Republicans: The Anti-American Ideology Still Exists

Senate republicans torpedoed a bill that was passed by the House to provide $14 billion in loans for General Motors, Chrysler and Ford.  Republican Senator Bob Corker led the way by insisting that the UAW give him a date certain by which the union would reduce their own wages to be competitive with the foreign auto plants in the U.S.

 

I don't know of any taxpayer who likes the bail out of any industry but when the economy has already lost 1.9 million jobs so far this year and the country has a President who never had an economic policy, some thing has to be done to strop the erosion of jobs and the economy.  Those Senate republicans really showed their true colors because their opposition was not about the bail out, it was about breaking the union.

 

Not one of the Senate republicans proposed that the CEO's and executives of the auto industry work for salary only, no bonuses or other compensation for the near future.  But they want the union to take another cut by a date certain. 

 

President Bush, who is eager to find something to accomplish before leaving office said his administration would furnish the industry some kind of emergency life line if talks with congress failed.  The hint was he would use some of the money from the $700 billion already approved by congress.  The democrats in congress asked the President a month ago to use some of that same money for the auto industry and he refused.  It is just another example of this President being out of touch with what is happening with the economy. 

 

The average American, hopefully is starting to realize just how phony the republicans in congress really are.  Is it any wonder why the economy is in such bad shape under George Bush and the republicans.

The George W. Bush Presidency:

I have often written about Mr. Bush being a small person and it is all coming front and center now as he prepares to leave office.  His lack of character and integrity is now playing out in his final days on the job. 

 

It was reported how the Bush administration has issued talking points to his cabinet members to go out to the news media and talk about his accomplishments the last 8 years.  Never mind that Presidents usually stand on their record with out having to tell the people how good they have been.  Those  talking points follows the talking points of Bush himself during the run up to war with Iraq when he and his administration tried to brain wash the people with lies about Iraqi WMD.  This is a President who believes in his own lies and thinks if they are repeated over and over they will become facts.

 

Ben Feller, Associated Press writer reported that Bush, speaking at West Point told the cadets, "That today's military is stronger, more agile and better prepared than the one he inherited in 2001.'  But the fact is Bush's unnecessary war in Iraq stretched the military so thin it did not have enough troops to fight the real war on terror in Afghanistan and now 7 years later we are talking about sending more U.S. troops to that country from Iraq.

 

Never in my lifetime has a sitting President passed off so many problems that he himself created to the new President-elect.  Mr. Bush is leaving office just like he governed, "passing the buck."  He is such a small person in stature.  Despite his self serving statements history will record his Presidency as a house of cards, a house that can easily collapse.  The change over from the Clinton administration to the Bush administration has been an 8 year disaster for the country and its people.  What a shame.