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Losers/Weepers
By Nancy Greggs
Well, it didn’t take long. And it was, oh, so predictable.
It started in the early hours of the election returns, as the right-wing pundits and Republican commentators watched their own go down for the count, one after the other.
“It’s a matter of being in the wrong party at the wrong time. The voters are sending a message to Bush,” and on and on it went, as though their defeated incumbents had all been in a coma for the past six years, while BushCo single-handedly wreaked havoc on an unsuspecting nation.
No one can discount the impact that Bush and his failed policies had on this election. But for the individuals in office – who rubber-stamped his every disastrous move, kow-towed to his every whim, and excused his every crime against the law of the land – to now attempt to position themselves as the hapless messengers who were shot down last Tuesday, through no fault of their own, is downright laughable.
Traditional Republican voters did not miss the point that their representatives had, without any scintilla of doubt, abandoned the principles of their party by wholeheartedly supporting the expansion of government and fiscal irresponsibility at every turn. And now, in the aftermath of defeat, one more truism is driven home, as the concept of the GOP being the party of “personal responsibility” crawls into the shadows to die an inevitable death.
To hear them tell it now, the lock-stepped Republicans in office never slapped their supporters with the Bankruptcy Bill, nor handed their constituents’ tax dollars over to Big Oil and Big Pharma with reckless abandon. They never framed the utter chaos in Iraq as ‘a few mistakes being made’, or held out the complete destruction of a nation, which left its citizens worse off than they were when we arrived, as merely ‘a lack of progress’.
Apparently all of these things – along with escalating national debt, a failing economy, an increase in outsourcing of US jobs – magically and inexplicably, came about all by themselves.
How amusing it is to now watch the members of Republican upper management – the ones who spent their workday gathered around the water-cooler discussing their next self-awarded raise while their constituents lost their jobs, their benefits, their health coverage, their savings, their rights as citizens – respond to their pink slips by pointing the finger of blame at the CEO whose rear-end they kissed repeatedly, or, even more dismally, at each other.
How pathetic it is to listen to the “it wasn’t me, it was my party” excuse, as though ‘the party’ was comprised of people in some distant universe, over which the now-defunct Republican majority had absolutely no control.
And now, at the end of the day in the political schoolyard, the departing GOPers want to finish the game by circling around Bush, in a last-ditch attempt to distance themselves from the failure they themselves created, while holding hands and chanting “The Cheese stands alone.”
But the truth of the matter, as has now been made abundantly clear by the American voters, is that the various and sundry cheeses left standing are plentiful indeed.
That being said, I guess it should come as no surprise that with all of that rotting cheese to go around, it will be served for months to come with the appropriately distasteful whine.
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