I Could Spit

One year into it and the Republicans are again succeeding at doing what they do best: nothing.

President Obama took the reins, the very same ones which were tangled up in a ball in the muck and grime beneath the lurching and shuddering wagon which had become our nation, and immediately he went to work; he guided us through some of the most troublesome economic times we have seen in our history.

Banks are needed and the actions of President Obama saved the biggest banks; banks, really, that were too big. Should one or two fail, they can yank the whole economy, the world's that is, down to its knees. This is not right. President Obama, avoiding the rhetoric and demagoguery that is so abused by republicans, saved the banks and now proposes to ensure that this does not happen again. Who is against this banking reform? Yes, the republicans.

And, while he was at it, he saved the US auto industry; he then went after the irresponsible and shark-like tactics of the credit card companies (smell financial need and they swarm you with high-interest but already-approved credit cards); and, while taking a break from his accomplishments, he has rightly led us to the brink of what will be the greatest social contract in our nation's history: health care reform. Who was against all of the above? Yes, those same missing-in-obstruction republicans.

Stealing our Wealth

The Conservatives (really, I am so confused by who is what in that party, so let's go back to calling them the GOPCONers) love to lie about how President Obama is bankrupting our nation. Well, here is a little ditty for ya: we are already bankrupt. Let's take a look at GOPCON accomplishments since W stole the White House in 2001 and see how we got there:

1) 9/11. They were in charge, it happened on their watch so guess what who gets blamed? Also, Condoleeza Rice, the least competent NSC chief we have ever had blatantly ignored all the warnings about the imminent attacks; and, monkey boy (W), never one to be bothered with reading his Presidential Daily Briefing, failed to take notice of one in late August 2001 entitled "Bin Laden determined to use hi-jacked aircraft as weapons against US targets." Wow! Lost wealth.

2) Late on the night of 9/11, W told Richard Clarke, the expert on Al Qaeda who had not met with President Bush (needed emphasis) until after the attacks had occurred, to find a link to Saddam. Clarke insisted that none existed but Bush testily told to "find one." (Clarke used to meet with Clinton once a week to discuss Al Qaeda not once in 8 9 months had he met with the new Prez.)

With Bin Laden trapped in the mountains and intercepted messages from him to relatives in which he was saying his good-byes showing just how "caught" he was, we got up and left him there. We instead invaded Iraq. We all know what this has gotten for our nation.

Um, nothing, zero. Name one tangible thing that was gained from that so-called war--although, it is not a war officially. 5000 dead Americans (lost economic value); 40,000 amputees (not just lost economic value but continued drains on our nation's wealth); and, trillions of dollars of money spent not on our nation's infrastructure; not on making our economy more competitive; not on preparing us for what are already the obvious effects of global warming; no, money we didn't have wasted on a war no one needed. Lost wealth.

3) Those tax cuts: the largest tax cuts in the history of the world were enacted by W in his first 6 months in office; and then, after 9/11, with our troops in 2 countries, he cut some more taxes. Since 1999, we have had zero overall job growth in the private sector. Yet, as usually happens under republicans, the federal pay-roll expanded in leaps and bounds. W failed to listen to the CIA and their warnings about Bin Laden and we get strapped with the Department of Homeland Security, the largest expansion of the federal government in our history. Lost wealth.

Oh, and whatever happened to that tried-and-true economic "theory" of cut taxes and then watch the wealthy invest in jobs? Didn't happen because, you see, the taxes were being cut on virtual wealth, derivatives and housing bubbles and such. Also, taxes were being cut for people who don't own factories, small businesses and start-ups but rather on the types who take that money and stuff it away in off-shore accounts to avoid the IRS so as to create ever larger empires for their rotten offspring. These rich people don't reinvest in the economy! When are the GOPCONers going to get this?

Propaganda

Oh and how they lie and obstruct, those GOPCONers. When they are dismantling our wealth by invading nations and ensuring that the nation's tax base--where a nation gets it's money from--is being decimated, they also like to reach into the private lives of people and micromanage there. They force God into lives; they contradict themselves about life and death--anti-abortion but pro gun. Guns kill people. Make your fingers look like a gun and try shooting someone. Doesn't work, right. Put a gun in that hand and watch out.

A nation needs to be governed. Governments provide infrastructures which make nations safe, economically more competitive and which provide quality of life for all citizenry. A good government tries to ensure that all of its citizenry are getting the best possible chance to succeed in life; success requires clean air, clear water, safe roads and bridges, safe parks, health care, professional police and ever watchful TSA agents.

When one party spends all of its time and energy attacking a president at a time when the nation needs unity to survive a crisis that the minority party brought on, you have to ask yourself, are they not traitorous? After 9/11, the Dems puts politics aside and supported W. The republicans have not done any pro-America governing since the Carter-era. From Clinton's ascendancy to date, they have ruled by emotion and lies.

They are a dangerous and harmful force in our national saga and sadly, most of America cannot see this because it is precisely those Republican-style lies and emotions which make for great news ratings: the media are in full cahoots because they too are making lots of money from all of this.

Let's look at the run-off for the seat in Massachusetts which will take place tomorrow; the media are focusing on this as an "anti-Obama" vote; a anti-incumbent vote; they are fanning the flames to make it seem like Obama's leadership has been a failure to date. What they are not focusing on, and what should be the biggest headline of all is, that this republican, likely to win tomorrow, has already said he will not support President Obama's attempts to tax the big banks to make them pay back the money they us our government. Does that make any sense? They don't want to get the money back?

Again, the republicans are falling on the side of big business by supporting the same destructive, anti-working-class, anti-America policies that have gotten us here in the first place; and, all that the media can show is Dick calling Obama weak and Tea Party nuts calling him a socialist or a Muslim.

When will the GOP be taken to task for destroying our nation? When do the media decide that enough is enough and start to let all of America know just how the republicans have frittered away our wealth, our security all for the sake of their wealthy buddies at the country club?

PS: When that bozo tried to blow up a plane with his exploding shoe, why weren't full-body scanners introduced into all airports back then? Why? Because that would have cost the government a lot of money. And, that was precisely when the tax cuts were taking hold and our nation's revenues were starting to drastically drop; in other words, because it wasn't important to W to find money to enhance the safety of all for he was too concerned with increasing the wealth of the so, so few.

This is the America the republicans want for us all. I could spit.