Super Gridlock

Well surprise surprise, the Super committee attempt to fix the budget or create a budget both parties could accept failed. Of course they failed, they never had a chance.

In a previous article, when I blamed the Tea Party for wrecking the GOP, I talked about the shift in American politics, especially in the last 35 years since Reagan took office. The GOP, with incredible pressure put on it by the extreme religious right, and the extreme politics of the Tea Party (which don’t agree internally) and a number of folk who want us to run pell mell back the 19^th century when the government exhibited very little control over anything. The point is the Republican Party is way way right of where it used to be prior to the Reagan years. And, as PK pointed out the Democratic party has moved towards the right along with them. But even with that movement they share NO common ground. Negotiation just isn’t possible when you hold intractable positions with no moderates to save the day. Actually, I think we have moderates they just don’t appear that was to extremists which dominate the GOP.

If you read Obama, he is quite moderate in his approach to government. The two Mormon Republican candidates, if they would grow a pair, and speak more honestly, might be there as well. I never thought I would ever see the day when Newt Gingrich would come out with a moderate position on immigration publicly, sounding like a man of reason. Good for him, but we should not forget his hateful and deceitful rhetoric of the past; but of course most will.

The hope in all of this us that it will help us see just how extreme and out of control and how rich people dominated politics have become. Republicans have to come to realize at some point protecting the ultra rich in this country is a losing proposition in every shape and form.

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Haven’t written much lately due to being possessed by demons and having the plague. But I’m a bit better now. Hope the country gets better too. The country needs a good sneeze to pop out all those little demons inhabiting us, and then we can quickly clamp our hands over our mouths to keep them from getting back in. Then we can say a collective, “Bless you.”