The party of no

Rachel Maddow's show last night exposed the GOP for what it is: the party of no.  Senate republicans have decided that the only way they can ever return to power is for our newly elected president to fail...and they are placing roadblocks to every proposal Obama has made...in health care reform, economic recovery and job creation. His efforts have been even more difficult because the president is reaching out for bi-partisan support which is not forthcoming

Maddow showed a parade of GOP senators who voted against the stimulus package, then went home to their constituents to take credit for getting more jobs  for followers without mentioning that the money came from the stimulus. It was blatant hyprocrisy.  The republicans are desperate in efforts to regain enough seats to overturn the democrats. Enough so to even tilt our economy toward distaster. Anything to win.   Republicans have been accustomed to leading this country and they willnot take a back seat, despite an election that clearly showed the majority of voters wanted a change from GOP domination.

The problem Republicans face is a lack of electable candidates for the top seat in administration. Who do they have who could emerge from a sea of lackluster candidates who could lead them? Surely not Sarah Palin. That leaves Ron Paul, a Texas representative who is the only one who has shown enough ability to cross party lines and gather the independent vote. But Paul has expressed a desire to reduce the military incursion into other lands and bring our soldiers home. That is not on the GOP agenda.  History shows us that republicans favor the hawklike attitude towards other countries that has earned us the enmity of millions. Americans are disliked abroad, something Obama is trying to change.

Obama has reached out to Muslim in an effort to dislodge the growing tension between out two cultures, but this has been met with jeers from republicans. Many have even hinted that Obama is Muslim and link his name with Sadam Hussein's. It is a dirty business in which they are engaged and should be enough to repell voters again when the next election is held. The only hope the republicans have is that enough voters believe their lies and  that will only happen should our president fail to bring health care reform and economic recovery to this land. The sad part of this whole equation is that republicans are so desperate that they are willing to risk everything to regain power. Obama must fail and he must not counton any republican support to make the changes voters have demanded. Out of this impasse the republicans have emerged as the party of no.