I guess that’s why they got tossed out in the first place – they had no idea of how to fix the mess THEY created. They still don’t. Oh, they say they will eliminate all of the things the President has done over the past two years, as if that caused the problems. But they don’t come up with one positive, creative idea of their own. For the past two years all they’ve said was “NO!”

Well, after the midterm elections, we’re going to really get to see governing by “NO!” up close and personal. Brace yourselves.

Isn’t strange that when Governor Napolitano pleaded with President Bush for help with Arizona’s border problems and Bush refused to respond, neither Fox nor McCain said a word. Typical, isn’t it?

Sarah is touring for a reason, and that reason is to make money. She’s very much in debt from her legal fees, and remember – NO ONE in her immediate family has a job. It could be that the only steady income is the check her daughter gets from Levi Johnson for child support. So Sarah has “written a book” (wink-wink), and is speaking to Republican gatherings all over the country. Both give her an income – a nice income. And she’s holding out for a cool million for her reality show.

So in the end, Sarah will not be President of the United States, but she will go home with a lot of money, and she will have had her more than 15 minutes of fame. And the GOP? They’ll still be frantically looking for a candidate who can get elected.

Do you suppose this gentleman, as well as the other Republican legislators, spend Sunday quietly sitting and studying the Bible?

This time the fearless mouth of the GOP has targeted his fury on a rather small 11-year-old boy who has been speaking out in favor of Health Care Reform. The boy’s mother died young, at the age of 27. She had lost her job at a fast food restaurant due to illness, and with it, her health care insurance. When her illness became worse, she couldn’t afford to go to the doctor. She ended up in an ER and died.

From all the news clips I’ve seen, the boy seems to be speaking in his own words. Naturally, his message is heartfelt. Perhaps someone “suggested” that the boy speak out – it’s hard to say. Could this be orchestrated? Of course. It’s the thing to do these days, by both parties. Even so, his message is sincere. He lost his mother.

Enter Limbaugh! Leaving no stone unturned in his efforts to derail Health Care Reform, the mighty mouth zeroed in. After railing against the child and his family, Limbaugh ended with an especially personal comment: “She would have died anyway! Obama’s Health Care Reform wouldn’t go into effect until 2014.”

Wow! Here’s the perfect example of Conservative Christian Compassion and Family Values!

The message tells you that Obama has DIRECTED the US Postal Service issue a MUSLIM STAMP! The stamp celebrates a Muslim holiday, part of a holiday series representing various holiday observances: Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, etc. You are reminded of all of the attacks on America and American personnel by Muslims. You are urged to ADAMANTLY and VOCALLY boycott this stamp when purchasing your holiday stamps.

It goes on and on in typical GOP histrionics, with lots of CAPITAL LETTERS and large, heavy, BLACK print. It SCREAMS at you in its urgency! This is a horrible disaster, right up there with killing grandma, and Obama’s forged birth certificates! I’m sure Rush Limbaugh is having to take extra medication to calm himself down! OMG, we’ve GOT TO SPREAD THE WORD!!

But, in their hurry to get the word out to the GOP base, the originators of this vital news forgot just one thing – the one thing investigators learn in the very beginning: Check your facts! It’s a common GOP mistake. HERE’S THE FACTS: This stamp does indeed celebrate a Muslim holiday and it was indeed issued by the US Postal Service as part of a holiday package. However, the stamp IS NOT NEW! It was first issued in 2001, under the watchful eye of President George W. Bush! A mistake?  No, I don’t think so. See, it was reissued in 2002, 2006, and 2007.

If, as the Gasping Old Party likes to insinuate, President Obama is a member of a terrorist cell, then does the creation and issuance of this stamp mean that since it originated under President Bush, that Bush is Obama’s cell leader? His secret Muslim co-conspirator??? Or is this the usual pap created by some friendless 16-year old boy with no car, who has to pass his time in some way – you know, the one who accidentally discovered the feeding frenzy he can cause the conservative base by sending out messages of mass hysteria? Keep it in mind next time one of those emails comes along.

One would think that Bill would check with his guests to see if they agree with him before he puts his foot in his mouth, but this time he apparently didn’t. He must have figured that they were conservative women, and therefore subservient. He threw his usual vitriol around, and then asked the women for their comments.

