New Republican Congress Is Already a Dangerous Failure

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The New Republican Majority is quickly living down to the expectations of America’s people of reason. Rather than govern, most members of the New G"NO"P Majority are still playing their political games at the expense of the American people (and despite the right-wingers’ denial, this includes the suckers that helped give them that majority).

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New Republican Congress Is a Dangerous Failure

by Fernando Espuelas

Give us a majority, and we'll show you what the GOP can do. That was the basic sales premise of the midterm elections. Controlling both chambers of Congress, Republicans would show Americans that their party is a governing party. No longer a chaotic, fragmented political entity in a constant battle between the "establishment" and the radicals, united Republicans would come together for the good of the nation -- and their own 2016 prospects.

Talk about overpromising and alarming underachievement.

Almost two months into the utopia pledged by Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) the Republican Party's wobbly act on the big stage is looking more like a circus every day.

Take, for example, Boehner's "signing ceremony" for the Keystone XL pipeline bill that will be vetoed by President Obama.

Boehner's ersatz version of a presidential signing ceremony is like a Monty Python sketch. The constitutional officer that cannot sign bills into laws "signs" a bill destined for the dustbin. Who is the audience for this show? Can there possibly be voters in the land who will be persuaded that passing a bill in Congress is equivalent to a law if the Speaker of the House signs it and the president wields his veto pen?

And it's a rare sight when a Speaker usurps the president's constitutional power to conduct foreign affairs by inviting a foreign head of government to address a joint session of Congress without consulting either the president or the opposition.

But that's not all -- this invitation to the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, has actually, for the first time in history, driven a wedge between Americans and Israelis. For friends of Israel like me, this blunder posing as clever political warfare is a tragedy. The sacred nature of bipartisan support of Israel, a tradition dating back to President Truman's recognition of the state of Israel and unqualified pledge of protection, has turned one of the last bipartisan issues in America into just another political football -- at the expense of Israel's security.

And why? Because Boehner did not want President Obama to interfere in his seemingly autonomous foreign policy. One likes to think that the leader of the House, the man standing two heartbeats away from the presidency, understands enough about foreign affairs -- and the near unitary role of a president of the United States to conduct them -- so as not to harm American interests. So if this damaging freelancing in the foreign affairs arena by Boehner is not incompetence, what is it? Hubris? Perhaps these are questions best not answered as the U.S. looks increasingly ridiculous on the global diplomatic stage.

Imagine Speaker Tip O'Neill (D-Mass.) inviting Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to address Congress without consulting President Reagan. That's right -- it's unimaginable. Or even the one-time revolutionary Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) dissing President Clinton by inviting some European ally that was challenging American policy in a very public and impertinent way? Again, never happened.

But Boehner is not just undermining the America-Israel alliance; he is also threatening to defund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) even as the threat of terrorism inexorably increases. For example, Italy, one the world's largest economies, a NATO ally and key pillar of the European Union, fears an Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) invasion after the savage murders of journalists in Paris, the echo attacks in Copenhagen and the slaughter of Egyptian Christians on a Libyan beach.

Is it hard to war-game that ISIS leaders are looking at the potential defunding of America's Homeland Security apparatus as a strategic opportunity?

By now, there is probably no one in America who is not aware of the GOP's visceral disgust with undocumented immigrants. From ad hominem attacks, to multiple attempts to defund the Dreamers program so as to deport them, the GOP has employed almost every tactic imaginable to make 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney's auto-deportation vision a reality.

But sometimes our imagination fails us.

One is challenged to find a parallel in Republicans' threat to create a gap in America's defenses by defunding DHS just so that immigrants can be hounded out of the country. Perhaps the last Republican Congress's threat to revoke ObamaCare by forcing the U.S. into a default of its national debt, an act specifically prohibited by Section 4 of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, comes close.

Interestingly, both maneuvers -- the attempt at mass deportations by national security crisis and killing ObamaCare by causing a global financial collapse -- share a basic similarity: Republicans have threatened with different versions of Armageddon if they can't get their way.

If "end of days" politics is all the new Republican majority can offer, certainly its days controlling Congress will come to an ignominious end after the 2016 election.

Fernando Espuelas



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Yeah standard liberal hyperbole fear mongering bull(*)(*)(*)(*).

 

Copyright that phrase - but be quick!

 

Dangerous??? Only a fool would call a Congress that wants to control spending, increase jobs, and follow the Constitution dangeous.

 

Shortly after Republicans seized power, there were millions of people across the nation participating in "I can't breathe" protests. Millions of people took to the streets to announce that they wanted something done to end the police state. Clearly, this was a time for action from anyone who truly believes in smaller government and the restoration of the Bill of Rights. There would have been plenty of support.

