HELP WE'VE FALLEN AND WE CAN'T GET UP

Rather than put forth effective solutions to the great challenges that face the country, republicans instead will fall all over themselves in their mad, cynical, rush to criticize President Obama for political gain. The funny part is, the only thing they ever manage to do is fall all over themselves.

How can anyone ever take this party seriously? The only way is if you are being intellectually dishonest in order to push a wrong headed right wing agenda. No wonder the republicans are a regional minority party.

Within the past few days both Karl Rove and Michael Steele have fallen all over themselves.

On Thursday, Karl Rove criticized President Obama for an "orgy of overspending."

The fact is when Bill Clinton turned over the keys to the White House to Rove's protege, George W. Bush, the U.S. government enjoyed a budget surplus. By the time that W. handed over the keys to Barack Obama, the federal budget deficit was more than a trillion dollars.

Can somebody please help Karl because he has fallen and he can't get up.

On the same day, republican party chairman Michael Steele claimed in a speech that the war in Afghanistan was "a war of Obama's choosing" and that "This is not something the United States has actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in." The only problem with these statements, as with most of what republicans say, is that they are factually inaccurate. The war, of course, was begun by President George W. Bush in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. These statements are also far out of line with the consensus view among republicans that the president is, for the most part, executing the right strategy to win the war in Afghanistan.

Can somebody please help Michael because he too has fallen and he can't get up.

How quickly, republicans forget. Americans won't.

WE WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN

A new CNN poll shows that the American people aren't fooled by the Republican spin. Asked which party is "more responsible for the country's current economic problems," 41 percent faulted Republicans as opposed to just 28 percent who faulted Democrats.

THEY WERE FOR IT BEFORE THEY WERE AGAINST IT

To follow up on our previous post regarding the extension of unemployment benefits;

And then there was one...

Only one republican had the courage to vote his convictions by voting with the Democrats today to move the bill to extend unemployment and COBRA benefits for Americans in need, towards final passage by voting for the extension without paying for it in the current budget.

Forty republicans voted to block the bill. That is three more than voted against it a few days ago.

Just one month ago, twenty one republicans in the Senate voted for virtually identical temporary legislation extending these benefits without paying for them in the current budget.

So, what happened? Politics, plain and simple.

These people are such phonies. They did not all of sudden change their views on the need to help vulnerable families. The only reason they flipped is politics. It is raw politics and the country be damned.

These people never do what's best for the country, only themselves. They show it to us everyday.

If it is not apparent to you by now that the republicans will attempt to obstruct or block whatever This President proposes regardless of the merits, it should be.

On this issue, as with health care before it, where the main idea of the plan that was enacted was originally a republican one, they were for it before they were against it.

Have you seen the new republican campaign slogan....?

republicans, fighting for ourselves everyday
The country be damned.