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I know you could not
have missed the drama that was unfolding yesterday in our Nation’s capital,
more specifically in the House of Representatives with the spotlight on the
House Republicans, especially John Boehner, the Speaker of the House.
The Senate had
already passed a stop-gap bill extending the payroll tax bonus that millions of
Americans receive to the tune of $1,000 per year (some more, some less). They
extended that measure till the end of February. In the same bill, there was an
extension of unemployment benefits to the long term unemployed and a blockage
of a huge pay decrease to physicians that provide services to Medicare
patients. All in all, it made good sense to extend the bill past the New Year
and save the arguing till 2012.
Senators voted for
the extension and went home for the Holidays.
The House of
Representatives were supposed to follow suit and go home also BUT THEY DID NOT.
They told Obama to call back the Senators to debate the bill further.
John Boehner, the
Speaker of the House and most powerful man in the House, did what he was told
to do by the Tea Party twits in the House and blocked the bill.
Obama said that it
is strange when both sides agree that the bill needs to be passed but the House
of Representatives cannot seem to pass the bill that everyone agrees on…is this
the height of absurdity or what?
Karl Rove, the
biggest Republican prick there is, said that the current Republican leadership
in the House are a bunch of idiots for not passing this bill since they have
nothing to gain by not passing it except the scorn of ALL AMERICANS…so they
passed it.
Well those
Republicans now have the scorn of the whole nation and Speaker Boehner looks
like a total ass listening to his Tea Party colleagues and not doing what a
rationale, adult would…he will not last as speaker for very long.
I did not get into
all the legal and political details of this bill mainly because the point here
is not passing or not passing this stop-gap measure, what is important here is to see what Republicans
in the House are prepared to do to bring down our economy and then be elected
to power in 2012.
I have to stress
this point again because I think what they did demonstrates how uncaring the
Republicans are about our economy and how it affects the common man. If the
economy fails to revive by election time; they will win the election even
though our recession was a direct result of Bush / Republicans spending
excesses.
BUT if the economy
recovers; many signs are pointing to a definite, if slow, recovery, their
chances of getting elected into power are greatly diminished.
The Republicans have
demonstrated in the last few days that they are willing to do everything in
their power to derail our economy to assure themselves of a victory in 2012.
If they are capable
of that kind of absurd and hurtful behavior than I will have nothing to do with
them and since Democrats do not impress me as capable of doing anything better
than the Republicans, I will have to be looking for a third party candidate…I
hope one is lurking in the shadows.
You AND Trump giving up on the Republicans!
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