I must confess to being rather pleased with the way the Congressional Republicans comported themselves during the recent debate over the economic stimulus plan. They convincingly demonstrated once again that as a party they are intellectually bankrupt and have absolutely no new ideas. They are sticking to the same low taxes + small government ideology that got us into this economic mess. They continue to use lies and distortion and overheated rhetoric to disguise the fact that they see their job as blocking progress.
The majority of the people voted last November for change and hope. But the Republicans stood up resolutely for "No change" from the failed economic policies of the past, and "No hope" for preventing a further decline of the economic situation. While the President and the Democrats were busy trying to figure out a way the stop the bleeding, the Republicans were standing around trying to prevent the emergency plan from succeeding and complaining about how many bandages were being used.
I really do hope they keep it up. The politics of obstruction, their putting party ideology ahead of what is best for the country and its people, their insistence on digging even deeper into a political dry hole, is going to lead the Republican party further into the political wilderness. If they keep this up the Republican Party will end up as a club for angry white men from the South.
So my advice to the Republican leadership is "Keep up the good work!"
