Opinion: Why Does The GOP Hate America?

By Eric Thomas, 97.1 The Ticket 

Let's just say it. The current crop of feckless idiots that make up the GOP House of Representatives are bad for the country. A person who is even paying the most distracted attention must come to the conclusion that they are going to destroy the economy. There really is no other explanation.

I could not tree the thoughts of these morons even with a thousand trained hounds. John Boehner, informed the assembled press and other horrified parties that he welcomed an election year fight with the Democrats over the debt ceiling. Again. Apparently there are actually people in the world that actually wanted a sequel to last years embarrassment, where our countries' argument behind closed doors spilled out into the street. It was when the entire world got to see our scars.

The world could no longer deny that the once powerful democracy had wandered so far away from its scruples that it now had all the dignity of a naked exotic dancer with a thyroid condition throwing a chair at the father of the majority of her children on the Jerry Springer Show.

Last year's debt ceiling fight was putrid. We covered our faces and tried not to vomit while a stalemate in congress dragged on. The world was nauseated by the septic stink that emanated from the hallowed halls of congress. We tried to push down the feeling that rose up in our stomachs, we swallowed our deepest apprehensions and smiled away the truth. The optimistic among us waved away the concerns and the cynical had all of our worst fears confirmed. The only tie that bound us all together was the words: "There is no way they are that stupid."

Of course they were. They waited until literally the country was in default. The GOP gets all the blame here. All of it. You can't run up an eight-year tab of tax cuts, war and Medicare part B all while absolving yourself of all responsibility. To suggest that blame should evenly distributed is a tresspass only uttered by those who seek to appear impartial, though that aim comes at the cost of honesty. Arbitrarily turning off the spigot just because you thirst for the sugar of power is no way to manage the country. Believe me, if Romney is elected president, the debt ceiling will be raised without hesitation and under the threat of excoriation. The debt ceiling was raised casually under the Bush administration. The GOP did not adopt this religion until Obama was elected.

This is why I call this crop of GOP fools. Its not like they don't have material to hit The President with. They won an election in 2010 on the back of Obamacare. They flogged the Dems on fiscal responsibility and guaranteed that they would curb spending. Its not like they aren't allowed to run that again. Citizens united has birthed a race of super donors, who among them are bathed in the spoils of de-regulatory policy and corporatism. Even though the last 4 years has made even more wealth than they could have imagined, they still unanimously toss their dollars into the center of the Romney circle.

The GOP has plenty of things going for it. The country is wobbly at best, still nursing Gatorade from the hangover that came from the worst financial crisis ever. We gnaw dry toast with bleeding gums and pray to God that it satiates our upset stomachs, yet there is Boehner, gleaming mahogany in the klieg lights, informing the country that he intends to jam another funnel down our throats. But instead of more tequila he demands Ipecac. Why they feel they need to run a play that actually destroys the country when they have plenty of rhetorical hay to make is ghoulishly irresponsible.

I am recalcitrant to the GOP argument because they are lying. They are preaching fiscal responsibility but their platform offers none. They want massive budget cuts so that seniors and the impoverished will be abandoned, and they offer no savings. They want to take from the people who cannot afford it, and not even have the decency to use that money to pay our collected bills. No, the GOP wants to turn that savings into even more tax cuts. Why? Well, I don't understand why. Tax cuts have never turned around and created a robust economy as a matter of cause and effect. In fact, there are mountains of evidence that suggest otherwise.

The GOP seem to be bellowing about the deficit yet have absolutely no effective plan to fix it. The vaunted Paul Ryan plan actually adds to the deficit in the short run, so in order to pass it you would have to extend the debt ceiling now anyway. So this fight they have picked is fraudulent from the start. They are only picking it because they don't think that anyone will follow curiosity's course and actually find out what they mean by the things they say. So far, they have been right.

So why is the GOP insisting on enacting policy that hasn't worked in 20 years and willing to destroy the country to enact it? Because they are stupid. I am being generous here. I can only pray that they are stupid. Believe me, I do. I counted myself among the ranks of the GOP for years. I feel like I have been cast out since then, I had major problems with the fiscal strategies of the Bush years and I was always against the Iraq war. I was shown the door and charged with heresy, only to have the party coalesce around exactly what I was saying for years. I really hope the GOP is stupid because the alternative is not good. If they actually know the extent of what they are doing and they still march on, then they would qualify as treasonous. They would be intentionally hurting the economy of the United States of America for the purpose of political gain.

