You may have thought Kabuki Theater was a type of Japanese drama based on their popular legends characterized by elaborate, ornate costumes and stylized acting by male actors. But it in reality has become the Republican leadership in Congress headed by John Boehner.
I’m not going to take time to enumerate Boehner’s failings as Speaker of the House. He may put up a good golf score in his not so infrequent golf outings with Obama, but it’s his score in taking the people’s business that concerns me.
The House is prepared to vote to repeal Obamacare. It will be the 31st such vote since the demonstrably unpopular socialist bill was rammed down our throats. Obamacare is the most opposed piece of legislation Obama has pushed through–60 percent of the nation opposes it and 83 percent of all doctors say they are considering leaving medical practice specifically because of this legislation.
There is no need to dance around with this hated legislation. There isn’t a snowball’s chance in the desert of the attempt to repeal the Bill passing when it hits the Senate. I believe the correct move is to defund it. Then work to gain a super majority in the Senate and gain more seats in the House this November. Armed with a super majority in the Senate and a substantial majority in the House, Obamcare can be successfully repealed.
The House Republicans should flood the airwaves with Obama saying, “the healthcare mandate is not a tax.” They should run ads using Obama’s criticizing others for exactly what he is doing now. Those clips should be as prevalent on internet ads as Obama’s arrogant wife’s ads telling people to support her husband.
They should point out that Obama is as committed to raising taxes as Satan is to sin. Republicans should be flooding the airwaves with the fact that Obama is going to almost double the death tax. In the coming months all estates valued at $1 million aggregate will be taxed at 55 percent. At the present time all estates valued at $5 million or more are taxed at 35 percent. Why haven’t the Republicans brought this punitive tax increase to the people as something we should fight against?
The Republicans should blanket the nation with simple, easy-to-read and understand, single page notices clearly delineating the lies Obama, and Democrats like Pelosi, told about what the Bill would and would not do. Obama cannot run from his own words, but he doesn’t have to if they aren’t known to everyone.
This should be a full frontal assault. Sixty-percent of We the People oppose Obamacare. Eighty-three percent of doctors are considering leaving the healthcare profession because of it. It will cost close to another million jobs as the true unemployment number is above 14 percent. Obama said healthcare would save money when we now know that at the very least it will increase spending another $1.2 trillion over 10 years. That means Obama will be out of office, raking in millions of dollars in speaking fees, and his wife will be spending like a drunken ghetto queen, as We the People suffer more lost jobs and increased debt. If the debt load is unsustainable now, what will it be then?
Small business confidence in the economy has decreased 91.4 percent over June a year ago. Republicans need to drive home the point that the difference between Obamacare and Romney’s healthcare when he was governor is that it was a state decision not a national mandate. It is the prerogative of a state to enact such decisions; it is not the Constitutional right of Obama to make said decision for the nation.
Republicans have the will of We the People to make Obamacare a thing of the past and to defeat Obama. But they are more interested in theatrical performance than they are in holding daily townhall meetings–laying out in detail the plain truth of Obamacare.
There has seldom been an opportunity handed to a more vapid and feckless group. For goodness sakes, the Keystone Cops could get things done with this type of support. We the People cannot allow Boehner and company to waste this opportunity to correct Obama’s heinous Bill.
Depending on the poll, between 63-65 percent of the American people believe Obama is taking the country in the wrong direction. If Boehner and company cannot translate that into a victory for the people over a flawed Euro-Socialist healthcare program with an onerous tax as a penalty, what in the world can they use?
This is a battle for America, not Boehner’s tee time with Obama. If we want Kabuki Theater we’ll go to a Japanese theater. Tell Congress and every candidate that we are tired of their theatrics. Tell them we don’t want symbolic actions; we want action that is dedicated to bringing about meaningful results.
