The Sequester Strikes its First Victims!

[Griff]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that single moms or the working poor were not among Boehner's biggest contributors in the last election cycle. This is how dictatorships can take root in democracies. The utter failure of elected officials to man up and make real choices will lead to folks asking that more power be placed in fewer hands.

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Originally Posted by Griff

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that single moms or the working poor were not among Boehner's biggest contributors in the last election cycle. This is how dictatorships can take root in democracies.

Boehmer is not the problem here. He tried to fix it. Then his party wackos discovered his Grand Bargain. Intentionally subverted it. Because wackos (ie tea partiers who even wanted a witch for Senator) want America to fail. Limbaugh, Norquist, et al tell these wackos what to think.

Frontline's Cliffhanger discusses this.

Extremists among us destroyed a budget surplus by spending on everything wasteful including welfare to the rich. Invented wars to "protect our oil" (rhetoric from the Project for a New American Century). Tried to put Social Security into the stock market. Advocated tax cuts by even ignoring the lessons from Kennedy's tax cuts. Intentionally subvert the Security and Exchange budget to therefore create Bernie Madoff and other destruction. Blamed unions for America's diminished productivity created by money games. Openly attacked space science and other essential research such as quantum physics. Borrowed massively from the Chinese while passing laws that kept those expenses out of the budget (to hide their deficits). Destroyed jobs by enriching the rich. And then blamed their unchecked spending and unpaid bills on Obama.

Cheney said, "Reagan proved that deficits don't matter." Now those deficits do matter. Cheney, acidicly on Charlie Rose, openly blames our deficits on Obama. Only a brainwashed extremist could believe that.

Boehmer only has two choices. Be backstabbed by his party extremists (as they also did to Gingrich). Or recite their rhetoric.

The Republican party hates moderates as Sen Snow (R-Maine) so bluntly stated. Moderates need facts and numbers. Extremists hate people who would work for America. Or who learn facts before making a conclusion.

Boehmer is a trapped rat in a party dominated by people who, for example, passed laws to ban research into gun violence. He can only recite extremist ideology now that so many of us so hate America as to even want research into gun violence banned.

Dictatorships? Quite correct. A lesson well proven in history. Nazis used similar tactics in early 1930s Germany to obtain power. They were successfull because so many adults who were children believed the rhetoric rather than learn facts like an adult.