It appears Republicans are not happy with last nights State of the Union address; the president, you see, was very divisive and did not recognize that Republicans winning recent elections—not the presidential election, mind you, but other elections—means that he is now supposed to do whatever Republicans want. “More intent on winning elections than on winning progress, he ignores the fact that the country has elected a Congress that favors smaller government and lower taxes,” Mitt Romney, the failed 2012 Republican nominee, who is moving toward another run, wrote on Facebook. And yet Barack Obama is sitting in the White House, and youre writing your responses on Facebook. Weve gotten to the point where even the losers of elections claim theyve been given a mandate. [...] The real problem, mind you, is this: National Republicans have expressed increasing frustration that Obama has not been more chastened since the November results, when Republicans took control of the Senate and expanded their House majority. Because when Republicans get hammered in elections they properly respond by bowing to Democratic ideas as the voters intended. You know what politics needs, more than any other thing? Politics needs fewer politicians who presume their listeners are complete idiots. Maybe telling the American people what the American people really want works well among some subset of the people that Mitt and Jeb and Ted Cruz need to appeal to, but most of the American people can tell pretty well for themselves what they want, and Barack Obama is doing just fine there. No, each and every election is not a mandate to do The Republican Thing, win or lose. I realize modern Republicanism does not recognize the legitimacy of the two-party system or the legitimacy of Democrats to partake in that system, but the opposing party still exists and still gets to pipe up with ideas. So sorry. Take deep breaths and try to cope.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 05:38:39 +0000
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