Some on the Right are advising against the defund Obamacare scheme, thinking it will come back to bite the party.
The Senate fight is quite public, with one GOP senator calling the defunding plan the “dumbest idea†he had ever heard. Senate GOP leadership, now that Cornyn has slunk back under his rock, will likely just ignore the nihilists, and can probably slap the idea down between now and the fall, when the funding debate happens. House Speaker Boehner and Minority Leader Cantor, however, might have a bigger problem on their hands. They’ve got a letter from more than 60 members telling them to have this fight.
Lest you wonder where the impetus is coming from for the yahoos:
Atop the letter it reads “supported by Heritage Action and Club for Growth,†in all capital letters, and highlighted in yellow, referring to the conservative outside groups.
The Republican Party made its bed with these groups, or lined their pockets with them anyway. And now they’re feeling the pain. Doesn’t it just make your heart bleed for them?
Now Sen. Tom Coburn is warning his fellow Republicans the scheme could backfire and cost them the House. But you can’t tell a bagger anything.
Elsewhere, some on the Right speculate that onerous voter suppression efforts could backfire, too, by giving Democrats and minority voters something to rally behind. Steve M. links to some articles about this, and adds:
If this is accurate, it’s not the only example in recent life of a powerful group choosing to punish the less powerful at a cost to itself. Look at the economy over the last six years. Yes, the rich are doing fine, but even they must realize that they’d be doing better if the rest of us had a little more money to buy goods and services. But here and in Europe they’d rather work the system to make sure it keeps punishing us. It’s as if hurting the people they hate — us “takers” — is so soul-satisfying to them that they’d rather do it to us forever than have a sustained economic recovery.
The Republican Party clearly feels the same way about non-whites: let’s keep alienating black and Hispanic voters, let’s abort all attempts at outreach, and let’s sustain that effort even if it means the GOP can’t win another presidential election for the foreseeable future. It’s as if the hate is just too satisfying not to indulge, no matter what the cost.
Well, yes. Because, deep down, the current Republican party isn’t about promoting conservative government policies. They don’t give a hoo-haw about conservative government policies. The current Republican party is all about acting out. It’s about pushing back against everything and everyone they resent and fear. It’s about maintaining a world that is a perfect reflection of the old white patriarchy. That’s all they really care about.
Yes, that what it’s all about.
The smarter ones among them saw the demographic change coming, and wanted to be more inclusive so that they could get their share of the non-white vote.
They tried to come up with immigration reform, only to be shut down, and shouted over, by the most hateful and loudest squeaky wheels on their jalopy. And now, no amount of grease will stop the shrieking noise coming from their base.
And the election of America’s first black President was like a cold slap in the face, to that base – and they upped their fear, hatred, and anger.
They were assured that there was no way that Mitt and Paulie could lose. But lose they did – and that broke the knob off of the fear/hatred/anger control switch.
An now it’s ‘All Id, all the time!”
Unfortunately, in their madness, and lust to regain power, they may sink this once great, already damaged, nation.
But they don’t care. It’s either their way, or the highway!
They’d rather rule in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
They are like religious fanatics – which, in fact, is what they are.
And if it’s one of theirs who is the last one standing on the smoking pile of rubble that was once America, and can plant a flag that has either an “R” or a “C” on it, then they feel that their souls can rest in peace, because they will have achieved the Final Victory over the hated and feared Liberals and Liberalism.
Party over country!
PARTY UBER ALLES!!!
“. . . the current Republican party isn’t about promoting conservative government policies. They don’t give a hoo-haw about conservative government policies. The current Republican party is all about acting out. It’s about pushing back against everything and everyone they resent and fear. It’s about maintaining a world that is a perfect reflection of the old white patriarchy.”
There are many in the group described above who like to call themselves Christian. And, yet, they don’t have a clue at how UN-Christian there actions are.
Bonnie,
According to their version of Christianity, it’s alright to lie, cheat, and steal, as long as it’s done for the Lord, and the cause of the Lord, their God.
And they can thus claim that no matter what evil the do, or that they spread, it was all righteous, because it was done for the cause of Christ and God.
And they are very close, too close, to gaining control in this country!
It’s all about dominance for a conservative. They don’t even think about the long term. If you dominate in the short term, everything’s fine. Christian values go out the window in the name of survival, which is the rationale for dominance.
You wrote about it a couple of posts ago, but I wonder how the whole ObamaCare debate is playing/will play among the young. On the one hand, they’re the least likely to want to get insurance, and the most likely to resent being forced into it. On the other hand, this generation ever more clearly sees the GOP as being the party of old and stupid.
moonbat,
I think it all comes down to this:
Liberals can easily tolerate Conservatives, as long as they mind their own business, and don’t try to get into ours, and other peoples. We may disagree with them, but we’re tolerant. “Do whatever it is that’s legal, and that makes you happy.”
Conservatives, on the other hand, don’t/can’t tolerate Liberals. They want to stick their noses in everyone else’s business, and intrude in the lives of everyone who doesn’t agree with them and their views.
They not only disagree with us, they can’t tolerate our very existence! Nothing will make them happy, unless everyone thinks the way that they do. They demand that everyone conform to their views, or else they are evil heretics, who don’t deserve to live.
One side is accepting and forgiving – the other is not.
Them’s my $0.02 worth on this subject.
This is an act of desperation. A recent column in the NYT by Krugman nailed it – if Obamacare is fully implemented and is as successful as it looks like it might be, the GOP is toast for several generations as a national party. Much like after the New Deal, the GOP was out of power for 40 years. A few smart Republicans can see this coming, and so are willing to throw the entire American economy under the train in a desperate attempt to stop the momentum of Obamacare. Oh sure, the deep South states will remain Republican, but for them, the Civil War never ended and they never fully rejoined the Union.
Boehner says: You think herding cats is difficult?…Try herding Baggers.