Hey! You lost! A primer on 'bipartisan' for the GOP

Go get 'em, Obi-bama!

For better or worse (usually worse) America runs on a two-party system. Simplistically speaking, we have liberals (Democrats) and conservatives (Republicans). For the past eight years the country has been headed by a Republican; for six of those years both Houses of Congress have also been Republican. During this time, our government has been very partisan. Liberal causes and agenda have been eliminated, minimized or back-burnered, while Conservative causes have been created, adopted and furthered.


You following so far? Good!

In the last two years, the voters in the country apparently have grown disenchanted with this path. The Liberal faction took over the complete Congress, and in 2008 they elected a Democratic president in a landslide vote, the largest plurality a Presidential candidate has enjoyed in over 16 years.


If the country followed the ideological battle lines set out in the Nixon years (us vs. them) we would now enter into a four or eight year period of liberal agenda, with the minority Conservatives fighting tooth and nail for their very survival.


But this time around the new, liberal president promised compromise, a coming together of a new spirit of cooperation and bipartisanship.


And that's just what he did and is doing. Now one would think that the Republicans, who were returning to Washington like survivors of the Bataan death march, would've grabbed this olive branch gratefully.


NAH! That's why they're Republicans. They're bred to the political purple -- vainglorious, back-biting, holier-than-thou heretics who have always been bad winners and worse losers. No mea culpas for them; they spent us from a surplus to a TRILLION dollar deficit, and have the effrontery to call Obama's stimulus package 'tax, spend and pork.' Like their air-waves leader, Rush Limbaugh, they not only want him to fail, they'll work hard to make it happen!


What do Republicans want? They want four years of depression and unemployment, four years of chaos in the Middle East and Afghanistan, four years of mortgage foreclosures, bank failures and big-company bankruptcies. They want to make Obama a one-term president, and get that $500,000 CEO salary cap rescinded.


Think about that in the next election cycle, people!