Tea Party Republicans Own Broken Economy and Government
Tea Party Republicans Own Broken Economy and Government
The Republican political machine spent over 30 years rigging both our economy and government in favor of corporations and the Super Rich. The result has been a badly broken economy with constantly dropping standards of living for the formerly large middle classes and a democracy severely undermined by corporate money.
After the 2010 Republican tide, corporatism hiding behind a fake “Tea Party populist image” runs everything. Expect things for working Americans to get much worse real fast.
The Republican Party blamed the economic collapse under Bush on Obama. The republicans drove the car (economy) in the ditch. Using their filibuster power in the Senate (along with “Democrat in Name Only” Ben Nelson), they stopped the Obama White House and the Democratic majorities in Congress from making all the fundamental changes needed to fix our economy.
While the Democrats were trying to fix our economy (pull the car out of the ditch and get it going), Republicans were busy cutting the tires on the tow truck and sugaring the gas tank so the engine would not run. Their goal was not to make things better for the vast majority of Americans. It was to regain power to protect corporations and the Super Rich.
It worked. The Republicans played the American public for suckers!
It took another crazy ruling from their Right Wing Extremist Majority on the Supreme Court to make it happen. Secret but legal corporate money flooded the airwaves and mailboxes of millions of angry, confused American voters with corporate, pro-Republican spin blaming government for the problems created by corporations and their lackeys in government (overwhelmingly Republicans) while corporate political media machines like Fox News abandoned all reasonable claims to fair coverage.
It looks like Fox News is trying to hire every Republican candidate for President as a “news commentator” to me. It should be required to register as a Republican political action committee. Nobody who wants an honest debate on real issues or a real understanding of our economy and government should watch it. All Americans should boycott their advertisers because of their extreme bias. No other news organization including MSNBC is so blatantly biased and political in news coverage, hiring of on-air personalities and making campaign donations with corporate money.
The Tea Party Republicans have already vowed to block any attempts to curb corporate spending on politics or to require that the spending be publicly revealed. They have vowed to keep shareholders from having to approve the political spending. Basically, they are on record favoring the corrupting influence of corporate money in politics.
Yes, the Tea Party Republicans elected at every level of government are completely corrupt going into office. They do not want us to have a functioning honest American democracy where the majority has the major say in our government. They want moneyed interest to run both the economy and the government.
These Tea Party Republicans gave Obama and the Democrats less than 6 months to fix decades of Republican mismanagement and intentional abuse. We should give them the same.
By July 4th, the Tea Party Republicans should end the recession and give all Americans who want to work jobs. If they do not, then we should start demonstrating against them and their policies at town halls, Republican events and Tea Party gatherings. Every “conservative” organization event should be picketed.
Fire up the computer and start writing letters to the Editor. Complain to friends and co-workers. Demand an end to corporate money in politics now and start the 6 month countdown to full employment under Tea Party Republican rule.
Obama should get out his veto pen. Senate Democrats need to learn that filibusters work for both parties.
I predict the newly elected Republican tide will be much worse than the Bush Administration in terms of giving us a fair, sound economy or honest, effective government. They have 6 months to prove me wrong.
Written by Stephen Crockett (Host of Democratic Talk Radio http://DemocraticTalkRadio.com) . Mail: 698 Old Baltimore Pike, Newark, Delaware 19702. Email: [email protected]. Phone: 443-907-2367.
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