The old and the new..which one are you?

I am watching with rapt attention to see which manifestation of the Grand Old Party (did you know that’s what it stood for?) comes to the fore. I think we all should be. A battle is brewing for supremacy between those like Charley Crist who want to lead the party towards a more centrist position with inclusivity and modern views, and those represented by the political ideologies and Phyrric values of Rush Limbaugh, Mr “I want him to fail.” Even if the “him” he’s talking about includes all of “us”.

I think by any standards, and certainly by the ones of the most recent occupant of the White House, President Obama is trying to include the Republicans in Congress in his plans. He recognizes correctly that those who are suffering in this global crisis that’s been left to us by Mr. Bush are not only Democrats and Liberals but also Republicans. He has repeatedly reached out with the olive branch to the other side of the aisle and in many cases has been met with a handshake, albeit a somewhat unsure one. In other case (see the Senate Republican buffoons) he’s gotten finger wagging and pontificating and (unbelievably) lectures on fiscal responsibility. This crap (for that’s all it can be called) is simply Republicans searching for relevance. I won’t go into questioning where the “fiscal responsibility” folks were when the Bushies were tanking our country. They’ll have to answer those questions to posterity, the sanctimonious twits. All I can say is that all of you Republican lawmakers who are standing on your soapboxes screaming about a morality that for eight years you have ALL failed to exibit look like the biggest bunch of crying hypocritical losers the world has ever known.

But welcome to the new world, losers because America has taken the left-hand offramp and your core philosophy is sitting by the side of the road like a forgotten hubcap. To borrow a well-used phrase, the train is definately leaving the station and the only question you have to answer is, WILL YOU BE ON IT?

Frankly my dear, I don’t give a shit, but President Obama does and that’s what counts here. He’d like to include the Republican opposition in the process but (and this is an important point, ladies and gentlemen, so pay attention) HE DOESN’T HAVE TO. He WON the election and isn’t afraid to exercise that little piece of fact. He has the votes and the ability to shove the castor oil laden medicine down your throats. He’s a much better man than that, however, and you should have the grace to acknowledge it. He wants 80 votes on his proposals (mainly the stimulus package ) because he knows that the entire population of the country, present and future, will have to pay the bill. So he’d like to include the representatives of as many Americans as possible in the decision making process. This is a sign of magnanimity that has very, very rarely been seen and frankly, the way some of your party members have been acting like arrogant children who’ve lost the game and now want to scream about it, is disgusting.

News flash! America is in trouble and those who seek to obstruct Obama’s initiatives are acting against the express wishes of the voters of the United States. You are disloyal, childish scum who don’t want to contribute (like Limbaugh, the scummiest of the scum) to a solution even when practically being begged to, but instead want to make your fame as people who stood upon your fictitious, discredited ideology even though for eight years your so-called “conservative foundations” meant ZERO to you. So, stow it. You’re meaningless unless you change. Obama won and America rejected you and this is going to be done whether you like it or not.

My advice? Work with the President and represent your constituencies by being a part of the plan. It may fail but better to have tried and lost than to never have tried at all.

The train is tooting it’s horn. You coming?