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If our governm ent
co nsideration unless it has the sup- w ants to b u ild p ro sp erity by e x ­
were a ca rd gam e, the
port o f a m ajority o f the R epublican panding the m iddle class through
A m e r ic a n p e o p le
c au c u s.
education, re-training, and jo b cre-
w ould surely have
T h a t m e an s ju s t 118 m e m b e rs ation. H e w ould u n dertake a public
realized b y now that
(re a d tea p a rtie rs ) w ie ld a v irtu a l w orks pro g ram to rep air o ur broken
th e y ’re playing w ith
v e to o v e r a n y th in g P r e s id e n t infrastructure. H e w ould fund re-
a m arked deck. T he R epublicans are B arack O b am a, th e S en ate, o r sim - search and d evelopm ent program s
cheating.
p ly the m a jo rity o f H o u se m em - to keep us co m p etitiv e in the w orld,
In the 2012 elections, D em ocratic b e rs w a n t to d o .
H e w ould, in short, do the com -
candidates for H ouse seats co llec­
tively w on about five percent m ore 1
votes than their R epublican o p p o ­
nents did overall. Y et the R epubli-
Hard as it is to believe, the true believers in
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cans hung onto their control o v er
now o u tnum ber D em ocrats in that
the Republican Party... believe that we ’d all be
better offifw e stopped relying on government
things... and threw ourselves on the tender
mercies o f multi-national corporations
à
cham ber, 234 to 200.
H ow co u ld that be? W ell, w e ’re
not a pure dem ocracy, and we w ere
n ev er m eant to be. T he Founders, in
their w isdom , gave us a representa-
tive dem ocracy, in which geographic
T hat ’sn o t representative dem oc-
racy, that s political bullying.
All ofw hich w ould be bad enough
if the R epublicans actually w anted
m o n -sen se things that every D em o-
cratic p resid en t o f the p ast 80 years
has pro m ised to do.
T he R ep u b lican s treated the p ro ­
areas, as well as people, have a
voice in governm ent.
B ut this is ridiculous.
R ep u b lican state le g islatu res,
m ainly in the form er C onfederate
and w estern states, have gerrym an-
dered their congressional districts
to m ake it virtually im possible for
D em ocrats to achieve H ouse repre-
sentation co m m ensurate w ith their
to do som ething. B ut they d o n ’t,
unless you co u n t cutting taxes until
the governm ent dies o f starvation,
H ard as it is to believe, the true
believers in the R epublican Party,
the Paul R yans and R and Pauls o f
the w orld, believe that w e ’d all be
b etter o ff if w e stopped relying on
governm ent for th in g s— those frills
like health care, public schools, and
posals w ith absolute derision. H e
w o u ld do none o f those things, they
said. T hey W ouldn’t let him .
Instead, they th reatened to shut
dow n the governm ent if O bam a w ent
ahead w ith his health care plan. In
addition, they d rafted legislation to
cu t the E nvironm ental Protection
A gency by 34 percent, kill green-
house gas regulations, reduce fi-
su p p o rt.
Y ou w ould think that w ould be
enough fo r them , right? W rong.
H ouse Speaker John B oehner has
said that h e w on ’ t let the im m igra-
safe fo o d — and threw ourselves on
the ten d er m ercies o f m ulti-national
corporations that, as w e know , care
deeply about o u r w ell-being.
O bam a gave a rip-roaring speech
nancing fo r the Fish and W ildlife
S ervice by 27 percent, and halve the
E ndow m ent for the H um anities bud-
get.
O th er pro p o sed R epublican bills
tion g ran ts to p o o r students by 16
p ercen t.
G O P law m ak ers are saving their
b ig g est guns, h o w ev er, fo r their
co n tin u ed assault on the A ffo rd ­
able C are A c t— w hich seem s to be
w orking despite R ep u b lican claim s
that it is n ’t.
R epublican leaders have sent out
a letter an n o u n cin g th eir intention
to b lo ck raising th e d eb t ceiling on
S ep tem b er 30 if so m u ch as one
penny is spent o n im plem enting
O b a m a ’s lan d m ark h ealth care law.
W hen ask ed w h eth er h e ’s w orried
about how this do-n o th ing stance
co u ld h u rt his party, B o ehner d e ­
clared that C o n g ress “o u g h t to be
ju d g e d on how m any law s w e re ­
p eal.”
L e t’s review : R epublican leaders
refuse to ack n o w led g e o r do an y ­
thing to deal w ith clim ate change
and are dead set against expanding
health care co v erag e fo r the u n in ­
sured and under-insured, im prov­
ing the regulation o f financial in sti­
tutions, su p p o rtin g research, e x ­
panding public w orks, and resp ect­
ing o u r public cultural institutions.
T h eir vision o f the nation looks
like a gated com m unity in a rich area
o f Florida, surrounded by slum s.
A nd the rest o f us? W e ’re in
those slum s.
OtherWords Columnist Donald
Kaul grew up in Detroit and now
lives in Ann Arbor, Mich.