The Republican Party Cannot Govern

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The Republican Party Cannot Govern
As a result, healthcare is that much more affordable for a bit longer.
By Charles P. Pierce Mar 24, 2017


WASHINGTON—They cannot govern. The Republican Party as it is presently constituted, from party base to congressional leadership, is competent to do two things: complain and vandalize.

If that wasn't made clear last November, it was made clear this week, when the entire government was turned into the biggest, gooiest, chewiest clusterfck in the history of democratic politics. It was the base who elected not only president*, but also all the members of Congress who got promoted up through the ranks when a great number of them probably should have been left back in Bug Tussle keeping Them off the golf course at The Club.

The congressional Republican majority doesn't need the president* to help it step on its dick, although his presence does add to the inherent comedy of any situation. This mess in the House Intelligence Committee is almost exclusively an intramural affair.

Chairman Devin Nunes, a former Trump transition team member, has drained every ounce of the committee's credibility as an oversight body. Democratic senior member Adam Schiff—no, not that Adam Schiff—is dead right about this. Schiff got completely fed up on Friday, when Nunes called an early-morning press conference, at which he contradicted himself and continued to appear as though he was running cover for the White House, and then later announced that he'd canceled a public hearing scheduled for next week at which James Clapper, John Brennan, and defenestrated US Attorney Sally Yates were scheduled to testify.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a54119/republicans-cannot-govern/

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1. The GOP does not believe in government and so are bad at governing

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2. That's right

The republicans are a mindless howling mob perpetually jacked up on rage by Fox, hate radio and demagogue lying monsters like birther Dolt 45.

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3. But they love to run for government jobs

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4. All those freaks who were elected in 2010 and 2014 were not elected to

govern. They were elected to obstruct and blow up government. And it looks like they'll continue being the party of "No." It just worked out for us this time around.

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8. That's right

Anyone expecting this lynch mob party to suddenly turn around and start to govern this country effectively needs to put down the meth pipe and get a clue!

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5. k&r

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6. They hate simply too many people.

When you hate virtually everybody except older wealthy white males like yourself, it is very difficult to form any sort of policy which isn't tailored to benefit old wealthy white men. They are incapable of any sort of empathy towards people in need, or people different than they are. It's not in the wiring, so governing a nation of 320,000,000 diverse people is all but impossible.

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7. Why did he cancel the public hearing with Clapper, Brennan, and Sally Yates?

Shouldn't that be asked?