One began speaking, and immediately said that yes, the good old boys club was still alive and well in Washington. She said that Obama was bringing in more women than President’s have in the past, but that he still could do more. She expressed the hope that he would do so as his term went on. As she began to elaborate about the lack of women in key roles, Bill looked uncomfortable, and cut her off, as he always does when people don’t agree with him.

He turned to the other strategist, and asked how she felt about the basketball game. She smiled and said that those who thought there should be a woman out there playing ball with the guys were being a little silly. But then she too went on to say that there was a lack of women in high places. She commented that women could certainly handle the jobs and the pressure, and gave Hillary Clinton as an example. She stated that Hillary had proven to be a very strong, bright, accomplished woman during the campaign, and that she was continuing to show that strength in her current position.

It was painful to watch. Here was Bill, a dyed-in-the-wool insecure conservative male, who follows the line that women are the inferior sex and belong one step behind their man, doing his bidding with smiling faces, and leaving the thinking to the man of the house. And his very own Republican strategists were supporting the view that women were more than qualified and there should be more women filling positions of importance in Washington.

Just another example of how out of touch the Gasping Old Party is.

When I watched the men with sidearms and rifles attending a presidential speaking engagement in Arizona, I thought of how they resemble the terrorists this country is fighting in the middle-east. A lot of similarity there! And yes, they were members of the church where the minister prays for the President’s death. How are these men any different from the terrorists in the middle-east?

We’ve all seen the shots on TV of militia men strolling through third-world towns and cities fully armed, shouting their threats to the United States and hanging our presidents in effigy. Well, here they are – right in Arizona. Macho men strutting around with their assault weapons and sidearms in public. I went to lunch the other day in a nice upscale restaurant at a shopping mall, and in walked a young man with his rather large semi-automatic pistol riding on his hip. He made sure to take a different route each time he went to the salad bar so all of us would see him. I guess we were supposed to be impressed. He certainly was.

The news reports that membership in militia’s here in this country is growing. All these men spending their weekends dressed in fatigues, fully armed, out playing very deadly war games in the woods – it boggles the mind. In their view, they’re preparing to defend the principles that they believe in. Just like the terrorists overseas. One wonders why they don’t join the army and go off and fight for this country??? But then, I’m sure they have a well rehearsed answer for that.

As for religion – what has happened to religious beliefs when the pastor of a church can call for the death of our President? The truly frightening part of all this is that I’m not at all sure this is just a local Arizona thing. Yes, Arizona is the state getting the publicity right now, but I have a feeling that the mindset behind it all is spreading sickeningly through our country.

They never were a good fit. Somewhere along the line they got the idea that they were better than any of the other states. It has something to do with being the biggest state. You know, it’s a guy thing. Size matters to them, right along with Friday night High School football. They’re the state where parents have their boys intentionally flunk Jr. High, so that when they get to High School they’ll be bigger, and therefore make the football team. As if that’s something to aspire to! And all their daughters are raised to be cheerleaders. It teaches the girls to support their guys – which will be their job in life. You know, Stand By Your Man!

So now they’re threatening (promising, please??) to leave the rest of us and form their own – what? I guess it would be the “Sacred Republic of Texas.” You know how fond they are of their religion in Texas. Protestant. Mostly Baptist. But it wouldn’t be a democracy because they wouldn’t give the vote to anyone but white protestant males. In fact, all others would be asked to leave, except the women, who would remain for obvious reasons. White protestant women, that is.

Yes sir, they’d be on their own and the first thing they’d celebrate would be ridding themselves of U.S. government controls!! No more pesky intervention from the government AT ALL! Freedom at last from US tyranny. No more of those socialist programs like Medicare or Income Tax or Welfare or Public Broadcasting or Funding For The Arts! Not in Texas!! No more schools where you have to teach things like science. In fact, why not do away with schools altogether. For the boys – football camp, classes in Intelligent Design, Conservatism, firearms and History of the John Birch Society. For the girls – cheerleading classes, cooking classes, Intelligent Design, and Prom Queen.

The possibilities are endless. And the best part of all is that they’d take George Bush with them. I love it.