John Boehner, supposed leader of the pack, cannot consolidate any power whatsoever. One minute he is meeting with President Obama at the White House and the next minute he is walking out of those talks. This must have happened three times already. In one breath he says we need a short-term solution to the debt ceiling problem and then in his next breath, he says that we need a $4 trillion budget cut over ten years.
It is quite obvious that this budget impasse is due to the political games of the GOP. Boehner wants HIS name on this budget deal, not that of Mitch McConnell. What we are witnessing is simply a power play within the Republican Party.
Certainly, President Obama has given more than the GOP could have ever imagined, much to the chagrin of his fellow Democrats. Yet, and yet again, the Republicans keep saying “No.” I’ll tell you what: the political middle, the “silent majority”, is not going to abide this standoff for much longer. Even the slow-to-come-to-the-party American population will approach their burning point soon. This will especially come to pass if our government’s lack of action leads to monetary losses for our all too patient public i.e., higher interest rates, financial market downturns and the shutting down of many governmental agencies which may result in no entitlement checks and the shutting down of our air controllers’ agency, just to name a few consequences. The American public, that great electorate, is very near the tipping point. Still, Boehner and the GOP persist in preventing a decisive plan to go forward.
The behavior of our Congress is now a total embarrassment to our own country and to the world. Mind you, this debacle has been wholly self-inflicted. Americans on the street have commented that if they did their jobs the way our Congress has done their’s, they would be fired in a heartbeat. We are being led down the path of indecision, turmoil, default and bankruptcy, both fiscally and morally. One would think that if Boehner was so preoccupied with leaving a legacy, he would stop his clownish antics and sign a deal. He has not shown any consistency in his negotiations, but instead has repeatedly, through his actions and words, vascillated between “I’m in. No wait, I’m out.” Talk about a power vacuum.
That shark, Mitch McConnell, has now come up with a new drastic plan: to create a “Super Congress” that would oversee these important deficit decisions that need to be made:
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What? Our regular Congress refuses to do their jobs out of concern for the political implications so why not hand over the responsibility to a new Congress? We already have one paralyzed Congress; we do not need another one. This is the epitome of passing the buck to the max! Jeezey Wheezey, they just keep on adding layer upon layer of incompetence and bureaucracy to justify the avoidance of making the tough choices. Total masturbation.
And here is a toast to our Congress, an august institution hell bent on relishing the perks of their jobs but not the responsibilities:
Five surgeons are discussing who were the best patients to operate on.
The first surgeon says, ‘I like to see Accountants on my operating table
because when you open them up, everything inside is numbered.’
The second responds, ‘Yeah, but you should try Electricians! Everything
inside them is colour-coded.’
The third surgeon says, ‘No, I really think Librarians are the best;
everything inside them is in alphabetical order.’
The fourth surgeon chimes in, ‘You know I like Construction Workers.
Those guys always understand when you have a few parts left over at the
end, and when the job takes longer than you said it would.’
But the fifth surgeon shut them all up when he observed, ‘You’re all
wrong. Politicians are the easiest to operate on. There’s no guts, no
heart, no balls, no brains, and no spine, and there are only two moving
parts – the mouth and the asshole – and they are interchangeable’.