The Gadfly is Back In The Saddle and Wouldn't Ya' Know There's a Goldurn Bur Under It . . .

Well, dear readers, The Gadfly has returned from his week-long sojourn to the land of sin and money, and to his own credit, not to mention giddy surprise, he's not much worse the wear - although he did come close to disaster with that Friday evening binge at the bar whose name contained words describing an infamous corn-mash beverage and the description of the outcome of imbibing too much of that beverage.

Anyhow, The Gadfly is happy to be back, and as such, let us return to the arduous task of afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted.

Let's start with this bit of asshattery - shall we?:

House Republicans passed another Obamacare repeal bill Thursday, this one indirectly aimed at the law's employer mandate -- but, following in the footsteps of almost all of the other repeal bills that came before it, this is likely the end of the line for the proposal.

The bill passed 248 to 179. But the Senate looks unlikely to take up the bill, and even if it somehow cleared through the upper chamber, the White House has pledged to veto it.

It is the 52nd attempt by the House GOP to undercut or repeal part or all of Obamacare, according to House Democratic leaders. By House Republican leadership's own count, only seven have become law.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/house-gop-obamacare-repeal-30-hour-rule



52 (that's 50 + 2 for you fuzzy math people) attempts to repeal the ACA, efforts which even Ted Cruz has openly acknowledged has not a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding.  So why do they persist?  The teabagger politicians will tell you that it is a symbolic message letting their zombie minions know that they are sticking to their word about seeing that Obama fails, no matter the cost to the country as a whole.

You know - The Gadfly would be a bit more forgiving of the GOP, for he knows that in politics, the job of the "opposition" party is to oppose.  But it has also been, at least prior to the Clinton era, a given that the two parties would find common ground when it came to seeing to the overall best interests of the American people and the nation's prospects for prosperity and success.

The modern day GOP, however, with the Tea Party forming the snake head of their ideological movement, has burned those traditional cooperation bridges to ashes.  They are, for all intent and purpose, on a mission of scorched earth politics that any sane and prudent individual instantly recognizes as being the impending stake in the heart of representative democracy as we know it.  Their coddling alliances with the industrialists and the bourgeois plutocrats is more than sufficient evidence of that observation.

52 attempts to undo a law whose core intention was to do something about the immoral travesty that 45 million Americans were walking the streets of our cities with no access to basic, affordable health care.

52 attempts to undo a tenet of that law which said that record profits reporting health insurance companies could no longer deny coverage to men, women and children who have had the misfortune to have pre-existing medical issues.

52 attempts to to undo the benefit of Americans avoiding life ruining financial devastation due to an inability to pay for medical care that they did not have coverage for.

If the G-O-fucking-P and the teabaggers truly gave a rat's fucking ass about this country and ALL of it's people, they would have forgone at least half as many of those attempts to repeal the ACA and instead used those efforts, time and taxpayer money to propose and pass productive jobs bills, to pass an extension of UI benefits for the long term unemployed, to pass immigration reform, to pass legislation protecting the long term viability of Social Security, to pass meaningful legislation to address and reverse the slow-motion environmental Armageddon that the industrialists are perpetrating across and throughout our precious natural resources - at home and abroad.  And that's just the short list of things they could be productively devoting their time to.

So yeah -- call The Gadfly wholly unimpressed with the GOP's 52nd sophomoric attempt at futility.  And if Americans want to ensure the accelerated desolation of this Great American Experiment -- well then -- just keep electing these Cro-magnon teabagging boors to high office - for they are more than happy to oblige to seeing that mortal denouement come to pass.



----TFG