Monday, November 22, 2010
Republican/Teabaggers attacking the Unites States on multiple fronts.
Paul Krugman looks at the different ways that the Republican/Teabagger Party is working to make the United States a failed nation.
And on matters fiscal, the G.O.P. program is to do almost exactly the opposite of what Mr. Bernanke called for. On one side, Republicans oppose just about everything that might reduce structural deficits: they demand that the Bush tax cuts be made permanent while demagoguing efforts to limit the rise in Medicare costs, which are essential to any attempts to get the budget under control. On the other, the G.O.P. opposes anything that might help sustain demand in a depressed economy — even aid to small businesses, which the party claims to love.A quick review of history will show that the Republican/Teabaggers are operating in a very similar fashion to the Bolsheviks in pre-Revolutionary Russia and with much the same intent. Ever since the end of WW II, the Republican Party pretended to be the party most in opposition to International Communism. During that time they were also the party that most readily emulated the Communists in thoughts and actions. What we see today is the culmination of all the development.
Right now, in particular, Republicans are blocking an extension of unemployment benefits — an action that will both cause immense hardship and drain purchasing power from an already sputtering economy. But there’s no point appealing to the better angels of their nature; America just doesn’t work that way anymore.
And opposition for the sake of opposition isn’t limited to economic policy. Politics, they used to tell us, stops at the water’s edge — but that was then.
These days, national security experts are tearing their hair out over the decision of Senate Republicans to block a desperately needed new strategic arms treaty. And everyone knows that these Republicans oppose the treaty, not because of legitimate objections, but simply because it’s an Obama administration initiative; if sabotaging the president endangers the nation, so be it.
Subscribe to Posts [Atom]
Post a Comment