When Is Enough Enough?

[sheshe2]

To this day I still find it shocking that Republicans took great pride in their decision to deliberately sabotage the government! They broadcasted it shamelessly, stating their primary goal was – not to govern, but – to make President Obama a one-term president!

Theirs was an audacious goal and an even more audacious dereliction of the duties attached to their jobs, and Republicans have continued to play the ‘Block-the-President’ game since 2009 with painful repercussions for civilians and veterans alike. The fact they have been able to get away with deliberately hurting actual citizens for so long, even after the majority of Americans gave the Obama-Admin a second term, is scary. In addition, watching them in action it is hard not to conclude that the media have played a major role in encouraging the Republican leadership to dismiss the result of both elections. The MSM have done so, IMO, by not highlighting, en masse, GOP malfeasance when it occurred, and not calling out the fact that Republicans have a tendency to routinely ignore results that don’t go their way.

“If democracy means anything it means that, if you are outvoted, you accept the results and prepare for the next election. Republicans are refusing [have refused] to do that. It shows contempt for the democratic process.” ~Thomas Friedman – NYTimes

The Republicans’ persistent obstruction has been the only issue on which GOP politicians have been consistent, and unfortunately no one (other than the president, and an odd media voice here and there) have challenged them consistently re this blatant disrespect to the American people. For over six years Republicans have loudly stated they would not do their jobs; and they not only haven’t done so, they have faithfully, religiously, and gleefully stood in the path of others attempting to do theirs. They have tried blackmail tactics re budgets, engineered one government shutdown (and are muttering about another), and have attempted dozens of repeals of the same law] all while collecting a handsome salary! Nowhere has evidence been found that Republicans have once considered the impact of their non-participation in governing on average Americans who may be suffering through difficult financial times. In fact, they actually celebrated their decision to shut down the government in 2013!!!

This is unconscionable behaviour – behaviour that Republicans have been able to perpetuate to their advantage over the years! Tell me, why is there no mechanism in place to curb this type of bad faith governing? That the nation has to suffer through deliberate and destructive tactics for years until the next election shows a weakness in the system that ought to be addressed, don’t you think? Americans young and old – veterans, food stamp recipients, underpaid women and others – all have been caught in the trenches of the GOP war against one man – the president of the USA! There is little doubt that the Republican Party’s total focus on thwarting any recovery President Obama tries to accomplish has hurt the nation fiscally in different ways.

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[dae]

1. Agreed, and thank you for posting!

[BlueJazz]

2. I'll also point out that the Democrats have treated Republican presidents a hell-of-a-lot better..

...than the other way around.

[passiveporcupine]

3. Agreed Sheshe

But unfortunately, there are also a lot of Democrats who seem to hate Obama and that hurts me a lot more than Republicans hating him.

[davidpdx]

4. We know the answer

Never. The Republicans are gong to continue to do what they are doing until the final hour that President Obama leaves office. We'd be foolish to expect anything else. The Republicans will NEVER change, they will NEVER moderate.

Question: How do you know a Republican is lying?

Answer: They are moving their mouths.

[Milliesmom]

5. And yet we let them get elected again!

I hope no one sits at home ever again thinking their vote will not help or change anything, every vote counts!

[Enthusiast]

6. It's pretty obvious ain't it?

A black man was elected president and they lost their fucking minds.

[lpbk2713]

7. OxyRush said it before Obama's first inauguration. Then denied it.

Link: http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2009/01/19/limbaugh-i-hope-obama-fails-but-rushs-recent-record-stinks/

He denied it and then his own words came back to haunt him.

[Cha]

8. As Donna NoShock says.. That's the way it's been since 1/09.." It ain't gonna change now, she..

Donna NoShock ?@NoShock
And so Ladies & Gentlemen that's the way it's been since January '09 but the MSM ignores that piece of information.
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Thanks, for highlighting this unprecedented Obstruction thrown at President Obama, from the goPropaganda machine once again, she!

[Gothmog]

9. The GOP hatred of President Obama is really sad

The GOP's hatred for President Obama is real and has hurt our government