. . . not the seriousness of the issues
From Politico:
“Republicans are plotting to make Democrats pay dearly for backing an agreement the GOP argues hinges on an historic enemy of the United States playing nice. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to return to the floor next week to force Democrats to take more votes Republicans say they’ll regret as soon as Iran violates the terms of the deal or sponsors terrorist attacks, which critics believe is just a matter of time.”
This is how the game is played. And for most of the politicians whom voters send to Washington, it IS a game. And the quote above says it all.
Politicians like Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, and, with a few notable exceptions, most of the nation’s, the two political parties’ and the individual states’ leaderships play it with one overriding priority…personal gain.
Seldom, however, do the American people get such a stark and chilling expose’ of how cynically it is played as we have seen on two occasions during the 6 year plus reign of Barack Obama.
The bottom line is, the actions of the politicians are never executed with consideration of whether or not their likely outcome is good or bad for the nation and its citizens.
The Iran “agreement” is the current, and most chilling example of “the game”.
For the two ruling political parties, the ultimate consequences of the Iran “agreement” were never a consideration. The “aim was the game”.
Each party, under their morally corrupt leadership, had its full attention on how this action could be used to its political advantage. Obama’s game was to further the goal of his handlers and his, for their own reasons, to so weaken the will and the ability of the US to ever again play a major role in the world. This game’s rewards are personal wealth and, above all, power. The play is to the deep-seated desire of every human for peace and a sense of stability in a changing world. The actual outcome of the action is not important to the players. (To the obvious question…there is still a great deal of power and wealth for the elite to divvy up even in a greatly diminished America.)
For the Republican Party, Mitch McConnell’s behavior and his own words betray the “aim”. It was obviously never the GOP’s intention to block or derail the Iran agreement. As the quote above from the story of the agreement’s passage boldly underscores… their motive: “TO MAKE THE DEMOCRATS PAY DEARLY” in coming elections.
That aim could only be achieved, in the minds of McConnell and the Republican leadership, if the agreement went into effect and the worst consequences ensued…Iranian violations and increased terrorist attacks.
If the game played out as Mitch and his pals saw it, personal gain and greater power for them.
Obamacare has provided the other stark example of “the game”.
For Dems, the “aim” is their everlasting lust for socialized medicine and the extension of power for the elite that it brings. Whether or how well it works has never been a consideration. If it were, evidence is abundant that it produces far less benefit for the populace than the prior US system. Again, outcomes are never the aim of the game.
With ultimate power the ultimate results of the action to get it have no consequences in the minds of the players.
Boehner and McConnell high stakes poker skills (via Democrat Underground)
For Republicans, again, the means to block Obamacare implementation were available. But the GOP establishment saw nothing to gain from that. And so they rode its unpopularity to big electoral gains in 2010.
A third example of the game is by now so obvious, it needs little further illumination…illegal immigration. For the GOP, again, the unpopularity of the Obama action was big electoral gains in 2014. For the Dems the “long game” is the aim.
Both parties’ leaderships want it. The aims are somewhat different, Dems for the votes in the longer term, Republicans for the cheap labor and fear of the press and their own donor class. The ultimate consequences? Not a consideration.
DLH
Polls show what, something like 80% oppose Obama’s Iran deal. It would seem then that clearly opposing it (or appearing to) is a political winner for Republicans. So why is actually stopping it not?
The GOPE must think: 1) they really can’t stop it (they can) and they dare not look spiteful and of course, heaven forbid, do anything that would allow the Dems to say “Kings X the Republicans are shutting down the government.” That is a rationalization to avoid all risk, however unlikely it is, because they are or do not feel competent to do what is right and needs to be done.
2) as you portray, better to just use the issue than actually stop it. heck if the ayato0lla incinerates Jerusalem what a big political win for us!! We can say “we told you so,” then we will be respected and revered.
They can tell that to Israel or wherever the ayatollahs throws their weight, — just how prescient they were – never mind that having warned of the extreme danger, they did not mount a commensurate response
And for the victims, knowing they were a political pawn, that people who knew better could have done more, that is always mollifying.
The problem with the “win win” political analysis of the GOPE make noise about doing something but do not actually do anything grand, is it endangers the free world and advances a terrorist state’s hegemony and other malcontents here at home.