Why is it that only the Democrats are supposed to be bi-partisan? The newly re-elected Republican Senator from Georgia, in his acceptance speech tonight said, “When he wants to raise your taxes, when he wants to tinker with the Second Amendment, when he wants to make proposals with respect to health care that is going to take your choice of choosing your doctor away form you, then I’m going to be the 41st senator to stand up and say no.”
He’s pledging to defeat in the Senate proposals that President-elect Obama hasn’t made, based on false advertising by the Republican candidate for President, and citing “conservative values.” But reporters are asking President-elect Obama if Robert Gates “fills the Republican slot on your cabinet.”
Give me a break. Are people really worried about a Democratic “super majority,” like the one the Republicans had for six years, controlling both houses of Congress and the White House? We saw where that got us, right? Yet and still, the arguments are out there, for the frightful, for the frightened, for the politically deaf among us to continue to cling to – it seems that President-elect Obama was right about some people “clinging to their guns and their religion.” He was just wrong about which people.
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Don’t you just love McCarthyist tactics?
Nothing is going to change in this country if both party’s keep saying things like we have to stop legislation of the other party that doesn’t fall into the dogma of their party. The Congress and Senate work for the people, and if the people feel that we need to improve our highways, bridges, and roadway infrastructure, and improve our clean drinking water, and waste water systems, and expand, modify, improve our electric distribution systems, and provide broadband Internet to more people. We need to modernize our schools, make the schools in poor neighborhoods just as good as schools from upper class neighborhoods. Then there are the emergency services, (police, fire, ambulance, and first responders) the list is a very large list of services we expect of our government, and they cost money. Where are we going to get the money from? You can’t cut your way around this problem. You have to figure what level of service the public wants, figure out how much this will cost, and provide money for them. It is unfair to take it out on the backs of the poor, sick, and homeless. These are the people who need help the most. We have to get our people working at jobs that pay a livable wage, and not send our good manufacturing jobs over seas. We need to do something to bring good jobs back to this country without excessive union rules. If it takes raising our taxes to pay to bring the American Way of Life back to America we have to do it. We also have to look for inefficient government regulations, and spending, but the way everybody sounds we are just going to stay in the hole we have dug for ourselves. Lets work together to make it the greatest country on earth, like it used to be.
And, so, because of the “Republican Doughnut,” We’re stuck with Saxby Chamblis = George W. Bush for six more years. For those of you not familiar, the Republican Doughnut is the result of the rather bizzare gerrymander the GOP created when redrew the district lines when they got a majority in the legislature. They made sure that all districts that historically voted for Democrats were split up so that they’d be a minority. They also formed a redneck ring around metropolitan Atlanta to negate minority voting. It’s the only reason they are still in power. Barack Obama and Jim Martin won in all of Gerogia’s larger cities – where 60% of th e population resides, but lost their elections. But barely lost, so Georgia will go blue again.
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