The Republican ploys, especially since the efforts of Barack Obama to help our nation, are aggravating me to get up in the middle of the night to blog about my stronger and stronger feelings....

I got an email yesterday, that I, perhaps foolishly, deleted immediately from my Republican friend, showing a video clip of their hero, George W. Bush, warning us, back in 2001, that this economic crisis would occur IF SOMETHING WASN'T DONE ABOUT IT.  So...why...didn't...GWB...do something...about...it?  Why did he, instead, continue our headlong plunge with his rubber-stamping Congress into this economic recession?  Yay for deregulation!  Get rid of those food inspectors!  The money we will save for our oil war...etc. 

I will say it again - when the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are entitled to all the rights of individuals - there's where our system gave away this country.  A decision of the Supreme Court that I don't agree with?  There it is, right there. 

And now that we have a President who IS DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT, the Repugnicans are whining and puking about it.  What's the matter, Boehner, McConnell, et al.?  Silver spoon stuck in your throat?  Just look at the picture of how they see what this country should look like.  The rich and privileged, sitting at the lavish table of the Republican platform, with crumbs "trickling down" every so often to the huddled masses of the starving, the needy.  They want to destroy the Social Security system - Repubs don't need it.  They want more and more police-state control over the people.  They believe we should all end up like Saudi Arabia, India and the like, where the disparity is enormous between the rich and the poor.  Isn't it already that way here?  Closer and closer to it? 

The Republican ploys lately are focused on obstructing Obama and the American people, while spreading their pathetic lies, like the one I received that G. W. Bush "warned" about the coming eonomic recession if something wasn't done.  I've seen the map of the last election, with Republican votes in red and Democrats in blue.  What I don't understand is how the Republican people out there continue to believe their lies and still vote for them.  Don't they realize that the greed, graft and corruption of their party will eventually sink the people, in favor of the few?  And that they are, in fact, part of the people, and not the wealthy few.  Because their way of life is good only because of the goodness of the many.

Anyway, the beauty and truth of Barack Obama still shone in full in his wonderful speech last night to commemorate Lincoln's birthday, once again inspiring me and giving me hope.  In contrast to the sickening lies and obstructionist tactics of the other side. 

Two questions remain in my mind.  How did re-apportionment affect the number of votes that Republicans enjoy nowadays?  And the other question, is there "real money" involved in the numbers we are hearing nowadays?  Where is this money coming from?  Where did the money go that led us into the economic recession?  Was it real money?  Who got it?  Where is it now?  And what Ponzi scheme allowed the banks to do whatever it was that they did?  Hey, that's more than two questions....