Finally A Pledge That Republicans Don’t Like
We all know Republicans love their pledges. The most famous one is Grover Norquist’s never raise taxes pledge. But there’s also a pledge to only appoint “Constitutionalist” judges and of course the crazy marriage pledge. Do you remember the teabagger’s Pledge From America? Apparently Republicans don’t remember it either. Dave Weigel points out this part of the pledge:
We will fight efforts to use a national crisis for political gain.
That’s probably the only part of the pledge that I like.
Tags: Debt Ceiling, Republican Crazy
All the oath swearing that Republicans do has highlighted the simple minded and thoughtless nature of modern Republicanism. Nuance does not exist in this childish world where every issue is black/white and every argument can be boiled down to a bumper sticker slogan.
It is a streamlined simplicity that is effective at getting them elected, but useless for governing.
BTW – I think that it will be game over for the GOP when Obama finally says: “The Republicans have put their oath to a lobbyist above their oath to the Constitution.”
That would shut this mess down – but I think that might be too confrontational for BHO.