Look folks, Republican President Ronald Reagan signed into law the biggest Tax increase in the history of the United States. Another Republican President did great things for the country with a top tax rate of 91% of Income. Who? Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower and he built the interstate highway (creating massive jobs), dams (creating more jobs), improved our Electrical Grid (creating even more jobs) and upgraded our Public School System to the point where it was the envy of the free world.  
 
President Obama, with his High-Speed Rail program, is trying to do the same thing President Eisenhower did with the Interstate Highway. Upgrade our Railroad Transportation system and CREATE JOBS.  
 
When you place Politics above the welfare of the Country you get people like Speaker John Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl who all voted to increase the debt limit a combined 19 times during the Presidency of George W. Bush. Now that the President of the United States is a black Democrat the debt ceiling was held hostage by people who don't care about America!  
 
As for the Ryan Plan, it doesn't reduce the deficit one penny. It increases our National Debt while It cuts medicare benefits, turns social security over to Wall Street and takes those savings and applies them as TAX-CUTS FOR THE RICH. 
 
Why do you still vote for these republican miscreants?

Sequester Cuts Trickle Down From The Middle Class

When I was in college and taking astronomy and anthropology, I met a woman who could not accept any science that discussed the earth being over 5 billion years old and that evolution was happening and could be proven in the fossil record. It was such a threat to her faith, that rather than adapt her faith to new knowledge, she rejected it and dropped out of school. I think today's republicans are a lot like that woman, in that they simply can not change their thinking even slightly. as a result the inflexibility, ironically, is an example of exactly how evolution eliminates species that do not adapt.
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Don Young Uses 'Wetbacks' To Describe Latinos (AUDIO)

Today's GOP mentality:

1. I'm not gay so gay marriage is bad.

2. I'm not a woman so I can tell them what to do with their bodies.

3. I'm not poor and those social leaches should pull themselves up by their own boots even if I had help during my life.

4. I'm not a foreign looking person but anyone who is should show papers to prove they are a citizen.

5. I've never been shot or killed by a gun so why pass gun laws on me.

6. I'm not an illegal immigrant but those that come across the border down south are criminals. The ones who fly in from Asia or Europe should be granted work permits.

7. My right to bear arms shall not be infringed. Other people's right to vote can be infringed.

8. Wars pay for themselves.

9. Deficits only matter when a democrat is in the white house.

10. I drink 64oz soda's and you can't make me eat broccoli.

11. I'm healthy now and I will never be sick so why should I have to buy healthcare insurance?

12. Social security is a ponzy scheme.

13. Workers should grovel at the feet of their job creators.

14. Global warming is a government conspiracy.

15. Nothing is constitutional unless I agree with it.

16. I need guns to protect myself from the government.

17. Don't talk about George W Bush and its all Obama's fault.

18. Fox cable news fair and balanced.
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GOP's ideology and platform

Forget where I read this, but one of the reason's that the GOP's ideology and platform is so out of touch with the ordinary American is that it is developed by think tanks who respond to big donors who also happen to be rigid ideologues. Then the party bigwigs insist on carrying it out to the letter, casting out any apostates who may not be pure enough in their conservatism. The candidates vie with each other during the Republican debates to see who can jump the furthest to the right.

Romney simply took on whatever position would trump the other wingers whether he believed in it or not. He's a pragmatist who pretended to be an ideologue-- That pretense turned off Americans almost as much as the GOP ideology does.

EVERY other presidential term has seen the part of America's economy that grows as a result of improved productivity SHRINK, and some like Bush's second, by a whole lot. But, to be fair, it's been shrinking under Obama, too.
And that's because Washington has completely forgotten (or chooses to ignore, anyway) the fact that not all spending by the federal government has the same return on investment. Many things that the government spends money on - war being by far the best example - have low or even negative ROIs. It costs America good money to build bombs that are detonated in foreign lands. And we get NOTHING in return, and certainly not in economic terms.
Unless and until America begins to invest in itself again, it is most assuredly doomed to fall ever farther in the ranks that compare America to the rest of the world. 
And to hear the GOP game plan of slashing GOOD types of Federal Spending (they want to cut funding for the Patent Office for FSM's sake!) while cheerleading more military spending and tax cuts to the already rich is depressing indeed.  

Proof indeed that the American GOP party, is its own worst enemy.

Lets solve this thing by immediately cutting the Republican establishment's cherished entitlements- start with the failed F35 joint strike fighter program- cut military spending 50%- save over $400 billion every year & still outspend the Chinese by $100 billion- cut oil subsidies to the obscenely profitable oil companies, unless they can manage to keep retail gasoline under $3.00/gallon- boosting the economy- break up the "too large to fail" mega banks, enforce corporate regulation protecting consumers against the likes of goldman sacs and their financing to pillage small and medium sized companies- turn off fox "news" and the propaganda of the far right as it continues to corrupt and divides our nation- revise the tax code to the sensible and effective rates existing before ronnie reagan started the republican scheme of continually lowering tax rates and increasing loopholes for the ultra rich while raising tax rates and closing loopholes for ordinary Americans. 

Clearly, it is the Republicans who are the evil-doers, the entitlement takers, the shady maniupulators of congress and public opinion. Let's keep sending the republicans packing- they're selfish, obstinate and incapable of progress benefiting anybody but their lobbyists, campaign donators, mega corporations and the uber-wealthy. 

All I can say is, Jeez- again?

All I can say is, Jeez- again? How much is the Republican party willing to lose? How much damage are they willing to inflict on the rest of us? Thay have lsot all sense of leadership, of rational thought, of vision, of - well- sanity. They are so tied to the meme of "no tax increases" that they don't care if you cannot balance the budget without them, or that the cuts will hurt the most vulnerable. Of course- why would they? They are pretty near invulnerable, with their taxpayer paid for salaries, life long health care, perks, big bank accounts. What would possibly make them care about anything but themselves?

I think we are at the stage where we need to admit the 2 party system no longer works. Congress does not work. Where do we go from here? Voters will decide that but I hope that they understand that what the republicans stand for is not the common good, but the moneyed interests, and religious right. Neither of those are interested in the millions of Americans struggling everyday to find work, or healthcare, or  shelter. May they splinter into a thousand little warring groups...in fact, that's what they're doing now. They not only hate liberals and Democrats, they hate each other.  New motto for them (apologies to George Orwell)- "Love is Hate. Love the GOP."