The Curtain has been Pulled Back...Again

It's official. America is finished as one nation.

Republican hysteria has once and for all replaced economic sense and the never-ending obsession with maintaining power has driven them to finally, slide back the curtain and permitted all to see just how sad and crazy the wizard of their anti-America movement is.

Seven senators who had previously supported a bipartisan bill to cut the debt, refused to support it simply because the General Secretary of their Party ordered them not to: "do so, and we might not regain power in November."

The Sharks are Circling

America is wounded and bleeding and all republican members of Congress are circling, nipping at the drowning swimmer, waiting until the legs have stopped paddling and then they will strike for the final and deadly blow--slowly then, America will be bled to death.

Neo-cons and their republican breathren blame President Obama for all of the problems that exist. The laughable and hysterical name-calling that has united them behind idiots like Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Dick Cheney and all republican members of congress has replaced any semblance of governance. They do not seek to help the majority party govern the nation out of its death throes. They want to pull the plug.

The verdict is now in: the Bush tax cuts and other legislation, plus two wars, were the final straws that collapsed the camel's back. The "government is the problem" hysteria and the anti-regulation movement of all financial markets and our banking system also played its role: this recession would not have happened if we had just some government regulation.

Yet, the republicans are truly genious. Reagan cut taxes and spent the nation into its largest deficits since the end of WWII. When Clinton became president, burdened with the Reagan legacy of deficits, he was forced to concentrate on balancing the budget; this pretty much meant that any social programs he might have wanted to pass had already been thrown off the table long before Mr. Reagan forgot his own role in that mess--let alone his name.

Reagan forced Clinton to be fiscally, socially conservative.

With surpluses of $5.6 trillions projected when W took office, within a few short years after his and the incomptence of his aides--Condie Rice and Ashcroft in particular--led to the single greatest and most deadly act of terrorism on our shores, our nation's economy began its slide into idiocy. Today, we are only relevant because we are consumption addicts and because we owe the world an unbelievable amount of money. Half of our public debt is owned by foreigners with China owning half of that.

Doing Nothing

And what do the elected officials of the minority party do? They make-up ridiculus names like "socialist" and "goverment takeover" and stoke the flames of obstructionism. They do nothing but let completely ignorant and stupid people like W, in the past, and Palin now, speak for their party; in one case, speak for America; and, in the other, wanting to speak for America.

The republicans are destroying our nation and their refusal to compromise is the single greatest proof of this; the other being the leaders around whom they coalesce. When Reagan was President, the dems worked with him; they compromised because they knew that the greater interest was America's and not their party's. The same held true when Bush I and II were presidents. Challenges arose for the nation that forced the dems to pass legislation that was not in line with their party's sensibilities--under Bush II, they really had to eat crow but they did so because the nation needed it government.

What have repubs done since Obama became president? Let us look at their role in governance, in defending the national interest. Other than saying "no" and more "tax cuts," please, they have been absent.

If the shoe was on the other foot and it was a republican president and a republican-led Congress, the likes of Beck, Limbaugh and Palin would be creating more hysteria in the media by accusing the dems of treason. Congress would be setting up commissions to study the Democratic Party's unlawful refusal to govern; the republican-controlled Supreme Court would already be passing down decisions on cases not brought to them on "why dem obstructionism" was against the law and so therefore, a punishable offense (they would probably somehow pull this lose interpretation out of the First Amendment).

Everytime they rant and whine about some made up boogey-man, eventually, they manage to sway the nation's misguided--those who get most or all of their information from Fox or radio commentators--into believing the hysteria. Ruin the banking and financial system and yes, you get temporary government take-overs--thank God, President Obama did that!

The republican method for governance when they are in power is to destroy the government of which they are a part and while it dies, to ensure that they will all be covered commercially in the all-encompassing and destructive market which will replace what had once been the American nation.

If you know the history of the Soviet Union, you will know that this is exactly what was done by the one party in charge there. So, so sadly this is being done by the republicans and it is being masked in patriotism.

Yeah, and Lenin and Stalin really wanted to give "power to the people."