Republicans hate America 7: Turn off that Speaker; Shut Down the Government!

"BALLS": The Heckler's Veto is in the Constitution

As the House Republicans continue to embarrass themselves, endanger America, and empower the worst enemies of the Nation with their perfidious incompetence, active ignorance, and outright hostility let us not deny what's happening here; Republicans hate America and want the Nation to fail, so they can replace the current iteration of the United States with a simulacrum, a Feudal Slave State held aloft by the Republican pillars of fundamentalist oppression, white supremacy, and rightwing domestic terrorism.

The stories emerging this morning, today, and tonight highlight how far into nihilistic buffoonery the Republicans party has descended.

However, in reality the dysfunction in the House accomplishes a prime goal of the shutting down the operation of the Government.  Republicans consistently do this (sometimes spectacularly e.g. January 6th) because Republicans hate America.

Republicans don't want a working Government and don't want America to be a functioning Nation.  Therefore, Republicans no longer have a governing ideology, or policy goals, and exist in a state of perpetual agitation, petulantly lashing out and nursing their hatred, anger and bigotry.  There is only one animating principle the modern Republicans can coalesce around which are Tax Cuts for the Rich and Tax Increases for the Poor and Middle Class.  My taxes went up, because of the Tax Plan the Trump/Republican Government from 2017 concocted.  It wasn't an oversight or a freakish confluence of factors but, a specific policy goal; one of the few things the Republicans can agree on.

The goal of all Republican governments is to shift the burden of the Nation onto the backs of the working and middle class until it becomes so onerous they are broken by it and everyone in the country is reduced to Penury and Corporate Peonage.  The Republican Party also knows the more they aid the obscene wealthy in hiding their ill-gotten lucre the more money will trickle into their campaign coffers.

Certainly, groups like The Federalist Society or the Heritage Foundation have some other goals in mind;  installing judges who roll back the Progressive Era and the political gains of the everyday Americans, and rolling back regulations on businesses or the Inflation Reduction Act or Obamacare.

But, this generation was raised on the bitter milk of Rush Limpballs and the non-stop lies of Faux News.   So, each tepid white Republican lines up in turn to be ritually humiliated and get fewer and fewer (or less and less) votes from their erstwhile party members.  These public humilations might be humorous if the world wasn't engulfed in flames in Ukraine and Palestine and if Americans weren't going to face numerous problems and set up by the rapacious Corporate vultures who look to fill in the void left by Republicans self-nullification.

Foxx: The OG MTG

The Republican Treason Caucus held their press conference to declare Mike Johnson of Louisiana is their next choice; which makes sense since he's a Fascist fundamentalist, the type I've been warning you about.  Anyway when Johnson was asked about his not inconsequential efforts to overturn American democracy and install Traitor Trump through bureaucratic legerdemain, the OG Major Traitor Greene, Virginia FoXXX reminded everyone of what a nasty bitter person she is by screaming "SHUT UP! SHUT UP!", much to the amusement of her male Republican colleagues.

How to "Save" the Republican Party

Step 1) Get President Obama to make Real and Substantial cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

Step 2) Triumphantly tell Wall Street Thieves they got the cuts they've always wanted while crying to the MSM they never wanted to cut Social Security or Medicare.

Step 3) Roll Social Security into Wall Street were the Trillions will be clipped, stolen and find its' way into a few thousand Cayman Island and Swiss Bank Accounts

Step 4) Run ads in every campaign for every office for the next 100 years that President Obama and the Democrat Party cut Social Security.

I don't care about the Republican Party except for the best ways to combat their evil actions and fascist goals. Right now, we have a chance to treat the Republicans the way conservatives want to treat poor people and the uninsured and "Let 'em Die!"

Sure, we might need functioning Parties in America, but what we need are political groups who represent American Values. And American Values are Center-Left, fiscally conservative, socially liberal and progressive in their make-up.

The Modern Republican Party is an Ultra-Reactionary cabal of Religious Zealotry, Gun Nuttery, Rank Bigotry, Vicious Inhumanity and Base Hypocrisy funded by Vulture Capitalists.

Remember George W(orst President Ever) Bush only started losing Public Support when he embarked on the Campaign to Steal Social Security. His favorability ratings began dropping with conservatives in 2005 after W declared he was going "to expend his political capital" and privatize* Social Security. Bush had been disliked by Liberals when he ignored the August 6th memo Bin Laden determined to Strike in US, when he lied American into War in Iraq over falsified connections to Al Qaeda and phony WMDs and when he approved Torturing people, but conservatives didn't mind any of that.

