How bad can this Congress get?

There is a stalemate in Washington that is not based on anything logical. It is rather, based on immature “I didn’t get my way” thinking from the Tea party Right.  Jon McCain summed it up best Sunday on the rounds of the TV news Talk shows when he said, “They hate Obama. Nothing will pass with his name on it.”

That is your government at work.  Republican governors are so incensed at Obamacare that they are offering their own solution— far more liberal and costly to American taxpayer than the President’s. Why? Because they hate Obama.

The immigration plan set up by the White House. The Tea Baggers  are against it. Why?  (Even though its foundation was originally written by a senator from Arizona and a Congressman from California both Republicans…why do they not support it?  Because the Right hates Obama.  The plan came from his White House and has his stink on it.

This is the American government right now.

Someone the other day in one my circles was bemoaning the fact that the President was making so many Executive Orders (fewer than most Presidents in the last 35 years!) I said the reason he has had to do that is that Congress isn’t acting on anything. Not just voting it down. No that would take guts.  They are just sitting on stuff and letting it pile up.

I find this Congress most unpatriotic. After all, even the Democrats supported the W’s actions even after it was proven that he had led American down a false train of WMD.  He was still the President and a measure of respect was due the office. Not now. No longer. Not with the Tea party in control.

This is what you get when you let radical radio talk show hosts, run your country once removed. Congress is their political drone.