Questions to Middle Class Republcians

I was thinking that the quickest way to convert a middle class Republican into a liberal Democrat would be to take away his or her job and health insurance.  I wonder how many people who lost their jobs during this recession voted Republican in the 2008 election?  The longest any state is willing to pay-out unemployment compensation is 26 weeks.  It almost took an act of God to get the Congress to extend payments up to 99 weeks last month.  Senate and House Republicans did everything they could to block this bill's passage, claiming that it had to be fully funded or they could not vote for it.  Hmm, too bad they did not apply those same standards to the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, and the unfunded trillion and a half dollars appropriated for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Same question to Republican voters, now out of work, with no health insurance.  Not one in your party in either House voted for Health Care reform.  They would not even vote to insure that children could not be dropped from coverage!

Then there is the mortgage bubble.  The Bush White House and Congressional Republicans had no second thoughts about de regulating the entire banking system, opening the door for bundled mortgage securities and bogus sub-prime loans.  But when the bubble burst, these same GOP members of Congress voted almost unanimously against any mortgage relief to strapped consumers who had lost their jobs and their homes.  Again, I wonder how many of the recently homeless voted Republican in 2008?

And where were all these debt conscious Republicans in the run-up to the 08 election?  Isn't it funny how none of them were worried about unfunded spending until they were out of office? Hey, I get the politics of this election cycle, which is no different than any election cycle.  No matter what your history might be, once your opponent is in office attack everything that he does.  What I don't understand is why so many people buy into this nonsense when the party out of power stands for nothing that will benefit middle class Americans.  Is it all the race bating in the immigration issue that has your attention?  Are so many working class people willing to sacrifice their economic well being so that gays don't get married and they can still buy AK 47s at their local sporting goods store?

It cannot be the deficit, because the only way to pay that down is to increase taxes for quite a few years.  Unless we eliminate defense spending, Medicare, and Social Security it is fiscally impossible to cut the debt by cutting spending.  Hey there is an idea, get all those pro military Republicans together with all the retired Republicans and propose an actual spending cut that will work.  That would definitely be a day that the Democratic Party would expand by millions.  I remember when Arnold became governor of California and he promised the voter that he could eliminate the state's nine billion dollar deficit by cutting spending and taxes.  Six years later we have a 29 billion dollar debt, the highest ever for any state in the union, but no new taxes.  The state is on the verge of bankruptcy as revenues plummet, but no new taxes.  Way to go Governator.  Looks like you won't be back any time soon.  But then there is the new Republican standard bearer, Meg 'Big Bucks' Whitman.  What is her plan for fiscal salvation in California?  Easy, see the Republican play book for everything. . . lower taxes!  Now that is a good idea for all billionaire California voters, but it is utter nonsense for the rest of us.  I wonder if Meg Whitman is finally going to register to vote this time?