The Party of Doom and Gloom

There are none so blind as those who will not see

Panic-stricken Republican pundits blanket the media as we close in on November 6th.  They continue to vigorously manufacture an alternate universe that is reminiscent of the vision created by Director Robert Zemeckis in Back to the Future II.  This is an image of a parallel time warp depicting neighborhoods strewn with litter, populated with graffiti-covered homes and a ubiquity of security bars. Republicans wish to implant this representation into the minds of whomever is gullible enough to believe them.

They root for America to fail as an attempt to power-grab, in hopes that their Party will regain dominance so as to protect the interests of the ultra wealthy and to continue their desired path of income inequality.

On Sunday's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, George’s roundtable guest, Republican pundit Peggy Noonan said “People don’t think things are getting better economically.”  That statement compelled me to write this blog.  In fact, just the opposite is true.  “Consumer Confidence in U.S. Rises to a Seven-Month High,” is the headline of a Bloomberg News article authored by Alex Kowalski dated September 25th.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-25/consumer-confidence-in-u-s-increases-to-a-seven-month-high.html

Below is an excerpt of a poll from right-leaning Rasmussen, covering the past two months.  It reveals a ten point upward swing of improved confidence in the direction America is moving.

DATE	RIGHT DIRECTION	WRONG TRACK
SEP 24-30	37%	55%
SEP 17-23	36%	58%
SEP 10-16	35%	58%
SEP 3-9	37%	57%
AUG 27- SEP 2	31%	62%
AUG 20-26	28%	63%
AUG 13-19	29%	63%
AUG 6-12	29%	63%
JUL 30-AUG 5	27%	66%

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/right_direction_or_wrong_track

Alarm permiates the Republican air as their pundits and politicians realize how unlikely it is that Mitt Romney will be offering anything other than a consolation speech on the evening of November 6^th.  This fact-free Party continues its feeble attempt to project onto the American public that they and they alone can protect us from an otherwise certain Armageddon.

Americans are smarter than that.  We have witnessed the destruction that, to borrow a phrase from Newt Gingrich, “right-wing social engineering” has cost our nation.  No, this time we have history to counsel us.  To quote another prominent Republican, “Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.”