[T]he GOP has run on a platform that is guaranteed to further bankrupt the nation if passed, and cause legislative paralysis if it doesn't. It is promising impossible and meaningless things because doing so gives it a ready excuse to fail. It will spend the next two years pushing far-right legislation that it knows will not become law and working to blame the inaction on the Democrats. (Precisely what is has been doing for the past two years by filbustering or rejecting en bloc any Democratic legislation that was not up to far-right standards.) The GOP leadership has made it clear that its priority is not governing, but destroying the Obama presidency. This in the middle of a crushing recession, in the middle of two wars, in the shadow of a lost decade. Simply put, to vote for this party expecting it to address these matters seriously is the act of a fool.
And we're all wearing motley now.
And I've been warning that this was the plan since the beginning: run the country into the ground to the point where Obama cannot improve the economy, and then pin the blame on him. It's working beautifully.
To repeat, the Republicans do not give a damn about the economy. They want it to burn. If we descend into a depression, they win. That's they only way they can win, they know it, so off we go down the rabbit hole.
Until the Democrats acknowledge that there's zero chance for compromise and start fighting back by framing the debate as the Republicans being the party of getting jobs for themselves and the Democrats being the party of creating jobs for everyone, this will continue.
What part of "Our top priority is to make President Obama a one-term president" do you not get, Dems?
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I've never been one to offer a compromise or to bargain. Anyone who wants to make a deal can offer it, and I'll take it or leave it. When I leave it, I'm almost always offered more, and then I'm embarrassed because I didn't intend to haggle.
I wish the Democratic party would be more like me.
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