Hell yea they're pissed. You don't stand up to crazy, you do what it says...or else.
They want the Government on its knees. They want it gasping, because that's the only way they perceive it can be...fixed. Break it to fix it. The Tea Party swept in in 2010 and the only thing of actual note they championed was de-funding of practically everything, and slaying that dragon the ACA...oh, and all things associated with impeaching/derailing/mocking President Obama.
I think the 'sane' GOP'ers are starting to figure that out.. I think the shutdown brought all the 'let's break it,let's kill it,now that a blackie is charge, let's destroy it' to the surface in a way that they couldn't deny anymore.. before that I think the 'sane' part of the party thought it was all liberal media hype.. not to mention fun to fuck with the Dems while they held 2/3 of the power
They sure didn't try to bust balls on campaign finance reform, or term limits, or Jobs bills that penalized the shit out of Corporations for sending Jobs abroad, or infrastructure repair, or a REAL Jobs bill at all, or raising our import fees, or backing Elizabeth Warren's efforts to reign in shitty, gouging business practices, or backing a return of Glass-Steagall (fuck that weak ass Volcker crap), or a bunch of other things...practical things that would make a difference in the short and long term.
of course not.. the same way they didn't try and limit anti-abortion bills or gay marriage bans... it's OK for the gov't to live in your bedroom and your vagina.. but your bank account? your gun box? Oh Hell no!
this is the exact reason I cannot, nor will I ever, stand with 'libertarians' or 'small government' Pols... Ron Paul was my last 'look' at the idea of a libertarian and he had me interested right up until he went 'anti-abortion' and 'anti-gay marriage'... you simply cannot be for smaller govt'.. a gov't that stays out of your life.. a gov't that's only function is to keep you safe from other nations AND tell people who they can love or what they do with their body.. I don't care how they try to square that circle, it just don't work
Nope...they're no different than those they complain about. They let the lobbyists tell them what to do and they do it. They let the think tanks and groups with agenda's tell them what to do and they do it. They want a Plutocracy where the Government is the thrall of Capitalism, the most monied, not the average citizen. Because *making it* means you MUST be better than everyone else, smarter, more in tune...so why shouldn't you listen to and do everything they say? They want every safety net that's been paid into, funneled through the hands of private enterprise. The Government's primary concern should be the military...and that's pretty much it.
I still cannot understand how they've sold that shit sandwich to the masses.. This idea that the 'job creator' and the top 1% are somehow omnipotent.. How did they sell it so well? Is there something embedded into our DNA that makes us believe that one day it'll be us in that 1% so we better take care of them now or else who will take care of us when we get there? I'm beginning to wonder if the idea of the "American Dream" was just as much as a decoy as "you'll get 40 acre and a mule if you just vote Republican" was..
