If there is no merit in it, then spin it - as spokesperson Kevin Smith says:
“The litigation remains on track, but we are examining the possibility of forgoing outside counsel and handling the litigation directly through the House, rather than through law firms that are susceptible to political pressure from wealthy, Democratic-leaning clients.”Here’s that old shibboleth: “Wealthy, Democratic-leaning clients” as if the GOP doesn’t have its own coven of wealthy right-leaning donors. But some donors are more equal than other donors; and this isn’t a democracy anymore.
Elections don’t matter, especially two back-to-back elections convincingly won by the president. Legislative mandates don’t matter, especially passage of an Affordable Health Care Act in the Senate by a veto-proof majority. A Supreme Court decision doesn’t matter, especially the Affordable Health Care Act - deemed constitutional; but the GOP doesn’t care.
One Republican candidate for the Senate wants to criminalize politics and prosecute the president for simply doing his job.
Remember Sharon Angle and her infamous “Second Amendment Remedy?” Here is another Republican candidate for the Senate who reserves the right to nullify any Federal law not to her liking at the barrel of a gun. Democracy by “my-way-or-the-highway;” democracy by prosecution, democracy by litigation, democracy by bullying and intimidation! This is dangerous stuff – the seditious words of demagogues and would-be tyrants. Where is the indignation? The outrage?
The neo-fascist tendencies of the Tea Party are all too obvious. If you fail to vote – and vote wisely - you will lose more than merely another two years of legislative gridlock and deadlock: You may lose your birthright.
I could be wrong but I don't think so. Technically we are not a democracy but a democratic republic, and even that isn't working anymore.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite books was writtren by Professor Leonard Piekoff called "The Ominous Parallels" making the case the USA has been trending facist for some time. He drew many valid parallels between Germany and the USA. Most in my opinion accurate.
The Tea these days is getting murkier and murkier. I guess a lot of folks overlook the murkiness because they like the flavor?
It escapes me.
The next set of elections are so critical to securing our future. The Dems blew it 8 years ago when they had the chance to stand up and defy the status quo and instead they laid down under their corporate masters and rolled over. I have little faith in our political system. It is too corrupt and to entrenched in corporate interests to be an effective representation of the people.
ReplyDeleteFor many, the suggestion of a lawsuit is enough to substantiate suspicion about the universal guilt of Obama. It's not to recruit liberals to their side, it's to rally the base and to give the bigots a fake reason to express their fear and loathing of a black face in a white house.
ReplyDeleteLook at the failed Whitewater "investigation." Even now it's being cited as proof that Clinton was a crook. . None of this is about facts much less about determining the truth. It's about distraction because none of the dire predictions have come true -- about Clinton or about Obama. They desperately need to maintain the illusion of failure now that employment is 6%, health care costs have gone down, and dependence on foreign oil is much lower. Remember the howling about the need to drill and how Obama was against it? They need to distract from their own lies and stupidities and failures. Its a desperate situation.
Desperation notwithstanding, the ignorati are voting for these bastards - the scariest phenomenon of all.
DeleteIt is indeed and my faith in Democratic institutions and Democratic Republics is moribund at best. The science of befuddlement is so successful and the separation of money, power and influence so weak that it all devolves into Feudalism of the Corporate kind. I look to the authoritarian capitalism of the Far east as our destiny - at best - but I still fear a collapse into Fascism.
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