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Titolo: Republican Obstructionism Is The Real Scandal That’s Plaguing Washington

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Republican Obstructionism Is The Real Scandal That’s Plaguing Washington
 
By: RmuseMay. 19th, 2013
 
There are a variety of adjectives to describe Republicans in Congress 
since Americans elected an African American man to lead the Executive 
Department, and setting aside sheer racial animus, some apt descriptors 
are total incompetence, inability to perform, and blatant ineptitude 
that easily inform the state of the Republican Party. They have, though, 
been very proficient at obstructing the President from their minority 
position and it is a sure sign they have nothing but contempt for the 
American people, the government, and particularly President Obama as 
they have done absolutely nothing for over four years except prevent the 
government from operating for the people. Their obstructionism won them 
the distinction of the worst, least effective Congress in the nation’s 
history, and instead of reeling from the harsh assessment, they have 
seized on the phony scandals over the past weeks to focus attention away 
from the fact that as public servants and the people’s representatives, 
they are absolutely worthless and have no intention of governing. 
Instead, they have, and will continue to, spend every waking moment 
obstructing the government and continue their crusade to discredit 
President Obama by playing up false scandals. The real scandal plaguing 
Washington is Republican obstructionism and their apparent glee at 
having phony scandals to cover the fact they lack any agenda to govern 
absent tax cuts for the rich and defaming the African American in the 
Oval Office.
 
In what should be evident to the American people, the next several 
months, and possibly years, will be a gross repeat of the past four 
years of government inaction on the issues that matter most to the 
American people. Republicans promised to focus entirely on jobs nearly 
two-and-a-half years ago that have produced no jobs, and their total 
lack of interest in immigration reform or addressing gun safety measures 
will be amplified as they celebrate spending all their time on Benghazi, 
the I.R.S., and more attacks on the Affordable Care Act. The mainstream 
media has been complicit in focusing on phony scandals instead of the 
GOP’s lack of a coherent agenda to help economic recovery or the 
American people, and there has been no better example than the rapidly 
decreasing national debt that has been supplanted with persistent 
coverage of Benghazi, the I.R.S., and government seizure of journalist’s 
phone records that is a direct result of Republican policy under the 
Bush Administration. In fact, all of the phony scandals can be laid at 
the feet of Republican ineptitude and economic malfeasance to thwart the 
President’s attempt to govern. As journalist Dan Rather opined on 
Thursday, “And no wonder they’re slapping high five behind closed doors. 
President Obama must feel like he’s Gulliver tied down, every time he 
turns around he can’t really move in any way. It raises the question: 
Can he get anything done in this second term as president with the 
Republicans playing this obstructionist role?”
 
The phony scandals Republicans will spend the next few months on shine a 
light on their inaction and not, as they hope, the President’s alleged 
scandal-ridden Administration. The alleged cover-up of the tragedy in 
Benghazi shifts attention from Republicans’ refusing to appropriate more 
funding for security at embassies despite requests from the State 
Department, and media is remiss to ever point out that Republicans never 
investigated or charged the Bush administration for lax security during 
several embassy attacks around the world during Bush’s tenure as 
president. However, Bush was a white man, and that fact alone gives 
Republicans cover for ignoring the danger inherent in Bush’s cowboy 
diplomacy that put “brave American heroes’” lives in jeopardy. Still, 
after eight months of Republicans’ transparent obstruction and blatantly 
dishonesty inherent in their Benghazi investigations, it is painfully 
obvious they refuse to accept the truth or  disclosures they demanded, 
and received as the White House released nearly 100 pages of emails and 
documentation answering their questions. Their persistent 
investigations, hearings, and threats of new investigations are 
deliberate tactics to avoid governing and obstruct the President from 
continuing the nation’s economic recovery.
 
 
 
Republicans tasked car thief and House Oversight Committee chairman 
Darrell Issa with holding investigations into the alleged Benghazi 
scandal and phony outrage involving I.R.S. investigators who did their 
due diligence in scrutinizing political activists’ illegal applications 
for 501(C)(4) “social welfare” tax exemption, instead of investigating 
Karl Rove and Koch brothers’ Americans for Prosperity’s illegal 
applications meant to conceal their dark money donors. The idea that the 
President, or anyone in his administration ordered the IRS to target 
conservative groups is insane on its face, especially since it was 
George W. Bush’s appointee that ran the IRS. Subsequently, while 
Republicans are busy attempting to tie the White House and the President 
to using the I.R.S. to steal the 2012 election, they conveniently will 
avoid spending one minute on job creation or admitting new revenue from 
the fiscal cliff tax increases are bringing the nation’s debt down by 
$231 billion in a very short period of time.
 
The other alleged scandal Republicans and Democrats are weighing in on 
is a controversy about the Justice Department’s subpoenaing journalists’ 
phone records in an investigation into leaks about a terrorist 
operation. It was Republicans who designed the intrusive Patriot Act, 
but since Barack Obama is President, they are crying foul in spite of 
his Administration investigating itself, and despite Attorney General 
Eric Holder previously recusing himself from the case, some Republicans 
called for his resignation. It is political theatre for Republicans to 
avoid doing the real work they were sent to Washington to do that they 
have determined is destroying President Obama.
 
 
 
In a recent PPP survey, Americans said they want, and expect, Congress 
to focus on the economic recovery and jobs, immigration reform, and gun 
safety legislation and not phony scandals like Benghazi or the IRS doing 
its job. Republicans in Congress are incapable and frankly incompetent 
to make any substantive progress on job creation will instead spend the 
next several months on hearings, investigations, and ransoming the 
rapidly approaching debt ceiling, and obstruct this President, and the 
government from doing the business of the people. It has been their 
practice for four years and now that they have three active and phony 
scandals, their treasonous obstruction will take on a new measure of 
severity. All the while, the American people will continue suffering 
gross incompetence and an ineffectual government that defines the 
Republican Party since the people elected an African American president.
There is no doubt Republicans hate this President, but their deliberate 
obstruction of government informs that their animus extends far beyond 
the African American in the White House. The Republican ineptitude and 
obstruction is approaching anti-American criminality, and their 
obstruction of the President’s nominees, efforts to repeal the 
Affordable Care Act, and time spent on phony scandals informs they hate 
this country, the people, and the Constitutional mandate for governance 
they swore to uphold as part of the jobs whether they are in the 
minority or not. The real scandal the American people have been, and 
will continue, suffering over the past four and a half years and well 
into the foreseeable future is that Republicans lack any coherent agenda 
that does not include tax cuts for the rich and deregulating their 
corporate sponsors. Coupled with their animus toward President Obama and 
grasping at fabricated scandals, they have proven beyond a shadow of a 
doubt that they truly hate America every bit as much as they hate this 
President and if their ineptitude is not criminal, then it is certainly 
treasonous.
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Namib
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αἱ ψυχαὶ ὀσμῶνται καθ᾽ Ἅιδην (Eraclito)

 Republican Obstructionism Is The Real Scandal That’s Plaguing Washington
 
l'ostruzionismo nasce quando un presidente di destra fa vincere il
Congresso al partito che non ha mai negato di essere tale.