Not Even A Pretense

[kestrels_nest]

I just read a Washington Post headline that I found utterly disgusting. President obama called for a bilateral health care summit, and the Republican leadership is threatening to boycott. Their demands have been met over and over, and every time it isn't enough. Now the demand is to start over from scratch, further delaying something desperately

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[ladyqkat]

The simple monochrome fact of the matter is that those of us who are expendable are just trying to scam everyone (especially corporations) out of their hard earned (by the labors of those of us who are expendable) millions because we are just lazy sots who refuse to take care of our own health needs with the money we don't have.

At least that is the way I see it from underneath the boot heels of the politicians (of both parties) who are not concerned about the health needs of all of its citizens. Oh. Wait a minute. We are lazy sots who do not deserve to be citizens of this country we were born into.

[tigertoy]

The Republicans don't want to improve anything. They just want to win their political games and be in charge. They will say anything, no matter how outrageous, because they've figured out that almost anything they say will play well to their supporters and not be seriously challenged by their opponents. Meanwhile, the Democrats are so fractured that they can't agree on anything among themselves. When they have to count the likes of Ben Nelson and Joe Lieberman as part of their majority, they never really had anything to work with; unfortunately, the leadership believed their own rhetoric that they had 60 votes, so all they had to do was work it out among themselves.

We are so screwed.

[siliconshaman]

I wonder if there's any provision or guidance in the Constitution for what to do when one half of the political system is actively hostile towards and seeking to undermine the basic principles upon which the system operates.

[starcat_jewel]

No. This was a situation the Founding Fathers never envisioned.

[siliconshaman]

Hmm.. so that's either an Oh crap moment, or an Oh Yeah! moment...
Bad, because there's no guidance, and it's a bad situation.
or
Good, because there's an opportunity to smack those self-righteous obstructionist spoiled over-the-hill frat boys hard...and nothing in the constitution says you can't.
[I only wish it could be literally].

Now all is needed is someone with the spine to do it. Obama might, if it becomes obvious that the Republicans cannot be worked with. I suspect he knows this, and may just be giving them enough metaphorical rope to hang themselves with. I hope so, anyway.