Something Is 'Terribly Wrong In Washington'

by JASmius

.....and Representative Greg Walden (R-OR2), in the GOP's weekly opposition response to The One's weekly radio spiel, shows his party's obtusity that is such a big part of what's so terribly wrong:

Barack Obama "denies his failures instead of learning from them," said National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Greg Walden in Saturday's GOP weekly address, and the nation is "fed up" with Washington....

The Obama administration is one that "trusts government, that spends rather than saves, that believes change comes from desks in Washington," said Walden.

The problems start at the top, said Walden, with a president who is "disengaged when he should be leading," and who is "so unwilling to challenge or even manage the big bureaucracies that our government cannot provide basic services to our veterans."

Congressman Walden, I do not have a Tea Party temperament, so I'm not going to reflexively hurl taunts and jabs of "RINO!" and "establishment!" at you.  That kind of thing is perjorative, fratricidal foolishness that makes enemies of natural allies.  I firmly, even stubbornly, believe that we're all stronger together than at each other's throats, that we cannot divide ourselves against each other now, of all times, when the Republic has been lost and the final chances of even resurrecting it are slipping through our fingers.  So I want to assure you that I approach you as a friend and comrade in arms in this uphill, twilight struggle.

Now, then: You still don't get it.  Or you do get it but are afraid to say it for fear that the media will fricassee you like barbecued pulled pork butt.  Barack Obama has not "failed".  He is not "disengaged".  He is leading.  He's just leading 180 degrees in the wrong direction, for the purpose of producing the one policy disaster after another that has provided him with the additional crises he needs to exploit in order to move the country toward the "fundamental transformation" endgame that is now coming over the horizon and into sight.

It's no accident that his tyrannical rule by executive decree has become more and more pervasive the more that his supposed "failures" have piled up.  Take ObamaCare as an always useful example: Barack Obama tried to sell it with a fire hose of BS promises that would have had Joe Isuzu doubled over with the dry heaves.  The public didn't buy it, so the Donk SuperCongress shoved it down our throats in one of the most spectacular circuses of political corruption in American history.  As the reality of ObamaCare began to manifest itself, O began to illegally tinker with it, issuing blizzards of waivers to his cronies, fellators, and protection-payers, legislating under cover of regulating by delaying the individual and employer mandates multiple times, allowing federal subsidies for policies purloined on the federal cartel (healthcare.gov), and barring Congress from opening the Unaffordable Care-Less Act back up for fear that he'd lose the Article I, Section 1 power he stole in the first place.

It isn't that he honestly thought ObamaCare would work as advertised; he knew everything he was saying was crap.  It's called "fraud".  And that fraud enabled him to amass vastly more power than that to which he was and is legally entitled, and correspondingly expand his control over the States and the American people.  That's not a "failure," Congressman; that is an unqualified success.

That dynamic has extended throughout everything else this president has done.  O-Care, doubling the national debt, the permanent economic depression, all his various, sundry, and outrageous scandals, the disastrous results of the Obama Doctrine abroad, the border crisis.  Do you really think that each and every one of these debacles is a "failure" about which he "didn't know any better" and from which he "refuses to learn"?  Nobody is that noodle-headed outside of a mental institution (if they even still have those things).  Okay, maybe Nancy Pelosi, but she's the exception that proves the rule.

This seeming inability of you and your colleagues to come to grips with the fact that Barack Obama is not bumbling boob but darn-near-masterful revolutionary is a great deal of why many Americans are "fed up".  They see what False Messiah is and what he's doing, they're doing what they can, as the people of Murrieta, California, heroically demonstrated a month ago, and then they look at their House majority continuing to soft-pedal the dictator, giving him a pass on his Ameriphobic motivations about which he's never been shy, and engaging in lame confrontation-ducking gestures like its lawsuit that won't accomplish a blessed thing instead of engaging the domestic enemy, calling a spade a spade, as it were, and using the constitutional powers the Framers gave the legislative branch, like the power of the purse and, yes, the "I" word.  They're horrified at what's been done to the country they grew up in and no longer even recognize, and they don't see anybody standing up for them, taking on his infernal majesty, and trying to take it back.

Now I understand the reality of numbers and how House Republicans really don't have a whole lot of options from that small platform.  I also get it that timing is important and that full frontal attack is not always the best course of action.  Sometimes a little strategy is necessary, as Bugs Bunny used to say.  But there's a difference between strategy and running away.  And when you do the latter often enough, people are going to start, well, getting fed up.  There comes a time beyond which being seen as standing with the people (nowhere more so than on the border crisis, where four-fifths of Americans are already standing with you) supercedes being seen as "working with the president" for a "solution" in which he has conclusively dcmonstrated  he's not interested.  When good policy and good politics are two sides of the same coin.  And at a time when the GOP is poised on the cusp of what could be its biggest wave election blowout yet.

Congressman, now is not the time for you and your party to obstinately persist in not getting it.  Now is the time for you and your party to go for it.  Across the issue board, in every race, in every sense of the term.  Because I guarantee you, you will not get another.