gift keeps on giving

On November 8, '2010' America received a present. The President called it a shellacking, the news media called it a first of its kind, the racists, bigots, homophobes called it a victory...but in reality it was a gift, a present, presented to us by those who voted for people who preached hate, paid for by billionaires and delivered to us by those humble holier than thou humans who stayed home because they were mad at the Dems, forgot the immediate past or just were too lazy to stop the madness.

And in 2011 the gift has been unwrapped and it is in fact a gift which keeps on giving.

We were told that the Dems did not run this country right. They had two years and somehow that was not enough time to turn around the horrendous and egregious arrogance and irreverent laws and lack of laws the Republican majority had in place during their run at the monarchy. Somehow the scare tactics of Rove, Armey, Koch Brothers with the assistance of the activist Republican Jurists of the Supreme Court defining that corporations were like people and could in fact fund politicians and pay for any propaganda worthy of swelling their bottom lines and of course paying for the lobbyists who pay for the votes of politicians prevailed.

So we were presented a gift wrapped in red white and blue but when unwrapped came in a black box, black for profits of the Oil Cartels, Financial Cartels, Health Insurance Cartels, and the newest of Cartels the Koch Brother Cartels. It was a gift designated for the wealthy not the worker, for the private lives of the wealthy not the public lives of mere plebeians, and for the religious bigot not the regular boy or girl. It was presented to the American public by those who claimed they were Independent minded voters who expressed angst, Log Cabin Republicans who thought no one would notice they were Gay, Evangelicals who knew God wrote the original Constitution and wanted it back so he could do some re-writes, John Birchers, White Supremacists, Sons of the Confederacy who swear the South won the war, Orthodox Jewish Rabbi's who could over look liars, adulterers and tax evaders as long as they hated the homo, the Catholic Church who took time from protecting molesters to shouting they were the owners of morals and values.

And it is a gift that keeps on giving.

It is a gift that when opened has provided the US with:

Republican/Tea Bagger New Hampshire State Senator Marty Harty saying that "disabled and mentally ill people should be shipped off to a Siberia like place to freeze to death."... Scott Fitzgerald, Republican/Bagger Wisconsin State Senator confessed on FOX that the union busting just accomplish­ed in Wisconsin will make it difficult for Democrats to win elections in Wisconsin, especially President Obama. It never was about the budget. It was all about destroying the Democratic Party.” Not about the Wisconsin State budget crisis... Legislation introduced last week by Rep. Chris Smith Republican/Bagger from New Jersey, with Republicans proposing that the rape exemption be limited to "forcible rape." This would rule out federal assistance for abortions in many rape cases, including instances of statutory rape, many of which are non-forcible. For example: If a 13-year-old girl is impregnated by a 24-year-old adult, she would no longer qualify to have Medicaid pay for an abortion.

When all these Republican/Baggers were running for office they were ruminating about jobs, jobs, jobs but once in the majority all they rant about is no woman really has the power over her reproductive rights, workers do not need equal pay, health care and disabled people are not worth the time of day. When the Republicans wrapped their gift to America they covered it with jobs, job, jobs but under the gift wrap was no taxes for the wealthy and corporations, this is a Christian nation, and women, workers, Gays, Muslims have no place in this land.

And they have provided us with a gift that keeps on giving.

In 2010 those who took time vote, those who did not care for consensus, those who were told to hate and how to hate went to the polls and delivered a big gift. Those who found every reason not to vote, who wanted to prove a point, who just like to complain and do nothing about it stayed home waiting for the gift of Republicans/Baggers to arrive.

And it did...Now waiting to deliver their gift for 2012 is Bachman, Barbour, Huckabee, Pawlenty, Romney, Palin, Gingrich, Trump. Just image what kind of surprise gift they have waiting for us!

Isn't it about time we started wrapping our gift so when 2012 comes around the only thing to surprise any of us is equality, freedom, fair and democracy.