Luck's handmaiden: stupidity

It is perhaps a karmic sign or celestial "told you so" or merely a hellish reality that the Number One reason Speaker Boehner is headed for reelection next week is that House Republicans have screwed themselves nearly as much as they've screwed America. Said one, "There’s no 'better plan' to get the House GOP out of this mess, i.e., 'If I were speaker, I would do "X" as an alternative.'"

I've yet to watch President Obama's appearance on "Meet the Press," but according to a just-in news alert he reissued on the program his understatement that Republicans "have had trouble saying yes"--a manifestation of borderline personality disorder for whose intervention the president knows that he, too, should thank either heaven or hell. Because in fiscal-cliff negotiations he moved on revenue, moved on spending, moved on stimulus, moved on a debt-ceiling prohibition and moved on entitlements. If Republicans had simply had the good sense to exploit these gratuitous appeasements, the president would have had nothing but hell to pay with his base.

History will marvel for centuries that Republicans could have ever been so inexpressibly stupid, and Obama, so lucky.

Comments

[AnneJ]

Is there ANYTHING Obama can do without those wingunts? They're barely fit to be seen out in public without supervision why do we have to depend on them to get a deal done?

[Anonymous]

Or maybe it's not Obama's luck, but rather his intelligence at work. He knows that these lunatics could never accept this deal(s), so why not offer it and make himself look reasonable... then later get the deal he really wanted when they have no choice but to accept it.

[Susan Zoon]

Anonymous - Could not agree more.

[Robert Lipscomb]

Several years ago, I had an epiphany that there is a distinct difference between me being "correct" and me being "right".

i suspect that many voters who think the GOP might be correct about many things are no longer right in behavior.

[Peter G]

Yes indeed. There was a very small chance that the Republicans might have said yes to the president's proposals. There was a similar chance that the Mayans were right. The only ideologically acceptable "compromise" for the Republicans is for the Democrats to agree to gut all social programs and take the blame for it while at the same time giving all credit for tax cuts to themselves. The outage within the Republican caucus for the failure of Democrats to see the fairness of this proposal is palpable.

[Peter G]

I don't know if there is anything Obama can do without them Anne J. It is possible SCOTUS might support the contitutionality of the president honoring the full faith and credit of the government. That would take a while to resolve. There is something Obama could threaten to do to them. There is nothing I see that prevents him from threatening to support right wing nut primary challenges to
Republicans if they don't come to Jesus. they,re pretty good at raising money and nothing says they can't "help" the Republicans with it.

[Thrasymachus]

Voltaire once remarked that he had only ever prayed this single prayer: "Lord, make my enemies ridiculous."