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NanceGreggs

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Tue Jun-17-08 08:23 PM
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GOP: STFU

Edited on Tue Jun-17-08 08:32 PM by NanceGreggs

From the day G.W. Bush was installed in the Oval Office, the Republicans have rarely taken a rest from yammering incessantly about the evils of the Democrats.

If only they had put as much effort into performing their jobs as servants of We The People as they have flapping their gums, the nation might not be in the mess it currently finds itself.

While shirking their responsibilities to their constituents and the country as a whole, this Band of Bozos has rarely missed an opportunity to question the patriotism, dismiss the values, and attack the morality of their friends across the aisle.

However, I believe the recitation by Dennis Kucinich of thirty-five articles of impeachment last week marks the official beginning of GOP STFU season – which, in a perfect and just world, will last at least a century or two.

For the past eight years, the Democrats and the sane among us (usually the same group of people) have endured the finger-wagging, tsk-tsking of people who have been unfailing in their support of the Worst.President.Ever.

We’ve heard how Democrats don’t Support the Troops, as evidenced by our glaring lack of bumperstickers, while this Administration and its party enablers have systematically broken our military, spiritually and financially, while lining their pockets with the profits generated by the destruction and death of not only our own soldiers, but innocent civilians.

We have been lectured about our lack of patriotism by people who assess one’s love of country by their willingness to wear a made-in-a-Chinese-sweatshop flag-pin on their lapel – yes, the same people who attacked decorated war heroes like Kerry, McClellan and Murtha while protecting a draft-dodging president who, to this day, is still unable to prove the fact that he showed up for his cushy, Daddy-got-it-for-me, states-side, National Guard service during a time of war.

We have been labeled as immoral libertines by the likes of Vitter, Craig and Foley. We have suffered through sermons about the importance of good Christian values delivered by people who condone torture, along with turning a blind eye to the poor, the sick and the homeless. We have been preached-to by people who decry the sinfulness of abortion while they dismiss the deaths of Iraqi children with a wave of the hand and the phrase “collateral damage”.

We have been called fiscally irresponsible by the very people who have run up the national debt to unprecedented heights. We have been told, repeatedly, that the billions of taxpayers’ dollars that have found their way into the hands of war profiteers, or have simply “gone missing”, are of no consequence – while, at the same time, being told that those ruined by the mortgage crisis, the healthcare crisis, or the outsourcing of their jobs is due to their own lack of responsibility.

We have been on the receiving end of such soundbytes as “obfuscators, liars, propagandists, and rumor-mongers” by people who scream “executive privilege” every time a legitimate question is asked, every time a truth manages to surface, every time a “mis-speak” is exposed as an outright lie, every time a so-called “news journalist” is caught red-handed toeing the party line instead of reporting the facts.

We, as Democrats, have been vilified, ostracized, criminalized, marginalized, trivialized, ignored, shunned, dismissed, spit on, shit upon, called lazy, crazy, hazy-minded, intentionally ignorant, tree-huggin’, drug-addled, mindless, godless, bereft-of-a-conscience group of idiots.

And guess what happened? We’re now in charge. And the citizenry is behind us. And we’re not going to forget who got us here, how much they profited by getting us here, and how being "here" has been sold as some kind of cheap substitute for where we should be.

GOP, it’s now officially time to STFU. You have the right to remain silent – along with the right to lawyer-up. And if I were you, I’d take advantage of those rights – right now.