Romney Waiting for a Crisis to Exploit

For the past two year elected Republicans have been pursuing a partisan agenda based on do-nothing obstructionism. How many jobs bills have they prevented  in a time when creating jobs should be  "Job One" for them? They don't want to see a decrease in unemployment rates; they want the country to continue to suffer the effects of the Bush Great Recession in the hope that President Obama is not re-elected. 

In fact two years ago, Republican Senator, Mitch McConnell, told us as much. He said the Republican priority in Congress was to defeat President Obama. Not to do what is best for the country, not to get the country out of the grasp of the Great Recession, not to create jobs. No, their priority is not the general welfare of the country, their priority is personal political gain.

If the Democrats had stated a similar  policy when George W. Bush was President, the Republicans would have been screaming "treason!" and perhaps with good cause. It appears elected public service has reached such a low point that the general welfare of the country is secondary to personal political gain.

This type of political narcissism brings me to what I consider the scariest part of Mitt Romney's "Screw the 47%" speech. In the course of talking to his billionaire cronies, he said:  
"…in the Jimmy Carter election, the fact that we have hostages in Iran, I mean, that was all we talked about. And we had the two helicopters crash in the desert, I mean that's—that was—that was the focus, and so him solving that made all the difference in the world. I'm afraid today if you said, 'We got Iran to agree to stand down a nuclear weapon,' they'd go, hold on. It's really a, but…by the way, if something of that nature presents itself, I will work to find a way to take advantage of the opportunity." (I added the italics.)

It sounds to me that he is just waiting for something bad to happen to the country or Americans so that he can exploit it for political gain.

In fact, he demonstrated that tendency when Ambassador Chris Stevens and three colleagues were killed in Benghazi, Libya.  Mitt was so eager to get in front of the cameras to exploit the situation  that he didn't even have the facts straight. Hardly presidential.

I suspect in the past we have had politicians more concerned about their own gain than the welfare of the country, but the most frightening aspect of the present situation is that an entire political party and its candidates have bought into this agenda.

It is a scandalous state of affairs when U.S. politicians of a major political party are waiting for a crisis they wish to exploit; or, as in the case of the financial crisis, prevent a solution..