Calmes: Has the Republican Party grown so anti-government that it cannot govern at all?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Nothing I could write here about House Republicans and the cannibalism that has paralyzed Congress, amid international crises and the threat of a government shutdown, could be worse than what the Republicans are saying about themselves, and to one another, as they head into a third week divided over who should be the House speaker.

Worst of all are the profanity-filled death threats streaming in from the Republicans’ radicalized voters, whipped up by right-wing media figures and groups including the gun lobby. At least one Republican’s wife now sleeps with a loaded gun. Another had a sheriff assigned to his daughter’s school.

This broken party has given frightening new meaning to the old saw about forming a circular firing squad.

All because a minority of House Republicans finally showed some spine and on Friday blocked Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio — a party-busting vandal, Jan. 6 seditionist, alleged enabler of sexual abuse, would-be impeacher of President Biden and all-around, far-right “legislative terrorist” (a fellow Republican’s words, not mine) — from getting the most powerful job in Congress.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/calmes-republican-party-grown-anti-100016656.html

Yes it is.

[calimary]

1. Even having to ask is telling enough.

[Jirel]

2. Wrong question creates the wrong answer

They aren’t anti-government. They are pro-very-big-government, as long as it’s a fascist authoritarian government with them in charge.

They want the right and the ability to reach into every bedroom, every womb, every pair of underwear, every school, every library, every university, every medical facility. They want crowds of goose-stepping police to do that dirty work.

They want vast armies. They just don’t want to pay the soldiers. They want great water everywhere on demand. They just don’t want the regulations to protect it, or to pay the workers who make it happen.

And on, and on.

Analyzing the Rethugs through the lens of them being “anti-government” is like trying to do astrophysics starting with “Let’s assume the earth is flat.”

[whathehell]

5. They are against FUNDING most government..

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It takes MONEY away from their wealthy doners who, unlike the working and midde classes, don't NEED government programs. The super rich don't need public schools -- Their children go to Private Schools. They don't need Social Security or Medicare as they are rich enough to pay their own hospital bills and care for their own elderly, should it be needed.
THEIR "big government" initiatives against, say, abortion, or anti LGBT+ do not COST anything, you see?

[SWBTATTReg]

3. I don't think the GOP truly even knows what government really does, being that they are so into their

platform (anti-everything, literally), that they can't see or hear anything. It's like a person being color-blind.

[Kid Berwyn]

4. GOP never mentions who the US Government really is.

"We the People."

[Pantagruel]

6. GOP

simply can't govern.