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Where are all these politicians coming from? Mars? they sure aren’t doing the work for the people…..I am so disappointed in Boehner, he is a traitor to the people….where do they all think they will live when they ruin this country?? OK, so why don’t they just leave to the EU or Russia now…leave us alone!
barb: boehner is obama’s little brother w/ slicked hair…
Boehner should play golf when there are a few Democrat Senators playing on the same golf course. NOT yell “Four” when his ball is headed toward their heads. Maybe that would knock some sense into the Socialist Senators. Suppose? Regardless, Your Rant is right on, Mychal. I never equated Boehner’s ‘act’ to Kabuki but more the “Chicken Dance.” You are Gooood!
marilyn: thks lady…I have my moments…
Before he was Speaker I actually though he was going to be The Man in there, but he turned out to be a weak, crying, embarrassment.
carpenter: he needs to return to the bar he came from…
I find it sad that Nancy Pelosi has more balls than John Boehner does! However wrong-headed, at least she got their agenda rammed thru! As far as Kabuki Theatre goes-according to that picture of Boehner, he sure looke like he’s wearing guyliner! Would that we have true Representatives of We the People and not these career politicians our Founding Fathers fought against. The goal was to spend 6 month attending to business for the Nation-then go back the other 6 months & work among your constituents. I do applaud the few voices crying in the wilderness like Rep Allen West & certainly wish there were more like him. The country-club snootiness of DC political circles is a bane on this wonderful country of ours-Thanks again Mychal for reminding us why we Must send these do-nothings into political oblivion!
chris: she has more of everything than boehner…
I had not considered the Japanese “dance-drama” form of theater in relationship with Congress/Congressional Reps. But since you put the picture in my mind, it stuck and I have been playing with it for a bit and think Kyogen is a better picture. There should be double dots above the “o” but my keyboard is acting…much like congress at the moment, not cooperating. Anyway, talk about going off on a tangent! Koygen are (yes, that is plural) the slapstick “little plays” that are performed between No(h) performances. Think The Three Stooges between acts of Hamlet. Yeah, you got it, Congress. Oh, the things we learn when we grow up a military brat and then have our own “looooong” military career.
lvonova: either one will work…
We have to start fighting fire with fire. All you have to do is understand Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals to get it that the Progressives(Dems & RINOs) and Obama are not incompetent, they are brilliantly executing a perfectly orchestrated plan that on its face, true Conservatives just can’t fathom. Hence, by not knowing the enemy and their tactics, we don’t utilize their tactics against them. Col. Allen West does and that’s why he brings the fight and the light of day to these crimes against We The People. Too bad he isn’t Speaker!! He drives them nuts!!!
It’s time to craft our own narrative and repeat it over and over and over again and we need to get off trying to defend against every outrageous lie they tell. All you have to do to get these people off their game is to say something outrageous and they melt down or shut up. I’m sick of Republicans fiddling while Rome is burning!
cathy b: yoiu are exactly right…enough of letting leftists dictate the message…
Mychal,
I have written Boehner, and will continue to do so. Right after one scathing email, he relented and agreed to the vote for finding Holder in contemp of Congress. I am sure my letter had nothing to do with it, and yet, I hope it did. For those of you who want to deluge Boehner, go to the Speaker of the House web site, where you will find a “contact” link for both email and phone numbers and regular mail. If you go to his Representative site, it will reject you if you are not in his district. I say we flood him!
Hi SunnyVee,
I am glad that you are writing to Boehner, but if you want to really get in touch with him and the other members of the HOR, CALL them on the phone.
Here is the website that has their information – http://www.theorator.com/government/house.html
Their representatives will try to steer you to calling your own congressman. However stand firm, the HORs represent all of us (the taxpayers) and we as taxpayers and voters will have no problem sending donation money to make sure they are sent back home to the real world of reality.
I also remind them that I will be sharing my information through the internet in which I do (emails, FB, FB events, website, etc.)
I posted this great article from Mychal, and then provided the link to the members of the HOR so that my friends and fellow patriots will make the calls and we do. We also use their fax machine numbers as another way of communication and their home district office and fax numbers as well.
One may want to bookmark the HOR contact website for future use.
Will do! Thank you for the tips! Our local Tea Party group, “We The Hoosiers”, is demonstrating against the Obamacare decision, with tasteful signs, along a main thoroughfare for 2 days, followed by joining the AFP rally against the decision next weekend. We need to raise awareness and keep up the pressure!
sunnyvee: it was nothing more than kabuki theater…
frances morgan: thks for sharing this…
sunnyvee: your letter and those of others had a lot to do with it…that said he also knew he wasn’t going to let go anywhere…have you heard anything about holder or fast and furious in past couple weeks…
Boehner is the perfect example of what is wrong with the Republican Party today—-NO GUTS.
