The Republican/Tea Party is the Death Penalty for America

[Donnachaidh]

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/richard729/38630/the-republican-tea-party-is-the-death-penalty-for-america

In state after state in which Republican/Tea Partyers took over governorships and legislatures there has been an aggressive and successful drive to gut workers' collective bargaining rights, shed thousands of jobs, gut environmental protections and food safety regulations all to the benefit of the rapacious corporate hogs who are enjoying unprecedented profits.

Commensurate with declining wages and job benefits is the yawning income gap between the super rich and corporate billionaires like the Koch brothers and the hoi polloi who are being discarded as used-up commodities thrown on the scrap heap.

The leitmotif of all the Republican candidates and their extremist Tea Party spawn has been to wage a propaganda war depicting the super rich as victims of a socialist president whom they repeatedly disdain and revile with words like, "He's not an American citizen, he's a Marxist-Socialist Kenyan, Luo, Mau-Mau tribesman who has a different world view from the 'rest of us.'"

Recently, Wall Street protesters have cracked the garrisons of greed and cleared some of the smoke screens that up to now have insulated the swindlers who still operate with little or no oversight. Republicans are pinning the blame on the president for our country’s economic ills hoping that their own impotence and failure to do their jobs in congress will go unnoticed by voters in November 2012.

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