One might say that if the Republicans have lost Poland, they have lost the world. One of the few countries with officials who showed overt support for Mitt Romney during the 2012 campaign, this is the second op-ed this week written by Polish columnists lambasting House Republicans for closing down the federal government. For Rzeczpospolita, columnist Bartosz Weglarczyk writes that while House Republicans are ‘clowns’ that have turned America into a ‘laughing stock,’ the global ramifications mean that no one is laughing.
For Rzeczpospolita, Bartosz Weglarczyk kicks off his op-ed this way:
Republicans truly hate President Barack Obama’s health insurance reform, known as Obamacare. That is their sacred right. The reform also lacks the support of a substantial part of the American electorate. They have a right to criticize it and try changing the law by winning a majority in the Senate and putting their own candidate in the White House.
The fact remains, however, that the U.S. Congress has approved of this reform, the sitting president signed it, and the Supreme Court ruled on its legality. Moreover, the voters themselves confirmed it by choosing this president for another term. As we all know, the matter of health care reform was one of the main themes of the presidential election campaign. Republicans have wielded Obamacare like a baseball bat to pound Obama, but voters decided that this was not reason enough to throw him out.
In a democracy, that should be enough to end the debate and be done with it, but Republicans continue their efforts to derail reform. To this end, they have even decided to embark on taking hostage the most important project of the legislature in any free country – the federal budget.
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