The racists and plutocrats who, hand-in-hand, have long taken over the Republican Party are tickled pink-- or deep red-- that their avowed strategy from the day after Obama had the temerity to beat John McCain has worked. They set out to poison the well… and blame Obama for the results. And if the new Washington Post-ABC News poll is correct, an exhausted public has finally thrown in the towel.Republicans were so ecstatic seeing all those people who say that the country is on the wrong track that they even tweeted out an exaggerated, misleading version of the results:Not so fast, though, treachery-minded, anti-America Republicans. More Americans feel negatively about Republicans in Congress than they do about Obama or about Democrats in Congress. Republicans son't care about those numbers because most of them feel safe in their carefully gerrymandered little districts created specifically to reelect Republicans regardless of issues.Georgia far-right Republican Jack Kingston, recently defeated by some random guy in a GOP Senate primary despite endorsements from Hate Talk Radio freaks Sean Hannity and Neal Boortz, will soon be a lobbyist. But KIngston has been disgracing Congress with his partisan mania and extremism since he was first elected to represent white people in southeast Georgia in 1992. Now he'll be handing out bribes instead of taking them. On the way out, though, he revealed the Republican mindset of wrecking America to the fullest extent they can in order to make Obama look bad and incapable of governing. Yesterday, in an analysis of the ISIS conundrum our political elites are facing, the NY Times mentioned that "Democratic leaders in the Senate and Republican leaders in the House want to avoid a public vote to authorize force, fearing the unknown political consequences eight weeks before the midterm elections on Nov. 4." No great revelation! But… they followed up with a statement by Kingston who really is, in every day, every Southern racist Republican pig breathing God's air today:
"It’s an election year. A lot of Democrats don’t know how it would play in their party, and Republicans don’t want to change anything. We like the path we’re on now. We can denounce it if it goes bad, and praise it if it goes well and ask what took him so long."
That is what passes for a philosophy of governance from a senior Republican in Congress who has a plum position on the Appropriations Committee and is the chairman of the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education, where he's done nothing but serve the interests of Big Business against the interests of his own struggling-- if idiotic-- Georgia constituents (one of the poorest districts in the entire country).No doubt Buddy Carter, who will be taking over the seat for the plutocrats and racists, will have the same sick view of governance that Kingston expressed. What else what you expect from south Georgia? But this isn't really any different from any garden variety Republican congressional zombie fearful that the Koch brothers and their teabaggers might take away his career. When southwest Michigan voters first elected Fred Upton, for example, he was kind of mainstream/kind of moderate-- as the district is. Several years ago, gripped by fear, he turned into a hard right fanatic and makes the exact same calculations as his pal Kingston. same situation is northwest Wisconsin and northeast Ohio where, respectively, Kelly Westlund and Michael Wager are battling walking dead Republican incumbents Sean Duffy and David Joyce. It's certainly too late-- compliments of Steve Israel-- to win back the House but it's not too late to elect progressives who want to solve problems, not create them, like Paul Clements, Kelly Westlund and Michael Wager, all of whom you can find on this page.