GOP Working for Failure

Mitch McConnell & Michele Bachmann

Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the leader of the Senate Republicans, has said that his party's job is to make sure that the President of the United States fails. Since then, Michele Bachmann, a Tea Party congresswoman from Minnesota, has adopted the same stance. 


Is this what our Founding Fathers had in mind? In their wildest dreams could they have ever imagined that a leading senator and a congresswoman running to become the Republican candidate for president would want the President of the United States, and therefore our country,  to fail in the cause of their own political ambitions?


Most Americans presume that when a senator or representative places his/her hand on the Bible and  takes the oath of office, she or he is committed to the "general welfare" of our country as stipulated in the in the Constitution of the United States of America. Apparently, for some Republican politicians, political gain is more important than the welfare of our country. 


Is it any wonder then that some Republicans brought the country to the edge of defaulting on its debt?


Whether one likes him or not, Barack Obama is the President of our country. If he fails, the country fails. When George W. Bush failed and did so repeatedly, our country suffered and still is suffering as a result. One would think it inconceivable that an official of our government who has taken an oath to "promote the general Welfare" (1st paragraph of the Constitution) would work for the failure of the President and the country. What is even more amazing is that McConnell and Bachmann voice this aloud.