Scraping the Bottom

Our political discourse over the last couple of years has been pretty nasty, with new lows seen almost weekly during this last Congressional recess. It is disheartening to many of us. Yet, here I am, simply stunned that it could be brought any lower. Tonight, as our fairly elected President addressed the Congress, a Republican lawmaker heckled him! He shouted out and called the President a liar! What has this country come to that such blatant displays of disrespect are tolerated?

Can you imagine the outcry if a Democrat had dared called Bush a liar during a Congressional address? Oh Lordy, the press would have had field day! "Traitor!" "UnAmerican!" Those would be but two of the choice words we'd have heard screamed from the rooftops. The GOP would never have allowed it to go unpunished. How times change.

I think the GOP needs to take a step back and engage in some serious introspection. President Obama won the election less than year ago, by margins larger than his predecessor could have ever dreamed. The majority of voters WANT him to bring the change he promised. Your scare tactics, your lies, and now your bold-faced disrespect of our President is not going to bring your party back into the good graces of voters. When you show such insolence and contempt toward our democratically elected leader, you show contempt for us, the people. Eventually, that contempt is going to come full circle, so I hope you have a good job that offers health benefits waiting in the wings when we the people finally tire of your do-nothing, fear mongering, ways. Karma can be a real bitch.