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A lo N ty
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Paying Heavily for their Political Failures
Democrats ditch
the working stiff
m anm ade clim ate crisis, U.S. voters
have now elected a congressional
m ajority that den ies global w arm
ing. (D id I m ention that it’s also a
by D onald K aul
m ajo rity fin an ced by oil, gas, and
D ick T uck, the
coal m o n ey ?)
legendary political
B u rd en ed w ith a reverse R obin
p ran k ster and w it,
H ood tax structure that robs the
once ran fo r local
poor to give to the rich, voters elected
office in San F ran
the p eo p le w ho are m ost ad am an t
cisco and lost. H is
that the rich, the richer, and (m ost o f
co n cessio n speech, in its entirety: all) the rich est be tax ed lig h tly (if at
“T he people h av e spoken — the all) lest they cease creatin g jo b s.
b a s ta rd s .”
W h eth er they c reate jo b s o r not.
N ow , you know m e — I w o u ld n ’t
A n g ered by the political gridlock
say anything like that ab o u t the in W ash in g to n , A m ericans not only
recent elections. It’s v u lg ar and I’m reelected th e leaders o f the R ep u b
co u th .
lican o b stru c tio n ist cau cu s, they
H ow ever, if the shoe fits ...
substantially increased its num bers.
Perhaps it’s safer to qu o te the
F ru strated by P resident B arack
Sage o f B altim ore, H .L. M encken, O b a m a ’s inability to clear up the
w ho said: “D em ocracy is the theory m ess in the M iddle E ast (Iraq, Syria,
that the com m o n people know w hat A fg h a n istan , an d all th at), they
they w ant, and deserve to get it b acked the party that m ade the m ess
good and h ard .”
in the first place and has y et to so
T h e 2 0 1 4 m id te rm s w e re a m uch as ap o lo g ize fo r it.
M encken m om ent.
T he resu lt is that W e the P eople
It w as a disaster fo r the D em o find o u rselv es at the m ercy o f cy n i
cratic Party, o f course. T h ey lost cal m an ip u lato rs jo in e d at the hip
every election that w as possible to w ith true-believing ignoram uses.
lose and a few that w e re n ’t. But it
H ow did w e g et here?
w as an even g reater disaster for the
I blam e the D em ocrats for having
A m erican people.
lost th eir identity as a progressive
F a c e d w ith an o n r u s h in g party o f the w orking stiff. The D em o
cratic Party is in ste a d ...n o th in g at o f h e a lth c are c a rrie d th e day, ev en
all. I t’s a c o llectio n o f p o litical th o u g h th e p la n o v e rc a m e its e arly
strands that pull in one direction p ro b le m s to b e c o m e a su cc e ss. Its
and push in the other.
fla w s w e re e x a g g e ra te d . Its v ir
M oreover, it’s leaderless. O bam a tu e s b e c a m e se c re ts.
has his virtues — h e ’s b rig h t and
T h a t’s a failu re o f p o litical le a d
reaso n ab le — but h e ’s an aw ful e rs h ip , w h ic h D e m o c ra ts p a id fo r
politician. H e m akes Jim m y C arter h e a v ily .
look like L yndon Johnson.
T h e re ’s ta lk n o w in W a s h in g
N othing m akes this clearer than to n o f a n ew sp irit o f c o o p e ra tio n
his treatm ent o f the A ffordable C are b e tw e e n th e tw o m a jo r p a rtie s.
A ct, also k n ow n as O bam acare. T h is ta lk is g e n e ra lly b e tw e e n
E ssentially, he m ade a speech and p e o p le w h o s ta rt d rin k in g b e fo re
let his crack federal b u reau cracy n o o n .
h andle th e details.
F o r th e p a s t six y e a rs R e p u b li
T o m ake a long story short, it c a n s in C o n g re ss h a v e d o n e e v
didn ’ t w ork. T he rollout w as h o rren e r y t h i n g in t h e i r p o w e r to
d ously inept, and O b am a did next to d e le g itim iz e P re s id e n t O b a m a .
nothing to sell the plan to a c o n T h e y ’v e q u e stio n e d h is c itiz e n
fused public until it w as too late.
sh ip , h is p a trio tis m , h is in te lli
In to th e re s u ltin g v a c u u m th e g e n c e , an d h is re lig io n . T h e y d id
R e p u b lica n s in je c te d a n e v e r-e n d th at w hile n arro w ly co n tro llin g one
in g b a rra g e o f v itrio l. W ith o u t h o u se o f C o n g re ss.
b e in g v e ry s p e c ific , th ey c h a ra c
T o think that giving them full
te riz e d th e p lan as an u n p a ra lle le d control o f both cham bers w ill m ake
d is a s te r. A n d th ey d id it o n a d a ily them kinder, gentler, and m ore am e
b a sis. F o r tw o y e a rs o r m o re , R e nable to co m p ro m ise requires a leap
p u b lic a n s c o u ld h a rd ly b ro a c h o f faith available only to saints and
a n y s u b j e c t — th e w a r , th e fools.
e c o n o m y , th e w e a th e r — w ith o u t
M ay G od help the U nited States
in c lu d in g a ra n t o n th e e v ils o f the next tim e w e have to raise the
m a k in g h e alth c a re m o re w id e ly debt limit.
a v ailab le .
OtherWords columnist Donald
R e g re tta b ly , th is d e m o n iz a tio n Kaul lives in Ann Arbor, Mich.