The 2012 election is over.

Now, there are choices to be made.

Republicans and Republican leadership can start today and spend the next four years putting all of their time, money and energy into tearing down the second term of President Obama and causing the American people more unnecessary grief while making sure that the country sees no progress whatsoever, or.....

Republicans and Republican leadership can show TRUE leadership and concern for the well-being of the United States and its people and try to effect reasonable compromise and programs that actually DO create jobs HERE rather than overseas, create benefits for middle and working class Americans to stabilize and improve their lives, and through THOSE efforts, start re-building the Republican Party from the ground up through POSITIVE ACTION rather than innuendo, lies, manipulation and hollow rhetoric.

If you believe that the Obama administration has not done enough for this country (DO NOT read "has not done enough for us millionaires and billionaires or corporations, but for THE COUNTRY), then show US, the people, that you really DO "mean business".

The Republican Party still controls the House of Representatives. No matter what Obama campaigned on, the reality is 1) HE cannot raise corporate taxes or the taxes on incomes over $250,000----only Congress can do that, and 2) the country DESPERATELY needs increased tax revenues.

The Republican Party, in Congress, CAN keep corporate taxes down and taxes on the wealthy DOWN by pressuring its own corporate leaders to KEEP JOBS AT HOME. CREATE NEW, DECENT PAYING JOBS HERE.

The more jobs that are created, the more TAXPAYERS are created, and the better the pay on those jobs, the higher the Federal tax revenues will be. The creation of 10 million $40,000 a year jobs will generate more Federal tax revenues than a 5% tax increase on 75,000 millionaires.

Negotiate FOR AMERICA. Trade debate over tax increases on the wealthy for JOB CREATION and new tax revenues for the NEWLY EMPLOYED HERE.

Every American put to work is one less person on unemployment, welfare and food stamps.

You don't like unemployment, welfare and food stamps, Republicans?
Then DO something about it rather than just blowing hot air complaining about it. USE YOUR POWER IN CONGRESS TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.

Go ahead, make the Democratic Party look bad by being SMART yourselves, and build toward electing a viable presidential candidate (which Mitt Romney wasn't) in 2016.

If the Republican Party started working for AMERICA rather than simply working for corporate Republican executives and millionaire/billionaires, I'd vote for your candidate, because I am interested in the betterment of this COUNTRY, not how many more billions the fat cats can sock away.

 

That's a good sentiment Ump! We all need to pull together regardless of party affiliation and get things back on track! I've felt like it's been spiraling now for a while!

 

This is all based on assumptions that the Republican Party is actually structured as the OP claims. Unfortunately this is what the Democrats have been successful at convincing 50% of the voters of.

But as a conservative I do not buy the rhetoric as those folks have. But, I understand why they feel that way, the next fourteen months will be interesting, the mid-term elections will be on us before we know it, at best we have a year to do anything major.

 

Just what I expected. More counter-productive bullshit.

 

Did the bold type face help you vent?


How is what I posted counter-productive, is it not the truth?

Notice that I kept a cool head here.

 

there is little to no chance that he republicans will ever work equaly with the democrats and vice versa
its a partisain fued and there are only 2 ways fueds end absolute war and compromise
over the next 4 years real and meaningful reforms need to be enacted to make the election process fair and unbiased
we need to eliminate the hurdles in voting and congress
the supreme court should be appionted by the people
the president should not select their own vice president the people should be allowed to choose them
political parties should be left out of the concideration and the content and character of the candidate should be weighed

but we live in a nation where money and sex are king
the rich get what they want and the poor just die off

 

Keep your fucking cool head in the sand.

Your attitude and attitudes of people like you are what is spinning this country into oblivion.

"I've got mine, don't touch it, and fuck the rest of you."

The position of "Let's wait until the next election so we can win and then have only our own way, rather than trying to improve anything NOW" has failed.

You promote failure.

That is nice.

Now, in your smug-self-satisfied way, make some pithy comment.

 

Predictably, the Tea-Baggers are now saying that the reason Romney lost is that he wasn't right-wing enough. They just don't get it, and I fear they'll never get it. The fact is, Romney lost because he was in the thrall of the most extreme elements of the Republican Party, and until the party frees itself from that, this country as a whole will suffer. They ought to learn something from the Senate losses of Akin, Mourdock, et al, just as they should have learned something from the losses of Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell two years ago.

