Watching Bernie Sanders on Ed Schultz just made it more distressingly apparent how totally inept Obama and his advisors are about reacting to Republican sabotage.
It happens time after time:
the GOP cuts funding for essential public services.
Essential public services break down.
The GOP blames the Democrats.
The Democrats tuck their tail between their legs.
Allowing Shinseki–who, as we know, rightly opposed our Iraq catastrophe and thus has been in the cross hairs of the GOP ever since–to resign, allowing Democratic caucus members to call for his resignation, is hardly surprising given the spineless condition of today’s Democratic Party, but it is deplorable in any case.
By contrast to Democratic leadership, Schultz and Sanders were blunt about how very likely it is that the GOP will use this crisis–which is the inevitable consequence of their funding cuts as well, of course, as their advocacy of endless war– to call for privatization of yet another essential public service.