I hate it when people like Susan Del Percio pretend that the GOP has had nothing to do with the mess we are in.
We all remember G.Double-you, hillbilly bushwhacker known for harebrained auditories such as, "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family," and my favorite, "Too many good doc's are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." Ummm, love... and a Transvaginal ultrasound [the GOP definition of a cavity search] to boot!
The Republican party apparently has Transient Global Amnesia -- described as a "total disruption of short-term memory," with problems "accessing older memories" -- and their own set of facts. The entire eight-years of the George W. Bush presidency has completely escaped the minds of the GOP. The way Mitt Romney and the Republicans tell it, during GW's two terms the economy was the best it has ever been at any time in history, with the exception of Ronald Reagan's presidency [drip... drip]. Everyone had a job. Their were no wars [and no weapons of mass destruction]. Wall Street didn't participate in the biggest money grab in history [and got away with it] and sub-prime mortgages [not to mention global warming] are a pipe-dream. Their position is that if it weren't for half-black, leftest Obama and his socialist dreams getting in the way of capitalism, this country would not be in a hole. He created all that damn debt, don't you know [oh, and by the way, none of this has anything to do with the color of Obama's skin]. Obama has [apparently single-handedly] raised gas prices, kept unemployment above 4%, increased welfare for "his blacks," spent more money than Billy Carter had beer, and [more importantly] created a social economic situation, thus disparaging the 1%ers, as a way to keep the focus off his failed presidency.
While living in a "Leave It To Beaver" era fairy-tale, the GOP has moved so far to the right that they have even given up some of their platform to the Democrats -- like national security and immigration [Obama did get bin Laden and has deported more illegals than Bush]. They have allowed Rush Limbaugh, the fat and frothing, prescription pill-popping [he can't get a stiffy], leader of the racist party to maneuver the GOP to the front lines in the war against women, children, education, the elderly, middle class and the poor -- just to name a few. They forgot all about 2000-2008 [RIP], and hope we have too.
We don't need to delve too deep into the GW presentational debacle to see why it is Obama has been running the country from a hole. We can start with two wars, two rounds of tax cuts [that included welfare for corporations and the über rich] and a Medicare prescription drug program -- with no way to pay for any of it. Its not as if Obama took the oath of office and then unleashed a world of hurt upon America. He inherited that hole and you never hear the GOP talking heads own up to it, or explain how it is they are going help get us out of the hole they dug. Their agenda? They want make Obama a one-term president.