The Real Leader
Look Ma, we can be “ethnic” too!
Bobby Jindal and Michael Steele are the new faces of the GOP.
Sorry, boys, if you want to change the face of your party, it’s going to take more than black and brown folk on the cover to do it. It’s going to take an actual change in your philosophy. This isn’t going to happen as long as you leave Rush Limbaugh as the de facto leader of the party. Even your chairman panders to him.
This is how Limbaugh says he wants the change to come about:
“What is so strange about being honest and saying, I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to restructure and reform this country so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? Why would I want that to succeed?”
Which is, of course, Complete hypocritical rhetoric:
#1 Government assistance and programs != communism.
#2 Individual liberty? Are you fucking kidding me? Here is how the GOP has advanced the cause of individual liberty in the last eight years:
- Guantanamo
- Pushing intelligent design
- Torture
- Inspecting communications w/o warrant
- Suspending habeas corpus
- The Patriot act
- Pushing a homophobic agenda
- Changing any scientific paper that shows evidence of global warming
- An outright contempt for the rule of law
- Identifying a covert CIA operative, because you disagree with her husband, and then commuting your cronie’s sentence
Sorry, Rush, but the country does not agree with you (and by the way, for you, being honest is quite strange indeed). According to Gallup, the percentage of Americans that approve of funding new government programs to help create jobs is 83%
The GOP is completely devoid of ideas. We might as well ask a brick wall what to do next, and that brick wall will probably respond better than “eliminate taxes for gazillionaires, and abolish all science classes in favor bible study time.”
Need some more hypocirsy? Here is the current Republican leader speaking of Obama:
“He wants people in fear, angst and crisis, fearing the worst each and every day, because that clears the decks for President Obama and his pals to come in with the answers, which are abject failures, historically shown and demonstrated”
Perhaps Limbaugh is on too many pills to remember things like the patriot act, the suspension of habeas corpus, telling librarians that they must provide lists of books people read, and, oh yeah, the war in Iraq. All of which are abject failures. All of which were instigated by the GOP, because they pushed the fear of terrorism in the faces of the American people 24/7.
And what answers would the GOP give? Hello? Anybody there? Is this thing on?
Since the GOP’s ideas have had so much negative critisism over the course of eight years, they don’t dare start spouting them now. They usually go something like this:
- Tax cuts for the rich (including capital gains and inheritance)
- Trickle-down economics
- Keeping the minimum wage of 30 years ago
- Cutting emissions standards despite all evidence that it will harm the environment
- More tax cuts for the rich
- And one more thing: doubling the national debt, in only 8 years, for the purposes of sustaining the flow of wealth from the poor and the middle class to the rich, and creating an unnecessary war based on lies
And for that, we have to give up our liberties and bow down to atrocities of the human condition, such as the patriot act?!
Granted, they’ve thrown Bush overboard. They didn’t even let him go to the convention before the election, and with good reason: he destroyed the party by shredding the constitution, torturing, lying, pandering, and invading. What makes any of us think that if the GOP grabs power again they won’t do the same thing?
I hope it will be a good long time before this country trusts Republicans again, and that they will have learned some lessons by then.
