In a novel by Dostoyevsky, the Grand Inquisitor reasons with a returned Jesus who has been going around healing people, apologizing for the fact that the Established Church will have to crucify Him again because He doesn’t agree with their religion. With just such a line of reasoning, Republicans are piously attempting to crucify President Obama for not agreeing with their right-wing perversion of the GOP.
No matter the issue, their rallying cry is going to focus on destruction of the president and his unfair objection to allowing billionaires to line their pockets at the expense of the taxpayer.
Suppose President Obama, halo lighting his way, appeared to the public from the clouds, surrounded by a heavenly host singing his virtue, his intelligence, his decency, his attempt to protect the Middle class from annihilation.
Imagine his greeting by the Tea-party Sanctimony Committee, looking directly in the face of the evidence while labeling Him the anti-Christ, denying him not only his birth credentials, but his born-again appearance under Christian auspices.
“Crucify him!” they’d cry. “He’s a Muslim.”
Today, of course, the rallying cry would echo: “Deficit! Deficit! Deficit!”
So where were such “patriots” during the eight years the Bush Administration raised the debt ceiling five times to the tune of four-trillion dollars with the blessing of the Republican Party and the billionaire war profiteers riding into Iraq on the taxpayer dollar?
Who paid for the largest, most palatial American Embassy in the world erected in that country? What happened to the debt-free status left the Republican Party by President Clinton?
Only Now are House Leader Boehner and company pointing to President Obama, all piety and pretense of concern about the objections of the taxpayer to having billionaires line their pockets with the money Mr. Middle Class pays for his rights to housing, education and survival.