THE REPUBLICAN ATTEMPT TO OBLITERATE THE DEMOCRATIC BRAND
A POLITICAL PARTY—THE GOP-- THAT WILL NOT STEAL SILENTLY INTO THE GOOD NIGHT—AFTER THEY WERE RESOUNDINGLY DEFEATED IN NOVEMBER IS TRYING THROUGH LIES, MISINTERPRETATIONS, AND JUST PLAIN SLANDER TO EXTINGUISH THE BRAND THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS REVITALIZED FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
The mean and divisive arm of the Republican Party has re-emerged from the deep darkness of its post-election depression all black and blue, but red all over from what should be its embarrassment at the thrashing it took from the American electorate.
The American people have been getting angrier and angrier with Bush, Cheney, Iraq war, the massive deficit and the failure of the Republican Party from making even a baby step toward universal health care, energy independence, rebuilding our rapidly decaying infrastructure, providing equity for the middle class in our tax structure and building up a massive deficit through a war that should never have been fought whether we win or lose, gigantic tax cut for the extremely rich and salaries and bonus’ for key executives who have done nothing but drive the companies they operate into the endless well of red ink.
The people endured the gargantuan explosion of oil prices that went as high as $4.00 per gallon and watched while gritting their teeth as the quarterly reports of oil companies overflowed with the most excessive profits ever before seen in the world of business. And the Republican leadership on Capitol Hill and at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. did not open their mouths because many of their major contributors were bearing the brunt of the benefits of this oil price surge.
It seems upon looking back at those days that a new administration scandal broke in the media every day. Abramoff and his network of party contributors were arrested and sentenced to prison. No bid contracts were being handed out by the Defense Department to such honchos as Halliburton without thinking twice about the legal requirement that all government contracts must be let on the basis of open bidding.
When the Republican Party nominated John McCain for president many of the ultra-conservatives went into hiding. Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter, along with hundreds of the colleagues on the far right side of the aisle, openly declared their unwillingness to support the Arizona Senator.
However, when the Democrats nominated Barack Obama, racists seldom seen in the open came crawling out from under the porches and haystacks like rats running out of the rain. America has more racists than it likes to admit. According to polling, the area where I was born in Southwest Ohio is a haven for these closet racists. In interviews across the state, Yahoo News concluded that Southwest Ohio was home to some of the most xenophobic people in the entire country, but there are plenty of other states harboring these bigots in large numbers.
After my blog endorsed Obama, I received some of the most hate-filled, distorted, uninformed and malicious emails I have ever received and several of them came from people with whom I went to high school in Fairborn, Ohio. I could not believe my eyes. In one of two cases the incendiary nature of the letters forced me to simply cut them off.
As I reported in my last blog, using the words of Aristophanes: “Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, drunkenness sobered—but stupid lasts forever.”
What the nation faces today is a population with far too many stupid people who in spite of their lack of education, their lack of a viable intelligent quotient, their lack of experience, think that they are always right; and they will fight to the death for their misguided cause.
The Republican Party has more than its share of stupid people. Such as the unhealthy number of people who insist that Obama is a Muslim even after the long admirable record he has engendered in the Christian community. Throughout the campaign in spite of an abundance of evidence to the contrary I heard men and women on Fox News Network repeat what they had to know was a lie. But they did it anyway and Fox allowed them to do it.
That very same party has hordes of people who to this day are attempting by hook or crook to convince the nation that our new president is not a citizen of the United States. The Supreme Court has refused to review one such case and yet the lie lives on in the mouths of vicious, fiercely partisan and biased persons set on the destruction of the progressive agenda. I have named names before and therefore will not waste the time here to reiterate the names of pundits and commentators on the naïve and entrenched side of the political spectrum.
As I have said before, the Republican Party has not come up with a new, creative, innovative idea for the economy, foreign policy, domestic policy or for a more efficient government in this century.
They still are singing the same song that they sung for eighty years and have yet to yield the promised outcomes their music promises. They are today the same naysayers they were in the days of Herbert Hoover. They are still embracing the antiquated theme of Ronald Reagan’s political period—“Government is not the answers to our problems; government is the problem.”
As mentioned earlier, Rush Limbaugh blatantly spewed out to this audience his brainless opinion that he wanted the president’s new plan for recovery and reinvestment to fail. I find man and his opinion on this matter to be obnoxious. If Obama’s plan fails, the country nose dives into depression.
When the new Chairman of the Republican National Committee was asked if he agreed with Limbaugh disturbing comments, at first he answered in the negative. The next day, however, he made a 360 degree turn and said, “I don’t think that Republicans, Democrats or Independents or anyone wants policies…!”
On behalf of the millions of Americans who have lost their jobs, the million more who have lost their homes, and the millions more who have been forced to file for bankruptcy, may God have mercy on the soul of these ruthless, calloused and ignorant men. He who is without compassion is without a soul.
Interestingly, when Bush “redistributed the wealth to the top two [2] percent of our citizens and threw us knee deep into debt, Limbaugh nor Steele raised their voices in opposition to a redistribution of our country’s wealth.
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Last weekend [February 28-March1], the Conservative Political Action Conference was held in Washington, D. C. The highlights will tell us just how perverted the reasoning of the right wing of the Republican Party has become.
The following quotes are taken from interviews conducted by Think Progress throughout the conference.
“Earlier this afternoon [March 1, 2009], Cliff Kincaid, head of a conservative group Accuracy in Media, introduced Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN). Kincaid suggested that President Obama is a Communist, then suggested Obama was not born in the United States — to which the crowd cheered wildly.”
“Last weekend, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) noted that he had never seen Obama’s birth certificate. Trying to calm the ensuing firestorm, a spokesman for Shelby claimed the senator “was not saying and I’m not saying he (Obama) is or isn’t [a U.S. citizen], he was just saying he hasn’t seen one (a birth certificate).”
