Telling Lies To Survive

IN THE SUMMER OF 1945, the Japenses offered repeatedly to surrender, but their offers were ignored, because the United States had brand spanking new atomic bombs, and by god, intended to use them, hell or high water. You see that behavorial tendency often among Americans. My way or the highway, damn the consequences, and the devil take the hindmost. (gotta love that 19th century cliche). U.S. Representative John Boehner was going to destroy Obamacare, at all costs. The costs, it runs out, are rather high. Nearly seventy percent of the American people look back at the recent mismatched governmental struggle, and wonder why it ever needed to happen. and we the masses no longer seem to have anything positive to say about Congressperson Boehner and his gang of thuggish, bullying tea partiers. What if an opportunity arises for the great state of Texas to secure a federal grant for a much desired infrastructure project, or subsidy for new business? How likely is it that the United States Senate is going to support anything brought to the floor by Texas Senator Ted Cruz? The next time Cruz tries to get something done, if he ever does, the other ninety nine United States Senators are likely to respond: "sounds good, Ted. Why don't we let you stand up and talk about it for awhile, while the rest of us go grab a sandwich. Then we can vote." Actually, the Boehner-Cruz-Rubio gang did as good a job as possible of covering their retreat, and saving their media seeking faces. The American people, by and large, are biting their tongues, trying not to laugh, not to embarass anybody, but the survey polls don't lie; the American people agree with Warren Buffett: it was a fool's errand, an act of idiotic lunacy. Everyone agrees, all except for the extreme right wing, of course. They cleaned up the blood quickly, and are even now standing at erect attention, grim visages beaming with defiance and pride over a lost heroic cause. But they haven't given up. Their new strategy is to prevaricate their way to victory. Whereas the real world realizes that Obamacare is here to stay, though has begun with a huge but perfectly normal American bureaucratic nightmare, all huge American bureaucratic nightmares eventually get untangled, and so will this one. But the Boehner Rubio Cruzers would have us believe that Obamacare is a disaster of such proportions that the very existence of the republic is in jeopardy. The power of exaggeration! You can bet your bottom dollar that the Cruz Boehner Rubio tea party street gang will fight to the bitter end, prevaricating all the way, the same way we are told the Japanese would have, had it not been for a pair of well timed, well targeted A bombs. It turns out that our history books, usually written by patriotic conservatives, also tell lies.