The Tidal Surge is Up

As predicted in my post yesterday, the political CAT 5 ***t Storm is upon us and the surf's up. The charges of Obama hanging out with terrorists are all over the airwaves today. First sparked by Palin over the weekend disorting a NY Times article, all the Republican talking heads got their own memo today, and were out and about spreading the word. They were supported by right wing commercials raising Obama's association with William Ayers, Tony Rezko, and Rev Wright. Meanwhile the stock market as measured by the Dow was down another 800 points before settling back to be down only 367 points by the end of the day. While the financial world is spinning out of control, all the Republicans want to do is launch personal attacks against Obama. After being attacked, the Democrats raised McCain's involvement with the Keating Five, the group of five lawmakers who were reprimanded for interfering with regulators who were investigating Charles Keating, an Arizona developer and CEO of the failed Lincoln S&L. The Republicans were outraged that this would be brought up, but they opened the door for the ***t to blow in. Unfortunately, we can only expect more of this ***t between now and the election.

All the misdirection by the Republicans can not change the facts:
>Republicans were the primary proponents of degregulation that is the root cause of the current financial crisis.
>It was a Republican administration the launched two unnecessary wars that continue to cost us over $10 Billion per month and additional killed and wounded.
>It was a Republican administration that recklessly reduced taxes for the wealthy and loaded up the Treasury with more debt than all other presidents combined to over $10 Trillion.
>It was Republicans who have brought us policies that have destroyed our reputation around the world and trampled on the Constitution here at home: torture, Guantanamo Bay, Abu Graib, illegal wire taps, improperly firing US Attorneys, domestic surveillance, etc.

For eight years the Republican administration has done nothing to solve the health care crisis, energy crisis, immigration, rebuilding after Katrina, or any other of the major problems facing the nation. If Americans now let the Republican zealots distract them from the facts to focus on ***T then we deserve what we get.