They are enemies of the state, if that is the case. Let's stick with: They're buffoons.

Let's just say it. The current crop of feckless idiots that make up the GOP House of Representatives are bad for the country. A person who is even paying the most distracted attention must come to the conclusion that they are going to destroy the economy. There really is no other explanation.

I could not tree the thoughts of these morons even with a thousand trained hounds. John Boehner, informed the assembled press and other horrified parties that he welcomed an election year fight with the Democrats over the debt ceiling. Again. Apparently there are actually people in the world that actually wanted a sequel to last years embarrassment, where our countries' argument behind closed doors spilled out into the street. It was when the entire world got to see our scars. The world could no longer deny that the once powerful democracy had wandered so far away from its scruples that it now had all the dignity of a naked exotic dancer with a thyroid condition throwing a chair at the father of the majority of her children on the Jerry Springer Show.

Last years debt ceiling fight was putrid. We covered our faces and tried not to vomit while a stalemate in congress dragged on. The world was nauseated by the septic stink that emanated from the hallowed halls of congress. We tried to push down the feeling that rose up in our stomachs, we swallowed our deepest apprehensions and smiled away the truth. The optimistic among us waved away the concerns and the cynical had all of our worst fears confirmed. The only tie that bound us all together was the words: "There is no way they are that stupid."

Of course, they were. They waited until literally the country was in default. The GOP gets all the blame here. All of it. You can't run up an 8 year tab of tax cuts, war and Medicare part B all while absolving yourself of all responsibility. To suggest that blame should evenly distributed is a tresspass only uttered by those who seek to appear impartial, though that aim comes at the cost of honesty. Arbitrarily turning off the spigot just because you thirst for the sugar of power is no way to manage the country. Believe me, if Romney is elected president, the debt ceiling will be raised without hesitation and under the threat of excoriation. The debt ceiling was raised casually under the Bush administration. The GOP did not adopt this religion until Obama was elected.

This is why I call this crop of GOP fools. Its not like they don't have material to hit The President with. They won an election in 2006 on the back of Obamacare. They flogged the Dems on fiscal responsibility and guaranteed that they would curb spending. Its not like they aren't allowed to run that again. Citizens united has birthed a race of super donors, who among them are bathed in the spoils of de-regulatory policy and corporatism. Even though the last 4 years has made even more wealth than they could have imagined, they still unanimously toss their dollars into the center of the Romney circle.

The GOP has plenty of things going for it. The country is wobbly at best, still nursing Gatorade from the hangover that came from the worst financial crisis ever. We gnaw dry toast with bleeding gums and pray to God that it satiates our upset stomachs, yet there is Boehner, gleaming mahogany in the klieg lights, informing the country that he intends to jam another funnel down our throats. But instead of more tequila he demands Ipecac. Why they feel they need to run a play that actually destroys the country when they have plenty of rhetorical hay to make is ghoulishly irresponsible.

I am recalcitrant to the GOP argument because they are lying. They are preaching fiscal responsibility but their platform offers none. They want massive budget cuts so that seniors and the impoverished will be abandoned, and they offer no savings. They want to take from the people who cannot afford it, and not even have the decency to use that money to pay our collected bills. No, the GOP wants to turn that savings into even more tax cuts. Why? Well, I don't understand why. Tax cuts have never turned around and created a robust economy as a matter of cause and effect. In fact, there are mountains of evidence that suggest otherwise.

The GOP seem to be bellowing about the deficit yet have absolutely no effective plan to fix it. The vaunted Paul Ryan plan actually adds to the deficit in the short run, so in order to pass it you would have to extend the debt ceiling now anyway. So this fight they have picked is fraudulent from the start. They are only picking it because they don't think that anyone will follow curiosity's course and actually find out what they mean by the things they say. So far, they have been right.

So why are is the GOP insisting on enacting policy that hasn't worked in 20 years and willing to destroy the country to enact it? Because they are stupid. I am being generous here. I can only pray that they are stupid. Believe me, I do. I counted myself among the ranks of the GOP for years. I feel like I have been cast out since then, I had major problems with the fiscal strategies of the Bush years and I was always against the Iraq war. I was shown the door and charged with heresy, only to have the party coalesce around exactly what I was saying for years. I really hope the GOP is stupid because the alternative is not good. If they actually know the extent of what they are doing and they still march on, then they would qualify as treasonous. They would be intentionally hurting the economy of the United States of America for the purpose of political gain.

They are enemies of the state, if that is the case. Let's stick with: They're buffoons.