What Would Margaret Thatcher Do?

Recently,  the Economist, a conservative British journal,  described the  political strategy now playing out in Congress :  "the Republicans are guilty of outrageous obstructionism and misleading simplifications."

This obstructionism,  as the Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell has frankly declared, is motivated by his "priority to make certain that Barack Obama is a one-term president."  Millions of unemployed Americans,  are daily paying a heavy price for this selfish obstructionism. 

These workers were in manufacturing,  construction,  teaching,  law enforcement,  fire fighting,  retail and wholesale sales,  transportation, etc.  For millions unemployment insurance has run out (by deliberate Republican choice) and health care insurance has lapsed.  Hundreds of thousands of former wage earners have been forced into foreclosure on their homes.  Meanwhile,  American corporations are sitting on trillions in cash awaiting a “more stable economic environment"  (actually to help achieve Mitch’s political priority) instead of using this money to create jobs.

 These unemployed have been suffering the emotional stress this entails which is described as second in severity only to the death of a loved one.  Their loss of self respect is disastrous for marriage and for the emotional and physical needs of children.  Whatever the outcome of this endless obstructionist strategy,  its outcome will come too late to help the national fiscal recovery and will delay job creation for additional years.  

Where is the "conservative compassion" that a few years ago was touted as the guiding principle of this now heartless, anti-American political party ?   History will record the cruelty of such political insanity.