THE PRESIDENT CUTS THE BUDGET BY $ 17 BILLION FROM 124 PROGRAMS
THE REPUBLICANS ARE SHOUTING TO THE HEAVENS ABOUT THE SIZE OF THE DEFICIT FORGETTING ABOUT THE MASSIVE SHORTFALLS OF REAGAN AND BUSH
The Republican leadership [if you can call it leadership] could not wait to berate the President’s proposed tax cuts in 124 departments of the government.
Their reason—we need to control the deficit and move toward balancing the budget. Every major economic thinker of any repute believes that in times of dire economic crises, it is the government jobs to move in with massive financial support to keep the banks in business, open up the credit markets, offer jobs when the job market is in a coma, impose regulations on the banking, insurance and mortgage lending institutions to insure they learn to operate within the confines of a structured economic game plan. That is precisely what Obama is doing.
A group of antiquated Republican political minds i.e. McConnell, Boehner, McCain et al. have been the most hapless men to lead a political party in modern times. They have been singing the same old song for over thirty years and have been clinging to the memory of Ronald Reagan as if his administration and his management of the economy was some kind of stellar example of small government run within the margins of a balanced budget.
Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, as I have said repeatedly, Reagan came into office promising to eradicate the $900 billion deficit he inherited from the thirty-nine men who preceded him in the presidency and reduce the size of the federal labyrinth of monstrous government. When Reagan left office eight years later, the $900 billion deficit ballooned into a $2.7 trillion dollar shortfall and the federal government had increased in size by two hundred thousand people.
The great minds of the Republican tradition were so enthralled by his voice they wanted to chisel Reagan’s likeness into the granite surface of Mt. Rushmore alongside the images of four truly great presidents demeaning both the monument and the men whose faces garlanded that monument—George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.
Bush [George W. that is] stole into office with a surplus that Democrat William Jefferson Clinton graciously left behind not only to squander the excess, but to put this country into debt by $2.5 trillion not to mention the loss of respect in the world due to an inept foreign policy that offended the more civilized countries that compromised our former allies, the vast maze of corruption that seemed to permeate every branch of government, and a financial crisis that required immediate federal action in order to salvage the remains of what economic liquidity we had left.
Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) blasted the budget cuts as particles of sand in a vast desert of debt.
The House Minority Leader, John Boehner (R-Ohio) threatened to push for serious reductions of the Obama budget in spite of the fact that much of the money in the new budget will go toward the restoration of the grand economy Bush had so grievously squandered.
As one political pundit reminded the Republicans today--“If you people doing the complaining had been complaining before the Obama administration, more folks might have paid attention to you. It's obvious what you are doing -- it's about hurting the Obama administration, plain and simple.”
If the GOP had tried they could not have selected two less appealing and compelling leaders than McConnell (who was born with a scowl on his face) and Boehner (whose demeanor makes used car salesmen look trustworthy).
You will note that these two genius’s remained conspicuous by their silence during the eight years that Bush was devouring the surplus like a starving elephant. They did not cry out because he was running up the national tab in a war in Iraq that was totally unnecessary and unpopular. They did not speak out against the corruption that Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld allowed to penetrate the Department of Defense by Cheney’s former company—Halliburton. They did not raise their voice in horror while the Justice Department under Attorney General Alberto Gonzales trampled upon the constitution and used its good offices for political purposes.
In other words, I am saying that McConnell and Boehner and most of the Congressional Republicans are partisan to the core and as shallow as a dried up stream.
Rather than joining with the president to solve the worst crisis to hit America since the Great Depression, they are lying, decrying, and posing paper barriers in the way of solving our financial woes. They have not proposed one, not one worthy idea to deal with the widespread recession. Instead they are proposing the same worn out and failed policies of the Bush administration that already have proven themselves useless, ineffectual, and inappropriate to the problem at hand.
A mere 21% of the American people now believe that the Republican Party is an effective political party working to solve the voters economic anguish. They are too busy running for 2012 and finding a leader, a spokes person who can put some dignity and integrity back into the skeleton Bush has left to his heirs.
Right now that voice is Rush Limbaugh. In fact, the notorious Dick Cheney, during an interview on Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer made it entirely clear that Colin Powell is a Democrat because he supported Barack Obama for president and that if he had to choose between Powell and Rush Limbaugh as the voice of the Republican Party, he would select Limbaugh.
Those of you who continue to refer to yourselves as Republicans need to take a second look at what your party has become in the aftermath of the Bush Administration. Anyone who listens to Rush Limbaugh is truly a disturbed person with few if any moral undergirding and absolutely no coherent perspective on political or economic issues confronting this country.
Limbaugh is a disgrace not only to the party of Lincoln, but also the party of Eisenhower. He is as many others have inferred an entertainer and not a force for good in Republican politics.
In fact, he is truly decadent and he suffers from psychological problems that are a danger to him and others, not physically, but psychologically. To gain some understanding of how many people in this country who are in dire need of psychiatric help, just look at the estimated 20 million people who listen to his ranting and raving of this sociopath who lacks morals and ethics that are vital to the continued existence of this nation during his radio show.
His blasphemous remarks about Michael J. Fox who is fighting for himself and others who suffer from Parkinson’s disease surely alienated anyone with a sense of right and wrong.
He has inflamed the educated women of the country with his slanderous remarks about women by referring to them in malicious language that would offend any female with an ounce of dignity.
He has declared without reservation that he wants Obama’s Recovering and Reinvestment program to fail to force the president and his policies out of office in the next election cycle.
Anyone who hopes that Obama’s plan is not successful is as close to a traitor to American than anything I can imagine other than a person who works for our country’s enemies. Limbaugh is not a patriot; he is an ideologue and a villain.
If Obama’s recovery plan fails, this nation will slide into the most disastrous economic calamity we have ever faced. We will once again see soup lines, homeless men, women and children crowding onto the warm grates outside office buildings where the steam radiates into the cold winter nights. Unemployment will soar into the double digits and our nation will be at the mercy of aggressive nations with an economic base that is capable of surviving a harsh fiscal downturn. The America we know in 2009 will never exist again.
I have nothing but absolute disdain for Limbaugh and Cheney and anyone who supports their insane perspective on government and economics. With the revelations finally coming to the fore about the Bush/Cheney policies on torture and Cheney’s admission on Face the Nation that Bush knew about the policies that were instituted permitting water boarding, long term exposure to darkness, cold, heat, dampness and deprivation on numerous levels and pain in many forms, my scorn for Bush, Cheney and Limbaugh has heightened.
But lest we forget, no one from the Republican controlled Congress stepped forward to insist on more intensified oversight—not McConnell, not Boehner, not one member of the Congress who was a member of the GOP.
With the agenda of this nation having been ignoring since 2001, it is right and proper that Obama should propose a widespread renovation of many of this nation’s neglected institutions and do it now while the nation has awakened to the urgent need for spending money on projects that will re-charge the nearly dead battery of our country!
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