Talk Is Cheap, Part II

The Republicans insist on continuing to behave irresponsibly, irrationally, and immaturely. I am saddened to acknowledge.

This morning, I have attempted to watch the proceedings of the House Subcommittee Hearings on the AIG debacle and The TARP bailout. These Republican lawmakers will not give it a rest...their bitterness, their egotistic embarrassment at having made such a disaster of the past eight years' GNP and having been taken as patsys by their own Republican leadership in the White House, as well as the unethical finance and business practices of the Wall Street Gang, of which these self-same Republican lawmakers have long supported and held in such high esteem. That's their shame. They need to leave it alone and focus upon how they can now work with the new administration to solve this mess of their own making.

Though they try mightily to place blame on any faction of the Democratic Party that they can lay hands (and mouth) upon, their accusations are hollow to the thinking man and woman on the street. Average Mr. and Ms. America know better...no matter what their choice of political party/affiliation. Average Mr. and Mrs. America, it is my hope and desire that you will not allow these filibustering Republican politicians to jerk your chains, pull the wool over your eyes, and once again bamboozle you into believing and accepting their face-saving, childish rhetoric. It's all a ruse to alleviate their grave incompetence, personal gain and greed, and, yes, their belatedly, reluctantly admitted shame for their actions/inaction.

No one--none of us--likes to admit we've been had. It is truly an embarrassment to admit to naivete. But, truth is truth and the way to begin to make change. Making change is our only way out of this horrendous tragedy. Please believe that. Once we've accepted the truth, then we will be able to push up our sleeves and get to work solving the problems of our economic woes. In my opinion, they (Republicans) should have accepted the hand of non-partisanship extended many times the past 53 days by the one man that is indisputably the right man for the job at the right time in the history of our nation.

They know who he is...don't you?

Talk Is Cheap

All over the news talk show circuit today and this week were Republicans bemoaning their losses through criticism of the progress of the Obama Administration their first 50 days in office. From former Vice President Dick Cheney to Senator (former Republican presidential candidate who lost to President Barack Obama) John McCain they are making as negative as possible comments to any news personality that they happen upon. If the talk show will have them, or the host will review them, these two men in particular are ready, willing and able to throw aspersions at President Obama and his administration with little or no provocation.

Does this bother me? Didn't I really expect this of them both? Yes...and, yes. I am bothered by people who have done so much to harm us (such as has Cheney the eight years he was calling the shots behind the scene). He has the audacity to say that President Obama's tacits are making us Americans, less safe. He's got the gall to say this when it was his president's administration in 2001, when former president George W. Bush in his inaugural speech damned us when he told every nation that was not our allies, every nation that was not wealthy and who might need our support and/or help that America was not going to continue to give handouts. That those nations would have to look elsewhere or fend for themselves because the nation of the "free lunch" has closed up the lunch counter. Personally, I knew then (and told any who would humor me) that we were doomed. That someone would blow us to hell and back before the year was out. Essentially, someone did...3 months before the year was out. And, Cheney had his hands in it all...up to his elbows, at that. His ego, his lies, his duplicity, dishonesty, and dishonor almost destroyed us--The American People and America.

For now, I'm taking 5. More on today's mess with John King (with whom I've also got a bone to pick) tomorrow. Have a great Sunday, and a wonderful Monday. We're on spring break...so I most definitely will!!