Bad Kabuki Theater

McConnell & Boehner?

For a month, the GOP brain trust (oxymoron?) has been scrambling to come up with a plausible explanation for the spanking they took on November 6th.  In their best mis-readings, what they've said is that they lost the election because the "under-class", the "nobodies" from "urban areas", young people, "minorities" who got gifts from Obama (tell me again just exactly who the "minority" is) , all those people were "pulled from their apartments" and turned out to vote in larger-than-expected numbers.  (It seems that after trashing and demeaning these folks for years, the R's are shocked to discover that they're allowed to vote.)

Democrats got more votes than Republicans, be it President, Senate or House, but Boehner and other top R's are running a Playhouse 90, pretending that the opposite occurred.  As a friend puts it , "It's just a bullshit Kabuki show."

In the current "crisis" of the impending fiscal "cliff" (actually more like the fiscal off-ramp), the nobodies are not deceived.  They understand that the GOP wants to slash Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits while at the same time ensuring that the wealthiest Americans don't pay a cent more in higher taxes.  In fact, they want the upper crust to pay less.

Instinctively, ethically, mathematically, it's nonsense.

The nobodies instinctively know that this time, the Republicans are yet again on the wrong side of the policy issue, the wrong side of public opinion, and the wrong side of history.

The nobodies know bad Kabuki theater when they see it.