I have a confession to make: I was wrong. When I wrote the last blog about the republicans taking over the House and winning seats in the Senate, I had the blog set up to discuss how the Republicans were going to restrict spending(For review, read New World Order Part 1). I just knew that was going to be their first order of business. It was my way of leading you to believe that was going to be their primary focus but one thing that I have learned this past weekend is that I am still a rookie in understanding politics. Politicians have a way to think 2, 4, and 6 years ahead and see how decisions made today will reflect decisions the American people will make during election years. And their recent vote may have helped.
The Republican Party started the year off with voting to repeal the healthcare laws that were just signed into law last year. Now of course it would seem like they decided to do this to cut government spending as I am sure that they will use this vote as a platform for re-election but if you look closely to this vote, you will see that this vote was more of a political move and not a move for the American people.
The first thing you have to understand is that before they even brought this bill before the House, a few things were already known:
1. The Senate said they would not pass it
2. President Obama said that IF the bill passed the Senate, He would veto it.
3. Congress does not have the 2/3 vote it would need to override the veto IF it even gets this far.
So, why pass a bill that will go nowhere? Well, to establish the fact that they voted against the healthcare bill come election time. I can see the commercials already: Some congressman sitting at a desk pretending to be working while facts about him supporting the people and voting against government spending scroll across the screen and at the end seeing that same Congressman approves this message because the American people need a voice. Oh it’s going to be so heartwarming. So, of course this puts the Republican Party in a bad light. I mean, they are just looking out for their best interest and not ours right? Well, before you run over to the Democrat side, let me share something with you.
Last year right before the republicans took control of the House, the democrats passed a bill extending the Bush tax cuts for anyone making 250k or less. They ALSO passed another bill for families making 1 million or less after the 250k bill failed. Now before they passed this bill, they knew that the Senate was going to block the bill as well. So why did they pass a bill they knew was going to fail? The same reason the republicans did it this year. If extending the tax cuts for everyone hurts the economy (which I think it will), it will be their platform come election time to keep their seats. I can see their commercials too: Some guy sitting on a desk looking right into the camera talking about how he wanted the bills to pass but the Republicans wanted to block it. Vote for me, and I’ll make the change needed for America.
What do these two things have in common: They do nothing to help us, but everything to help the Party. Right now, the primary focus is 2012! It isn’t the economy, the deficit, or the budget. Think about it, if they REALLY cared about those things, they would have started out with a way to pass something that at least had a shot of making it through the Senate but neither the Democrats nor the Republicans did that. The only person that tried to do it was Barack Obama when he passed the compromised tax bill during the lame duck session and who was upset that he did that? The Democrats. That should tell you that compromise wasn’t on anyone’s mind.
This is getting scary but I am more intrigued. More blogs about this to come………………
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