Pocket Protector
August 3rd, 2010 | Editorial Cartoons | 6 Comments
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I’m still trying to get my head around how anyone can support the Republican Party in the upcoming elections. I know they have a big lead in the polls, and I understand that the party in power usually takes it on the chin when the economy is bad, and this economy is REALLY bad. Still, what has the GOP done to merit our trust? To date, opposed extending health insurance to the almost 50 million Americans without it, opposed the climate bill (Republicans supported cap and trade when it was their idea), opposed toughening offshore oil drilling regulations (even in the wake of the BP disaster), opposed extending unemployment benefits during the worst recession in our lifetime, opposed further stimulus (even though it clearly kept the economy from tanking even further), and the latest outrage, opposed transparency in campaign funding. The only thing the party has come out in favor of is extending the Bush tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans, even though that giveaway to the rich, enacted while we were fighting two unfunded wars, is largely responsible for the massive deficit the GOP now swears is our biggest problem. This is the same party, if you remember, that told us, when the tax cuts were enacted, that deficits don’t matter.
Somehow, though, they’ve persuaded a majority of Americans that they deserve another shot at wrecking the country. If you like oil in your oceans, melting ice caps and rising seas, larger deficits, greater unemployment, cuts in Social Security, Medicare and little what remains of the safety net, a shrinking middle class, the wealthy grabbing an ever larger share of the pie, and are fine with not knowing who funds political campaigns, then by all means, put these guys back in power. You’ll get what you deserve.
Topics: campaign disclosure act, campaign finance, cartoon, Congress, GOP, opinion, Republicans, Senate, transparency
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Unfortunately, they’ll also take the rest of us down with them.
-Rusty
For years, we heard about the “Big Lie” technique.
It works.
The US Republican Party guys and gals–including their shills, lackeys and hangers-on, are proving that a constant, unceasing drumbeat of little lies, spewed out over the airways and ozone, coupled with a gross disrespect for (and hope for failure of) our government (that is to say–uhh, ermm, “Us”) will work, too.
The basic question is: why do Republicans hate Us so much?
Because the Republicans are PAID to hold the positions they do. They don’t push these positions for the fun of it. It’s business, by business for business – big business, not small or medium sized business.
WELL Said, Ed!
Thank you for continuing to express my thoughts, feelings and outrage, I find myself so furious I can’t frame a cogent response to the never-ending half-truths and outright lies bandied about by the right. Despite some of the comments here re: Republicans representing big business … the demoralizing reality is that many of the middle class – otherwise decent, “educated” people (some of my extended family members among them) believe and perpetuate the misinformation spread by (mostly) Republicans and the loud-mouth radio and TV shock jocks that feed off middle-class insecurities and biases. Until and unless liberals and progressives understand and address that sad fact, and learn to assuage middle-America’s fears and insecurities, we are in for some truly hard times. When big oil / gas etc. is able to block support of legislation to support climate control, including tougher standards for drilling, and Republicans can block transparency in campaign funding with impunity, things are way out of hand.
the gop spews its illogic and lack of reason and paucity of sanity sliding so far over the deep end. when you search out real facts, the gop is in fantasyland, never letting the facts invade their issues. facts change to suit the sewage they regurgitate in lock step. they have gone the way of the rich old white coot. how good we are learning about the Kochs. how soon till Murdoch, via proxy, buys a new amendment so that he, the Aussie, can sit in the White House? Dickless Army and Rupert DeLay’em as their own and rupert’s proxies. and the masses see and hear it so much they begin to believe. don’t drink the kool aid, mates.