House Republicans Show Themselves To Be Dangerously Incompetent, Again

[highplainsdem]

From Josh Barro at Business Insider:

http://www.businessinsider.com/house-republicans-show-themselves-to-be-dangerously-incompetent-again-2013-10#ixzz2hq3HVcmM

The only stunning thing is that anyone still looks at House Republicans and says: "You know what would be great? Giving these people more power over public policy."

Roughly one-third of this caucus thinks hitting the debt ceiling and shutting down the government are great strategies to try to stop Obamacare. The other two-thirds of the party has realized all along that this strategy sucks, but they could not find any way to stop their party from implementing it — even though these "reasonable" Republicans outnumber the crazies.

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) was on CNN today saying that his party's strategy for the last month has been lunacy. Well why the hell didn't he do anything to stop it? Why didn't he join with Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) and stop the shutdown in its tracks on Sept. 30? Where is his sense of responsibility?

Can you imagine the situation this country would be in if Republicans controlled both houses of Congress right now? Or if we had a President whose administration gets jerked around by Heritage Action in the same way that House Republicans do? It would be a trainwreck, and "reasonable" Republicans like Nunes would still be on television saying they understand it's a trainwreck, but by golly, operationally, they had no way to stop it.

There is no serious argument for Republican governance right now, even if you prefer conservative policies over liberal ones. These people are just too dangerously incompetent to be trusted with power.

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[myrna minx]

1. The thought of Republicans having *more* power is just chilling to the core. K&R