Former President Bill Clinton on the GOP’s government shutdown:
“I’ve never seen a time– can you remember a time in your lifetime when a major political party was just sitting around, begging for America to fail?”
Fox News, Tea Party members, and conservative new and old media pundits willinsist Americans don’t see it this way but the truth is: today’s Republican Party is increasingly looking like a party that wants America to fail so they can then blame it on a President they detest, gain political power, then go in and pick up the pieces to enact a far right conservative agenda using power politics with no compromise allowed.
That is the bottom line on the imagery. Is it in accurate?
In politics perception equals reality and this means GOPers will keep their safe seats but the party seems on the way of becoming a losing political party in the next few Presidential elections because it only wants to lisen to its echo chamber.
Clinton feels Obama is right in not giving into GOP demands:
“If I were the president, I wouldn’t negotiate over these draconian cuts that are gonna take food off the table of low-income working people, while they leave all the agricultural subsidies in for high-income farmers and everything else,” he said. “It’s chilling to me. The entitlement spending is going down as the unemployment rate drops and the economy grows. Half of the deficit’s already disappeared. The rest of it just seems almost spiteful.”
That’s also part of the GOP’s image, whether party likes it or not: a party that uses power to go after the powerless.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.