The national party known as the "Grand Old Party", aka Republican has become begun a precipitous turn into the abyss of becoming merely a regional party with its continued behavior toward the country at large. The party originally founded in 1854 with its base in the North East and Mid West and was created because anti-slavery opposition to the Kansas – Nebraska Act has transformed into a reactionary and corrupt party that is run by a country club set who use the ignorance of the uninformed and undereducated whites of the deep south and rural western mountain states. The GOP maintains control of these areas by the continue propaganda from Fox News and Druggy Limbaugh who seems to monopolize the radio air waves in these areas. The right wing nuts have forced out any other voices of reason or moderation.
It was thus sickening to see the Automotive Bailout go down in flames because of the Republican demands to destroy the UAW. What is behind this so-called conservative revolt, well it mainly stems from the relationships of the foreign auto makers to many of the southern lawmakers. If the big three go down, while there will be a depression of warranted magnitude in the mid west, the southern states that contain the Japanese and German auto makers will be booming, especially when the economy picks back up.
The Republicans are very good at painting Democrats as un-American, well where is the outcry of treason and the Republicans being un-American for supporting foreign corporations and therefore foreign governments!
We are all on country, but the Republican’s have seized on their old strategy of divide and conquer, although lately it’s been divide and divide and get your butt kicked at polls!
I hope that everyone remembers this act of treason committed by the foreign owned Republican senators. These senators have put there own states in jeopardy of receiving their fair share of federal funding for infrastructure improvements. Who do you think is more likely to receive these funds? States that vote blindly for a failed party and its policy or states that voted progressively?
I expect a redistribution of wealth based on political geography, for far two long the mid west has been ignored and shorted tax dollars, while states of the Deep South have been handed out federal goodies left and right at the expense of others. Well, the worm has turned and I expect there will be a change for the better in "the rust belt", although I prefer it is called "the water belt".