A Tale of Two Parties

by JASmius

....The Evil Party and the Stupid Party, to be precise.

If there's one thing the Evil Party - i.e. the Democrats - are not, it is stupid.  They know nothing of any facet of public policy; they just think they know all of it, which is why whenever they get power they totally FUBAR the country; what they do genuinely know all about and at which they are the unparalleled best is propaganda manipulation and politics - elsewise, they wouldn't keep getting back into - and now retaining - power.  Part and parcel of that skill is the seemingly instinctive ability to all be on the same propaganda page, which is a big portion of why they always seem to get what they want.

Case in point:

Opposition is mounting against Lawrence Summers as a possible pick for the next Federal Reserve chairman – with four Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee expected to vote "no" if President Barack Obama nominates him.

Jon Tester on Friday became the latest member to announce his opposition.

"Senator Tester believes we need a consensus builder to lead the Federal Reserve. He's concerned about Mr. Summers' history of helping to deregulate financial markets," said Andrea Helling, spokeswoman for the Montana Democrat.

Tester also suggested Summers is far more chummy with Wall Street than Main Street.

Summers was President Clinton's Treasury secretary, and his backing for banking deregulation in the 1990s has been blamed for sowing the seeds of the 2007-2009 financial crisis that ultimately led to a massive taxpayer bailout of Wall Street.

"The senator thinks it is vital to have a chair who appreciates the important role small community lending institutions play in financial markets," his office said.

It's textbook, really: "banking de-regulation" didn't lead to the Panic of 2008, it was the result of deliberate Democrat sabotage through the Donk-subverted Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, protected from Capitol Hill by the conveniently departed Christopher Dodd and Barney Frank, designed to collapse the economy so as to stampede voters into handing Democrats the magnitude of power they needed to "wrenchingly transform" America to the Soviet Socialist model via such things as Hogzilla, ObamaCare, and - wait for it - the Dodd-Frank Financial Fascism Act.  Otherwise known in these parts as the Democrat Financial Logic Bomb, or "Do-It-Yourself Depression," without which Barack Obama would still be bringing Bill Clinton his coffee in Harlem.

Instead, the fictional Party Line is still official state policy, all Dems line up behind it, and whaddaya know, they got what they wanted:

Lawrence Summers, seen as President Barack Obama's first choice to replace Ben Bernake as chairman of the Federal Reserve, has taken his name out of the running, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Summers, who served as treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton and as chairman of Obama's National Economic Council, called Obama Sunday to inform him of his decision.

"I have reluctantly concluded that any possible confirmation process for me would be acrimonious and would not serve the interest of the Federal Reserve, the administration or, ultimately, the interests of the nation's ongoing economic recovery," Summers wrote in a letter that followed Sunday's phone call, the Journal reported. 

Summers' nomination has been opposed by liberals and women's groups over statements he has made while serving as president of Harvard University. He also has been opposed by Democratic members of the Senate Banking Committee who see him as a symbol of the failures of financial regulation.

FWIW, if I'd been on the Senate Finance Committee, I'd have voted to confirm Summers because he was the best replacement for Helicopter Ben we were ever going to get out of Dear Leader.  But Democrats, you see, do not "settle"; they do not "compromise," particularly when they are in a position of strength, as they are in the Senate.  By Barack, they want a dollar-destroying, hyperinflationist Marxist in the Fed Chair, and they're not going to accept anything less than that.  And the Regime - which, of course, shares those sentiments - complied.

Behold the stark raving contrast with the riven (as usual) GOP on the other side of the Capitol:

A serious rift that has been called a "civil war" in House GOP ranks threatens to challenge House Speaker John Boehner's leadership as Congress grapples with Obamacare and a new spending bill.

The Capitol's respected The Hill newspaper reported Sunday that "Republican lawmakers are growing increasingly frustrated with what they say is a lack of communication from their leaders."

The paper says both "centrist and conservative members" believe that "Boehner and his lieutenants" could have laid out a better strategy in dealing with the implementation of Obamacare and calls for its defunding.

Now the House faces a dilemma: either shut down the government over Obamacare or continue its funding in full.

The party's grassroots has been demanding a full defunding, but the House leadership has been disconnected from the party's grassroots, some members tell the Hill.

"The leadership, because of other obligations they have during the August recess to raise money and meet with groups, may not have had as many town hall meetings in their specific districts as rank-and-file members, and so they may not have been aware of how strongly the message was delivered to those of us who did stay in our districts the entire August recess," Representative Cynthia Lummis, R-WY, told the Hill.

The Hill quotes several GOP lawmakers who now say the party is "leaderless."

Where to begin, where to begin.   How about with the "grassroots," who are highly skilled at making demands of their own leadership and highly deficient at understanding the political and power realities that make their demands functionally unmeetable.  Or the "centrists," who have "gone native" sufficiently to have rendered themselves Dunsels to the lost cause of saving the American Republic and have opted to "eat, drink, and be merry" before the onrushing fiscal tsunami.  When you take both factors into account, it becomes perfectly understandable why Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Cantor and Majority Whip McCarthy and the rest of the House Republican High Command aren't terribly eager to communicate with this ungovernable bunch.  What's the point of attempting to lead a caucus that wouldn't recognize the proverbial "same sheet of music" if it came out of the communal replicator?  And you wonder why Boehner is contemplating retirement?

The difference, my friends, is unity.  The Democrats, whatever internal differences they may have, are always unified publicly.  The Republicans couldn't unify if their hair was on fire.  Which is why the GOP now really is in a perpetual state of "civil war," and why the "Transformational Express" is towing the wreckage of the Founders' creation merrily toward that Stalinist safe harbor, unopposed and unimpeded.