“Just before President Obama was inaugurated, hate radio host Rush Limbaugh declared, “I hope he fails.” Though some Republicans have distanced themselves from Limbaugh’s sentiment, conservatives at CPAC have fully embraced it.
In an interview with Think Progress today, radio host Mark Levin and former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) added their voices to the chorus of conservatives hoping for Obama’s failure:
TP: What do you think about what Rush said about, I mean, do you hope, should we hope that President Obama fails?
LEVIN: Yes.
TP: Yes?
SANTORUM: If…absolutely we hope that his policies fail.
‘I believe his policies will fail, I don’t know, but I hope they fail,’ added Santorum.”
“Tom Delay Channels Limbaugh; “I Want Obama To Fail” “We Feel Liberated Because We Have An Enemy We Can Focus On”
“Just days before the Inauguration, Rush Limbaugh famously declared, “I hope [Obama] fails.” Since then, some conservatives have been hesitant to embrace this view. Pat Robertson said, “That was a terrible thing to say.” “Anybody who wants him to fail is an idiot,” said Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC). Responding to Sanford, Limbaugh reiterated his position yesterday, saying, the “hell we don’t” want Obama to fail.
“One of those “idiots” adopting Limbaugh’s stance is former House Majority Leader Tom Delay (R-TX). In an interview with Think Progress at CPAC today, we asked DeLay whether he agrees with Limbaugh’s statements. DeLay said Limbaugh was “exactly” right to root for Obama’s failure:
TP: Do you agree with Rush Limbaugh that we shouldn’t hope for President Obama to succeed?
DELAY: Well, exactly right. I don’t want this for our nation. That’s for sure.
Think Progress also asked DeLay if the conservative movement feels “liberated” now that President Bush is out of office. DeLay responded that conservatives feel “liberated because they’ve got an enemy they can focus on,” referring to “the left.”
It’s not surprising that DeLay is hoping for the President to fail; he has been slandering Obama for months. “I tagged him as a Marxist months ago,” DeLay boasted during the campaign, recalling his earlier assertions Obama had an “old school Marxist, radical liberal failed ideology.”
I cannot forgive the senselessness of men like Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santorum, Mark Levin, Tom DeLay and those illiterate, ridiculous fools who stood to applaud the absurd comment that Obama was not a citizen of the U. S.
You will note that many of those who joined the chorus of those who bombastically criticized the new president and his programs to force a recovery and reinvestment strategy that will allow our economy to be whole again and back on the road to a healthy future.
In my opinion any person who wishes failure for this president wishes failure for this nation and is making quasi-treasonous comments unworthy of any true American.
What we are dealing with only forty days after President Obama’s inauguration, a group of truly mean- spirited, divisive, men of hate in the Republican Party who simply have no real answers to our economic quandary, no new and innovative ideas; people who belong to a party that is bankrupt of both ideas and strategies and have only the anger left in their losers’ heart.
The American people have tried to tell both parties that they judge our Congress to be incompetent and the last president to be one of the least effective leaders in history.
The people give Obama a 69% approval rating and 60% approve of the way he is doing his job. While only 59% approve of his proposals it emanates from the fact that they have not yet seen results from the massive outlines he is proposing. He came into office with more severe problems confronting him at home and abroad than any other president in the last 100 years. When Roosevelt came into office in 1933 there was no war confronting him—yet. Obama has two [2] wars.
While FDR faced tragic economic consequences that his predecessor’s incompetence and his marriage to a false theory of economics called “free enterprise,” or “free market” economics left as his legacy to the new president. Hoover was not blamed for the depression itself, he was blamed for doing nothing about the depression. Bush and his Republican dominated Congresses, like Hoover did nothing to stop the overindulgences of Wall Street, the Oil Industry, the Pharmaceutical business, the military industrial complex, the banks and the real estate markets. McCain promised more of the same and the American people said, “No, thank you!”
And now returns the old guard, the Republicans who have been nothing but the wannabees since the days of Barry Goldwater and to some extent Ronald Reagan whose myth of brilliance is slowly fading from the granite walls that surround the thinking of the rigid minds of right wing Conservatives.
Shocked by the genuine brilliance of Barack Obama they are truly angry. Because they cannot come up with an innovative platform for recovery themselves, leaving the only option open to them the spitefulness, viciousness they hope will destroy of the Democratic brand, the Obama brand, the Progressive brand that may, when ultimately successful, be the prevailing thinking of the next fifty years.
DeLay, Keyes, Coulter, Santorum and other antiquated losers call Obama a Communist and Socialist because he wants to improve the financial condition of the Middle Class which has been the heart of America’s success for over seventy years. It is because Obama addressed the economic deterioration of the average America over the past eight years, the cost of health care that is the cause behind 60% of all bankruptcies, the plummeting of home values [one in five Americans live in homes whose value is less than their mortgage], the explosion of foreclosures, and soaring jobless rate which is throwing more and more people behind on their bills, the loss of their health insurance and forcing more and more young Americans from attending college.
The Republican Party has been wrong for decades on issues pertaining to our economy, they were wrong about the war in Iraq, wrong in the outlandish tax benefits for rich, wrong on their attempt to privatize Social Security and Medicare and wrong as corruption became a dominant factor in the Bush Administration.
It is a new day and Obama, the Progressives and the Liberals are on the right side of history. The Conservative Political Action Conference, representing the shoddier sector of the GOP demonstrated just how far removed they are from the lives of normal men and women in our country in 2009. This far right wing of the Republican Party represents approximately 25% of voting Americans. And if they continue on the path they launched at their recent meeting, they will be a marginal and irrelevant party for decades to come.
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