Election 2008 2.1: Return of the Republicans

[Autonomy]

"Dinosaurs had their shot, and nature selected them for extinction."
~ Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcolm in "Jurassic Park"


In November, 2008 the American people overwhelmingly rejected the politics and policies of George W. Bush and the Republican party that had so heavy-handedly ruled the nation for most of the previous eight years, and which had held Congress for most of the previous 16 years. The Republicans were out of touch, out of step, without ideas and solutions, or even a good grasp of what the problems were. For their handling of the economy -- or lack of handling, in particular -- the Repubs were all but ridden out of town on a rail.

They were a party without a message. Without a leader. Without a vision. But they all could agree on one thing: they HATED Democrats!!@!

The Republicans who are at the center, and the fringes, of these Teabagging parties had had their chance. The American voters selected them for extinction, banishing them to the political wilderness for at least the next two years.

But Republicans are well-known for not letting a little setback, like a landslide electoral loss, get in the way of getting their way. The so-called Teabag Rebellion of 2009 is nothing but the minority who lost the election only a few months before demanding that it not count. Their ideas and their candidates were soundly rejected, and so they speak of terms of violent insurrection against the majority. These Teabaggers are rejecting the very core of democracy: that elections count, and that the majority rules. They believe that they rule, elections be damned, regardless of what the majority says.

So, like spoiled children who have gotten their way too much and too often, they throw tantrums on the rare occasion things don't turn out their way. They're "leaving the country" and "stockpiling weapons" and "preparing for a revolution" and shooting police officers...

The teabaggers want nothing less than a do-over. They want the election of 2008 not to count. Things didn't go their way, they have little voice in government due to the failures of their policies for the last decade-plus, and so they stage infantile antics to get attention that, legally and ethically, they don't deserve.

In the 1700's, a bunch of people threw some tea into the harbor to protest taxation without representation. Today's teabaggers are not nearly like those revolutionaries in that they had their shot at representation, and the American people selected them for extinction.

[LSparkle]

1. It's the same thing they did to Bill Clinton ...

They truly believed that there would never be another
Democratic president -- after 12 years of Reagan and
Poppy, they saw the White House as theirs alone. In
their twisted minds, Democrats are illegitimate, "unfit"
rulers, and DESERVE to be removed even after they
somehow wind up in power.

The minute Bill Clinton was elected, they started
going after him. The Arkansas Project tried to dig
up dirt on him, and all they were able to hang on him
was some sexual misconduct. Nonetheless, they impeached
the guy ... What bothers me is that this time, they're
starting even earlier. Obama hasn't been in office
100 days yet, and already they've worked their base
into a lather.

These people are ANGRY. They've been incensed ever
since the pageantry of the inauguration and they are
bound and determined to do whatever it takes to bring
this man down. I'm concerned by how brazenly they're
showing their true colors, and so early on. Fasten
your seatbelts, this is going to be a bumpy 4 years.