The One Answer to All the "Why Do Repugs ..." Questions

Because there is a ni**er in the White House.

Go ahead. Take any question about repug stupidity/insanity/lies/whatever and answer it with "Because there is a ni**er in the White House." It always fits.

Why do repugs oppose a national healthcare plan that they themselves developed and promoted in the 1990s?

Because there is a ni**er in the White House.

Why do repugs refuse to vote for straightforward economic improvements - economic stimulus, unemployment compensation, job creation, raising the debt ceiling - that republicans have supported for decades?

Because there is a ni**er in the White House.

Why do repugs break the "water's edge" rule about criticizing the President when he is overseas?

Because there is a ni**er in the White House.

Why do repug-led states refuse to save millions of state dollars by expanding Medicaid with near 100 percent federal funds?

Because there is a ni**er in the White House.

Kevin Drum:

Why has the shameful witch hunt against Susan Rice continued to gain traction even though there is literally not a shred of evidence that she did anything wrong?

Because there is a ni**er in the White House.

Why did repug voter suppression suddenly ramp up after the 2008 election?

 Because there is a ni**er in the White House.

Why is the repug answer for why it lost the 2012 elections in a landslide that the dems must have cheated?

Because there is a ni**er in the White House.

Steve Benen on the ludicrous corporate response to Obamacare: Why are guys like Metz griping so much about the health care law?

Because there is a ni**er in the White House.

Benen again, this time on the completely inocuous change in talking points on Benghazi:

"Why is this scandalous?"

Because there is a ni**er in the White House.

Why do repugs oppose funding for disaster relief that they were thrilled to fund when Bill Clinton was president?

Because there is a ni**er in the White House.

As Zandar has been repeating for four years, it is, indeed, ALL about the racism. If you don't understand that, you can't understand anything.

 Benen knows it. Drum knows it. All their readers know it. Pretending there's some other explanation for all the repug obstruction and insults and stupidity is insulting their readers' intelligence.

When repugs scream that something President Obama has done - something completely within presidential powers, something other presidents have done without comment, even something inocuous that until January 2009 passed without notice - is unconstitutional, what they're really saying is that it is unconstitutional - or should be - to have a Ni**er in the White House.

They think it's obvious, and that those of us who disagree are just ni**er-loving morons. This is why I refuse to give any repug a pass on racism.  The fact is that they oppose President Obama because he is the Ni**er in the White House. And that alone makes them racists.

Of course they would oppose any Democratic president if only because any Democratic office-holder is an obstacle to their goal of total and complete power. Of course they treat every Democratic administration as illegitimate, because that is the only way to slow or stop Democrats from establishing laws and programs that the vast majority of Americans want, thus hurting repug electoral prospects.

But since January 20, 2009, it's been different. It's different because repugs face an existential crisis. Racism is not just the theme of their campaigns, not just the foundation of their policies, not even just the core of their beliefs. Racism is their reason for existence.

So they fight mindlessly, like rabid ferrets, Because There Is A Ni**er in the White House.