The evil that men do!
What the Republicans are doing is more insidious than racism, its revenge!
Forgive me America, I was wrong about this being about the ‘Black Man’ in the White House and I apologize. Oh, don’t get me wrong, this doesn’t mean they don’t have a problem with him, but this is deeper than that. I saw their obstructionism as a problem with President Barack Obama, America’s first Black President and assumed this was all about race. I have to admit though, there were some nagging issues in my mind and heart and now I am realizing why they wouldn’t go away. I kept thinking about how toward the end of the election cycle last time all of a sudden there was a this financial meltdown and the powers that be came to Washington looking for a ‘Bailout’. It just didn’t feel right. I was blind and now I see what the game is all about. It wasn’t about having a man of color running the country; the Republicans thought Hillary was going to win this thing outright. This is about cutting off America’s nose to spite the country’s face. You see, I am a projectionist and unfortunately for my analysis of what’s going on with the Republicans, also an optimist. This caused me to view this experience with my usual sense of not expecting people to purposely do harm to others. I honestly thought people who choose to become politicians actually in their hearts to want what is best for the constituents who elect them into office to some small degree. I was wrong, oh so wrong with these Republicans.
This was about a setup of the worst kind. This was about stacking the deck against any Democrat they expected to win in face of what Bush had done to the reputation of the Republican Party. This was about making sure that with the last President wasting the surplus left by Clinton and running up the deficit to high hell, any Democrat winning the election would be starting off on the wrong foot by starting off with the perception of being on the side of big business with the required bailouts of Wall Street, the Auto Industry, two unnecessary wars, the banks and the little people of America who needed the stimulus required to supplement the massive job loss that took place under the previous administration. They were projectionist as well these Republicans. They could see the potential animosity that would rear its ugly head with all that money from the ‘Tarp Program’ put into place before their man left for the hills of Texas. They knew that stink would follow the next President and make whoever that was appear as a Democrat incapable of handling the domestic agenda of this country.
Don’t get me wrong, it is true there are many Whites having a problem with the ‘Black Guy’ thing going on, but that is not the crux of this ‘just say no’ the Republican Party now represents. Yes, you do have the issues of race with the Rand Paul comment on his being ‘Un-American’ with dressing down the head of BP, you hear it with the “You Lie” hollering out in the joint session of Congress, and most of all, very loud and clear from the Tea Party and Birthers talk of the President not being a legitimate citizen of these United States and therefore no right to the office of the Presidency. You saw it during the process of obtaining a rational health care program that was only an attempt to reign in a segment of business in this country which for the longest, answered to no when it came to how they operated against the interest of the many citizens legitimately requiring their services and paying for them. Even the situation that just took place with having to replace General McChrystal, I suspect personally for him was about race. But, these things just added fuel to the fire being stoked by the Republicans with their agenda of painting the Democrats as being against the interest and values of Middle Americans citizens and it has been working like a charm.
The Filibuster, not even allowing any legislative issues come to a vote, not approving the required Presidential selections to positions in agency responsible for getting vital agency agenda moved forward or completed, even saying no to mechanisms such as unemployment insurance put into place as a safety net for citizens can’t get approved. These are all calculated efforts on the part of the Republicans to paint the Democrats as incompetent and unable to govern. This is a plan to win back power by allowing the good citizens of this country to suffer and then point to the Congress of which the Democrats control and say; “See, we told you they can’t govern”, “We told you they want to have you children paying for programs that give away your hard earned money to the undeserving”, “We told you that they to change this society to destroy the quality of life that you have come to expect as a true American”. We told you! “We said time and time again, they want socialism so they can redistribute your hard earned dollars to people unwilling to go out and earn a living on their own”. The just say no position in place is a calculated tactic with the intent of permanently crushing the Democratic Party at the expense of the rest of the country. The sad thing is they’re willing to do this to one of their own, remember they thought Hillary Clinton was going to win, not the Black Man. I am sorry, America, my bad!
© 2010, agentleman.
