AlterNet: Repugs Are Willing to Let The Country Collapse if They Think it Will Win Them Elections

[marmar]

Republicans Clearly Are Willing to Let This Country Collapse if They Think it Will Win Them Elections

By Doug Kreeger, AlterNet. Posted February 4, 2009.

It is abundantly clear that the Republican leaders are going to do everything to prevent Obama and the Dems from doing anything constructive.



Last week, we witnessed how the Republicans will help serve this country in the worst crisis since the Great Depression.

By standing together in opposition to the stimulus package, they showed the world that they haven't at all joined the momentum of the new administration, rather they are still playing politics and are focused on the 2010 elections. Their objections to the stimulus have nothing to do with trying to solve this crisis.

I was always struck during the Bush Error (otherwise known as Era), that the axis of evil title was slapped onto any entity not aligned with their inane response to any issue they faced. Whether it was Iraq or Hurricane Katrina, time and time again we were expected to take their word through blind faith and or outright deceit.

Now the remaining cronies have sunk to an unthinkable new low. It is abundantly clear that the Republican leaders are going to do everything to prevent anything constructive from happening. They will be sure our damaged nation does not get fixed on Barack Obama's watch, the public be damned.

Last week, Obama's plans were debated in Congress. His goal of creating 2 million to 3 million jobs in the next two years through a massive rebuilding program of our crumbling infrastructure, was countered by the Republicans' revised stimulus plan. Their plan was not detailed beyond more tax cuts. ........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/story/125178/republicans_clearly_are_willing_to_let_this_country_collapse_if_they_think_it_will_win_them_elections/

[madaboutharry]

1. The republicans are the ones who

are always accussing democrats of being unpatriotic. They in fact, are the ones who lack patriotism. They do not love this country or the people who live in it. They only love their bank accounts.

[jimshoes]

2. We have to keep reminding people that it

was repig policies that got us into the mess we're in in the first place.

[Demeter]

3. If Things Don't Get Done, It Will Be Nancy and Harry's Fault

Let them put out, or get out.

[DrDan]

4. I don't think it is so much aobut winning the next election - I think they

are frightened about liberal policies succeeding. That has to be their worst nightmare.

[depakid]

5. Seems to this observer that the Dems are just as eager to lose

as the Republicans are to ensure they do.

Not a day passes where there's not more pathetic pandering and enabling of failed right wing policies- or elevating Republicans to positions of prominence they're neither qualified for or have earned.

There's a silver lining to it though- at this rate, at least we'll be rid of Harry Reid in 2010....