Since, then the American People have overwhelmingly rejected the politics of Republicans and their goals of Austerity, except for the infamous 2010 elections when the Plutocracy made a desperate Battle of the Bulge style lunge and inflicted the Faux populist Tea Party fanatics upon the Nation.

There has been a clear message of eliminating the disastrous Bush Tax Cuts, thwarting the Fascist Designs of the Party of the 1%, and a rejection of 35 years of Piss Down Our Back and Tell You It's Raining Reaganomics.

But, I'm worried that now having gained some momentum, President Obama will look to solidify his Legacy and that Neo-Liberals in his circle are telling him that He is the One who can change Social Security and that a Grand Bargain of cuts to Earned Entitlements for some window dressing changes to the Tax Code is the way to do it.

Of course, cuts to Social Security, which are overwhelmingly rejected by 90%+ of Americans, would indeed secure President Obama's Legacy... As the man responsible for saving the Ultra-Reactionary Republican Party and the Creation of the Neo-Feudalist Wage Slave State.

*- whenever a Republican says privatize it means steal.

Conservatives are just aching to Start the Slaughter

they are fervently searching for a casus belli to make their murderous designs and blood-letting urges Righteous.

“I will remind you that this group of renegades that decided that they wanted to break from the crown in 1776 did great damage to the economy of the colonies. They created the greatest nation and the best form of government, but they did damage to the economy in the short run.” Republican Morgan Griffith.

The Republican Party, a group worse than Al Qaeda, is not so subtly enticing their duped conservative drones into a frenzy of Revolution and Violence. 

The election and re-election of President Obama shows that the United States is a Center-Left Nation. Most liberals are disappointed that President Obama has been too conciliatory and too willing to negotiate with the Republicans, whose every action is geared with the long term goal of crushing Democracy and installing a Neo-Feudalist Corporate controlled Slave State.

But, now the Republican Party has moved beyond mere rhetoric and hoped-for stochastic terrorism with the Government Shutdown.

Unable to make an cogent argument to the American People, the Republican Party has been steadily moving to subvert the Government and use the byzantine rules of the SCOTUS, Senate and House to transform the Nation into a thinly-veiled Fascist Wonderland which caters to the Rich and placates the right-wing bigots.

Bill Moyers has correctly labeled this as sabotage of the Democratic process; Secession by another name.

But, while the majority of Republicans are probably just playing with fire and hoping to achieve their goals of enforcing the Will of the Plutocracy by political brinkmanship, not every Right-Wing fanatic realizes this is and several prominent Republicans (Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Michele Bachmann, Louis Gohmert and Steve King) and many lower level Republican stooges actually do believe a Revolution is now inevitable and necessary.

Domestic Terrorist, Chicken Hawk, Child Raping, Draft-dodging Coward Ted Nugent wanted to ride into combat and behead Democrats and declared after the 2012 re-election of President Obama he would either be dead or in jail. 

Scott Boston, a foot solider in Dana Loesch's St. Louis Tea Party declared they intended to Kill Democratic Senator Clarie McCaskill, “She walks around like she’s some sort of Rainbow Brite Care Bear or something but really she’s an evil monster. We have to kill the Claire Bear."

There were calls by Sarah Palin to "not retreat, reload" and "Target the 20". Michele Bachmann wanted her constituents "armed and dangerous" over Obamacare. Sharron Angle urged her supporters to "Use Second Amendment Remedies" to remove Harry Reid if she lost. And Virginia Republican Catherine Crabill forcefully asserted, "We have a chance to fight this battle at the Ballot Box before we have to resort to the Bullet Box".

Virginia GOP Ponch McPhee, Editor of the Greene County Virginia Newsletter, wrote the following,

The ultimate task for the people is to remain vigilant and aware  ~ that the government, their government is out of control, and this moment, this opportunity, must not be forsaken, must not escape us, for we shall not have any coarse but armed revolution should we fail with the power of the vote in November ~ This Republic cannot survive for 4 more years underneath this political socialist ideologue.

But, when Multiple Republicans take to the floor of the House and Senate to declare Obamacare is going to Destroy America those comments are steadily building up the belief in duped conservatives and murderous Right-Wing zealots the righteous stance that because their electoral will was thwarted in 2012 armed violence is now their only recourse.

Truckers Ride for the Constitution was a plan by right-wingers to shutdown DC on Columbus Day weekend. Earl Conlon, a leader of the Truckers, declared President Obama has committed "Treason" and identified Nancy Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein, as politicians he sought to "arrest" for alleged acts against the Constitution.

