Who are these guys?
They want the president to fail.
They want America to fail.
They want Americans to continue to die, lose jobs and go bankrupt because they are sick and uninsured or denied insurance for their ills.
They want America to spend 20% of gross domestic product on healthcare and be unhealthy.
They cheered America losing the bid for the Olympics.
More below the fold. A lot more. I'm mad and it's long.
They jeer at the president being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
They created a financial crisis through deregulation. Twice. Once in the 80's with savings and loans, and again in 2008 with non-bank mortgages and securitization of high-risk assets. I've got your mortgage-backed securities right here. The smartest guys in the world, making the more money than most nations, and they follow each other like rodents, taking our financial well-being off a cliff. Way to be, AIG. Way to play, B of A. Goldman Sachs, got your backs. Derivatize this.
Their staunchest friends ran companies that bilked hundreds of thousands of people out of their jobs and retirement funds when the companies ran out of control. Rock on, Enron.
They refused to investigate and, indeed, expanded contracts for billions of dollars to companies whose work was so shoddy that they led to the deaths of American service people in the field.
They refused to investigate and, indeed, expanded contracts for billions of dollars to companies whose employees indiscriminately raped and murdered innocent civilians in the country they were hired to help.
They wanted to Drill, Baby, Drill to solve a short-lived peak in energy prices (one solved by their financial crisis killing all the growth in the world's economy). How many wells with how much capital invested would be sitting completely idle with oil below $70 a barrel?
They refused to consider long term approaches to energy conservation.
They deny scientific evidence and the overwhelming majority opinion of the scientific community that we are warming our planet, perhaps disastrously, with carbon dioxide emissions.
They called the president a liar out loud, on worldwide TV during an address to Congress -- and lied in the doing.
They gave $1.6 trillion in tax cuts to the wealthy in 2002 and 2003, kicking off a deficit of 6% of GDP, greater than any since the Reagan tax cuts of the 80's -- which led at that time to US taxpayers spending $0.30 of every tax dollar on interest to service that debt.
They lie to protect insurance company profits, scaring older folks into thinking the government wants to kill them.
They try to stir unrest to say that the president is illegitimately in office by lying in the face of the facts that he was born in the US.
They criticize American industry while taking donations from foreign manufacturers to give them tax breaks to set up shop in their own states.
They insist that the entire world line up with US foreign policy or face being considered our enemies.
They instigated North Korea to re-start nuclear weapons development, then later adopted the policies of Clinton to try to return the state they had inherited.
They failed to pay our bills to the United Nations because it failed to do our bidding regularly enough, cutting funding for UN agencies like WHO, UNICEF, UNESCO, and others that do enormous good around the world.
They justified torture of captured combatants after the fact in a failed attempt to cover the lie that Iraq was tied to Al Qaeda.
They started a war without provocation under fabricated pretext, leading to the death of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.
They started a justified quest to catch bin Laden, missed him, and have wound up fighting a bunch of religious zealots who don't care about the US, but only want to dominate their own country. Again.
They opened a prison on quasi-US territory to avoid being subjected to the US Constitution in treatment of the captured, most of whom are found to be harmless victims of a broad, nonselective gillnet.
They call for investigation of the US Congress to find out who is un-American.
They went to China and told the Chinese government not to trust projections by the American government of its deficit projections.
They create many, many reasons for America to apologize around the world, then accuse the President of apologizing when, in fact, he doesn't. They talk about virtue, then lie like thieves.
They lie to voters trying to convince them that the Administration is trying to put in place a single-payer system (like those that work in France, Germany, Belgium, the UK, Canada, Japan and all the rest of the modern industrialized world), which is, in fact, not a point in any of the five healthcare bills that came out of Congressional committees.
They negotiate and dicker over the stimulus package, the budget and now healthcare, and then deliver zero votes for their passage.
They hold rallies in which their supporters shout "Kill him!", carry assault rifles and pistols, carry toy monkeys with the president's name on its hat, wave signs calling the president "Hitler", "Stalin" and other despots' names.
They threaten to have their states secede from the Union.
They threaten armed insurrection as the only hope for America.
They incite anti-abortion fervor to such a degree that murder is committed in the cause -- multiple times over multiple years with multiple forms of terrorist tactics. In the name of Christ. If it was in the name of Allah, they'd declare another front in the war on terror.
They preach about individual responsibility and accountability. They hold no one accountable for crimes or mistakes in office. Nice work, Brownie. You too, Bremer. Wolfowitz. Cheney. Rummy. Gonzo. Yoo. And those are just some of the headliners.
They fired honorable and highly competent Federal attorneys who refused to use their offices to prosecute in suppression of political opposition. They replaced those people with political hacks.
They employed inexperienced, ambitious political hacks from fourth-rate law schools to do it.
They tried to appoint another fourth-rate political hack to the Supreme Court, except she wasn't radical enough.
They support teaching the young people of this country the patent untruth that the world was created 6000 years ago in six days, and then claim to leave no child uneducated.
They cry out that Christianity is persecuted in this country and cite as evidence only that it is prevented from establishing Christianity preferentially over all other religions.
They scream for the prosecution of a president who commits sexual peccadillos, but claim privacy and forgiveness for consorting with young boys, soliciting adulterous homosexual encounters in public restrooms, committing adultery with a woman on a personal staff and the wife of a good friend, soliciting prostitutes, committing adultery with a woman on another continent and charging his taxpaying constituents for the travel to do so, and they try to claim that it's somehow different.
Their so-called growth policies netted 2.0% in annual GDP growth and 0.7% annual growth in real wages over their 30-year period of deregulation and voodoo economics, compared to 2.2% annual GDP growth and 2.3% annual wage growth over the 30 years ending in 1979. Fail.
They support capital punishment everywhere, regardless of innocence or incompetent defense, and promote it in other countries against homosexuality. Killing innocents seems to be a large part of the theme here, just after killing in general and profit-making at everyone else's expense.
They betray the under-educated middle class whom they scare into voting for them, rewarding the top quintile of wage-earners with wage growth 5 times that of the middle quintile, reversing the trend of the "failed liberal policy" years of 1947-1973 in which the middle quintile wages actually grew faster than the top!
Republicans. It's no wonder only 20% of the voting public still identify as Republicans. What's to like?
Oh yeah. I forgot about Sarah Palin, Bobby Jindahl, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Eric Cantor, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Karl Rove, Michelle Malkin, Joe Wilson, Mark Levin, Michael Savage, Michael Reagan, Mark Sanford, Jim Demint, Rick Perry, Jeff Sessions, the Fox and Company Bimbette and Bozos, Lindsey Graham, Chuck Grassley, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Don Rumsfeld, GW Bush, Paul Bremer, Jim Inhofe, Tom Delay, Tom Coburn, John McCain, The Family, C Street...
Those are some of your leaders, Right Wingers. Not a full deck between the lot of them. And out for themselves, folks, completely out for themselves. Get rich. Stay in power. At all costs. Get back in power. Get richer. America -- the land of opportunity for the powerful and notorious few. Screw Americans.
They already screwed the pooch, many times over.
I can't wait for 2010. Hell, I could win against that record and those nut jobs.