A Gentleman’s view.

Bipartisanship of politics in this country will be damned again as usual in Washington.

So, here we go again, it’s the Bloods vs. the Cripps, Red States vs. Blue States, Us vs. Them. Our President campaigned on the concept, though spouted often, but hardly realized, of cooperation between both political parties. There has long been complaints that Washington doesn’t work because the parties as they exist, can’t seem to get things done. Personally, I feel we need a third strong political party that will force coalitions to be formed for the good of getting things done, but that’s just me. This theory worked in the practice of getting many divergent mindsets to elect President Barack Obama into office. It was even picked up by some Republicans running for office during the last election cycle such as Oregon’s Gordon Smith. President Obama, the eternal optimist, has made attempts to reach out to the opposition party in putting together a package to clean up the mess he found sitting in the Oval office when he got there. He went up to the hill to address their concerns, he invited them to come to the White House for cocktails, when have you ever heard of any politician doing something like that?

The pain of watching of this process was the fact that after the Republicans got us into an illegal war with Iraq, stuck in Afghanistan fighting “terror” with no particular resolution in sight, having not captured anyone responsible for 9/11, deregulated us into this financial abyss with banking, the mortgage crisis, cutting taxes during wartime, and allowing the rich to get richer at the expense of everyone else. They now want to get back to the supposed Republican principles of fiscal responsibility. The Democrats can’t make any moral claims against them as they sat on their prospective rear ends and let this happen. These Bloods having lost control of the both houses, bitching decide to take more of a stand than did the Cripps and declare in the interest of Americans, they won’t participate in cleaning up the worst financial disaster since the great depression. One of the most conservative organizations in business, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and just about every liberal and conservative economist state the nature of this economy is so bad that it would be detrimental to the long term fiscal health of the country to do nothing. Their answer to this problem is holding the party mantra of more of the same.

The amazing thing about their assault on the approach to fixing things is they say we need more tax cuts. First; it amazes me that they continue to want to cut taxes while we are still at War, their response to that is increase the defense budget for the war effort. I want to know, because they never ever tell us how to do this, where is the money supposed to come from. The government in and of itself is not a business per say, it doesn’t exist to make money like IBM or Sears, so how do we get the billions we are now throwing away in these foreign lands we now occupy if we don’t raise the funds one way or another. We as a nation are losing jobs hand over fist, so even if we continue down the road of taxing the poor and middle class of this country, if the pool of people who had jobs keeps shrinking due to their lack of diligence in so many areas of our economy, how are we to get them back?

They say they agree that something needs to be done, and then suggest more of the same failures that got us to this point. More importantly, they are willing to see this whole thing fail just to get back to being in power once again, yet they are the ones claiming patriotism and fiscal responsibility, they claim to have the best interest of the country at heart. Not one vote in the House, only 3 in the Senate, this is their statement and gamble, predicated on our country failing during this experience so they can regain control of both legislative branches of government. I say stand on principle, intestinal fortitude and grit, you don’t believe this is the way to correct this mess, don’t accept the money for your state. When Uncle Sam sends that borrowed Chinese money to your state make sure you do everything in your power to have it returned to Washington. Stand up for what you say you believe in, make your state and your constituents suffer through this trying time without the dirty Democratic stimulus money you don’t believe in. Tell Washington to take that partisan money and shove it up their prospective non-Republican asses. That will show them what it takes to stand up for something you believe in.

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© 2009, agentleman.