Republicans: shameful adolescents

This is how low the Republican party has fallen.

FEMA is almost out of disaster relief money because of the unusual number of natural disasters we've experienced this year.  So what do the House Republicans do?  They devise a spending bill they know will be totally unacceptable to the Democrats in the Senate.  It includes less money for disaster relief than the Democrats want. But that's not all.  They made it even more unacceptable by offsetting part of these relief funds by cutting a program popular with the Democrats, and it creates jobs!  Stupid. 

But even that wasn't enough to get the nuttiest House Republicans on-board, so the bill got voted down.  To get more support from the loons, John Boehner then added "...and all mothers of Democratic Senators are whores" (or something to that effect) to the bill and that got enough Republicans on board to pass it. 

Then the House left town on vacation.  Again.

Now the Democrats in the Senate have a choice: pass a totally stupid, unacceptable bill and provide SOME relief to disaster victims, or let FEMA run out of money while waiting for the Republicans to return to Washington.  Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that if this spending bill isn't passed by October 1, the entire government will shut down (sound familiar?)!  The trouble is, the House Republicans aren't scheduled to return to work until AFTER the deadline.

This is not governing.  This is shameful adolescent behavior.  But isn't that the Republican party has become, a bunch of spoiled adolescents who believe they are not only smarter than everyone else, they are also the only REAL Americans, and those who oppose them do so because they hate America.

It's obvious Republicans despise Democracy.  They believe the only people qualified to make our decisions is them.  Either they get to make all the rules to this game or they will shut down the government, take their ball, and go home.  True adolescent behavior.

--Trakker

Comments

[Dan D. Doty]

Don't know if anyone ever told you Trakker, but The United States Of America is a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy.

[horsec]

Bayesian inference grossly simplified for beginners

Given enough instances defining what a thing is not, a statistical conclusion can be drawn as to what a thing is. No conclusion can be drawn from a single instance of what a thing is not.

'A revolution is not a dinner party' is not useful information for anyone planning a revolt.

[Dan D. Doty]

The U.S is a Contitutional Republic.

The U.S is not a Democracy.

No where in The Contitution Of The United States Of America does the word Democracy appear.

Cows are not ducks.
And no matter how many cows you shove off a cliff, none of them are going to fly. The only thing you've done is find a way to make instant hamburger. This is what happens when you keep acting on the assumption that The United states is anything other then a Contitutional Republic.

Anything else is just a state of denial that does nothing , but harm.

[Trakker]

de‧moc‧ra‧cy (plural: democracies)
1 A system of government in which every citizen in the country can vote to elect its government officials

Yes, we all know that we elect people to represent us in Congress so that makes us a republic, but we are also a democracy (a representative democracy). Democracy isn't mentioned the Constitution because we weren't a democracy back then (only a relatively few had the right to vote in the early days of our nation).

Did I just hear a cow quack?

[Dan D. Doty]

Adding amendments doesn't change our form of government.
We are not a Democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic.
The only way to change that is to get rid of the Constitution; is your long term plan?

[horsec]

Maistre

It used to be said of Maistre, principally by his admirers in the nineteenth century, that he used the weapon of reason to defeat reason, of logic to prove the inadequacy of logic. But this is not so. Maistre is a dogmatic thinker whose ultimate principles and premises nothing can shake, and whose considerable ingenuity and intellectual power are devoted to making the facts fit his preconceived notions, not to developing concepts which fit newly discovered, or newly visualised, facts. He is like a lawyer arguing to a brief: the conclusion is foregone - he knows that he must arrive at it somehow, for he is convinced of the truth, no matter what he may learn or encounter. The problem is only how to convince the doubting reader, how to dismiss awkward or plainly contrary evidence.

- ''The Crooked Timber of Humanity : Chapters in the history of ideas'' by Isaiah Berlin, Knopf, 1991, ISBN 0-679-40131-8, pages 161, 162. Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism

[Dan D. Doty]

So Trakker, you finally decided to describe the way you think and believe.
Took ya' long enough

[Trakker]

"...the conclusion is foregone - he knows that he must arrive at it somehow, for he is convinced of the truth, no matter what he may learn or encounter. The problem is only how to convince the doubting reader, how to dismiss awkward or plainly contrary evidence.

That's the answer. Here's the question: "What trait do Republicans and fundamentalist religion adherents share?"

Nice.

[Dan D. Doty]

Answer: You hate them both.

[Trakker]

Dan, there are things in this world that are worthy of hate. I hate cancer. I hate gun owners who shoot their kids. I hate fundamentalist Muslims who stone their daughters to death or fly planes into buildings. I hate college-educated politicians who know climate change is NOT a hoax but tell their less-educated constituents that it is a hoax to get their vote because if they told the truth they wouldn't get elected.

I'm sure you hate things too. Hating something doesn't mean you are going to go crazy and kill someone. I use my hatred of cancer (my mother died of cancer) to spur me to donate money to find a cure.

I don't hate Republicans, I hate politicians who knowingly lie to their constituents and use their office to do things that will seriously harm people or this earth just to get elected. Republicans aren't the only ones who do it, but for as long a I can remember they have been the most prominent.

[Dan D. Doty]

Hate is a waste of my energy and my time. Cancer was never cured by being hated enough ( my Mother had lung cancer, hoping it doesn't return). Trakker, you are drive by hate and fear of people and things; not a wise way to go through life.

Now what I want you to do is very simple, but very, very hard.

I want you to read all the stuff you've written about Republicans, and tell me when you have done it.

[Trakker]

Now what I want you to do is very simple, but very, very hard.

Dan, I have no idea what you mean, but I do know that you remind me of my kids when they were about 12 and thought they knew everything about the world, telling me why I was wrong about so much. I didn't mind because I knew they would eventually see the bigger picture...and they eventually did. You, on the other hand, are not growing. There is nothing intellectual in your outbursts. Horsec is right, you start with the answers and try to pound the facts to fit it, though now that I think about it, you actually just ignore that facts because I don't think you understand them.

Let me leave you with this: smart people know the limits of their knowledge. They know the difference between truth and wanting something to be true. Smart people know when to look to others for advice and how to determine who to believe, who respects facts more than ideology. It's hard being smart, one has to work at it. Nothing in your writing indicates you've ever worked at it. It appears that you have certain people you rely on for all your political facts and never question it or do independent research before you spout off. That's why you don't add a thing to the conversation on this blog. You are better off posting on right wing blog of like-minded people.

[Dan D. Doty]

No Trakker, I'm trying to show you something about yourself.