Most Americans know someone that continually makes the same wrong choices that are guaranteed to fail, and after several catastrophes, it appears the person just lacks the necessary skills to do something successfully. Some people are just naturally incompetent, or limited in their capacity to adjust their thinking and find solutions that will have some measure of success. Americans have witnessed Republican economic incompetence for the past 12 years and their limited capacity to both realize they are utter failures, and admit their approach to governing is detrimental to the nation has resulted in a disruption in Washington that is hampering economic recovery as well wasting taxpayer money on their salaries. There has been no dearth of accusations that Republicans in Congress are there for the sole purpose of bringing the government to a halt, and on Monday a conservative pundit put out a call for Republican candidates for office whose qualifications to serve are incompetence to keep government from working for the American people.
Erick Erickson wrote that “I am struggling to find good, disruptive candidates to challenge the established ways of Washington,” and touted conservative’s success in introducing the nation to the incompetence of Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Rand Paul who have indeed been instrumental in disrupting Congress and helping Republicans push their agenda that has proven time and again to be an utter failure. Part of the Republicans’ problem is that their incompetence is steeped in their inability to abandon their limited approach to governing consisting of entitlements for the rich, deregulation, eliminating services, and enforcing religious right edicts. It is true Republicans primary goal is obstruction for the sake of obstruction, but even that is founded in their gross inability to adjust their backward agendas and find any solution to the nation’s problems not rooted in their perpetual failed policies.
There was a Quinnipiac University poll released last Thursday that revealed an overwhelming majority (73%) of the American people said the economy and unemployment should be Congress’s top priority, and it is difficult to think the people would not expect their representatives to take whatever steps necessary to create jobs and spur economic growth. The Republicans’ affliction, though, is they are tragically clueless on how to create jobs or help the economy and it partly explains their obsession with finding a scandal to pin on President Obama. It is true Republicans are desperate to find something, anything, to portray the President as unfit to serve, but their obsession is also cover for their gross incompetence in doing anything to help the nation’s economy or create jobs. Subsequently, they have spent the past three-and-a-half years in the House passing worthless legislation to cut taxes for the rich, eliminate social programs, deregulate industry, and impose bible edicts on the American people that have never proven to grow the economy or create jobs, and their obstinacy to work with the President who offered to help the hapless Republicans has created a backlog of job programs guaranteed to work.
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Speaker John Boehner has said jobs were the Republican’s top priority, but he also said making abortion illegal was the party’s primary task for 2013 while there are jobs bills languishing on his desk. Yesterday in the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, an all-male panel voted to approve a measure that bans abortion after 20 weeks called the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act that has been struck down as unconstitutional by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just last month. The Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade prohibits states from banning abortion until the fetus is viable outside the womb. Regardless the matter of Christian’s directing Republicans to impose their beliefs on the nation, the law would not create one job or help the economy, but it gives the GOP cover to ignore millions of Americans looking for work.
On Monday, while congressional Republicans were getting media time pursuing so-called scandals against the Obama White House, a disruptive cretin from Oklahoma, Jim Bridenstine, stood on the floor of the House and impugned the President and claimed “The president’s dishonesty, incompetence, vengefulness and lack of moral compass lead many to suggest that he is not fit to lead.” The pursuit of scandals have not, will not, and cannot create one job or boost GDP growth, and yet as they claim jobs are their highest priority, they waste time and taxpayer dollars impugning the President because they are void of any ideas to help Americans struggling to find work.
Last month, after being railed on for four years by House Republicans, the Senate passed a budget, and because the Republican House budget is the same failed Republican economic policies that cannot stand up to scrutiny to help the economy, Republicans are refusing to work with Senate Democrats to find a solution that trims the budget, grows the economy, and creates jobs. Republicans have proffered the same failed “trickle down” and deregulation approach to manage the nation’s economy for over thirty years and instead of working with Democrats to find a viable solution that is not tax cuts for the rich and deregulating every industry, they pass a budget consisting of tax cuts for the wealthy, deregulation, and eliminating nearly all social programs that are guaranteed job and economy killers.
For a conservative pundit to call for more “disruptive candidates” ignores the simple truth that the entire Republican caucus in both houses of Congress are disruptive and prevent government from working to assist the people find jobs and spur economic growth. The only program over the past 12 years that has created jobs and helped the economy was the President’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that created millions of jobs for a pittance investment, saved the economy, and stopped the nation from hemorrhaging jobs after 8 years of Bush-Republican economic malfeasance; economic malfeasance they are wont to inflict on the nation anew because they just do not know anything else.
There is no doubt Republicans want to disrupt, and obstruct, the government from creating an economy that creates jobs, and they are desperate to portray the President’s administration as scandal-ridden to find a reason to remove him from office, but they also are grossly incompetent to manage the economy. In fact, they have been incompetent for thirty years and despite empirical data that their economic strategy of giving all of Americans’ assets to the rich, deregulating their favorite donors’ industries, forcing Christian ideology on the people, and destroying every social program in sight, they continue pushing the same policies they know are doomed to failure to cover their complete and utter incompetence.
Audio engineer and instructor for SAE. Writes op/ed commentary supporting Secular Humanist causes, and exposing suppression of women, the poor, and minorities. An advocate for freedom of religion and particularly, freedom of NO religion.
Born in the South, raised in the Mid-West and California for a well-rounded view of America; it doesn’t look good.
Former minister, lifelong musician, Mahayana Zen-Buddhist.
