Cry WHY WON’T HE LEAD, and let slip the thinkpieces of bipartisanship fetishism.

[kpete]

Enter Several And Various Villagers
Posted by Zandar at 10:22 am
Nov
18
2014

Ladies and gentlemen and various pets of the assembled, I give to you the Washington Post Editorial Board on President Obama’s executive action.

He is vowing to go it alone on immigration. On Iran, he is reportedly designing an agreement that he need not bring to Congress. He already has gone that route on climate change with China.

The legal or constitutional case for each is different, but the rationales overlap: Congress is broken, so Mr. Obama must act. Two-thirds of Americans did not vote in the midterms, and the president must represent them, too. He has tried compromise, and the Republicans spurned him.

We will not relitigate that last contention except to note that behind the legislative disappointments of the past six years lies fault on both sides.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/as-mr-obama-agrees-acting-alone-is-not-how-our-democracy-functions/2014/11/17/205916d0-6e82-11e4-ad12-3734c461eab6_story.html

Exeunt VARIOUS VILLAGERS, Stage RIGHT.

Six years into this farce where the Republicans met before the President took office and decided to try to destroy him and it’s still Both Sides Do It! It’s the fault of both sides the way serial arson is the fault of both the arsonist and the flammable objects that allow themselves to be immolated. And it always will be, now and forevermore, as the ashes swirl into lurid and provocative shadows dancing in front of the flames of the Republic, or something. Alas, and probably alack as well.



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[Prophet 451]

1. You're surprised by this?

Your national media is entirely corporate and corporations tend to lean conservative. They will never admit that Republicans are almost entirely to blame. Stop thinking they ever might.

[kpete]

2. surprised?

very little surprises me anymore

but that does not keep me from being ALARMED, DISSAPPOINTED, DISGUSTED, USED, HOPELESS AND DISMAYED.


never stops me though,

My bipolar disorders keep it all symetrical -

i keep cutting, pasting, marching, activating and hoping

my daughter-in-law calls me a skeptical-idealist



peace,
kp