![]() ![]() This weekend, racism came out of the closet. Even if the immediate problems are somehow solved and a government default avoided - for now - the scab has been torn off our political wounds. There is a price to be paid for all this. To borrow a line from Theodore Roosevelt, I could carve a better man out of a banana. “For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?” the New Testament asks.Īre you kidding me? Have you ever seen Boehner’s suite of offices in the Capitol? It would make Midas blush.īoehner does not bend to the will of his Kamikaze Caucus because he is an evil man. If he does, he is afraid the tea party conservatives will strip him of his job. But, so far, Boehner will not let that come to a vote. It is now evident that both houses of Congress have the votes to end the shutdown. It was a blackmail on a massive order: Stop Obamacare or we will never reopen the government. House Speaker Boehner eventually went along. Cruz was happy to act as Obamacare’s willing executioner in the Senate, and pushing a shutdown of government to do so. Shortly after Obama began his second term, Meese went to work gathering conservative influence-peddlers and members of the Tea Party Caucus in Congress to repeal Obamacare. And he wants to save us from health care. Today, Meese sees himself not as a sleazy hustler but America’s savior. He was Ronald Reagan’s attorney general, who was forced to resign in the Wedtech scandal while under investigation by a special prosecutor. ![]() (Koch Companies say it has taken no position on using the shutdown as a tactic.) The groups were funded in part by the billionaire right-wing Koch brothers, who wanted to cripple Obamacare. It was plotted for months by a coalition of more than three dozen conservative groups led by Edwin Meese III. And for what? Because Cruz, Republican senator from Texas, has grown so drunk on the sound of his own voice and so besotted with illusions of his own grandeur that he believes halting government today will propel him into the White House tomorrow?Īs The New York Times ably pointed out, this shutdown did not just happen. I am talking about the funds cut to nearly 9 million mothers and young children for food, breastfeeding support and infant formula. I am not talking about closed parks and monuments. Harsh? Look around you at what is happening to America and you will see harsh. ![]()
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