The New York Times editorial board spread more vitriol and false premises Thursday in an attack piece blasting Republicans for pushing back after the Senate Democrats’ unprecedented power-grab last week, describing conservatives as “nihilists” engaged in a “fit a fury” that will only further their deliberate sabotage of the benevolent and generous liberal agenda.
Last week Senate Democrats chose the “nuclear option,” ending the centuries-long filibuster for presidential appointments—doing the very thing Senate Democrats (including Reid, Biden, Hillary Clinton, and then Senator Obama) decried when the Republicans threatened it. Republicans, of course, cried constitutional foul. The New York Times of course sees no hypocrisy in the Democrats’ extreme action—and we all know how they feel about constitutionality.
The partisan hit piece starts by painting the Republicans’ reaction as an irrational fit:
Last week, in a fit of fury after they lost the ability to filibuster President Obama’s nominees, several Congressional Republicans threatened to retaliate by slowing things down on Capitol Hill.
Citing John McCain, who pointed out that, obviously, the Democrats would have “trouble” moving their agenda through because of the “anger” from conservatives, the NYT editorial board attempts to lay all of the in-fighting, ineffectiveness, and stagnation in Congress at the feet of the “nihilist” Tea Party’s mean-spirited obstructionism:
But the larger business of governing is already being cast aside. As Politico recently reported, the current Congress has only enacted 49 laws, the fewest since 1947. That’s a mark of pride to Tea Party nihilists, but, for the rest of the country, which expects action on fundamentals like jobs and immigration, it’s a mark of shame.
The faulty premises of this statement are glaring: Enacting more laws is always, necessarily better for the country; the “rest of the country” wants more laws in general, and, specifically, wants more laws applied to employment and immigration (in other words, more cronyism, manipulation of the marketplace, and amnesty without border security). There are indeed two Americas.
The opinion piece goes on to highlight key legislative initiatives by the selfish conservative “nihilists,” especially the poor-hating House Republicans’ efforts to steal $40 billion from food stamps (which now has a record 47 million participants) over 10 years and their willingness to rob 1.3 million people of their unemployment insurance (which likewise is hitting record numbers).
The ultimate point of course follows the larger leftist media narrative: the Republicans are to blame for all things bad. All current dysfunction of government is always a part of a deliberate, one-sided strategy from those dastardly conservatives to produce as much damage to the poor and the defenseless as possible.
