No Surrender

"Good grief!" -- Charlie Brown

What Obama proposes, the GOP opposes

   Four years ago, the stated policy of the Republican Party was to ensure a single term for President Barack Obama. It didn't work.

   Today, the strategy of the Grand Olde Party is to provoke his failure. And the way to do that, they seem to believe, is through a "do nothing" policy.

Demand everything.
Suggest nothing.
Oppose all offers.
Offer no deals.
Reject any compromise.
Wait for the President to fold.

Consider this:

B is for Boehner.
B is for Plan B.
B is for booted by radicals.
B is for bluff.

   Call it. The Republican Luddites are about to destroy the very machinery they have sworn to serve and protect -- Congress and the American government.
   "My way or the highway!" they shout.
   How's this for a response: There's the door.

   For many years, Ulster Loyalists could stand by their oath of "No surrender!" based on their ability to keep and hold whatever jobs were available, shutting out opponents. But when the Ulster economy went south and the independent republic offered prosperity, the Loyalist stranglehold gave way to the Celtic Tiger's clutches.
   However, the Tiger later sickened and ran off, bloated by its own hyperactivity. Eventually, it may return, lean and hungry once again. Perhaps. One day.

   Meanwhile, in Washington, conservatives cling to classical economics, sticking to the True Faith that one day, the business cycle will turn up again and renew itself.

   The concept of renewal is also true of the Mayan calendar, except that the cycle lasts 5,125 years. We should live so long.