By Si Dunn
Hey, it's your stupid economy, Republican leadership.
Your promises of more tax cuts and more "market solutions" now are falling on deaf ears as terrified voters suddenly realize they are facing what one prominent retail analyst has warned will be the “worst Christmas shopping season in a century."
Layoffs are surging. Families are losing their homes, their health care and their savings. And many large and small businesses are toppling into the massive financial wreckage you created by overdoing deregulation, then encouraging (and allowing) too much risk and greed.
You can't save yourselves now with wild-ass claims that Barack Obama is a terrorist or that overturning Roe v. Wade will create 20 million new jobs.
The uncommitted voters are waking up, taking a long, hard look at the vacuity of your platform and fleeing in terror toward the Democrats. Or, they are just fleeing. Either way, you ain't gonna get their vote, Jack. And you're gonna lose big-time among the contested seats in the Senate and House, as well.
Ordinary people finally are figuring out--after years of partisan gridlock--that "divided we fall." The momentum is shifting toward one-party rule again, and this time, the Grand Old Party will be marched outside the velvet rope.
The McCain-Palin ticket has bailed out of Michigan, and it's now starting to get its butts kicked in the polls in Ohio, Virginia and a few other key "battleground" states.
In desperation, the GOP is sending its Swift Boats out to attack. But all they are doing is colliding with each other and smashing into big walls of voter rejection and fatigue. William Ayers? Who cares? What about my job, my savings, my house, my Christmas?
Obama-Biden may not be the best governance team on the planet. But compared with the bizarre and twisted package the Republicans have put forth, they are far and away the best and the brightest for these troubled times.
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1 comment:
The seizing up of the credit markets, the ominous outlook of the economy and the Wall Street freak-out are problems inherent in the system; not any political party in particular. Let's hope Obama is "progressive" enough to recognize it for what it really is.
Credit was given freely as a way of actually creating more money, thus fueling the economy with the ever increasing capital it needed for growth--or even to sustain itself, for that matter.
If the banks hadn't been (legally) able to CREATE this new money, our economy would have stagnated. Workers wouldn't have had the necessary money to spend back into the exploitation machine. The whole system is a house of cards.
Forget the Democrats and the Republicans. This is Capitalism that's to blame, and this couldn't have gone on forever.
It's finally caught up with us.
That's the way I see it, anyway.
Ethan
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