There
has been a lot of this happening throughout the whole history of the
Republican’t Party. They always seem to want things to happen later so it will
benefit them. The Democrats are the ones considered lazy but Republican’ts are
bigger procrastinators than most procrastinators are or could ever hope to be.
And yet, there is a reason for this.
I’m
not entirely sure when this idea of delaying things started for Republican’ts.
I want to say that it was around the time of the Nixon administration and the
end of the Lyndon Johnson one that we first encountered problems like this.
Nixon wanted to make sure that the Vietnam War was still going on at the start
of his administration to further ensure unrest among those that would have
otherwise voted for Democrats. Plus, due to a delay of a possible seat change
on the Supreme Court to be filled under him administration was important as
well.
Why
the needless delays? Well, they aren’t needless to this party. If stuff isn’t
done right away, they get to do it later on their terms. And, suddenly, the
very idea of delaying things further is beyond ridiculous. This is what makes
this hypocritical. They insisted that a Supreme Court seat be filled before the
midterm elections after keeping a different seat open for more than a year. But
one shouldn’t be surprised that their delay paid off and then they suddenly
want to do the work that should have been done earlier.
After
the 1980 presidential election, a conspiracy theory emerged called the October
Surprise conspiracy theory. The idea behind this one is that Ronald Reagan
intentionally caused the delay of the freedom of the Iran hostages in order to
win the presidency. I feel that this is not the case of what happened. Sure,
Reagan gets all the credit for their freedom when he didn’t lift a finger to
help them. But he didn’t cause the delay. The hostage people waited until the
exact moment his term started until the rest of them were free. It was the
final blow to Jimmy Carter. But the delay of their freedom, even after Carter
had lost the election, was very helpful to the opposing party.
Merrick
Garland wasn’t the only judge who was borked towards the end of Obama’s time in
office. But when these judicial vacancies were ultimately filled, Republican’ts
acted like it was such a huge accomplishment that they were finally doing their
job now that they were doing completely different people, potentially ruining
our court system in the process. The main problem with it nowadays is bias based
on whoever has the majority and has it since the 1970s. And this wouldn’t have
happened if delays didn’t happen.
Everyone
seems to think that it is possible that Roe versus Wade would be overturned. I
am actually all for this, if only if it will get people to stop bitching about
why there can’t be liberal judges. Everyone knows that different laws have only
recently been formed that could get rid of the infamous decision, since there
will just now only be court cases that people will file that will be certain to
get to a court that could get rid of it forever or until the next legal
challenge.
Another
example of delays being a benefit to one party is the most recent government
shutdown that happened during a lame duck session. With an incoming group of
Democrats taking control of the House, they would then be the ones to blame for
the shutdown instead of the previous Republican’t house that had helped cause
it. Ultimately, this was more of a temper tantrum than it was anything else.
Millions worked without pay and some never got pay for their work. All I hope
is that these people remember that Trump caused this when he’s up for
reelection.
This
party will continue to cause delays as long as it continues to benefit them.
Then, like when Elizabeth Warren released a DNA test, they’ll do a complete 180
when they can get their way and demand that things be done immediately. We don’t
need these people in office. Not now or ever. Otherwise, their most terrible
yet best tactic will keep working.
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