Republican Party R.I.P.

Is it just me or has the Republican Party abandoned even its core base? Christian Conservatives in the Bible Belt, folks in the Heartland, and pretty much everyone making under $100,000 per year, they have all been left on a doorstep and abandoned. Mind you, hard working Republican Americans have not changed their values, not strayed from a government that supports itself, stays out of small and big business pockets, Washington D.C. Republicans have chucked them out with the bath water so to speak. When the House Republicans voted unanimously against the proposed stimulus plan they also voted against every single Republican working hard to pay their own bills all across America. Don’t feel left out, those of us in the middle and on the left were voted against too but it still passed.

The past two elections for Congress, the Senate, and the President has changed the atmosphere and political membership in our nations capitol from a full speed ahead regardless of the icebergs in our way to full reverse to avoid economic icebergs. Without this change in course our nation could and would suffer the same fate as the Titanic.

So what the hell happened to the backbone of the Republican Party that it felt the need to chuck the bird at hard working Americans who still own their homes, for now still have jobs, and have always been loyal? Why was the vote tallied and not one Republican in the House of Representatives totaling zero, nada, not one? Don’t even think about arguing the point that Democrats were slamming this down the pipeline of politics. President Obama met with Republicans many times, they did lunch, they did dinner, he went to the House, something I thought was a poor move on his part and the vote proved my point out. Why has former candidate for President John McCain gone one hundred and eighty degrees from what he talked about that he would be as President on the campaign trail for the highest office in the land? Did he or did he not say he wanted to work a bipartisan and unified Congress to save America during this economic crisis? This week and next, you will see the true John McCain, the man that lives the life of a millionaire and can afford to have higher than thou economic and political morals in his vote. How does that work for someone trying to run a farm based on those same morals and principals but doesn’t have a couple of million bucks to fall back on?

I think it needs to be said, the Republican Party was buried alive with and by President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Supporting cast including Karl Rove, Scooter Libby and the list goes on of former White House operatives that are or will be facing jail time for crimes against America. All of the scandals including Jack Abramoff, the Speaker of the House Denny Hastert hiding the facts of a known pedophile having to resign, the two Senate majority leaders having to resign in disgrace, one for trying to rig elections and the other for praising a known racist and hate monger. Tom Delay and Trent Lott had great political careers till they thought they were omnipotent.

Don’t get me wrong, I am very glad these scumbags are out of our government, but I think they damaged the fabric that is our political collective. Not everyone thinks the same or has the same values and I would be an idiot to think they should. That is the beauty of our political nation in its entirety. We can debate any issue but we will still look out for one another and our collective interests. Be it our local school system, fire department, police department, national defense, or even caring for all of our elderly. Pick a topic, it can be debated, thought out, and a compromise come too! Somewhere in the middle is the meeting point where any topic can be agreed upon, it takes serious discussion, logical thought on all parties, but most of all compromise. In that thought, I honestly believe that President Obama could have chopped down a grove of olive trees and covered the house with olive branches and the Republican Members would still have spit on him and the House Stimulus plan. Is that a lesson learned by the new President courtesy of the Republican Party in the House?

While the main stream media is in hot debate over the latest stimulus plan, I’m wondering how the folks on the right side of the aisle feel seeing the sheer refusal to even negotiate on it. Letters from the leaders of the Republican Party went out before the bill was even drafted to vote against it? What does that tell Joe and Jane Six Pack Republican? It tells him or her that his and her job is not important, his or her company that gives them a paycheck every week is not important, it tells them that their political party is unified against any logical thought process that comes from the left even with tax cuts regardless of the end means. Buy an apple cart Joe or Jane and make sure you put a GOP sticker on it! Your Republican representative in the Congress will be by in two years to greatly appreciate your vote and lay a rose on the grave of your children.

Papamoka

Bush and His Legacy

Be forewarned that the opinion of the writer of this post is biased because he thinks George Bush IS the worst President EVER! Getting past that editorial comment I can now progress to show you why Bush WAS the WORST President EVER!

