Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Wasting time and wallowing

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    Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives John Boehner seems dedicated to nonsensical wastes of time, including his current declared intention to sue the president of the United States.
    His tactics, which preclude even consideration of compromises, might be effective in a political campaign. Using the same tactics to create what has become a permanent campaign is not just farcical, it endangers the country.
    There is little reason to assume that Washington, D.C., will achieve any positive change in the next two years. Boehner has made it clear that having Republicans simply do nothing at all affords them tremendous power—the power of a huge boat anchor. The reality that this complete lack of work makes the nation weaker seems to have had no effect on the members of the radical right or on those moderates who refuse to stand up to them.
    Some people would like us to believe that there is little difference between the political parties in this unwillingness to work together. A recent Gallup Poll found that not to be true.
    Democrats were found to be far more willing to seek compromise, to cast unpleasant votes in order to keep legislation moving, than are Republicans.
    At the very time when major issues exist both domestically and overseas, opponents have refused to support any action of the president for virtually any reason at all. The list of issues that the Congress has chosen to ignore is long.
    It is ignoring warnings of the coming consequences of climate change, such as water shortages in California.
    The secretary of state is finding little support for appropriate responses to dangerous situations in Syria, Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan and Israel.
    Congress is unwilling to address the high cost of student loans and the effect they are having on the middle class and America’s ability to compete in a global economy.
    It has long refused to wrestle with rational immigration policies to provide both secure borders and a kind response to children seeking safety.
    Congress dithers, with representatives more worried about their plans for summer recess than about collapsing bridges and crumbling roadways.
    Why can’t the federal government meet the simplest and most obvious needs and services that our government can provide? Short of November’s election, Americans can only maintain the unlikely hope that Boehner and his partisans will get over their anger at Obamacare, drop their repeated threats of impeachment and frivolous lawsuits and find some time to pull the nation out of the political swamp in which it’s trapped and wallowing.

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