Republicans are the perverbial cog in the wheel in government; the wrench that has been thrown into the Congressional engine causing it to break down. This election has finally exposed to a significant number of Americans of just how rotten to the core they are. The Republican Party has decided to play deaf, blind or dumb to Trump’s wholesale violations of all their core principles that they once held. Trump, an admitted sexual assaulter of women and serial adaulterer, is given a free pass by the party and the Moral Majority and a lot of the Evangelicals. Some have willingly embraced the fascist white nationalist overtones of Trump’s Republican Party.
I have heard from some Republican strategists and pundits already trying to pave the way for the GOP leadership to extract themselves from the stench of Trump after the election by claiming that Trump was an outlier and not really a Republican and therefore didn't represent the Party. They believe they can just dust themselves off the day after the election and forget Trump ever happened!
Not in my life or their lives will this country forget what damage Trump has wrought with the help of the GOP. The GOP fostered this angry, hateful, anti- government, anti- immigrant, anti-Democrat, anti-media and divisiveness for many years. It went into over-drive when Obama was elected. They stood by quietly and embraced Trump after he led the Birther movement against Obama. They kept quiet when the Tea Party held protests everywhere with vile, racists, disgusting signs of the First Family, even in front of the White House, where they lived with their two lovely young daughters. Some like Rep. Michelle Bachman, Rep. Louis Goehmer, Sarah Palin, and others even participated, giving hateful, lying speeches about President Obama.
President Obama tried very hard to show Republican leadership that he was willing to work with them for the good of the country. What became evident to him was that they had no plans of ever working with him. We heard Gingrich admit to a dinner they had to discuss how they would make Obama a failure and McConnell admit how his main priority was to make Obama a one term President. If you think about their plan, you would know how evil it was. For them to succeed, they would have to make sure that they made America a failure. Their intent was to do everything in their power to keep Obama from succeeding with the country, economy, jobs, Obamacare, foreign policy and to destroy his reputation and question his legitimacy.
Republicans sabotaged Obamacare with lies and scare tactics. They sued to prevent expanding Medicaid, a vital component to its success. Those States that refused to expand Medicaid and insure millions of their own citizens only allowed rural hospitals to close and insurance companies to continue absorbing the high cost of these uninsured. Republicans blocked Democrats from being able to negotiate with Pharma directly for lower prices. These tactics have added to increased premiums and less coverage choices for consumers. Rather than try and fix these fixable problems, Republicans have voted over 60 X to repeal or defund it. They would rather see over 20 million lose their insurance and put many lives at risk. They keep saying repeal and replace. They have no replacement!
The LETTER to the Iranian hardliners was just a tipping point. For all those Republican Senators and Congressmen to write and sign a letter against a sitting President in negotiations with a foreign adversary over preventing them from producing nukes, was beyond anything fathomable. It came as close to treasonous as I have ever seen. And then they invite the PM of Israel, Bebe Netanyahu, another opposition leader against the Iran nuclear deal, to address Congess without first informing Obama. This was meant as a FU and a slap in the face by Republicans to the POTUS.
Let's not forget the repeated accusations by Republicans against Obama about how "weak” he is, or how he acts like a "King” and rules by "fiat" or how he went on an “apology tour” and that compared to a strong leader like Putin, Obama is weak and leads from behind. These same ugly Republicans failed to mention that they were too cowardly to even discuss the Iraq War and vote on declaring it a War and authorizing further military intervention in the Middle East. Instead, Obama is forced to rely on the old authority given to Bush. Congress is unwilling to reauthorize new war powers based on the new changed circumstances in Syria and Iraq in fighting ISIS. But the Republicans are not only cowards and bullies, they are great at criticizing Obama at length with no solutions of their own.
Then we have the vacant Supreme Court seat. First they refused to even consider Obama’s pick saying it should be left to the people after the election. Never mind we, the people, had made our choice in 2012, and were being denied our choice through Obama. Earlier when they thought they were going to lose because Trump became their nominee, they entertained confirming Obama’s choice, Garland, for fear Hillary would pick a more liberal Judge. Now some are threatening not confirming any new Justices during Hillary's term! This is too much! The nut jobs have clearly taken over the Republican Party. But this is par for the course for a party who has refused to fill Obama’s choices for many of the vacant and vital seats in various Courts and administrative agencies charged with our welfare and security to this day.
If Trump didn't convince you that the Republican Party is now an enemy to our Democracy, our self governance and to our country as a whole, nothing will.
Trumps’ campaign has been a cesspool of fascists, racists, white nationalists, KKK accepting, conspiracy info wars voter, Steve Bannon alt-right Pepe Nazi loving sympathizers who now have the ear and growing acceptance of the Republican base. The Republican leadership like Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, Cruz and McCain and all the others who chose Trump over their country are to be all condemned. They were all together these last eight years in trying to take Obama down and hurting this country to do it. They are all in to take Hillary down.
The Republicans are planning exhaustive and wasteful time and money on bogus investigations, scandal mongering and character assassination of Hillary for the next four years. They don't plan on working with Hillary or Democrats on anything. Their goal is create more gridlock and chaos and hurt the economy and to blame Hillary and Dems for all their problems in preparation for 2020.
We have seen that the FBI can be infiltrated and manipulated for political purposes by one party. You can bet the Republicans will use every dirty trick to their advantage. Their is no limit to what they won't do to get and maintain power.
We are seeing the purposeful disintegration of our democracy by the Republican Party by cheating lying and stealing and yes, even criminal behavior. They are willing to lie down with Trump, Putin, the Nazi party, KKK and Fascists for power. We are witnessing the hostile takeover attempt of our country by these groups that espouse hateful, virulent ideology that once only existed in the fringes of our society. The RNC, GOP and Trump have brought them into the mainstream and they now seem to be in control the GOP base.
When Hitler and Nazis came to power in Germany, it started with the same propaganda being used by the Republican Party for years and ratcheted up by the Trump campaign under Steve Bannon.
We know what to expect and how to combat it. We must all fight the Republicans. We must all fight back!
I have 3 grown children whom I love more than words can describe and am a 3X grandmother. I voted for Hillary for them. But I also voted for Hillary for my cat Lucy and all the other defenseless animal, aquatic and bird species in the world. I voted to help stop global warming and combat climate change. I voted for Hillary because I want to save our planet for future generations and all living things.
We have to keep the fight up against our real enemies, the Republicans Party and those who chose Trump over country. Truth and good will prevail over evil, but only if we confront it when we see it and defeat it.