning.
Forget that supply side economics never has and never will work: anything that does work in helping small business survive and thrive and create new jobs must be sabotaged along with anything that helps families stay together long enough to benefit from those new jobs.
That's right, the Republicans who just finished up trying to extend unemployment benefits are trying to sink a bill to help: not Exxon or BP or Halliburton or Goldman Sachs, but to offer credit to small business. Why? because it might just work. The same party that offered apologies to BP for making them pay for their criminal negligence intends to block a small business relief bill because it offers 30 billion in credit. The same party that requested three trillion no questions asked with Secretary Paulson to have exclusive and secret stimulus spending discretion. The same party that would still rather have starvation and poverty and disease rather than give a nickel to anyone who lost their job. After all, non-Republicans are just lazy, illegal immigrant bums without the gumption to be white. No, if it creates the millions of jobs that only small business can do, it might help the Democrats in November. Better to let it all go down and blame it on Obama.
No, making loans to stable small businesses is wasteful government spending, you see -- not like waging useless and unnecessary wars and building useless weapons systems and giving tax breaks to BP.
No, it's the same old GOP, the same party that was willing and eager to let millions of Americans starve during the last Depression they brought on, rather than get a dime they hadn't worked for and couldn't have if they had wanted to. Let it fail - desperate workers are cheaper labor and slave labor is cheapest and just think how well they could live with no middle class and all the burden on the serfs.
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ReplyDeleteI guess they figure (because it has been working ) that to make the Obama administration appear a faliure, is worse than the hypocrite charge they justly get.
ReplyDeleteGrover Norquist made it clear a good many years ago just what the 'right' is all about.
ReplyDelete"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."
Left unsaid is the obvious result of the sort of federal government Norquist fantasizes about. A government much more responsive to the only folks who really matter in this country.
The rich.
Just as the young Grover door-belled for Dick Nixon at the tender age of 12 so too have another generation of 'real Americans' formed their worldview around this sort of nonsense and remain perpetually angry adolescents.
Their efforts wouldn't be so successful if the public weren't so gullible.
ReplyDeleteIf there's one thing that has defined these right-wing chaps from the early decades of the previous century onwards (aside from paranoia and dishonesty), it's brickish cruelty -- a selfishness that actually glorifies indifference to the sufferings and needs of others. They opposed just about everything FDR did as if he were the devil incarnate, and they never for one minute accepted the basic premises of the New Deal. It's no wonder that they oppose every Democratic president's every effort tooth and nail. The only thing that may surprise some of us these days is the brazen quality of that opposition and the prideful barrenness of the "reasons" they give for it -- when, that is, they even bother to pretend there's a rational explanation other than selfishness and greed.
ReplyDeleteWasn't it La Rochefoucauld who wrote the cutting maxim to describe this attitude, "It is not enough that I should succeed; others must fail"?
"Wasn't it La Rochefoucauld"
ReplyDeleteI thought it was Cheney