With the Republican National Convention well underway, I would like to take this opportunity to rant.
Normally, when writing an article like this, I would throw in a number of quotes to back my statements, but quite frankly, I’m too angry right now to do so. The reason being is that I just attempted to read the GOP Platform document and it made me sick. I’m talking I just puked up my coffee. It was gross.
Here’s what I’m talking about. It is a disgusting document full of hypocrisy and lies. Make no mistake, I’m not a Democrat and I have not always agreed with the current administration. I’m registered as an Independent so that I can comfortably vote for whomever I choose. But I tend to disagree the most with Republicans and this Platform is one reason why.
The overall theme of the document is that they state Republicans “Believe in America” and are the “Party of the Constitution.” I must disagree. In October of 2010, Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell said:
The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.
The “we” is the Republican party and they made it priority number one to make sure we only get four years of President Obama. How have they done so? Well, the House of Representatives, that’s how. House Republicans have fought tirelessly to oppose the current administration and repeatedly throughout the Platform document, they are lauded for having done so in the guise of following the Constitution.
Anyone with an internet connection can go and find video, audio and written quotes in which these Republicans have stood up for the policies of the most recent Bush administration and the means by which that administration achieved them. The same means that the Obama administration has used and which the Republicans are now calling “unconstitutional.”
These are the same people who say that gay marriage is going to utterly destroy our society, who want to take control of women’s health away from women, who want to “fix” healthcare and the budget by basically killing Medicaid/care, who have called Obama’s use of “executive orders” as unconstitutional when George W Bush used Executive Orders just as often. These are the people who are blaming Obama’s administration for our current economic crisis. A crisis started in the Bush administration when we were fighting three wars we couldn’t pay for (VP candidate Paul Ryan voted in favor of that spending, by the way) – it’s a crisis that Republicans have been fighting Obama on tooth and nail, effectively making it more difficult for the President to do his job and then they blame him for not fixing things.
These are the same people who are enacting “Voter Fraud” laws in swing states so that the poor, elderly and minorities will find it harder to vote. Pennsylvania state House Majority Leader Mike Turzai said:
Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done.
I’m pretty sure the Constitution says that all Americans, not matter sex or race, have the right to vote.
I have news for you Republicans. You work for us. The American people you seem to think so highly of. Your petty war against the Obama administration is the real cause of many of this country’s problems. Rather than working with Democrats, you have chosen to make the current President look bad, America be damned.
You don’t believe in America, you believe in yourselves and your money. You are only the Party of the Constitution when it suits you. You don’t really care. If you did, this country would be in a better place, right now.
Republicans, I call your bluff. You’re not fooling me and you’re not fooling many other Americans. We can see through your bullshit and I’m calling you on it.
This fits nicely with Studio30 Plus’ writing prompt of the week “Bluff.”
This Independent is applauding! And sharing.
Thanks, Cam. I really would have liked this to be longer, more cohesive and packed with backup, but I don’t think I could have stomached the research right now. I’m sure I’ll get some opposing opinions and I hope to back myself up then.
I don’t think you need the “research.” Anyone who wants to refute what you said here will be hard-pressed to do so. Everything you are saying here is absolutely true. No progress has been made in the last 4 years because the kids are too busy fighting over the shovel in the sandbox. It’s all bullshit, and it makes it impossible for any of us to hope that our current state of affairs will improve. These are not Republicans. They are extremists. They want to call Obama (who I also do not support) a socialist… what are they? Americans? I don’t think so.
People believe this crap. The delegates to the convention had to ratify the Platform. I dare them to explain their reasons for doing so without sounding like yes-men though.
Awesome rant, my friend.
Thanks, Kelly.
American politics is always SO MUCH more interesting than our boring stuff north of the border
This will be an interesting Presidential run. I hope Obama squeaks through for a second term.
I do too, if only because he’s the lesser of the two evils.
My only hope is that the average American is intelligent enough to see though the GOP bullshit, as well. Fingers crossed.
Strangely, Romney and Ryan have many supporters that have bought into the lies.
Good call. Great rant. I can’t comment much because this boils my blood. (Visiting from S30P).
My blood is boiling as well. Thanks for dropping by!
Our 2-party system is broken. American politics is broken. The objective on all sides is power. To obtain power, one must prove themselves useful. To be useful, one must fix things. To fix things, one must find things that are broken. And I wonder, if there were not so many suits scrambling for power, would there be as many things that need fixing? Politicians create problems to fix. That is their job description. That is government. Democracy is simply the pretty clothes they dress it up in. And nothing will ever change. Whichever party has the POTUS will keep us all placated just enough to prevent revolution, and piss us off just enough to create things to fix. Nothing will ever change except the face behind the Resolute Desk.
I disagree that our system is broken. We are nation founded for the rich by the rich. See my article from April for details. We were never a truly democratic nation – never truly a republic either with the electoral college in place.
Good rant, Eric. It has become increasingly difficult, over the course of this election cycle, to stay calm, rational, and sane. The complete disregard by the GOP for facts and logic is baffling, and when they announced publicly just this week that they weren’t going to be dictated to by fact checkers it became obvious to me that the reason they don’t need facts is that they are pandering to the baser emotions of their constituency where facts and logic serve no purpose anyway. You are exactly right that the Republicans have made defeating Obama in November their only priority, and they have trampled the rights, productivity and opportunities of real Americans to do it. It isn’t just shameful…it is treasonous.
It’s disgusting what they’re doing. I can only hope that enough people cry “FOUL!” and those voices get heard.
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