Says House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA):
“Nothing can get through the House right now. Nothing.”
If the Republican House majority isn’t able to get anything done in the House of Representatives, then why exactly do they deserve to hold on to that majority in 2012?
After all, while some may disagree with the agenda pushed forward by Democrats when they held the majority in the House prior to the 2010 elections, at least Democrats were able to get things done.
Republicans on the other hand?
Well, they’re good at campaigning, but yet again they’ve proven they’re ineffective and clueless when given the responsibility of actually governing.
Republicans are a more natural fit (and good at being) an opposition party. When a party’s core philosophy is that government is an evil to be destroyed, it shouldn’t be surprising that they have problems, you know, governing. Foxes guarding the hen house and all.
^ This is meant as a dispassionate observation, btw.
I should really say conservatives…though today that’s pretty much synonymous.
This is what pisses off the business owners from what I talked to? They aren’t certain about the economy (thank you pointless bickering in congress) so they’re afraid to expand. This whole deficit fiasco is certainly not helping them gain confidence and the fact many businesses owners if you talk to them – certain portions like say trains, roads, rural broadband, enhancing the power grid, they’re generally for? They are just getting confused by because the debt is bad, debt is bad, when there are obvious answers yet the Republicans in power won’t see otherwise.
Like for example: they could just order the troops home. That would save a trillion dollars a year and you wouldn’t have to cut anything. No negotiating or political grandstanding required. Mind you I don’t think they can all be returned home at the same time without some serious security issues. We just need a swifter exit strategy, without putting any more of our troops lives at risk. It would have been nice if we never waged these maddening wars in the first place, but of course, many Republicans remind me that there is “no use crying over spilled milk” – nevermind comparing our soldiers to spilled milk is fucking disgusting.
And people wonder why I became a liberal.
I won’t even begin that a big reason unemployment rising back up is public sector job losses either.