We all thought they were crazy when, after the pounding they got in the 2008 elections, the Republicans just shouted the same thing, but louder. Repeating the dreaded "Obama--Pelosi--Reid" trilogy over and over and over again. Accusing the Democrats of being left-wing radicals, and the more we moved right in the spirit of compromise, the more they accused us of being left-wing radicals. Of refusing to listen to them. Of refusing to compromise.
And, after two years of listening to the repeated lies and inconsistencies over and over and over, I see the voters hypnotically nodding their heads, right along with the discordant song Boehner and Demint are singing.
And what have the Republicans -- in one voice, over and over and over -- been telling us we want? We want more conservative policies, meaning "cut taxes", which is about as deep as today's conservatives get. We want the government to stop taking money away from businesses, because that's why we don't have jobs.
What's funny is that I don't even hear Democrats yelling back that it won't work because it didn't work before. The more the republicans yell at the voters about us, the more defensive we get.
Remember when we first won in 2008, and we laughed in 2009 when the republicans accused us of not doing what they wanted?
What's also funny is that, even though the republicans have been saying in so many words that the changes they will make when they are elected is to return to the smaller Bush's fiscal policies, the polls are showing that the voters believe they will do things differently than they did the last time they were in charge of the country.
So we're in for a long election season, and I'm afraid a long two more years. Of course, when they get elected, as long as they tell us we're happy to have them in charge, maybe it won't be so bad. Unfortunately though, I believe they will continue to tell us it's the fault of Obama -- Pelosi --- and Reid, as we sink into the depths of our corporate-controlled despair.
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