Eastwood Unplugged
We’ve grown numb to the unworthy process of cage
fighting pols busting each other with unsubstantiated slanders and impossible
policy claims.
Romney’s campaign team has just finished regaling us
with their “vision” of America as seen from Tampa, Florida.
Congressman Paul Ryan, the Republican Vice Presidential
candidate, charged that a sensational factory closing in his home town, Janesville,
Wisconsin, arose because of Barack Obama’s failed promise to keep it open; in truth,
GM announced the closing in June 2008 because of sagging SUV sales while Bush
was President.
Ryan charged that S&P downgraded U.S. debt because
of Obama when it was the Republicans in Congress including budget maven Ryan
who refused to raise the debt ceiling until the last minute.
Former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice claimed street
cred’ for international neophytes Romney and Ryan. She overlooked the war in Afghanistan. No doubt that was because President Obama’s
administration found and killed Osama Bin Laden when Bush and Rice could not
find him or the chimerical weapons of mass destruction they posited as the
reason to invade Iraq.
Romney needed an assist on his foreign policy acumen
given how he botched what should have been no more complicated than a walk in
Hyde park. Romney dissed his Olympic
hosts in Great Britain and couldn’t keep secret he had also met with British
military intelligence. In Israel, he eagerly
signed onto Netanyahu’s forced march to Teheran, apparently relinquishing America’s
prerogative to refuse another preemptive war.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christy, a bombastic blow
bag, warmed to a litany of his own “accomplishments,” but could hardly bring
himself to mention Romney, the presidential nominee.
Ann Romney talked about her husband, the nominee,
because we don’t see him the way she does.
And we still don’t see him that way.
Frankly, who cares if Mitt is charming if he can
persuade us that he’d make a make a difference for the better.
Romney tells older American they won’t lose their social
security, just the younger adults who fund their retirement, suggesting the Romney
social security system is not so secure.
Romney tells the sick they should have planned
better and must learn how to take care of themselves -- even though presidents,
senators and congressmen don’t.
It’s hard to believe Romney’s policies will add a
single job when he’s for firing public employees including teachers, refusing unemployment
insurance, rejecting public job training, and resisting public works projects that
would repair our declining national infrastructure and put men and women to
work.
Romney repeats the cant that by collecting less taxes
from the filthy rich, they’ll create the jobs they failed to create when Bush
gave them an earlier tax holiday.
There is an abiding selfishness in the Republican
platform disfavoring the middle class
By contrast, Democrats believe we are in this
together to help each other.
Pope Leo believed that the role of the State was to
promote social justice through the protection of rights. The modern Republican party denies any such responsibility.
Pope Leo insisted workers have bargaining rights to
defend against unbridled capitalism. The
Republican party doesn’t see it that way.
Leo said, “If through necessity or fear of a worse
evil the workman accept harder conditions because an employer or contractor
will afford him no better, he is made the victim of force and injustice.” In this recession, we have seen families with
jobs that paid less and suffered indignities by employers who knew their workers
had few, if any, alternatives.
The current Republican Party compromises the working
man and woman for their business’ bottom line.
We’ll do better with President Barack Obama.
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