Another Reason To Vote

You may have heard the rumors:

...if undecided voters are looking for more, they may take into consideration one Rep. Darrell Issa, Republican of California, as a possible crystal ball for a glimpse into the future of a Republican-controlled House of Representatives. If independent voters are looking for consensus-building solutions that will address our lagging economy, Issa is a great example of how a Republican-controlled Congress will deliver anything but. Rather than work constructively on solutions, a Republican House will spend its time and taxpayer resources on frivolous, politically driven “gotcha” games designed to embarrass the administration.

You see, Mr. Issa likes investigations. Well, he does now that there is a Democratic administration, anyway. See, he didn’t spend a lot of time as a government watchdog before 2009. Now he uses his office to inflict political damage on the administration, oftentimes without a shred of evidence and never with any bipartisan support.

So there's that.

Reason enough to get me voting, obviously.  Of course, it takes two houses of Congress to tango, so when I read Robert Gibbs' tweet the other day:

Compare and contrast...sort of says it all...http://is.gd/gkeEw

Leading to The Plum Line quote of Senator Turtlehead McConnell hoping to make Obama a one-term president and devoting his energies to that particular endgame.

Is there any doubt that these teahadist wannbes don't give a damn about governing?

Krugman took a closer look at Turtlehead's quote and reports that, no.  No, they don't:

No, he sees it as evidence that they weren’t confrontational enough; they were too focused on their policy agenda, and neglected the necessary work of destroying Clinton:

We suffered from some degree of hubris and acted as if the president was irrelevant and we would roll over him. By the summer of 1995, he was already on the way to being reelected, and we were hanging on for our lives.

So this time around they won’t bother much with trying to get actual legislation passed; they’ll focus on the important thing: undermining the man in the White House.

So...that's just great...

Please remember to vote next Tuesday.

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