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VioletGray -> Obama-obsessed derangement of the GOP (7/26/2011 7:21:50 PM)
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When I was young I used to read the "Tales from the Crypt" graphic novel. In there was a story that began mere seconds after an obsessive compulsive man had just murdered another man in his own home. The victim had served him dinner and given him a tour of his house, so all throughout the place he had left his finger prints on many things including silverware and antiques.
He decided that he had to clean everything he had touched before the police arrived, so he spent all night cleaning so obsessively that the following morning the cops arrived to find him still at the crime scene, engrossed to the point of ignoring their presence entirely. By the end of the story, as the cops were leading him out into the squad car he stopped, took a napkin out of his pocket and cleaned the very last thing: the doorknob. Then, smiling madly he gave the door a triumphant slam and followed the policeman off to jail.
The crux of the story was that his paranoia had driven him so mad that he became obsessed with the task itself and lost sight of why he was doing it in the first place.
First, let me give some quotes from Mitch McConnell:
"The single most important thing we want to achieve is for Obama to be a one-term president."
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"I refuse to help Obama get reelected by marching republicans into a position where we have co-ownership of a bad economy"
And here's a quote from Donald Trump just the other day, suggesting that the GOP should let the default happen so that Obama won't get elected:
"Frankly the Republicans would be crazy unless they get 100 percent of the deal that they want right now to make any deal"
"When it comes time to default, they’re not going to remember any of the Republicans' names. They are going to remember in history books one name, and that’s Obama."
Now why do I include Donald Trump even though he's not a political player? One, because I do believe that his approach exemplifies the strategy of the Republican party to an extent and two, because Fox News, an important branch of the republican party has decided for some reason to give him a platform on-air to spew his verbal waste.
The START treaty. The Debt Ceiling. Do you know what these things have in common? They used to be pretty much routine and now they're not. The people in the GOP voted 19 times to raise the debt ceiling under Bush. Why is it so hard now?
Because the Republicans have lost sight completely of their vow to serve the country. The reason for their being has become to oppose Obama on everything. EVERYTHING. And they are willing to let us go into default, something that has never happened before, they are willing to hold the world economy hostage to stop Obama from doing anything that might help him in 2012. They are more worried about Obama getting elected than the welfare of the American people.
The obsessive man from the story is the GOP. The "task" is complete shutdown of Obama. They are so obessed that when the default leads us away in to the squad car, perhaps they'll be smiling madly too.
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