As I watched the 113th Congress being sworn in on TV I couldn't help but think of how bad the 112th congress has been. The Republican hatred for all things Obama, combined with the Tea Party's simplistic economic theories have just about brought the Federal Government to a halt but that's really what they want, isn't it? You've heard their cute little lines about how "government isn't the solution, it's the problem" or that they want to "shrink government down to a size where they could drown it in a bathtub." It's the sort of political philosophy that claims government doesn't work and then goes about crippling it to make sure it can't function. Trouble is that the 112th Congress had a large number of members who seemed to really believe this sort of stuff and unfortunately for the people of the United States the 113th Congress does too. I think the next couple of years will be a painful repeat of the last two, like a bad B movie sequel, let's call it Congzilla II or Congzilla 113. Their behavior is so bad as to almost be funny but they have been doing real harm to our economic recovery and they seem to be planning to do even more damage. I sincerely hope I'm wrong on this for all our sake's.
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