Sore Losers and "Country-Last" Republicans Have Already Resumed Partisan Attacks, Obstruction: GOP Leadership Threatens to Sabotage Nation, Destroy Their Own Party

We are only a day removed from the voting and from the delivery of an historic acceptance by Barack Obama and a gracious concession speech by John McCain. As McCain played the part of statesman, he in all likelihood, was speaking for himself instead of his party for the first time in a long while. He pledged his help and support to the incoming Obama administration and made the case that in the midst of multiple crises so must we all pledge our backing and support to our new President. Unfortunately, there are troubling signs that Senator McCain's party is not choosing to be so gracious in defeat, nor so cooperative in an Obama administration.

President-elect Obama has wated not-a-second in getting to work: we have gotten some of the first announcements from the Obama transition team and already the right is starting in with complaints and accusations that Obama has gone too far. Excuse me? That's right… in announcing Rahm Emanuel, a friend and trusted ally known for getting things done, to be his Chief of Staff, instead of opting to allow only-God-knows who would have been acceptable to the GOP, Obama has already "gone too far."

The same Republican Party that has claimed to be the "country first" party throughout the campaign, is instead being revealed yet again as the party of ME-first, you-never. The surrogates for McCain who pledged to rid Washington of infighting and partisan divisions are now, quite predictably, continuing the very same partisan attacks they were making all along. Simultaneously the terminally partisan and fatally arrogant GOP leadership continues their sanctimonious moralizing about bipartisanship. Huh? Who is saying we should lead from the center now? The same party that has castigated the media and demonized any American who dared to question the Bush administration is now refusing to wait, even until the inauguration, to start undermining the President-elect.

Like many in this country, I have endured eight years of abuse, insults, persecution and accusations of treason in a cynical display of demagoguery by chicken-hawks, hacks, and scoundrels along with everyone who has dared to oppose the Bush administration. I have seen the Bush Department of Justice manipulated as a political tool of the right. I have seen people investigated like under McCarthyism just for organizing politically! I have witnessed the right-wing neocon minority claim to represent the masses, who have now spoken-out loud and clear to reject that bogus claim. I have seen a media, cowed by the GOP, fail to do its job. I have seen a six-year honeymoon for a man who may or may not have stolen the presidency, but certainly had no mandate regardless of what role was or was not played by the failure to count many Gore votes in Florida and elsewhere. I have watched as, again and again, the media gave a forum to the dangerous and outright anti-democratic rhetoric from the right which told Americans that to do other than support the Bush administration was to give aid and comfort to murderers. I have watched as the voters, the U.N., and Congress were told outright lies and the media itself aired propaganda video prepared by the Bush White House as if it were news.

Because of one thing, Americans tolerated this behavior: our president, Bush, told us we were at war. No matter that it was the wrong war. No matter that he started Iraq by choice not necessity, and abandoned Afghanistan as a result. We are Americans, no matter what the GOP says about us Democrats. We love our country, and many of us toed the line. Those who spoke out were subjected to tax-audits, FBI investigation, and other forms of political prosecution, indeed the mass-firing of U.S. Attorneys was to punish the minority who did NOT bring enough actiosn against the GOP enemy list. Now, when the voters HAVE clearly given a mandate for change to Barack Obama, we are all supposed to cry out for a shift away from this type of centralized power? Until the next Republican is elected and brings back the abuse of power? Is what is good for a half-wit goose in George W. Bush, not just as good for our new and far more capable gander-elect? Clearly, we are in for more hypocrisy, and just plain-old-more-of-the-same from the obstructionist GOP.

This time, however, the Democrats are not the 48% minority party being told that they cannot dare to speak-out against the abuses of the GOP, let alone the policies that they disagreed with. Policies. Mind you, of the barest of 48.2% GOP majorities. This time we are the 53% majority being told that, according to the minority leader of the 45% GOP anyway, that we cannot lead? I say NO! I say we WILL lead, and we WILL come with the spirit of bipartisanship and in the name of healing this great Nation. If John Boehner cannot get on board with that, if the GOP cannot get on board with that, and if grinning Joe the Lieberman and scowling Joe the Plumber cannot get on board with that? Well…I don't recall the VOTERS asking for their opinions, or their help anyway. If need be, the Democrats, WILL carry out our mandate. It is not up to the GOP anymore whether or not the Democratic Party and the Majority of like-minded Americans get the opportunity to turn this Nation around. It is only up to the GOP whether they want to get on-board with us, get run-over by us, or simply get out of the way.

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