Dissent growing within

GOP as public anger mounts

Rachel Maddow explained the widening GOP rift on her show on Tuesday. Click image to enlarge.

AS THE GOVERNMENT shutdown drags into its third day today, there might just be some good news in all the devastation.
Signs are emerging in a number of quarters that the radical fringe group of Republicans in the House of Representatives that deliberately caused all the unnecessary suffering is itself beginning to feel the heat.
It has been a long time since the GOP was in such disarray.
House Speaker John Boehner was too afraid to bring a continuing budget resolution to a vote – because he feared enough Republicans would join the Democrats to pass a clean bill.
Now, more moderate Republicans are increasingly breaking ranks – and the “Eleventh Commandment:” Thou shalt not attack a fellow Republican.

US GOVERNMENT – AND PEOPLE – HELD HOSTAGE BY LUNATIC FRINGE
Few people on the planet can be unaware that the American federal government is on track to shut down in a few hours.
It’s all the fault of a crazy radical fringe group that has seized control of Congress.
What an embarrassment. Even worse, what an unnecessary calamity for the entire country, all its 330 million people, and the global community.
It is beyond pathetic. It is gross mismanagement on a massive scale.

PUBLIC OPINION WAVERS AS GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN LOOMS
The battle over health care reform will reach fever pitch this week as Republicans in Congress tie repeal of it to a possible shutdown of the federal government.
President Obama’s signature accomplishment in office is not enormously popular with the American public.
As the debate deepens and the shutdown deadline looms, we can expect more heat than light.
It can only be hoped that the sane members of Congress prevail and keep funding the federal government as reform is rolled out fully over the next six months.

LUNATIC DEBT CEILING FIGHT WILL HARM ECONOMY, BUT RADICALS DON’T CARE
The looming budget battles in Congress are totally unnecessary and threaten to wreak havoc on an already fragile economy.
Republicans in the House of Representatives, pressured by far right-wing activist groups, don’t care.
It’s all about posturing and catering to the radial right wing of the party, which is holding the entire country hostage. Damn the torpedoes!
It’s enough to make your head explode.

HHS SECRETARY SIBELIUS TOUTS BENEFITS BEING IMPLEMENTED
The battle over the Affordable Care Act – aka Obamcare ¬– threatens to intensify just after Labor Day when Tea Party radicals plan a rally at the House Speaker’s office.
Meanwhile, the Obama Administration is fighting back with a public relations blitz.
And a poll released Wednesday found a huge majority of Americans oppose defunding the program.
This is the GOP’s worst nightmare come true, as we reported here Aug. 20.

Due to the Labor Day weekend in the U.S. posting will be light over the next few days. We deserve a break from our labors! Don’t you?

ALL THE BLAME GOES TO THE GOP IN CONGRESS
As many have predicted, a disaster of gargantuan proportions is unfolding before our eyes as the effects of the so-called budget “sequester” ripple across America.
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office says it is increasing unemployment and lowering GDP.
The lunatics responsible are ALL the Republican members of both the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
The numbskulls in Congress that allowed the sequester to happen, and keep doing nothing about it must be as blind as bats.

PARTY SPLITS AS RADICALS SEEK GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN
Republicans throughout the country are running scared. What do they fear the most? The success of President Obama’s signature accomplishment in office, sometimes called “Obamacare.”
But, as Americans begin to feel the full benefits of it in the coming months, it is bound to become one of the most popular federal innovations in recent history.
So what is the poor GOP to do?
Get In the (K)now … here, now