What the hell are we celebrating today?

What, exactly, are we celebrating today?  That women's rights are being decimated?  Women are becoming second-class citizens? That Christian religious beliefs are being shoved down our throats? That the right to privacy has eroded?  That the US is becoming Taliban-like? That Republicans have never found a war they didn't like? That Republican politicians even exist to make lives miserable?  That the cloud of utter stupidity, imbecility, and viciousness has surrounded and engulfed the GOP?  There is nothing to celebrate when homophobia, misogyny, bigotry, racism, religious scapegoating, gerrymandering, and new Jim Crow laws are engulfing this country. 

I've been around awhile and I've been through the fight for women's rights.  I am more than enraged when Republicans, especially MEN, stick their noses where it doesn't belong, practice medicine without a license, denigrating everyone who doesn't agree with them or look like them (read white males), changing the rules to wipe away the voting rights of those they look down on, chuckling as they wipe away help for the downtrodden, enriching their own pockets with blood money from corporations who take obscene profits by sending their operations overseas.

This is, indeed, a horrible country when the Republican/Tea Party is allowed to even exist since their only reason to be is to dominate every aspect of our lives, private or otherwise and to return this country to the 18th century when women were treated like property, blacks were enslaved, and white men had all the rights.  Insanity reigns supreme in this country now because the Republicans/Teabaggers are full of intense hatred of President Obama (read the black man) and everyone (read Democrats) who doesn't agree with them.  Their hatred, though they think it's disguised, is plain to see by those with critical thinking skills. The GOP doesn't believe in great education for everyone, they don't believe in science, technology, women's equality, freedom of/from religion or the Constitution.  They are bound and determined to kick this country into oblivion.  And they're doing a damn good job of it.

But, GOP, be warned.  You will rue the day you think you have won.  The time is coming when your craziness will be stopped and your party will implode.  It can't come too soon for me and every single person in this country who has a good heart and a working brain.

So, what are we celebrating today? Nothing but a good time. And I am celebrating the promise of kicking the hell out of the GOP in 2014.  I have two words for you, GOP, that will make you shudder:  Hillary Clinton!  2016 - She'll beat the crap out of you!

Republican reason to be

Day after day I read headlines and articles all saying the same thing.  Republicans in Congress to the American people:

"Go screw yourselves.  We will make sure you have no health care that you can afford, no money for public schools, no government programs to keep you safe from corporate polluters, not enough police to keep you safe, not enough firefighters to save your homes, not enough teachers to more that adequately teach the overload of kids in a class, no money to fix the nation's infrastructure, no nothing for anyone but the rich.  And we want to decimate the EPA, the FDA, the FAA, all the other alphabet departments, the Dept. of Education, Social Security, Medicare, and every single thing the government does to help ordinary working class citizens. And we want to regulate what women can do with their bodies, decide who can marry, legislate chemicals in your food, shove Christianity down everyone's throat and restrict your rights to free speech, the right of assembly and all the rights guaranteed by the Constitution which we'll throw out and replace with our right wing bill of rights...giving you nothing.  And we're going to blame it all on Obama." 

"Cuz we got nothing to offer."

Now, have I left anything out?  Did I get it all right?  Yeah, I thought so.