People should not gloat too much about the apparent implosion of the Republican party and speaker Bohner tonight; not without understanding that their mandate is for the crippling and destruction of the American government--of its proper function.
Yes, they are unprincipled thugs, and on the whole, not really that smart. But that's why they were sent there to begin with. The same reason a disgrace of a man like George W. Bush became president, and presided over the longest wholesale looting of the country's treasury, and started an unjustified war which in the final analysis was basically an instrument to transfer billions and billions of dollars to the military industrial complex and friends of the Bush crime family.
You've heard it all before: the wrecking ball; the shock doctrine, etc. This is all related to that.
The Republicans are doing their jobs, masterfully, as they inch forward everyday in crippling the government, in creating total atrophy.
This is by design, and it is being paid for, financed, by a tiny right wing group of billionaires fascists. There is a lot of historical precedence about how certain interests in a country collude to destroy the proper function of government, including early 30's Germany.
And they are doing it city by city, state by state. They are dismantling the judicial system, the public education system, the social safety net.
They want to create havoc, bring about the self-fulfilling prophesy that says that government doesn't work, that's unresponsive to the people. Then they swoop in with a "private sector" solution, with for-profit prisons, judicial system, for-profit charter schools that seek to hire teachers and pay them McDonnald's type wages...
Folks, this is happening right before our eyes. The billionaires' money is doing all this to our democracy. They are funding the effort. These forces are the enemy of the state; the enemy within. They will not stop until they succeed in a complete takeover.