The GOP is being completely honest

[kpete]

SUN JUL 24, 2011 AT 09:04 AM PDT
The GOP is being completely honest
byMark Sumner

The Tea Party formerly-known-as-Republicans is all about the hate.

They may dress up in some Uncle Sam suits and wave some paper flags, but they've done the math -- they hate the president much, much more than they love the country. By a factor of, oh, twenty zillion to one. And that's on a day when they're feeling generous. Their hatred for the president so outweighs anything else that they've made a simple decision: they're willing to sink the ship on the off chance that the captain will drown.

That's not an exaggeration. It's exactly what McConnell and Boehner are saying when they refuse to make a deal on the basis that it might help President Obama win reelection in 2012. The full faith and credit of the United States is worth less to them than the opportunity to hurt this man. If the economy flags, if jobs are lost, if there is blood in the streets, its all dandy so long as these guys can look over and see that this will hurt Obama. A sizable number of Republicans -- a majority of Republicans -- have even signed onto the idea that they hate Obama so much that no matter the deal, no matter what else they're offered, they won't agree. Just because it could possibly help the president.

There's no hidden agenda here. They just hate you.

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[AlinPA]

1. Exactly. They want and need the default to hurt President Obama. nt

[BeyondGeography]

2. Same as it ever was

Figured it out, Barack? Are we all set now? No more "taking these folks at their word." It makes you look and sound weak and foolish, whether you believe it or not.

[TheKentuckian]

3. That is why I put little to no stock in "exposing" them

They are on the record and have pushed the same agenda forever.

Their underhandedness is they only use the fundies for cannon fodder and don't care about their agenda beyond votes and a base bloc for laying down authoritarian policies that promote profits for the heaviest hitters.

[in_cog_ni_to]

4. That is so true. Can't you just imagine the KKK backroom meetings in the Capitol building?

I wonder if a black President required them to pull out their white robes? This is all about race, but it still doesn't excuse Obama putting the big 3 on the chopping block. He didn't have to do that.

[Ruby the Liberal]

5. Risky gamble. They are the ones holding the time bomb now.

If it comes crashing down, it is Congress that is going to catch the heat, not the Executive office.

[Sherman A1]

6. They may be holding it, however it is

the people that will feel the explosion.