The insanity that is the GOP-led House is a telling sign of the cost our country is paying for minimalizing, silencing the wisdom of our elders.
In today's GOP, "party elder" is reviled. The youngsters - look how many junior senators are running for president - push older statesmen into the shadows. Like so many kids of any generation, they chase immediate gratification at the cost of long-term blowback.
Having taken out John Boehner, the "young guns" are now training their sights on the Senate.
It's hard to credit report that Mitch McConnell has appointed a special task force to explore changes to the filibuster rule & other procedural gambits that have kept hot hot hot issues - like nixing the Iran deal & defunding Planned Parenthood - from coming to a vote. McConnell, as canny as they come, knows shelving the fillibuster would devastate the GOP if Dems get back into power. It would boomerang into disaster.
How is it possible top Republican leaders - old enough to know better - could consider ditching the filibuster simply to bring to vote bills that are doomed to come to a dead halt on the president's desk, with no hope of enough votes to overcome his veto? Give it up for something that's all show, no substance?
Mitch McConnell is a Senate traditionalist. That puts a target on his back. The young guns don't want pragmatism, they want passion! drama! do or die! Seriously. They apparently lust over the possibility of another government shutdown - to them, the problem with the last one was it was merely partial, not complete. So what if just the partial shutdown cost the economy $24 BILLION. Surely a complete shutdown would have brought America to its senses, would have paved the way to shrinking government to such a teeny size it could be easily drowned in a bathtub! If only those traitorous congressional leaders hadn't held us back from charging into the fiscal Valley of Death from which we would have emerged purged of the stain of compromise!
Fact is, the heart-fueled loathing of the current president, Planned Parenthood & anything short of unleashing (again) the dogs of war that swells the hearts of the young uns in the House is creeping into the Senate. The only use the young guns in either body see for old bulls is to hunt for their hides.
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