All across this land, independent voters are turning on their TVs and their laptops and grimacing at what is happening in DC...
Things are occurring that are causing them to grimace and wonder why they voted the way they did two months ago..
Many independents voted for one thing and one thing only. They wanted more jobs and that is all, just more jobs. They were hoping that somehow a GOP person in their Congressional district would make that difference.
Now, as the new House of Representatives are sworn in and the new House leadership appears on talk shows, indies are realizing that they MADE A MISTAKE. House leaders are talking about non-stop investigations like ISSA calling the President and his Administration corrupt and wanting a record number of Hearings in order to try to embaress this President. This scheme by the Rethuglicans will NOT work. In factm it will backfire on them for doing it in the first place.
ISSA, Chairman of the House Govt Oversight Committee, is under the impression that if you say lies long enough, that it will be true or people will believe it. He is wrong. He makes accusations with absolutely no evidence. Just like when W was elected the second time, and tried to privatize Social Security, the GOP again is overreaching. They think that they have a mandate to do WHATEVER they want to do. They feel that they can do whatever they want in the House and it will have no repercussions. BUT IT WILL. Whatever they do Will come back in two years and bite them in the ASS. They may even try to not raise the debt ceiling and have the federal government default? As Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, Austan Goolsbee said is exactly right, it would be insanity to have the government default. How can rational adults even consider such a thing?
Independents and others who thought they were voting for GOP adults to handle tough issues will be dismayed quickly this year and it will carry into 2012 wondering why they did what they did transforming the House into a political circus of non-stop investigations and showmanship with NO idea of what governing and leading are about.