The Party of What?

The Republican Party’s complete and total opposition to any policies and programs put forth by the Obama administration defies logic. Republicans in Congress have voted against every piece of legislation proposed by the White House, even when that legislation benefited citizens in the districts those same Republicans represent. They complain that President Obama does not include Republican input on policy decisions, yet during President Obama’s first months in office he met with congressional Republicans in the Capitol Building and at the White House seeking their input and assistance on the pressing matters that confront our nation today. Even today, President Obama reaches out to the opposition party, and yet the Republicans moan and groan about being locked out of the policy making process.

The Republicans lack the vision and plans it takes to make America a greater nation for our children and grandchildren, which is the reason why they are not being taken seriously. The right wants President Obama to fail in all that he sets out to accomplish so that they can regain power and utilize the same failed polices that have gotten our nation in the horrible shape it is today. That is why they call President Obama a socialist one day, a fascist the next, weak on terrorists one week, naïve in foreign affairs the next. By doing so, they hope use the old fear card on the American people, hoping to scare their way back into the control of the White House and Congress. 

President Obama inherited from the previous Republican administration a $1.7 trillion deficit, two wars in two foreign countries, bank bailouts, an economy in the tank, rising unemployment, a tarnished American image abroad that was supported by a Republican congress. These same Republicans passed spending bills that increased the size of our nation’s debt, the size of government, passed tax cuts for the very wealthy at the expense of the lower and middle class, and yet they are now acting as if they are the party of fiscal responsibility and smaller government.

Republicans who now oppose borrowing money from countries like China and Japan to finance investments in our nation through the Stimulus Package, did not have any problems borrowing $500 billion mainly, from China, to finance the unjustifiable war in Iraq that has cost us $12 billion per month for six years and counting, the loss of over 4,000 American lives, hundreds of thousands in Iraqi lives and shifted our attention from our real enemy of September 11, 2001, Al Qaeda and its leader Osama bin Laden. Who by the way is still free to plan more diabolical murderous plots against our nation and the rest of the world.

Republican philosophical opposition to the Stimulus Package, which passed with zero votes from congressional Republicans, will invest hundreds of billions of dollars in rebuilding our nation’s infrastructure, make healthcare more affordable for all citizens, make funding for education a national priority, and finding new sources of renewable energy which will create millions of jobs for American citizens, regardless of political party affiliation borders on stupidity. A program that gives an income tax cut to all Americans and small business owners making $250,000 a year or less, once again helping citizens in those Congressional districts represented by the same Republicans who voted against the Stimulus Package. 

The problem with the those on the political right is that they did not get the memo sent to them by the American people on November 4, 2008, which was their policies of borrow and spend, tax cuts for the wealthy, lack of investment in infrastructure, renewable energy, education and healthcare and the prosecution of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were rejected.  Americans voted for a new direction, a new future represented by President Obama.