Sunday, July 25, 2010

Mid-Term Elections

The mid-term elections are coming up, as far as I can tell the GOP candidates are running on one thing, not being Obama.  I even saw a campaign sign last week saying "Stop Obama".  They have been fighting him and painting him as yet another big government, tax and spend socialist since his first day in office.  They refuse to consider that they are much to blame for the current dire economic straits that we are now in (the recession started under GWB, excessive spending started under GWB, unemployment started climbing under GWB, 2 wars started under GWB, immigration reform was blocked by the GOP during GWB's second term, health care costs soared under GWB, should I go on?).  All they've really done in Obama's first 18 months is say NO and use the filibuster at a record rate to block any piece of major legislation.  That's hardly an antidote to our problems.  Their solution to our current economic problems is apparently to go back to the policies of GWB with more tax cuts to the wealthy and less regulation.  We know deregulation doesn't work.  What makes them think voodoo economics will work?  If it worked so well, why did the GWB economy struggle so badly?  All it did was give us the greatest gap between the rich and poor in American history.  So basically what I'm saying is, I strongly suspect that I will be voting democrat this fall and I'm proposing that everybody else do the same. 

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