Time to Dump Republican Regressionism

Recently I ranted about how the mainstream media goes out of its way to always spend more time on the Republican talking points put out by the party than on legitimate reporting, even when the news is about something the Democrats did. Same thing today, and again on NPR.

The lead story was about the stimulus package passing. Who did they interview? John McCain, of course. And all he did was claim that Democrats aren't bipartisan.

I still find it hard to believe that an editor would put something like that on the air uncontested, or without a legitimate rebuttal. Obama, in his (misguided, in my opinion) zeal to reach out to Republicans actually accepted a watered down version of the stimulus package that gave more tax cuts to the wealthy and 20% less to working men and women. Initially a working couple would get a $1,000 tax break. After compromising with Republicans, we now get 800 bucks. Thanks, Republicans.

The whole world knows that Obama compromised with the Republicans, even though they continued to march in lockstep to the demented drums of the Limbaugh crowd. All except for 3 in the Senate. Those are the ones he compromised with. Not a single one of the other Republicans would work with him.

And that's because their definition of compromise is: do it my way or else.

For the past 8 years the Republicans didn't compromise one single bit on one single thing. They got it all their way, 100%. Which, of course, is why the country is so totally screwed up today. The Republicans have proved over and over again that their "trickle down" theory only means that the wealth flows up and up and up.

They didn't compromise one bit while they were in power and they refuse to compromise one bit now. Once again, they would rather drag the country down into the depths of another Great Depression than let working Americans have any breaks. They are the party of big business, by big business and for big business and anybody who thinks differently is either retarded or living on an island with no radio, TV, newspapers or Internet.

I wish Obama would simply go directly to the American people. "We are trying to turn the economy around and the Republicans are trying to stop us. Vote them out." That's all he would have to do. It's time to quit playing nice and govern the way they did for so long, at least until things turn around so the damage they have done can start to get undone.