The Party's Over - Revisited

It seems the wheels are coming off the “straight talk express” as the Republican Party desperately tries to shake the (R) that follows their names in an attempt to gain credibility with the American people.

But the damage is done and America remembers. We are a forgiving people and we realize that we all make mistakes, however how can anyone forgive the gaffes of this magnitude? The Republican party has always voted along party lines and have supported each other no matter how bone headed the policies are, inflicting more and more wounds to our country.

Full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes.

Now the time has come to pay the piper. Accountability seems to be something foreign to the party of family values and now that it appears their day of reckoning is close at hand, they scurry like rats leaving a sinking ship. This is transparent in the campaign ads running for some candidates where their party affiliation is conveniently left out of the canned script.

They, for good reason, seem to be ashamed of their party. Yet they hold on tightly to the same Republican values. Barack Obama said you could put lipstick on a pig but it’s still a pig. That statement holds a great deal of truth when it comes to the Republicans.

Just take a trip back eight years in history and remember the arrests and convictions, remember the accusations, remember the corruption exposed and remember the scandals that not only shook their party, but shook the very foundation of America.

And the American people DO remember.

We Remember Republicans Singlehandedly Lost the War On Terror.

We Remember Republicans Singlehandedly Got Us Into Iraq.

We Remember Republicans Singlehandedly have allowed our great infrastructure to deteriorate into despotism that abandons the poor in wakes of disasters like Katrina.

We Remember Republicans Singlehandedly denied Americans better opportunities for Healthcare.

We Remember Republicans Singlehandedly fought increasing the Minimum Wage so that workers could afford to LIVE.

We Remember Republicans Singlehandedly got us into our current mortgage Crisis by allowing Banks to issue predatory loans.

We Remember Republicans Singlehandedly got us into our current economic Crisis by Feeding the Greed Of Wall Street.

We Remember Republicans Singlehandedly blocked attempts to work on Global Climate Change and denied its very existence in the face of science.

We Remember Republicans Singlehandedly got us into our Constitutional Crisis by turning a blind eye to Bush's power grab and then legalizing his crimes.

Yes, Republicans. America remembers all too well what you have done to our country.

I consider it my patriotic duty as an American citizen to make sure people remember. Let us not forget the Tom Delay’s of the world, the Larry Craig’s, the Scooter Libby’s. They are all serving out or soon will begin serving sentences for the crimes they have committed. But let us not forget the ones that still need to be held accountable for their criminal and treasonous actions. The George Bush’s, the Dick Cheney’s, the Rumsfeld’s, the Rice’s – the list goes on and on and on.

The “shock and awe” perpetrated by this administration against America cannot go unpunished. History will no doubt cast a shining light of discontent against them, showing Bush as the absolute worse President America has ever seen, but that is nowhere near enough. Criminal acts have been committed and justice must prevail to assure us all that the system still works. We cannot let these deeds go unpunished. We must hold these criminals accountable.

What message will it send to the rest of the world if we don’t?

It will make us accomplices to their crimes and just as guilty as them.

There is a lot at stake when we go to the polls in November, to cast our vote for the next President of the United States. We will tell the world that we either support the crimes against humanity of the last eight years or we want to correct our course as a nation and return once again to our former greatness.

What’s it going to be? Are you a criminal or a patriot?