As President Obama struggles in finding a way to solve the nation’s debt crisis, it is becoming more clear by the hour that instead of engaging Democrats on the issue, Republicans will work against it.
You heard that right; Republicans, who are suddenly labelling themselves as fiscal conservatives, are actively working against a debt reduction commission.
Sensing political advantage, Republicans are resisting President Obama’s call for a bipartisan commission to cut the debt, although recent studies have implicated the tax cuts and spending policies of the years after 2000 when they controlled Congress and the White House. Even seven Republican senators who had co-sponsored a bill to create a commission nonetheless voted against it recently. The New York Times
They voted against their own commission! During a time when all Americans are concerned with the economy, and with our seemingly endless growth in national debt, the Republicans are playing games. I have often stated that I believe political parties are treasonous, most of the time placing the good of the party ahead of the good of America. I believe that to be true of both parties, and for that reason, I believe political parties ought to be outlawed in America. The Republicans are just making my case against political parties easier. For that matter, they are making the case that Independents have the right idea about party affiliation, as in, the best affiliation is no affiliation.
This case is clear-cut.
The president is not giving up. On Thursday, administration officials say, he will sign an executive order establishing the 18-member National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. He also will name as co-chairmen Alan K. Simpson, a former Republican Senate leader from Wyoming, and Erskine Bowles, a moderate Democrat from North Carolina who, as President Bill Clinton’s White House chief of staff, brokered a 1997 balanced budget agreement with Congressional Republicans.
“There isn’t a single sitting member of Congress — not one — that doesn’t know exactly where we’re headed,” Mr. Simpson said in a telephone interview Tuesday just before word of his role got out. “And to use the politics of fear and division and hate on each other — we are at a point right now where it doesn’t make a damn whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican if you’ve forgotten you’re an American.” The New York Times
You go, Alan Simpson! Oops, wait…he’s a Republican. How can he bash his fellow Republicans like that?
Maybe it’s because unlike this current brand of Republicans, he’s not a traitor.
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