So now even legislation they support, or even came up with in the first place, they reject if it gets the imprimatur of the President. This is getting down right Dali Surrealist. The latest, as you probably heard, is rejecting a call to have a commission formed to figure out how to reduce the deficit: www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/2/2/832963/-Horrors%21-Republicans-Find-a-Deficit-They-Dont-Like. The line among some is that instead we need a commission to reduce spending (not, God forbid, raise taxes on the rich!)
The American people, on the other hand, seem to be growing tired of partisan deadlock and some are pushing for change. Obama has finally started calling out Republicans on their obstructionist ways, inviting them to offer alternatives to their “no all the time” mantra: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/us/politics/03bipartisan.html?ref=politics&pagewanted=print. And a series of bloggers and pundits have moved beyond their keyboard quarterbacking to start an online campaign “Demand Question Time,” to hold regular, televised conversations like the exchange in Baltimore last Thursday (http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=93AC0124-18FE-70B2-A896F3733FD5234E).
Is this what representative democracy is about? Whose interests, exactly, are senators representing when they undiscernibly say no to anything and everything? Oh, that’s right – the corporate lobbyists who seem to run the party now. At least with the Supreme Court decision last week, they don’t have to hide their activity anymore. Go capitalism! Down with the Republic!
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An interesting day in the news, by the way. Another story seems to challenge the idea that torture is necessary to get information out of potential (or successful) terrorists: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/02/AR2010020203738_pf.html. Not that Obama has been that great on this issue so far.
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