9-YEARS OF DYSFUNCTIONAL U.S. CONGRESS
Tea Party’s Continued Sabotage.
The Tea Party has been bull-dogmatic, contrary and capricious. Its handful of Senators and 20+ Representatives continue to delay confirmations, block legislation, and White House administration. It has had over 90 months of prior practice. With this third and more polarized Congress than ever in 2017 the Tea Party movement again holds the balance of power.
Often on House sit-down strikes in the past, its members had refused to vote. It had regularly killed budgets, aggravated the deficit, and all but paralyzed White House administration.
Is it trying to create another revolution? Have its members ever pondered the ramifications of their Oath of Office? Their uncharitable, but pompous belligerence is said to be in the name of freedom and the right to rebel. This is no more democracy than the French Revolution produced in 1798. Is America going backwards into a more primitive stage?
Tea Party hostility and animosity insanely routes any good Speaker and leads to stalemates and lame duck presidents who ineffectively rule by decree. Its dishonesty is manifest in its nine year campaign to block the previous White House.
Its disaffection has chosen another Commander in Chief, but this time a Republican, under which umbrella the Tea Party ironically claims affiliation. The last eight years of uncurbed deficit brought the loss of national credit rating by Moody’s, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The same period brought stagnancy of growth and a president ruling by executive order rather than through Congress. A totally frustrated Speaker of the House inevitably made his exit.
A good many Tea Party rebels owe allegiance to the Black Book they often read. Would it not be untimely for them to read again the sobering exhortation of their hero? “If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!”
Is there a place for perpetual malice in the Tea Party’s honorable members as endemic malignity weakens the nation? Its fractiousness feeds media madness to the great consternation of sane American citizenry.
Proverbs 30:14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives…
