Politics As Usual, as usual

It's obvious that the interim platform for the Republican party is to try and defeat anything that President Obama tries to accomplish so that he could be defeated in the election of 2012. Many were shocked when Rush Limbaugh announced a few months ago that he wanted Obama to fail even if it meant the country would fail, afterall, Limbaugh is shielded in a bubble of gas that allows him to be allowed such words. But it's apparent that this is a concerted tactic being used by Republicans. If Obama promotes it, Republicans must defeat it.

Now it's not just Rush but most of the Republican side of the House and Senate. McCain has announced that he won't vote for the confirmation of Judge Sotomayor, even though 30% of his constituents are hispanic and no one has made a credible case that she is anything but an exceptionally qualified candidate for the Supreme Court. Texas senators are joining their Party colleagues in trying to defeat the plan for a new health care plan and have both stated that they're against a so-called public option which most supporters of health reform show must be included for any plan to succeed in order to accomplish affordable care for all Americans.

Every red flag has been raised, the label of socialism, the threat of increasing control by big government, even the birther charge that Obama isn't even a natural born citizen of the United States though the proof of his birth in Hawaii has been produced repeatedly by that state.

I know, the same charge of obstructionism has been made about the Democrats in the past. And in every new election we will hear the promises of no more politics as usual and a new breath of bipartisanship. The problem now is that this country is facing perhaps the most serious challenges that it has ever faced. It's time for our political leaders to be shaken up and driven for their own political survival to learn how to work together for the survival of the nation.