GOP: Anarchists of the House

[UCmeNdc]

It is the House, of course, where the real locus of the Republican guerrilla war has been located. The first clue that the Republican House would not settle for mere obstruction came when Republican leaders threatened in 2011 not to lift the debt ceiling unless Obama met unspecified demands to shrink the government. The debt ceiling is a formal authorization by Congress to pay existing debts, and voting for it has no effect other than preventing the global economic meltdown that would ensue if Congress somehow decided to let those debts default. Such votes had often been an occasion for the minority party to scold the president for his lack of fiscal responsibility, followed by a preordained vote. Nobody had ever used it before to obtain concessions. Obama naïvely thought he could turn the hostage demand into an ordinary budget negotiation—he would agree to cut spending, as Republicans demanded, if they accepted higher taxes. But as the deadline for the debt limit approached, House Republicans only jacked him up, extracting over a trillion dollars in spending cuts.


http://nymag.com/news/features/republican-congress-2013-7/index1.html

[apnu]

1. I've been saying they are Anarchists for years.

Because they are.

[Tx4obama]

2. K&R n/t

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. Anarchism means not only not being governed, but not governing others. Republicans want to rule all.

"Anarchism is a political philosophy that advocates stateless societies based on non-hierarchical free associations.[1][2][3][4][5] Anarchism holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, or harmful.[6][7] While anti-statism is central, some argue[8] that anarchism entails opposing authority or hierarchical organization in the conduct of human relations, including, but not limited to, the state system."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism

Republicans are not anarchists. Anarchists would be an extremely welcome change from republicans and their international corporate owners.

[UCmeNdc]

4. They might be confusing the definition #5 of the word anarchy with #1

an·ar·chy [an-er-kee]
noun
1. a state of society without government or law.

2. political and social disorder due to the absence of governmental control: The death of the king was followed by a year of anarchy. Synonyms: lawlessness, disruption, turmoil.

3. anarchism ( def 1 ).

4. lack of obedience to an authority; insubordination: the anarchy of his rebellious teenage years.

5. confusion and disorder: Intellectual and moral anarchy followed his loss of faith. It was impossible to find the book I was looking for in the anarchy of his bookshelves. Synonyms: chaos, disruption, turbulence; license; disorganization, disintegration.