"If all I get is one or two congressmen walked out of there in handcuffs, that will be a shot across the bow that will ripple across all branches of government..."

                                                                                   
While the actual effect was a couple truckers driving slowly around the I-495 turnpike, Faux News trumpeted the lunatic Truckers as speaking for the Will of the American People, and couch-borne commandos peppered news stories of planting the seeds of Revolution.

Also on Columbus Day weekend, Larry Klayman led dozens of Tea Party fanatics in Washington DC,

“I call upon all of you to wage a second American revolution, to use civil disobedience, and to demand that this president leave town… [President Obama] get up, to put the Quran down, to get up off his knees, and to figuratively come out with his hands up.”

Perhaps, most frightening and most illuminating is the conservative domestic terrorist predilection to reveal their actual thought process and desires by claiming that Obama, the Democratic Party, leftists, basically the other side are planning on engaging in violence.

Glenn Beck has been stoking the flames of the Right-Wing Putsch for years now and what better way to get duped conservatives to start the killing than to tell them they are about to be attacked,

"Every Marxist communist revolution always ends in millions dead. Always. Without fail. Every time. We talk about the Nazis. ‘Oh, they killed 6 million Jews.’ The Soviet Union killed 60 million. The Chinese, it’s estimated between 70 and 90 million. The Russians starved 7 million."
"This is the beginning of teaching the American people a lesson. I want you to understand you are now seeing what I told you about three weeks ago. I told you they have gone from nudge to shove … Your next step is shoot."

There are numerous further examples of Conservative Domestic Terrorists moving beyond mere Internet bravado but, what's especially dangerous are the Republican Bureaucrats in DC purposefully invoking Revolutionary language,

“This is an administration that seems bound and determine to violate every single one of our bill of rights. I don’t know that they have yet violated the Third Amendment, but I expect them to start quartering soldiers in peoples’ homes soon.” Republican Senator Ted Cruz, leader of the Right-Wing Insurrection, at the No-Values Voter Conference.

Cruz is obviously a Cuban Infiltrator working to undermine the United States from within. Cruz has done far more damage to Americans than Che Guevara or Fidel Castro could every have dreamed of or accomplished.

Now, why would Cruz refer to one of the Founders specifically enumerated Rights stemming from one of the original complaints of the Revolutionary Founding Fathers?

The threatened use of violence to effect political change is Terrorism. At every rally, when a Republican mentions President Obama, a cry of "Tyrant!" is heard from the crowd. And we all know what Real Americans do to Tyrant's don't we?

Flying the Confederate Flag in front of the White House. There, in the place of honor, held higher than Old Glory and my beloved EGA is the Flag of Arch-Traitors.

So, here we wait heading towards Default, whatever that means, while Conservatives prepare to unleash their murderous pent up anger and Destroy America to Save it...

A Republican or Right-Wingers cry for "Civility"

are actually Demands that liberals censor themselves. Don't. When a Republican lap dog of the Rich or unhinged Right-Wing troll demands tolerance it's a trick to reframe the discussion or debate under their terms.

After President Obama's press conference yesterday, in which he perfectly laid out the Republican Shutdown goals and causes (i.e. it's an attempted Coup), Republican Representative Luke Messer took to MSNBC to whine, "The President talked about civility but he used the term hijack..."

Boo hoo hoo hoo the President is saying mean things about Republicans. Waaaaaah! How can anyone believe Republicans are super tough hard-charging patriots when words by that scary man in the White House make them cry?

But, what's really going on is a technique that the Right learned under the Mastery of the King Rat Fucker Lee Atwater and shaped by Conseravtive Icons Jack Abramoff, Ralph Reed, and Grover Norquist in the early 1980's.

During Abramoff's and Norquist's leadership of the College Republicans they and their trollish minions advised CR chapters to test the boundaries of liberalism by, 

Form a "Beastiality Club" or "Straight People's Alliance". Charter the club and apply for student activity money. If the gays are able to obtain funds, you should be able to. If the student government refuses to give you money, hold a press conference and attack them for being sexists and discriminatory. Complain to the Dean's office. Threaten a law suit. - College Republican Technology Manual early 1980's as reported by Thomas Frank in The Wrecking Crew

From Jack Abramoff, Grover Norquist, Karl Rove and Ralph Reed and their legions of right-wing college punks in the 1980's the modern Tea Party fanatics, the James O'Keefe's of today, learned to always chuckle, 'Oh I thought Liberals were supposed to be tolerant" in order to reframe the debate or steer it away from the topic at hand.

