Let me say again. I will not stop castigating Republicans until they stop betraying their oath of office to uphold and defend the Constitution.
I wish I were surprised by what they are doing in shutting down the government, but I’m not. This is not the first time they’ve done it, and it won’t be the last as long as they control the House. Not even so called main stream Republicans are helping.
John Kline, my Representative, is suppose to be one of them. He’s not, at least not in action. He has thrown in with the extremists and has said nothing about the shutdown or its terrible impact on people’s lives. He may as well join the Tea Party. When you don’t have the courage to stand against this kind of calloused extremism, you aren’t much of a leader. John Kline is not much of a leader. Neither are other Republicans who don’t agree with Ted Cruz et. al., but are saying and doing nothing to challenge them.
I’m just trying to figure out how any of these people sleep at night. How do you look your family in the face as you inflict hardship on people who had nothing to do with what is happening? Not to insist in public and in private caucus meetings that a clean CR bill be passed so the government can reopen is morally reprehensible. How hypocritical for the people who are responsible for the shutdown to claim they are pro-family and pro-life.
They are not. Instead they are Machiavellians, people whose ethic is that the ends justify the means. But this is not who most Americans are. So House Republicans should stop claiming they are listening to us. If they really were they would be running scared. Perhaps in November of 2014 they will actually hear what we are saying.
Hope springs eternal.
