PLEASE, PLEASE. PLEASE. Quit calling these House LIBERTARIANS, Tea Party Republicans. Damnit… there is no such thing as elected “House Tea Party Republicans”! It is a MSM made up myth and does not exist in reality. I keep screaming this over and over, but somehow the air seems to be thick with cement, because no one appears to understand what I am saying. So once again,
“Libertarians want NO GOVERNMENT AT ALL. No Cabinet departments, no Homeland Security, no Pentagon, no Social Security, no Medicare, Etc, Etc.” Every one of those Libertarian/Republicans that ran as Tea Party candidates and were elected to the House of Representatives FANATICALLY embrace the Libertarian ideology of NO GOVERNMENT
Come on America, wake up and smell the coffee!! For some reason Americans (including Democrats, Progressives, and Liberals) cannot process the idea that the same people elected to sustain and protect the American Federal government could at the same time be passionately dedicated to destroying the very government that they took an oath to serve. So let’s stop our amazement every time these Fanatics raise the budget cut stakes in return for keeping the Federal government operating for another 2 weeks. Whereas it is their goal to eliminate the Federal government entirely, WTF do they care about trying to negotiate different levels of budget cuts to keep the government operating for another 2 weeks. It is their goal to SHUT THE GOVERNMENT DOWN, and I for one say LET THEM DO IT at least while most of us still have full bellies.
Why is Hoyer trying to prop up weepy John Boehner? Hoyer is playing old time politics which is about as useful as an recently used unflushed toilet when you have a whole bunch of Libertarians sitting in the House! It must be quite amusing to these newbie Libertarians to watch old time “Beltway Politics” in action as they sit and make the players (Dems and Repugs) sweat it out on the political negotiation grid.
Since the Libertarians only control the House, the only weapon that they can use in their campaign to destroy the Federal government is a stalemate which would result in a shutdown of government operations. Obviously a 6 week shutdown of the Federal government would lead to explosive unrest throughout the nation, which is exactly the goal of the Libertarians sitting in the House. They recognize there would be little chance that Obama could win re-election in the midst of widespread riots against the government by people whose incomes and services were suddenly cutoff by a government shutdown. There are many people who are living on a social security check or some other government subsistence alone from month to month or week to week. A cutoff of this income is equivalent to being sentenced to a undefined period of starvation for all concerned. The elderly and infirm may be forced to quietly die inside their sparsely furnished rooms. But other more able bodied people will not be so passive and will take their fight and blood to the American streets.
My advice to Obama would be to hold a quiet back room meeting with the lions of Wall Street, who are also currently concerned by the prospect of a default on the American Government’s international debt caused by a governmental shutdown. (It is scratch my back time.) Wall Street does not have any influence over these Libertarian fanatics, however, Wall Street does have a myriad of creative means to capital manipulation which properly employed could hold off another American financial collapse which a government shutdown is certain to cause.
Folks this is a deadly serious business, however IMHO there are not enough American citizens treating this as an urgent emergency problem of the highest priority in terms of the national interest. Maybe some words from the “Lost in Space Robot” might help as he signaled loudly in his monotone voice, “Will Smith, Danger, Danger ahead!”