As the 112th Congress hurtles self-destructively to its close, we cats were wondering if there were any Congresses worse than this one.
At first we thought maybe the 111th, because it boasted that despicable "You lie!" episode. But then we remembered that the 111th was the Congress that passed the stimulus, Wall Street reform, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the repeal of DODT and healthcare reform — and a ton of other good stuff.
This Congress? Not so much.
Not only did the embarrassing 112th fritter away their time reading the Constitution and pushing the country to brink of default — under the leadership of (who else?) the Republicans in the House, this current Congress failed to clear almost every bar it set for itself.
Republicans in the 112th had a clearly stated goal when they came to D.C.: Make Barack Obama a one-term President. Their second goal: Enshrine the Tea Party as the natural, national governing party.
Whoops — they sorta lost.
What's more, Congressional Republicans had no influence in picking their party's standard bearer in what should have been a gimme Presidential election. They failed. Their candidate failed. Their party failed.
Undeterred by its repudiation at the polls, the Capitol Hill GOP now has doubled down on its diversity problem by appointing only white males to chair their House committees. Looking at those guys is to look at an America that never really existed, but the Republicans cling to that fantasy — um, shall we say bitterly?
And of course, the UN disabled treaty vote was the piece de resistance.
Yep, add all that nonsense to their anti-Obama obstructionism, and you wonder how the economy — not to mention the country — would be faring today if the Republicans of the 112th had simply behaved like the patriots they claim to be.
We cannot wait until they're history. In the meantime, we cats HISS.
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