The GOP is too juvenile to govern, Eugene Robinson
The GOP is too juvenile to govern
By Eugene Robinson, Published: May 30
With budgetary tantrums in the Senate and investigative play-acting in the House, the Republican Party is proving once again that it simply cannot be taken seriously.
This is a shame. I don’t share the GOP’s philosophy, but I do believe that competition makes both of our major parties smarter. I also believe that a big, complicated country facing economic and geopolitical challenges needs a government able to govern.
What we don’t need is the steady diet of obstruction, diversion and gamesmanship that Republicans are trying to ram down the nation’s throat. It’s not as if President Obama and the Democrats are doing everything right. It’s just that the GOP shrinks from doing anything meaningful at all.
The most glaring example, at the moment, is in the Senate. For four years, Republican senators lambasted their Democratic colleagues — with justification — for not approving a budget, one of the basic tasks of governance. Sen. John Cornyn(R-Tex.), and others regularly took to the Senate floor to announce the number of days since the body last produced a spending plan and to blast Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) for this shocking failure.
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Should be required reading by all.
OT, we made it through another night of nightmare weather although I read in this mornings paper 5 people, including a mother and child, weren't so lucky. They were stuck in traffic in Union City near OKC and were killed when the tornado struck. 
on the roads in cars. I think the metaphor for this lunacy should be the weather channel vehicle. Glad you and yours are OK 
Robinson spends most of the article lambasting the Republicans for being too juvenile to govern and their obstructionism then turns around and blames the Dems for not producing a budget, a "failure" brought about primarily because of Republican obstructionism.
