House Republicans Ignore Reality of Damage They Create

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Republicans will soon adopt an identical visage to that of John Boehner pictured above. Those who still insist on attaching provisions about the Affordable Health Care Act to reopen the government and stave off a crisis when the United States can no longer borrow money in two days will face the wrath of many Americans if the worst case scenario is realized. Any member of the House who displays the gross ignorance of believing that no lasting effects will occur if the deadline passes with no settlement have little understanding of the economics that will come into play.

Ham on Wry chooses to address this issue once again in order to send a wake up call to those citizens who still support the band of Republican conservatives whose stubborn adherence to this ridiculous ploy. Behind the scenes, Michael Needham, 31, who heads Heritage Action, a conservative group funded by the Koch brothers, has orchestrated this nonsense. For Republicans who refuse to join in lock step with Heritage's vision of future government, Needham raises the threat of using the vast sums available to Heritage and work against their re-election by supporting Tea Party candidates. He obviously doesn't subscribe to the power of a Supreme Court ruling or show concern for the harm his intransigence has already caused millions of Americans. Needham's smug words at a recent Christian Science Monitor breakfast reveals his lack of compassion. He told the attendees he is happy to sit in a situation that has shut down the NLRB and the EPA "until President Obama stops this unaffordable and unfair law." Needham displays a total disregard for citizens in both word and deed,

Citizens of this country must inform themselves by reading information from all sides and can find ample information available online and in libraries. All Americans bear the responsibility of making informed decisions about the government. The framers of the constitution could not have envisioned the havoc wreaked by allowing corporations to be considered citizens. No organization can realistically be defined as a citizen, but those with political motives now run the country, it seems. Voters don't elect them, but some members of Congress behave like their puppets.

Ham on Wry has included the following quote from the movie Network in previous posts, and it expresses this blogger's current frustration eloquently. "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it any more." Join me in bombarding Congress with demands to end this impasse and move forward.