Use Your Heads People

I am not a big fiction reader. I strongly prefer non-fiction. I especially dislike reading fiction in the news media and then hearing fiction repeated as fact by people following what they hear rather than using their heads and thinking for themselves.

Here are some facts that are not refutable. The democrats control the House of Representatives by 79 seats. They have an insurmountable voting majority of 60 in the senate (58 democrats +2 reliable "independents"). So when I hear chatter in the media and in conversation about the "obstructionist" republicans my head starts to throb. The republicans cannot in anyway obstruct anything the democrats want to do. They do not have the votes. This is like stating that my pair of two's is obstructing your full house in the poker hand of life. The full house wins every time. It just is. So, if the democrats want to pass legislation, there is nothing the republicans can do to stop it. They do not have the votes. They would be steamrolled on every vote.

If fellow democrats are jumping ship from democratic causes, why does that make republicans obstructionist? The answer is, it doesn't. However, most of the media needs a boogey man to demonize and an excuse to cite when liberalism fails. If the democrats agenda does not roll forward this year, it isn't because of the meanie republicans, it is because the democrats don't agree on the policy...and maybe, just maybe because it is bad for America.

Come on people use your heads. This one isn't that hard.