2010 countdown

the 2010 election countdown has officially started for the remaining GOPs in Congress. We saw today that Republicans in the House care little about the average American or the economic welfare of this country. Once again, they unanimously voted against the Stimulus compromise package. Once again, the Republicans have shown to want to play politics instead of halting this economic recession. Let them play their silly little games. This package will pass the Senate, President Obama will sign the bill, and Republicans will be on the wrong side of history, again.

DCCC chief Chris Van Hollen, the Maryland congressman, released a statement declaring: “House Republicans are fast becoming party of No-bama. Americans will hold Republicans accountable for being the party of no – no to President Obama’s economic recovery, no to children’s health care, and no to equal pay for women doing equal work.”

This is very simple to any one out there not understanding this. The GOP didn’t come up with some complicated and intricate plan to restore power. Republicans are banking that the stimulus package will fail. They hope that it will fail, because they believe that it will result in Americans voting the Republicans back in power.  Still confused? Republicans WANT THIS STIMULUS TO FAIL! They want to see this country fall deeper into a recession and for unemployment to rise. Why, you ask? Let’s take just a quick look at our history. President Hoover (Republican) lost his re-election because he failed to halt the Great Depression and FDR (Democrat) was elected and renewed the Democratic Party. The Republican Party has been in a decline thanks to eight years of George W. Bush and the failed conflict in Iraq. They need a way to reinvent the party and they will do it on the backs of the American people. They see history as the way for them to be reborn. If this Stimulus fails, come the 2010 election, they will be able to say that they were against this stimulus the whole time. The thinking is that the people will then vote GOP back into power as a reaction. So, it all comes back to one thing. They want the stimulus to fail. Republicans would rather do nothing than to support a stimulus that may or may not work. The GOP wants you to fail. The worse off you are, the better they are positioned politically. It’s really that simple.

Know the truth behind the GOP’s opposition to the Stimulus package and know who really cares about the people of this country. Keep this in mind come 2010. Do you want your represented official to sit idly by as this nation sinks deeper into a financial crisis or do you want your officials to take tangible actions to halt it, even at the risk of it not working. History will ultimately judge the success of the Stimulus, however, we don’t need history to tell us that failure to act now is more devastating than passing a bill that partially worked. The Democrats are willing to risk the 2010 election and beyond, because they care and understand that fact. Do you think the Republicans do?

Tick, tock..the clock is ticking..