There are times when a sane person can reach only one sensible conclusion about the Democratic members of the House and Senate: They are engaged in a silent conspiracy to put the Republicans in power. True, the Republicans make it hard for them, but the Democrats soldier on.
Latest case in point, as many others have noted, is the latest Democratic cave. (Or is it a cave? No, it’s not. The premise of this post is that it is part of a grand strategy). Anyway, putting the digression aside, is there any reasonable explanation for the fact that the Democrats voted en masse to exempt the FAA from the sequester? The whole alleged point of this stupid exercise was to spread the pain and give everyone an incentive to compromise, and elicit pressure from constituents of every stripe.
But, sorry about that, no one intended to inflict pain on the rich nor on members of Congress, who happen to travel a lot. They’re so not used to it. So, naturally, the Republicans squealed on behalf of the rich, and the Democrats immediately “compromised” by giving the Republicans a PR victory while the Republicans give what they always give in these compromises: nothing.
It can’t be mere stupidity. No one can possibly be that stupid. It must be intentional, leading one ineluctably to the conclusion that the Democratic Party, as an institution, exists for the sole purpose of enabling the Republican Party.
I should add that Obama, the guy who wants to cut social security, will leave his veto pen in the drawer and sign on to this surrender, implicitly pleading guilty to the ridiculous Republican charge that the cutbacks at the FAA were somehow a political tactic rather than the natural result of the Republicans’ own actions.
In case you were wondering, Connecticut Democrats fell right into the surrender line.