Why Aren't We Calling Republicans Obstructionists?

Written by: Michael Kuykendall on Feb 14, 2009 11:33 AM EST

Reconciling fact-based political positions against the ideological does not accord some form of nobility. Why isn't the GOP being labeled for what it is?

Good question, huh? Throughout the debate on Capitol Hill about the stimulus bill, and even now that it has passed, all the talk was about bipartisanship. As though reconciling fact-based political positions against the ideological accorded some form of nobility on the person attempting, fruitlessly, to wrangle GOP votes.

Here's how I see it- the Republicans are wrong. Dead wrong. This is not an opinion, but an empirical fact. Check some of my lists of the Bush administrations horrible mistakes, bungled administrative actions, outright violations of the Constitution, and you start to see a pattern; these guys are not good at governing. As Grover Norquist so famously put it, they want to reduce government down and then drown it in a bathtub. Why, so we can more easily regress back to the time of the Robber Barons?

So why is it, now that they have shit the bed for all the world to see (and suffer) and their pro-business, greed-oriented policy positions have been proven to be failures once and for all, now that the Democrats have won a resounding electoral victory... can someone please tell me why we are still listening and catering to these idiots?

Can we please move along, label them as the obstructionists they are, and go about the nation's business?

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