As the government shutdown shenanigans come to a whimpering
end today (everyone hopes), we can now focus on the great lesson learned from
this fiasco: Congressional Republicans are morons, and I mean that literally.
How else can you
characterize a group of individuals who would agree to shut down a government
based on ridiculous demands that no one in their right mind would agree to, and
who had no plan, strategy, end game or escape clause? These are allegedly adults
who went to school, many of whom were financially successful in their private
lives, and yet they couldn’t see what a boneheaded, fatally flawed idea this
was. Lord have mercy.
What will the ramifications be? In an alternate universe
they would be arrested and tried for attempting to extort the government of the
United States. One would hope that in our current universe, however, their
outlandish actions would cause more moderate Republican voters to question
their loyalty to a party now run by anarchists, corporate lackeys and religious
fanatics.
That may be asking too much. We shall see. Republicans do
have a loyal base, but it is relatively small if you look at the numbers. If
Democrats do not recapture the House and take more Senate seats in the upcoming
election, they will only have themselves to blame.
