10-01-2013, 04:46 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-01-2013, 06:05 PM by FireIceTalon.)
I would like to add:
The irony of all this is that the Republican party is doing this for the sake of obstruction as end in itself, which is what they have wanted to do since day 1 (Obama's election in 2008). They haven't even passed a SINGLE piece of legislation since winning the House in 2010. It's all to score political points to try and slander the other center-right party when the mid-terms come next year, but even yet more ironically, it is probably going to work AGAINST them. They have fought the Obama Administration tooth and nail on the AHCA (which is a pile of half-assed garbage anyway, but thats another story) and have lost every single time. Further, almost all sources show that the American public is more likely to blame their party, rather than the Obama Administration, for the current shutdown. I guess the results of the presidential election last year are a distant memory in their minds.
This so-called 'new conservative' party continues to shoot themselves in the foot politically, though of course in the big picture of things, the larger interests and agenda of both parties is met, since they retain their six-figure earnings through all this. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of federal workers will be unpaid and in many cases probably face difficulty making ends meet, while the US government occupies and bombs various other countries around the world since 'military function' remain open. This is also going to be just wonderful for working people who have IRA accounts or other interests in the stock market when it goes in the red for who knows how long due to this political fiasco. For the almighty 'Great Men' on Capitol Hill and the CEO's they serve, it is just a game for them - but for the rest of us, it is our livelihood at stake. So, in the midst of American capitalisms' latest failures, the very state apparatus that it protects it proves to be just as dysfunctional as the system itself. Gee, who would have thought?
The irony of all this is that the Republican party is doing this for the sake of obstruction as end in itself, which is what they have wanted to do since day 1 (Obama's election in 2008). They haven't even passed a SINGLE piece of legislation since winning the House in 2010. It's all to score political points to try and slander the other center-right party when the mid-terms come next year, but even yet more ironically, it is probably going to work AGAINST them. They have fought the Obama Administration tooth and nail on the AHCA (which is a pile of half-assed garbage anyway, but thats another story) and have lost every single time. Further, almost all sources show that the American public is more likely to blame their party, rather than the Obama Administration, for the current shutdown. I guess the results of the presidential election last year are a distant memory in their minds.
This so-called 'new conservative' party continues to shoot themselves in the foot politically, though of course in the big picture of things, the larger interests and agenda of both parties is met, since they retain their six-figure earnings through all this. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of federal workers will be unpaid and in many cases probably face difficulty making ends meet, while the US government occupies and bombs various other countries around the world since 'military function' remain open. This is also going to be just wonderful for working people who have IRA accounts or other interests in the stock market when it goes in the red for who knows how long due to this political fiasco. For the almighty 'Great Men' on Capitol Hill and the CEO's they serve, it is just a game for them - but for the rest of us, it is our livelihood at stake. So, in the midst of American capitalisms' latest failures, the very state apparatus that it protects it proves to be just as dysfunctional as the system itself. Gee, who would have thought?
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)