WHY POLITICS SUCKS .... Today's American Game of All Politics, All the Time

Today's American politics sucks.

In politics, the blame game is on continuously. And in politics, genuine fact gathering, problem recognition and problem solution are invariably missing in action.

Blame the Sequester! reveals another sad and sick current example of American politics in action:

"Washington, D.C., Mayor Vincent Gray says sequestration budget cuts might have played a role in Monday's shootings at the Navy Yard.

"We're continuing this investigation," he told CNN Tuesday. "But certainly, as I look at, for example, sequestration, which is about saving money in the federal government being spent, that we somehow skimped on what would be available for projects like this, and then we put people at risk. Obviously, 12 people have paid the ultimate price for whatever—you know, whatever was done to have this man on the base."

It was perhaps inevitable that Democrats would invoke the sequester at some point. It's what they have done repeatedly since the across-the-board federal budget cuts began in March. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell has cited sequester cuts in discussing wildfires out West. House Majority Whip Steny Hoyer blamed them after the Boston Marathon bombings. The liberal media is playing along, of course. A recent National Public Radio segment said that the sequester has led to an uptick in suicides on Indian reservations.

 

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray

Opponents of the sequester would have you believe that the government operates at peak efficiency—that there's no fat to trim and so any reduction in spending threatens some critical program or service. The reality, as GOP Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma has pointed out, is that there is plenty of government waste out there that's being funded by taxpayers. . . .

The political left doesn't want to check outlays or even prioritize them because they believe that government spending per se is a social and economic good. Their problem with the sequester is not that they think it's causing wildfires and mass shootings, though they are happy to exploit such events."

Summing Up

The Mayor made the case that politics sucks.

Inadvertently, sadly and ignorantly perhaps, but his remarks nevertheless provide a clear picture of today's American political reality.

In other words, what he said is just another glaring example of why AMERICAN POLITICS SUCKS.

Thanks. Bob.