While he wanders around improving his tan, demonstrating his willingness to work together (read cave to Obama), trying to be the nice guy that everyone likes (in this arena, nice guys finish last)and worrying about being called a racist party because Obama is black, he’s letting (has let) the Democrats and Obama drive the country into bankruptcy and become the rodeo clown for the world to laugh at.
He’s exactly what the Republicans that can vote for him need get out of office so that someone with a backbone and leadership ability can lead the party.
It’s not going to make much difference how the Republicans are viewed when the party gets completely marginalized by letting Obama get away with violating the Constitution and treating him like the school yard wimp. They won’t even be a paragraph in the history books if they keep following Boehner.
Right now what we need is a junk yard dog, not a posturing figurehead that does nothing but play nice. No one likes a coward or a BS artist except a bully. We need to insure that Obama gets stopped in his socialist tracks now. We need to play just as dirty as he does if not dirtyer. After that we can play nice.
sumitch: boehner not only has no guts he is a traitor to conservatism…
Mychal,
As I read this post, I thought yes, maybe that would work, but; Then reality as I keep finding it comes back into my awareness.
When most of the flock of the Won, (present occupant of the office of the POTUS), see his face and hear his voice, even if he is railing against his past or future self, they don’t hear, -or understand.
Their eyes simply glaze over in adoration, and they melt emotionally.
I believe we must hit hard, (can’t bring myself to say “play hardball”), with loud, clear statements on the damage the Won has done, both domestically, and internationally, in all things we once considered in a strong positive light; uniquely American exceptionalism, military might to help tame the unruly world, at least a projected sense of right6 and wrong in the human rights, and basic freedoms department.
The RNC must get cooking and hit loud, hard, and often with strong messages of all the things that the LSM keeps burying and protecting about the completely empty shell of an entity the Won is, however well directed and operated that character is.
You and I know, and most here know that it was irrational to accept such a fraudulently presented entity as a candidate, much less an occupant of the office of the POTUS, where we should have a patriot.
There I go, wishing for a public that is awake during the active part of their day, not just up and ambulatory…
…And then I remember the glaze in their eyes and can only imagine that all-blinding, calming, sense of serenity.
bruce h: don’t count on the rnc for anything…they want weak moderates who lean left…they believe that is only way to get things done…
Another outrageously outstanding commentary. The only problem is that it appears Boehner & crew apparently don’t read them.
norlyn: not true…believe me I know for a fact that if they don’t their staff does…
Well said. I make it a point to stay as far away from and to never associate with people I know to be liars, dishonest, anti-Christian, anti-American, anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish, and that act and/or speak stupidly. I can only suggest the Speaker do the same.
bob chester: you just identified 99 percent of the repub party and 100 percent of dems…
Great article! obama is beating the republican’s like a drum and the republican’s-Romney included are too dumb to realize this. It’s time to quit playing defense and get on the offense, take the fight to obama and the democrats. As you said flood the airways with all of the broken promises made by this administration, spending, debt, national security, foreign affairs, & the polarization of the nation through class,cutural, religious, racial warfare. We need a message from the Romney camp to unify the nation and to work together to get American back on the path to Greatness!
david van ausdall: well said…
Thank you Mychal.
Citizens not frightened by Obama’s assault on the constitution and Boehner’s pathetic, appeasing behavior are asleep at the wheel.
They better wake up before the train jumps the track.
Good point. Seems fairly clear that it’s not Casey Jones at the throttle, and if it is, he’s traded Cocaine for a Thorazine Drip. And you can’t jump the track if you aren’t moving!
stormrider900: lol…good point…
sumitch: amen
doug: indeed or in league w/ them…
BRAVO!!! Brilliantly stated. Your thoughts are right on! I wish somehow you could influence the Republicans personally, Mychal! What you stated is simply simple and easy to understand while brilliantly thought out. Thank you!
mimi mchale: theyh hear and read me…they think they can ignore because not enough people have taken them to task…