First, the ghost of Karl Popper should appear and say, In the name of tolerance, I claim the Right not to tolerate the intolerant, and hit the Tea Party fanatic in the Head with a Hammer.

Second, don't get sucked into their bullshit. When a Right-Winger proclaims victory by saying 'Liberals resort to name-calling when they are losing the argument" it's actual a Tell and Pre-Attack Que. The Conservative is telling you he doesn't have an argument and he's setting up his attack, You have to be tolerant or I win. You have to absorb my insults calmly or I win. You can't call me a racist or a liar or I win. 

As Father Michael Pfleger said yesterday, “They’d rather see America fail than Obama succeed.” Call this Republican Shutdown what it really is; An attempted coup d'état and a cold Civil War.

Update:
While the Right is working to destroy President Obama it should always be remembered that this Shutdown and Coup attempt are just battles in the Long War the vicious right have been waging upon Us. Their final solution is the complete negation of the Progressive Era and the creation of the Ultra-Reactionary Neo-Feudalist Dream State;

The common vision: an America in which the rich will be taxed at the same rates as the poor, where capital is freed from government constraints, where government services are turned over to the free market, where the minimum wage is repealed, unions are made irrelevant, and law-abiding citizens can pack handguns in every state and town. "My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit,"said Grover Norquist. "Because that person doesn't need the goddamn government for anything."

Republicans attempting a Coup d'État

For the second time in 13 years, the Republican Party is attempting to thwart the will of the majority of Americans and enforce an Undemocratic Government which they control upon the US.

Unlike 2000 when the Republicans had a Stooge President installed via the decree of five SC Justices, this Coup involves the Party attempting to enact the Austerity Budget which serves the interests of the Wealthy Elite while pandering to the bigoted Right-Wing base of conservative dupes.

As with the Sequestration, the Republican Plan is to defund elements of the Government which they do not like or which aid those whom they do not represent (children, women, the poor, the Working Class) while selectively transferring Hundreds of Billions of dollars into the hands of the Super Rich.

But, unlike Sequestration the Democratic Party has not agreed to the Republicans duplicitous maneuvers of funding a select few slivers of the Government.

Additionally, the Shutdown has a chance of running into the Debt Ceiling and becoming a bigger problem. Or does it?

"Most budget agreements in the past have always involved debt limit increases. We think that's the forcing mechanism, just like the Budget Control Act that President Obama signed before." Representative P90X Ryan.

As Ryan's admission and other revelations have shown us, it appears the Republican Party had no intention of dealing fairly with the President, the Democratic Party or the American People. Nor has the Modern GOP ever had any intention of working for the American people.

What they have planned ever since losing the 2012 Presidential Election and garnering 1.5 million fewer votes for the House of Representatives was to install the Ultra-Reactionary Budget of the 1% and bring the Nation to it's knees in order to install a Neo-Feudalist State.

Under a "President" Romney, America would have been broken under the Paul Ryan's Work You to Death Budget, but having failed to win an election (despite Voter Suppression efforts in several swing states) Republicans are attempting a Coup. Election results be damned.

The Government Shutdown is a misnomer, many parts of the Government are still being funded, but parts of the Government that Republicans hate, the furloughed Government Workers who earn a decent wage and the EPA for instance, are feeling the crunch.

"You want my opinion? This is President Obama’s shutdown. He is responsible for shutting this thing down. No, I don’t think they should get their back pay, frankly, I really don’t. I’m sick and tired of a massive, bloated federal bureaucracy living on our backs, and taking money out of us, a lot more money than most of us earn in the private sector, then getting a furlough, and then getting their money back at the end of it. Sorry, I’m not for that. I want to punish these people. - Stuart Varney, Faux News resident Upper Class Tory Twit. 

"These People" whom Varney wants to punish are middle class Americans who work as Park Rangers being subjected to the scorn of the flabby, pasty chicken hawk Randy Neugebauer or as the Capitol Police potentially risking their lives to protect the very Republicans who have them working without pay. 

They aren't K Street lobbyists, they aren't Hedge Fund Vultures and that's the point. They aren't Rich. Actions speak louder than words so we didn't need Varney's verbal confirmation that a Republican Government is out to harm 99% of Americans, while blaming President Obama, and reduce us to Wage Slavery but there it is...

The Democratic Republic is about to go under. We have an Income Inequality and Wealth Gap heretofore unseen in American History.

And we have 300 Republican Fanatics who have undertaken a Crusade to purge Washington DC of all the Progressive gains of the 20th century and return us to their Idyllic Era of the Glided Age when Unrestrained Vulture Capitalism and Corporate Juggernauts roamed the Lands as Colossus, crushing all beneath their Iron Heel and greasing their gears with the blood of thousands.

