Meanwhile, the Republican Party behaves as if it would rather see the country fail than Barack Obama succeed. Rush Limbaugh, the de facto G.O.P. boss, said so explicitly, prompting John McCain to declare about President Obama to Politico: “I don’t want him to fail in his mission of restoring our economy.” The G.O.P. is actually debating whether it wants our president to fail. Rather than help the president make the hard calls, the G.O.P. has opted for cat calls. It would be as if on the morning after 9/11, Democrats said they wanted no part of any war against Al Qaeda — “George Bush, you’re on your own.”
That is because the Republican Party really cares about the party first, themselves first, rather than anyone, or anything, else. They could care less if people are homeless or starving. Indeed, their policies provide no assistance to the homeless and starving, and you can argue that their policies make people homeless and starving.
It was predictable that the GOP would end up in this situation.