Republicans are a clear and present danger to our economic and physical survival

[Cyrano]

By now, any rational human being must grasp the fact that the Republican Party is more interested in regaining political power than in helping to revive our dying economy, or to help the average American citizen.

Here are a few facts. The Republicans, using their media echo chamber, are trying to sell the propaganda that Franklin Roosevelt caused The Great Depression. That lie is so enormous as to be an outrage to the very idea of democracy and what America is supposed to stand for. It’s nothing more than vicious, despicable sack of poison that can be disproved by any historical source that anyone cares to reference.

The Great Depression started in 1929 and was brought on by more than a decade of Republican rule and policies, and at a time when Republican Herbert Hoover was President. For three full years after 1929, Hoover did the following: Nothing.

FDR wasn’t sworn in as president until March of 1933. He immediately initiated programs to put people back to work and to kick start the economy. The Republicans fought him every step of the way while calling his “a traitor to his class.”

Our current “recession” (which few have yet dared to call a “depression”) was caused by the same greed, non-regulation, and Republican policies and lack of conscience that brought about The Great Depression.

And today’s Republicans are at it again. They have one goal and one goal only. To ensure the failure of Obama’s attempts to pull us out of the economic abyss we’re falling into.

So here’s the question. What if the Republicans succeed in stopping Obama and the Democrats? Does that mean they’ll regain the power they crave regardless of the cost to everyone else?

I don’t know how to state this more clearly. If Obama and the Democrats fail, America fails and we will be a wasteland. And if the Republicans are then voted back into power, they will get to rule over that wasteland. A wasteland – a desolate place that may hold aspirations to one day work its way up to being a banana republic.

People, please understand what the Republican Party is about. If Obama’s plans to get us out of the mess we’re in come to fruition, we may get our country back. But it’s going to take time.

If Obama fails, we fail. And the Republicans will probably regain rule, but rule over what? A wasteland. I guess they don’t care. As long as they get to rule. But there’s a term for doing everything possible to see to it that what you rule over is a wasteland. That term is insanity.

[DJ13]

1. f the Republicans are then voted back into power, they will get to rule over that wasteland

That wasteland is precisely what the neocons have been working towards the last 30 years.

Their goal has always been to bankrupt the country so they could install their version of Mussolini's corporate fascist dream government where everything is owned by big business, and ruled by big business, without any representation for the people.

We (and Obama) need to recognize that obstruction serves their goals.

That the resulting destruction of our American way of life serves their goals.

They are traitors, and we need to be alert to their aims and act appropriately to prevent them from being successful.

[Cyrano]

2. I think Obama knows what they are

And I also think his "bipartisanship" was nothing more than a very clever public relations tactic.

Nonetheless, the Republicans have not backed down an inch.

Perhaps Obama needs to make a not-to-subtle speech about what the Republicans are and what they are really all about.

The one big obstacle that stands in his way, however, is the Republican owned and dominated media. What he says, and how it's reported and spun, will confuse the hell out many, reinforce the Republican base, and frustrate what we'd like to see happen.

Nothing much will change until the "fairness doctrine" is reinstated and media ownership is ripped from the claws of corporations.

[Skittles]

4. I agree Obama reaching out was something that had to be done

the divisiveness in America caused by bush and rightwing hate radio is a HUGE problem but now it is clearly time to kick those anti-American bastards to the curb

[IDFbunny]

3. No worries

The GOP is history. Little chance they will regain power unless the democrats over-reach with serious gun prohibition; the only reason they gained any control to begin with.

I think the libertarians may split off and let the make-war-on-everything fundies have the party. That's a decades long process however.

[bdamomma]

5. The Republicans will meet their own demise.

they have underestimated the american people and are total in denial, they still don't get it, that Mike Steele wants to the GOP to be the Hip Hop party, let's keep the adults in the WH please, tired of all that whining aren't you?

[GreenTea]

10. Fucking Shameless Greedy Republican Corporate Pigs! Can anyone believe

the ONLY answer or idea the republicans have to help our falling failing economy, after eight years of republicans cutting the corporations taxes is to give more tax cuts to their rich corporate friends?

How can anyone believe these lying selfish hateful republicans, (besides pigman Limbaugh listeners)?

Fucking Shameless Greedy Republican Corporate Pigs!

[bdamomma]

6. kick

[Donnachaidh]

7. Hitler gained control over a wasteland

THAT is what worries me -- the fundamentalist American Taliban and their jackbooted yowling craziness gaining control. There's a LOT of desperate ignorant people out there waiting for someone to give them a job and a little of their self-respect back. But what do they get --- news reports of billions going to banks, the republican front guard for the american taliban screaming *FAILURE FAILURE* and nowhere do THEY see a way out for themselves.

THIS is the time we HAVE to stay vigilant. People who are still working can shrug and claim the republican party is history -- but it's not. And most people don't see their obstructionism at work. The MSM gives THEM the podium to play chicken little.

THIS would be the time for the WH to get their OWN *propaganda team* rolling, to counteract the braying from the repukes. They HAVE to do this -- they cannot sit back and think things will be fine if we write enough bills to let things roll out in an orderly fashion.

We NEED some SHOCK AND AWE from Obama and his team. THEY need to fight for the heart and soul of this country - the working class which is getting shredded from the corporate greed.

FIGHT God Damn IT. All the class in the world isn't going to mean shit if they LOSE the war on words.

[Cyrano]

9. I think Obama is too smart to let them win the war of words

I truly believe that Obama might well be one of the smartest politicians of our era. Even smarter than, dare I say it, Bill Clinton.

Last week he told us that he'd try to work with the Republicans, but that he's not a sap.

We don't need a crystal ball to see how George W. will be treated by history. But Obama's history is being written at this very moment. It's my belief that we have one of the smartest, most savvy politicians in the White House since FDR.

But this is just a belief. It remains to be seen if it is a fact.

He's well aware that the Republicans are trying to obstruct everything he does. And what they have going for them is a vast media echo chamber that will repeat and repeat and repeat all of their talking points.

Yet, it's my belief, that the one thing they didn't count on is Barack Obama.

And there are historical precedences for this. The British didn't count on us having anyone as dedicated and relentless as George Washington. The South didn't count on us having anyone as dedicated and relentless as Abraham Lincoln.

These analogies are, of course, not exact replications of the past. However, in difficult times, great men (and women) have appeared to stand for what's right.

Hopefully, this is one of those times.

[leftofthedial]

8. gee

ya think?