POLITICAL TERRORISM IN WASHINGTON

In reference to the negotiations on the “fiscal cliff” speaker Boehner is reported to have said that the President won reelection but the Republicans have won a majority in the House of Representatives. He refuses to agree with the President to raise the tax rate on the wealthy. This brings up the most telling question about our government. Polls clearly show over 60% of people including Republicans and Democrats want to raise the TAX RATE on the rich. There is an obvious disparity between the Republican Representatives and the people. Obviously, they are not representing there constituents. Why?

The answers are multifaceted.  However, I think one of the main reasons is the treat of “political terrorism”.  The T-Party has learned from Al Qaeda that a small group of radicalized people can control the majority of an elected body with terrorism. I am not talking bombs on buses, in pizza parlors, or road side IED’s, I am talking about “primaring” representatives who do not agree with the radical minority.  It is a highly leveraged system. Grover Norquist for example, gets a few rich donors to give him several millions of dollars, just enough money to mount a significant down ballot campaign to support a radical candidate to challenge a noncompliant incumbent. Although he has only enough money to challenge one or two incumbents out of the two hundred forty two Republican members, every one of the representatives shudder to think they will be the one he picks to challenge that is terrorize. Norquist is not the only one doing this in the Republican Party: Karl Rove, David and Charles Koch, the Walton Family, Sheldon Adelson, the Energy Lobby, etc. These people want a plutocracy, which would put the reins of government in their hands.

John Boehner is Speaker of the House but his job is in double jeopardy. It hinges on the people in his legislative district reelecting him but it also hinges on his fellow Republican representatives reelecting him as Speaker. Eric Castor, really a terrorist within the House of Representatives, with the backing of Reince Priebus the powerful and influential chair of the RNC stands ready as a radical challenger for the Speakers job.  John Boehner, like the American people knows, we must tax the rich but will not agree to do so because he wants to retain his job.