DISINGENUOUS REPUBLICANS

There seems to be a word that is not in the Republican toolbox but should be. That word is ‘disingenuous’. In a video clip shown this morning on #Morning Joe (MSNBC), showing Speaker of the House, John Boehner saying he has tried to work with the President but he refused to cooperate. Here is the leader of the politician that said their first objective was to prevent Obama’s re-election as a number one priority, and failing that, to work to destroy his presidency. If you bother to look up the synonyms of disingenuous on Wikipedia, you find insincere, dishonest, untruthful, false, deceitful duplicitous, lying and mendacious. Republicans saying they want to work with our President is only one of a number of things they say and do that fits that list.

For example, there is a tremendous income gap; everyone agrees that is the case. Even the least informed reader of this post will agree that is the case. All the money is at the top—the 1%. Republican members of congress will stand before you; look you in the eye, and say that the rich one percent are the job creators. Still everyone, the same people who know the money is all at the top, complain bitterly there are no jobs. That is disingenuous. If the money is at the top and they are the people who create jobs, there should be a plethora of jobs. They seem to think they can have it both ways; are they stupid or deceitful. Pick the later and you will be right. Why? Because these greed little people demand Congress cut rich peoples taxes to create jobs.

If that isn’t enough, consider this; they say President Obama has done nothing to create jobs. Every speech he calls for Congress to create jobs. He does that because he can only create a limited number of jobs by executive order—our founding fathers put the purse strings in the hand so the House of Representatives. Only they can create jobs the massive numbers of jobs lost under Bush. Here is your challenge; how many jobs bills have been pass or even introduced in the House of Representatives passed in the 5 years that this president has been in office? The answer is zero, zip, none. The Republicans are being ‘duplicitous’, not just duplicitous, but shamefully so.

Still more; consider the call of Rand Paul in his State of the Union rebuttal, which reflects universally held Republican sentiment. His theme was “cutting taxes crates jobs”. As an example, some of friends are over the road truck drivers. They own their own trucks and work by contract; they are small businessmen of the best kind. Many of them hate government regulations, they hate unions, they and enjoy the feeling of freedom of the open road. They work hard for their money and “want to keep it”; they do not want to pay taxes. Still, if they do not pay taxes there is no highway  maintenance, no highways means no truckers, no truckers means no food and goods in the cities, no food and other good in the cities means there are not jobs, if there are no jobs no one has an income. This explodes the myth that cutting taxes creates jobs, which brings us right back to the House of Representatives, their election-winning obsession with cutting taxes that “truckers love”, and to which they give their wholehearted support. Isn’t there some mendacity buried somewhere in all of that?      

Out President, much to his credit, did not stand before the American people and point out any of this, as I would have done. I would have told the  people that Republicans are insincere, dishonest, untruthful, false, deceitful, duplicitous, lying, and mendacious and pointed out example after example. He is a gentleman, and I ma not. I would point to the real reasons we do not have gun control, immigration reform, why we don’t collect taxes from the rich to pay the national debt, why we pay oil companies and corporate farmer huge subsidies, why or infrastructure is falling apart, why college tuition is so high, why public schools are failing, why social security is falling farther and farther behind, and why we can not raises the minimum wage. The list is long and can almost invariable be traced to one thing; as any Republican, even the poor ones, will tell you the 99% does not pay enough taxes to live the way the 1% does. However, as a liberal, I look at this list as saying perhaps if we all paid more, even the 1%, fewer of us would have to live in poverty, and it is certain that most of us would have better roads to travel.

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