Why Our Politics Are So Stressful

[babylonsister]

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2011/7/14/203456/654

Why Our Politics Are So Stressful

by BooMan
Thu Jul 14th, 2011 at 08:34:56 PM EST


You want to know why American politics are so exhausting? Because everything is always a goddamn crisis with the Republicans. They win back the House in 1994, and the government shuts down in 1995. They lose the presidential election in 1996, and they try to overturn the election by impeaching the president over some seriously low crimes and misdemeanors in 1998. They lose the popular vote and (most likely) the Electoral College in the 2000 presidential election, and they have their majority on the Supreme Court shut down the Florida recount and hand the White House to two of the most incompetent and immoral individuals the country has ever seen wield power. We get attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, and all of a sudden we're invading countries that had nothing to do with the attacks while we're being advised to wrap ourselves in protective plastic and duct tape. They lose the presidential election in 2008 and all of a sudden we can't even confirm a judge or have an up or down vote on anything in the Senate. They win back power in the House in 2010, and they try to make us default on our debt and destroy our impeccable credit rating in 2011.

If this country had any memory or valued a decent night's sleep and healthy blood pressure, we would never elect these bastards to any office. They're too stressful. They may be more radical than ever before, but it's not like we haven't been dealing with this nonsense for decades at this point.

[shraby]

1. Going back even further, Nixon and his stunt followed by

Ford pardoning him. Living through Nixon was bad enough, but I was incensed when Ford gave him a free pass.

[Cereal Kyller]

5. You know something?

I actually think Ford was right to wash the country's hands of Nixon's dirt.

[saras]

6. Nixon called his autobiography "Six Crises" because he thought he did best in a crisis - back in '61

I'm not sure it was exactly him, I think it was the seventies neocons that led up to the Reagan-Bush dynasty who seriously ran with the idea of creating crises deliberately because panicky people are more conservative, and manipulable. Nixon tended to run with them when they happened, and he really did do better there than when he tried to connect with the American people.

Now, though, the entire thing is scripted ahead of time. And the Tea Party seem to be convinced that if some works, then a state of perpetual crisis regarding all possible issues ought to be even better.

[Jane Austin]

2. Amen!

They are such hysterics. I can't figure why any Americans don't just hate their idiotic asses.

[cilla4progress]

3. Wow, this is great --

my BP rises and falls with this shit, and your explanation really ties it up with a neat bow -- thanks.

[treestar]

4. Yes, they are high drama

And that is exhausting.

[Cereal Kyller]

7. Kick