Republican's Have The Wrong Game Plan

 The Republican tea party’s game plan is seriously flawed due to their committed use of the “I” formation. When the four corners of your offensive strategy are insensitivity, insularity, ignorance and intransigency you may win a few games in your own backyard but your national outlook is grim. This is especially true when your coach, Ted Cruz, thinks only of “I, I, I”.

 Actions speak louder than words and the behavior of members of the tea party congressional caucus demonstrate these traits every day.

 Insensitivity for labeling the working poor as “takers, moochers, slackers”. Insensitivity for denying the rights and dignity of women and the LGBT community. Insensitivity for believing that people choose to be poor, unemployed and homeless.

 Insularity for constantly telling each other that everyone else agrees with them. Insularity for only watching Fox news and only listening to conservative talk radio so they don’t have to deal with “inconvenient” facts. Insularity for constructing their congressional districts to minimize opposing opinions and competition.

 Ignorance for not believing in science or rigorous intellectual debate. Ignorance for not believing in the basic processes of legislating and governing. Ignorance for continuing to believe that trickle-down economics works and that income inequality has a direct correlation to one’s work ethic.

 Intransigency for an unwillingness to compromise or moderate their extreme and minority positions. Inflexible positioning was not what our founding fathers had in mind because they knew that gridlock was not another name for governing.

 Maybe that was why they set a minimum age requirement for office holders, to keep the “juveniles” out of congress. Unfortunately, the founding fathers never imagined the immaturity and irresponsibility of today’s tea party members. 

  Republicans need a new coach, (like Belichick?). who has a history of developing game plans that everyone can buy into.