First we need to point out that Karl Rove is out of his hidey hole and now pounding the speaking circuit on his former bosses behalf. “W is good, W is great, W is far better than Jimmy Carter.” I had to paraphrase that but you get the jest of the Rovian message. His turdship supreme commander of double speak was in New York to try and pimp the Bush motorcade but came under some righteous boos and hisses. Over at the Washington Times, Jon Ward has this to say on it…

Rove: Bush hardly worst president
Wednesday, December 3, 2008

NEW YORK Karl Rove -- the architect, the one-time senior White House adviser to President Bush -- walked into the lion's den Tuesday night to argue that his former boss is not the worst president of the past 50 years.

He appeared at a formal debate on New York City's notoriously liberal Upper West Side as the most famous, and infamous, member of a four-member panel there to hash out the outgoing president's legacy.

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The most heated moments came during the debate over Mr. Bush's biggest decision - the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The president himself said in an interview this week that his "biggest regret" is that the intelligence upon which the invasion was based wrongly concluded that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

Even Mr. Kristol said that Mr. Bush has done "a horrible job of explaining what he's done and what the choices were."

But he and Mr. Rove both maintained that while the initial occupation was mismanaged, the surge of troops begun in 2007 has placed the U.S. on the cusp of victory in Iraq.

Former Bush adviser Karl Rove was greeted with hisses as he took the podium at a formal debate on New York's Upper West Side, but he helped attract a sold-out crowd.
"We've won the war," Mr. Kristol said.

Mr. Rove was incredulous at Mr. Jenkins' assertion that the Vietnam War was better managed than the Iraq war.

"We ended Vietnam in defeat, for which the families of 55,000 fallen heroes had reason to ask themselves if their sacrifices had been made in vain," Mr. Rove said.
Mr. Rove ended by saying that the deck was stacked against Mr. Bush from the beginning. - Washington Times

I think it needs to be pointed out that President Bush ignored all advisors except the ones in agreement with him to go to war in Iraq. If the intelligence did not fit the need, they ignored it. Can we possibly look at every other President in history that decided the United States Constitution was toilet paper. Umm, the list is kind of short but all those signing statements from George W. Bush sure are a giveaway. Legally, not one single bill he signed is according to the law of the land and Constitutional. The President can not define the law just before he signs it into law. That is the Congress job! How about the tapping of phones without a court order within the United States of America? How about privatizing our United States Military (brought to you by Haliburton) and awarding NO BID military contracts to the company that the VP was once CEO of?

George W. Bush was the WORST President EVER but he dares to tell his cowboy discretion story. Now that he can see the exit signs lit up on the White House he is playing the good guy instead of chucking the media the bird at every opportunity. For some odd reason he thinks that history will look at him more favorably if he whistles a happy tune on the way out. Over at The American Prospect they have this little nugget of info post Bush and Charlie Gibson interview…

Bush doesn't care about history, he's just a cowboy who goes with his gut, which is why he's meeting with his flacks to make sure history looks at him kindly. Like all activities undertaken by this Administration, this "Legacy Project" is a transparent disaster, with all the thoughtful preparation of Bush's War. The case being made by Rove and others, that the Administration reacted competently to the intelligence they had, is as transparently false as the original case for invasion. Still, as Sargent noted, you see a number of mainstream news organizations taking Bush's story at face value. Again.

What were those wise words? "Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice...can't get fooled again." - The American Prospect

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I submit my vote, I’ll stuff the ballot box (pun intended, sorry Al Gore & John Kerry), and I will endorse no other than George W. Bush as the WORST President EVER!

Cast your vote in the comments. This is the first ever Papamoka Straight Talk WORST EVER President Poll. Any votes for Chester Arthur will be discarded by our ballot tabulating machinery. And any votes for Jimmy Carter, Jefferson, Taylor, Hayes, Hoover, Both Johnson’s, Both Adams, Both Roosevelt’s (New rule, no voting for any duplicate last names unless it begins with Bush and has George W. in it). Truman is out, so is Wilson, Lincoln, Grant, Washington, Ford, Reagan, Kennedy, Ike, Clinton, and any of the other guys that did not have their fingers crossed behind their back while taking the oath of office. You can vote for Nixon but we need to tape record your vote. And you can not vote for any President elected before the year 2000.

Okay, the poll is fixed, you can only vote for George W. Bush! Check back soon for our results.

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