What was the Red Party response? They were focused on a bill that would throw Americans out of their homes so a foreigner could build a pipeline. Well. It had been six long years since the Republicans were able to ruin the life of an American while handing our country to any foreigner who agreed to give a Republican a nickel. They were probably going through withdrawals.

Does Al Qaeda hate Americans half as much as the Red Party hates us? Jobs for China and jails for Americans. It's all we'll ever see from the Red Party. If they claim they're up to anything else then a Republican is not only an American hating traitor but he's a liar too.

 

Has the author of this article ever thought that passing bills that many think can create jobs isn't a bad idea, even if the President is against it? When all is said and done, if Congress passes a bunch of bills and the President vetoes many of them, is it the Congress not doing their job? It will be up to the people to decide who is not doing their job in the next election.

Please, Boehner undermining Israel/American relations? It's been at an all time low long before Boehner ever invited Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to Congress. Obama has done more to hurt Israel/American relationships than most Presidents before him. He pissed off both Israel and Saudi Arabia by selling out Mubarak of Egypt. The only Arab leader dedicated to keep the peace with Israel, be a go between in Israel/Palestinian disputes and a man who protected Israel's border by help keeping weapons being brought into Gaza, via Egypt. Saudi Arabia is now worried if the Saudi's rose up in protest, will Obama sell them out too. Israel has no faith in Obama to keep his promise not to allow Iran to have nuclear weapons.

Who is it that is bringing the funding of Homeland Security to a boiling point? It's Obama and Democrats. They would rather put our country at risk for the sake of forcing 5 million illegals on America. Why? Obama said himself before being elected, all these illegals weren't good for the country, Blacks, or the Blue Collar worker. But here we are, Obama and his Democratic leaders pushing as hard as they can to do something they know is not good for this country. Why?

 

Why is easy. They expect that 75% of them will vote Democrat.

 

Yes the Republican Congress is a failure just as the old Democratic congress was an abject failure and just like the next congress will be an abject failure.

So...is thar supposed to be news?

 

Look at the bright side. They haven't been so stupid they've passed a 2,000 page bill to destroy healthcare that they didn't bother reading and they weren't so snarky they told people they could find out what was in it when it was too late.

 

It is generally agreed that the Reid/Pelosi led Congess was the worst in the history of the country.

 

Keep dreaming Republicans always spew that bull(*)(*)(*)(*) but never follow through.

 

That's because they'll NEVER win against you collectivists

They'll always have to keep fighting you by going to work each day,and working for the things they both need and want....and not be dependent on a nanny state to do it for them.

 

So that's the excuse when under bush they wasted how many billions of dollars hahahaa

 

obamallamamama doubled that wasteful spending on upholding Bush's policies.

Imagine that.

But who cares about facts, right?

 

Who is Fernando Espuelas?

And why would anyone care about his opinion?

Edit: Never mind...should have known!

 

Funny it looks like the Senate Democrats are now whining like you.
Senate Democrats Block DHS Funding Bill That Guts Dreamer ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/03/senate-dhs-funding_n_6599962.html
Feb 02, 2015 · Senate Democrats Block DHS Funding Bill That ... have funded the Department of Homeland Security while gutting ... of holding funding for DHS ...

 

No Obama had to finally deal with the (*)(*)(*)(*)ty policies of Regan, Bush 1, Bush 2, and Clinton. He also cut the deficit and did far more than those four presidents combined. Despite what right winger think. The real reason why the right hates Obama is he actually has the stones to get things done. Republicans have had control for years and I cannot think of one good thing they have done. They point the finger at the problems then they do not do anything about them. The Republican base does not care they will vote for them anyways as long as they are "Christians"

 

It's NOT an excuse.....It's the cold hard facts,and youtrying to make a joke out of the facts tells me just why we won't ever really win.

You collectivists are on the side of entropy.

 

I thought we hated him because he was black?

You silly guys on the left are always changing your story aren't you?

 

Excuse me whilst I play my tiny violin, as you try and make excuse for Obama...

 

You would think that the widespread disgust expressed when they threw an ineffectual tantrum over nationalized RomneyCare and shut down Yellowstone National Park would have clued them in.

With Americans overwhelmingly supportive of comprehensive immigration reform, they're actually trying to foist their noxious agenda on the nation via yet another depraved ploy:

Anyone who wonders how a mediocre POTUS can possibly derive solace from an approval level in the high 40s might speculate that he just reads the Wall Street Journal, and chuckles when he sees Congressional Republicans at 23%!

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Well you people seem to have a bucket full for your conservative retards that ran up the debt. Atleast Obama does have some excuses and has cut the deficit something loser republican presidents failed miserably at

 

Sorry,but it's even more retarded to whine about how much 'they' ran up the debt,when your guy is adding even more

 

To me, that sound like excuses are being made.