The and Now

Supposedly those who came out to vote were mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. Spurred on by the riches of their millionaire donors the vast majority of Tea Bag Republicans and Independent voters provided a message to stop socialism, and begin to govern for the people by the people. Make sure anything affecting the commerce of big business, the profits of big corporations were not stymied said the underwriters of the grass roots groups. And certainly make certain that silly rules and regulations that might help a healthy life do not impede the healthy profits for shareholders. And above all stop the bipartisan bickering created by the overwhelming support of the Democrats in the past two elections, by making it a majority republican government as in the good days of Bush/Cheney.

Then:

We want to take the majority in both houses so we can make some semblance of the chaos that took place when the population overwhelmingly voted us out the first time. We know what needs to be done and hard to admit we made a few (tiny, teeny) mistakes the first go round and if we get elected again, we promise you we will be the voice of the people. We know Harry Reid may seem to reach out to the Republicans but he is a soldier of Obama and even though Obama asked for input and we didn’t provide him with anything but hell no, he really didn’t mean to reach out to the other side of the aisle. We want to work together with our rules.

Now:

Senator Mitch McConnell, the minority leader, in an impassioned — and confrontational — speech, said Thursday that ousting President Obama was the “only way” to advance the Republican agenda.

“The White House has a choice: they can change course, or they can double down on a vision of government that the American people have roundly rejected,” he said. “On health care, that means we can — and should — propose and vote on straight repeal, repeatedly. But we can’t expect the president to sign it. So we’ll also have to work, in the House, on denying funds for implementation, and, in the Senate, on votes against its most egregious provisions.”

“We will vote to freeze and cut discretionary spending,” he added. “We will fight to make sure that any spending bill that reaches the Senate floor is amendable, so members can vote for the spending cuts Americans are asking for. We will push to bring up and vote for House-passed spending rescission bills.” (NYT Janie Lorber)

Then:

Jobs are job one for the Republicans so said the Tea Bag/Republican candidates as they ran for office in November 2010. Add to that the lowering of the deficit and for the next two years our priorities will be set. We will work hard to address the needs that the voters overwhelmingly asked for in our shellacking of the Democrats. It is about the referendum we received in 2010, not like the one supposedly received in 2008, but the real referendum (because we won), and we will not say NO to any ideas we put forward.

Now:

Darrell Issa -- the chairman-in-waiting of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform -- wants each of his seven subcommittees to hold one or two hearings a week, for a total of seven hearings per week during a 40-week period, he told Politico. That would mean nearly 300 hearings.

Issa's plan of 280 hearings in the next year would nearly triple the average annual number of hearings held by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) during the Bush administration.

Issa first laid out his oversight plan in September and has said he's interested in taking a look at ACORN as well as the bank bailout, the stimulus package and possibly health care reform. He has distanced himself from predictions that he'd investigate the job offer former President Bill Clinton made to Rep. Joe Sestak if he were to drop out of Pennsylvania's Democratic Senate primary. (IPMMuckraker)

And so we begin to reap the rewards from an election based on lies. It was NOT about non partisan government, it was NOT about jobs, it was NOT about consensus…NOPE it was and is about power for ONE political party, no matter the consequences for the American public. Some of us were bothered that the change we were supposed to believe in never materialized. We were tolerant of 8 years of promises and procrastinations but decided that the last two years was just too long to wait. We were duped by savvy marketers, activist Republican appointed Supreme Court Justices, and religious zealots who told us that the American way was being destroyed. And so some of us stayed home to prove a point, some of us voted for the worser of two evils, some of us voted with our biases and bigotries and we elected a majority of people whose agenda is not as it was stated.

So now we have the Republicans aka Tea Baggers calling committees to find the evil that Obama did and is. Instead of wasting any time on finding resolve for the economy or jobs, they want to bring resolve to the reputation of Obama whether with true or truth they conceive from lies. So now the Republican aka Tea Baggers can spend the next 2 years NOT fixing the economy, finding jobs for Americans but keeping their jobs and fining more jobs for their compatriots.

So, many of us threw ‘those damn bums out’ said enough is enough after two years. So, many of us blamed everything and all on the Democrats who at least said yes to somethings and decided to replace them with the guys and gals who said NO to everything. So, many of us fell for promises of smaller government, less government, more compromise, and what we got so far were empty words. so now the agenda for Republicans aka Tea Baggers, is create one witch hunt committee after another, concentrate on refining the word NO, and secretly let the rich get richer as the poor are led to the slaughter house, just in time for 2012.

And we watched as the country turned from blue to red, and will watch as some of us grow rich and others grow poor. Boy, some really smart voters made some decisions that will smart like no ones's business. Ain't life gonna get better!