Republicans love the Shutdown it's Advancing their Policy of Subjugation and Oppression

"We’re not going to be disrespected… We have to get something out of this. And I don’t know what that even is..." Republican Marlin Stutzman.

The Government Shutdown isn't affecting everyone the same. Republicans continue to draw their congressional salaries,

"I’m working," Republican Senator Mike Lee. "I’ll continue to be paid."
"I need my paycheck. That's the bottom line," Republican Renee Ellmers.

But, the Republicans in Washington DC have committed far worse crimes than just mere hypocrisy as they attempt to bring the American People to heel under their Oppressive Rule.

Republican Randy Neugebauer took time out of his busy schedule letting children die of cancer, taking food out of the mouths of poor people, to blame his shortcoming on a Park Ranger,

Randy Neugebauer: "The Park Service should be ashamed of themselves."
Park Ranger: "I’m NOT ashamed."
Randy Neugebauer: "You should be."

Fortunately, a 30 year veteran of Federal Service tells Neugebauer the Park Ranger is not to blame for Neugebauer buffoonishness and the Republican Party's evil zealotry until Randy launches into the Right-Wing fart bubble talking points, 'Mr. Reid's to blame!'

Of course, Republicans always find someone to blame for their despicable behavior.

Racist Republican Steve Stockman declared, "Obama and the Democrats are curb stomping veterans... There's no other way to put it."

There us another way to put it Stockman, go slide down a rusty 50 foot razor blade into a vat of rubbing alcohol and choke on your bolo tie.

The Republicans in the House and Senate are all in on the Shutdown now. It doesn't matter what they may have thought prior to October 1st, Republicans, put Party over Principle and the Interests of the Rich over everything.

"We’ve passed the witching hour of midnight, and the sky didn’t fall, nothing caved in," Republican Steve King. If the sky isn't literally falling on Steve King's pointy head then there's no problem. 

800,000 federal employees out of work, the EPA shut down, the FDA not functioning, the NIH turning away cancer patients these aren't negatives to Steve King or the Republican Party these are joyous outcomes of their Fanaticism. These are them paying back their Rich Overlords.

I've refrained from calling Republicans evil but, no more. There are no doubts anymore. Republicans are fully engaged in a far-reaching, all-encompassing, Ultra-Reactionary plan to enslave the Working Class, grind the Middle Class into dust and deprive the American People of their Rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

Update:
In the Grand Fine Tradition of the Republican Party, the Party of Warmongering Chicken Hawks, has taken to Using the Troops to advance their malignant agenda of bile and oppression. 

Republicans attach themselves to Veterans the same way a tick attaches itself dog and with the same purpose.

Of course Republicans want a Government Shutdown

"It's exactly what we wanted, and we got it," Michele Bachmann Republican Everywoman.

Because it will harm the Working Class and aid the Rich. And those are the two core missions of the Modern GOP.

The GOP and their Teahaddist Fanatics have been calling for a Government Shutdown for the last 3 years since they re-took the House of Representatives. But, it's been an on-going mission of the Republican Nihilists who Occupy DC,

"By the time we finish this poker game, there may not be a Federal Government left, which would suit me just fine," convicted Republican criminal Tom DeLay in 1994.

Republicans have set up a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. They declare Government doesn't work and then set all their energies at ensuring their proclamations manifest.

Now, the 1% don't care if the Government Shuts down (temporarily) because they have contingencies for such situations and when the Government shutdown ends they'll set their crotch-sniffing Republican and Pro-Business Dogs back out on the trail of further deregulation, outsourcing and privatization.

The Super Rich will once again sell short on the Nation, as they did when their Republican Lickspittles threatened Shutdown in 2011, and buy up more of the American Landscape. These techniques are not available to the 90% of Americans who have no stocks or bonds and can't invest  in mutual funds or get their Republican Govenors to sell them public utilities at wholesale prices.

Meanwhile small businesses around closed National Parks will go out of business, working class people will lose benefits, military spouses will be unable to pay bills, Government employees will be furloughed.

But, this is also a win for Republicans because they will claim it's all President Obama's fault.

I never thought I'd see the day when the juvenile, 'Stop Hitting Yourself! Stop Hitting Yourself' would be the governing principle of an American Political Party.

Nonetheless, we have a Party (and some of the other Party) devoted to returning this Country to the pockets of the Super Rich and ushering in an Era of Neo-Feudalist Wage Slavery.

Update:
A partial list of what's being affected by the Republican Hostage Taking and Shutting Down of the Government.