Will a Republican Civil War Take Place?

After the presidential race defeat last November, you would think that the Republicans would have analyzed the reasons for their defeat, beyond their choice of a horrible candidate. Alas, you thought wrong: The magnificent election-failing plan invented by tea party supporters is back in action.

Yet after the defeat, the party did examine its conscience. Reince Priebus, GOP chairman, published his “Growth and Opportunity Project,” 100 pages explaining the defeat and proposing a more centrist political stance in order to win back the voters who sided with Obama: youth, women and Hispanics.

Since then the report has been put in “the circular file” — the trash — and tea party fanatics are celebrating once again. The tea party appeals to angry white men over the age of 50, hoping against all demographic data and statistics that there will be enough of them to grab the next elections. Thus, these firecrackers of the GOP, which is incapable of getting rid of them, derail projects which, in a different time, would have easily been accepted by Congress. The best example of this is the farm bill which lost this week.

The Senate and House conservatives prefer to use their institution as a means to send messages to their voters as much as they use it as a place to develop and vote on laws that are always the result of compromise. “Their theory is that blocking things is less about doing nothing than about preventing something they dislike,” Jennifer Steinhauer revealed to The New York Times. The farm bill, supported by John Boehner, House leader, couldn’t find the votes needed because cuts in supplementary food programs aren’t important enough, according to the superconservatives, even though a significant number of Democrats supported the bill. The tea party supporters demanded even more: That the law require those who benefit from these food aid programs to submit to drug tests and that they work a minimum number of hours. The debates on immigration reform are set to follow the same path. Marco Rubio, a Republican senator from Florida and a recent tea party favorite, preferred not to participate in last Thursday’s protest. Well done — his name was often booed. Rubio has been accused of being too liberal on questions regarding immigration and becoming an American citizen.

The election-failing plan runs along, stronger than ever.