Time for John McCain to go away. The election is over. He lost. Thank goodness. Can you imagine what life would be like if he was in the White House and Sarah Palin was in the Dick Cheney suite? By this time the nation would be a smoldering hulk instead of just the critical mess the Republicans left us with. Bye bye John. Go away. Shut up.

The congress has some interesting characters who seem to dwell in a parallel universe, but Michele Bachmann takes the cake, or maybe shares it with John Boehner. One has to wonder who votes for these critters, and how many of them are under the spell of Rush Limburger.

Yes, the Republicans are indeed a shady crew. George W’s war will end up costing three trillion, not one trillion. When Darth V. declared that deficits don’t matter, what he really meant was that the sooner the GOP bankrupts the nation, the sooner the wealthy will be rid of the New Deal once and for all. Even now critters like John Boehner are struggling to again cut taxes for the plutocracy. It is evident that the GOP isn’t working for America—that belabored party is working for something that has not as yet been declared. It seems to me that the GOP is at war with their constituents—unless you happen to live on Park Avenue. The party of NO has got to GO! I’m sharpening my pitchfork!

A balanced budget might be just the thing to strive for in normal times: that is a time without wars and economic disaster threatening to destroy us. I think what the Republicans really stand for is the goal of reducing taxes for the wealthy, to short change the children of the middleclass by denying decent healthcare and education, and to throw the poorest among us to the wolves of poverty.

Eric Cantor in his benighted way has exposed the plan: pay lip service to the so-called safety net, but in reality push for more private sector involvement in government affairs. We did this already and ended up with a collapsed banking system, ruined housing market and a manufacturing debacle known as Detroit. We even had the private firm Blackwater killing for us for profit. This is the result of trickle-down and Reagan/Bush/Bush.

The Republicans can ignore what they have done with impunity because they have been able to draw a curtain over discrepancies between what they claim to want on behalf of the nation and what they really intend to do. It doesn’t hurt at all that enormous wealth has landed in the hands of people who support these Republicans with lavish amounts of cash and services.

Since after the time of President Eisenhower the Republican Party has been the party of the military-industrial complex that he carefully warned us about. Now, more than a half-century later the Republicans are the foot soldiers of a cultural war in which they are heavily invested. They want to establish a plutocracy and reap the benefits that sycophants usually get. In other words, the Republicans are the party of legalized bribery.

I have often asked the question “are you now, or have you ever been a Republican?” I much prefer socialism to Republicanism, or worse racist Republicanism, which is what the party is becoming as it’s more and more marginalized in the South. There is no point in trying to pretend that the South has thrown over racism for a splendid new future because there is a revival of the KKK and other horror shows to prove otherwise since President Obama came onto the national stage. These people (including Bachus) can spin and spiel anyway they like, but their intent is obvious. They want to demonize a group and use them as a punching bag to advance their own agenda. I don’t mean to suggest that racists aren’t everywhere in the nation, because they are. They use code words instead of the N-word but their intent is clear. The president has been accused of being a Marxist and a socialist and since he’s also black the equation is obvious to the people who this sorry excuse for a representative is addressing.

I think it’s unjust and unfair to expect President Obama to save the world and at the same time have to placate a public easily swayed by the Republican noise machine that will turn any small misstep or omission into an earth-shaking event. The president must deal with the Karl Rove and Tom DeLay Party of Resistance to *anything* at all. It’s a generation of Republicans trained to say no to everything anyone else does. If the president personally put out your house fire, John Boehner, Eric Cantor, the pitiful Michele Bachmann or the party windbag, Rush Limbaugh would be live on television claiming it was a socialist plot to convert good Americans into Europeans and that he should have let the house burn. If he didn’t put out the fire this same crew on the same networks would be making the case that the president really doesn’t care about Americans and turned his back on a wholesome capitalist family because he is a closet Marxist who pals around with thugs and creeps.

It seems to be a no-win situation until we get rid of all of the Republicans.