I'd like to think that Republicans, now that they presumably no longer have as their #1 goal of unseating Barack Obama, will take a deep breath and give up the game of obstructing every single thing he wants to do. They need to find a way to work more cooperatively with him. But I'm not encouraged by the early reactions I've been hearing from the usual partisan hacks.

 

I pretty much agree with this. At least it is a SENSIBLE reply.

I don't expect the Democratic Party to really try to cooperate with Republicans-----UNLESS THEY ARE PUSHED to do so.

Who can do the pushing?

The Republicans, of course.

As I stated earlier, THIS is a golden opportunity for Republican leadership to really LEAD and try to promote compromise positions that will not only help the wealthy.

Romney campaigned on his interest in helping middle class Americans. I'd like to see WORKING CLASS Americans (who are the majority, after all) helped, too----WITH JOBS.

The Republican answer is not to ignore stagnation and backsliding, but to show Americans that they really ARE concerned with improving the COUNTRY and ALL Americans, not just the wealthy (and old farts who own property and have a nice retirement set up for themselves with no worries).

Republicans need to SHOW UP the Democrats by acting to move the COUNTRY forward. THEN maybe the Dems will get off their fat asses, too. They make promises they can't keep because they don't have the votes in Congress.

So rather tha both parties spinning their wheels while the country sinks---COMPROMISE. Bet on the country's future improvement, rather than padding your own wallets.

 

It is not a matter of "unblocking" everything Obama wants to do.

Obama NEEDS Republican Party expertise, not just submission. Compromise for overall benefit is needed, not simply a hamstrung Democratic agenda or a self-serving and recalcitrant Republican agenda.

 

Why don't you take a deep breath and try again. What did I post that is untrue? The popular vote might end up with each getting less than 50%, at most, perhaps a 1 1/4% differential.

Now how can you claim any sort of mandate, the Senate is still to close to counter a filibuster, the house is still in the Republicans hand.

Perhaps you fail to understand why I think that it is folks like you who promotes failure.

Why can you not debate on issues and not emotions

 

Finally, I see a ray of hope. Almost there, keep trying Ump.

 

It takes two to tango.
Publicans need to lick their wounds, take a deep breath, and get to work.
Dummycrats need to have their celebration, take two aspirin, and get to work.

The reality is, both sides need to work together and find compromise.

But we know that won't happen;

The Dummycrats will take a hard line; "we have the people's mandate"

The Publicans will take a hard line; "no you don't; 58% voted for our man"

And the bullshit will continue with both sides blaming the other and forgetting what the mandate was in the first place.

And the rascals will plunder the treasury.

 

Unfortunately, the Republicans whose expertise Obama needs have been systematically purged from the party. What remains are a bunch of mindless zealots who are in thrall to Grover Norquist and who think compromise equals capitulation and surrender. That's what must change.

 

And, for the record, who should those nasty beasts emulate?

It never ceases to amaze me how you can paint the opposition with a broad brush, and fail to see the nuances of legitimate difference.

 

When liberals say "Why won't you Republicans work together with our beloved President?" they mean only one thing....

"Why won't you compromise your deeply held principles and just bend over, kiss our socialistic asses, and vote like we want you to do so?"

Sorry, asswipes. We conservatives actually LOVE our country and don't wish it to be destroyed by your unAmerican policies.

We'll fight you and your socialistic agenda to screw us over, rip up the Constitution, and spit on the Founders graves. To the very last ounce of our strength....

Obama is YOUR President, liberals. He ISN'T ours.

 

As long as America's white working class retains its fatal attraction to the Republican Party Republicans will keep pursuing policies that benefit the rich at the expense of the working class.

 

Join a militia. Start a revolt. See what happens.

 

You can't love the United States while hating half of it. You are just using your demented idea of patriotism to justify your hatred of those who disagree with you.

 

Look in the mirror, when you make that statement.

It is you who expands the "hate myth", yet you expose yourself as a truly hateful person with shocking frequency.