The first Rule of Holes: When you’re in one, STOP digging.

To prevent a bill to help Small Business owners maintain their businesses and to be able to employ more staff is unconscionable.  But that’s the Republicans!  And the goal of the Republicans since day one of the Obama Administration was one of obstruction, interference and killing every conceivable “good” measure that might be taken on behalf of the people, the economy, you name it.  

Here’s another area, where Obama has appointed Judges and what utter lack of action has caused in those appointments:

Posted by ianmillhiser at 1:13 pm

September 6, 20102

GOP Control Of Federal Trial Courts Has Increased Since Obama Took Office

This post first appeared on Think Progress.

The AP’s Mark Sherman reports that GOP obstruction in the Senate has allowed Republicans to further entrench their control over the federal bench, even though a Democratic president is now naming judges:

A determined Republican stall campaign in the Senate has sidetracked so many of the men and women nominated by President Barack Obama for judgeships that he has put fewer people on the bench than any president since Richard Nixon at a similar point in his first term 40 years ago.

The delaying tactics have proved so successful, despite the Democrats’ substantial Senate majority, that fewer than half of Obama’s nominees have been confirmed and 102 out of 854 judgeships are vacant. […]

When Bush left office, Republicans had appointed just under 60 percent of all federal judges. Twenty months later, the number has dipped only slightly to a shade under 59 percent, according to statistics compiled by the liberal Alliance for Justice. Because of retirements, the percentage of Republican-nominated district judges actually has gone up.

The data comparing Obama’s confirmation rates to those of recent past presidents is truly grim. In late July, a Center for American Progress issue brief analyzed the percent of each president’s nominees confirmed since Carter. For Obama to see the same percentage of his nominees confirmed as past presidents have seen, the Senate would need to more or less double its pace of confirmations:

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Yes, I have my issues with Obama, but much greater issues with Republicans (putting it mildly).  No honor, no rules, no laws, just whatever.  Two stolen elections, and since Obama, they have used every devious (unconstitutional) means possible to block any “progressive” measures, and most certainly, in terms of the good of the American people and their plight.

What does it take to get people to understand that the Republicans don’t care that more than a trillion dollar debt was caused by them?  Involving us in wars that were uncalled for, had no bases, and are wars of aggressions, along with an attempt to establish “torture” as an O.K. thing — war crimes?  That our economy “tanked” because of their illegitimate Wall Street unharnessed business tactics?  That OUR jobs were lost because all the big corporations took their business elsewhere and we were cheated out of jobs and their taxes?  That homes were lost because Bush enacted an 1863 Banking law, which enabled the Feds to take banking control away from the States, and made sure there was no bargaining left to be had for homeowners?  That our environment has suffered devastating blows because of the Bush Adm. allowing a laxness of EPA standards, oil standards, all for the benefit of the wealthy?  That the Bush Adm. defunded each and every social funding, including that of veterans, education, health, infrastructure, etc. — you name it and they defunded it.  The list of detriment caused this nation, its people and our innocent soldiers is endless.

While I have my own issues with Obama and his attempt to appease the Republicans, left and right, over time, I also appreciate the viciousness he’s been up against.  

Oh, and it looks like the Repugs are trying to defeat the stem-cell bill, as well.

Here’s where we are at:

The Republicans lost bad and lost to a black man, by a majority.  They have never gotten over it.  

From day one, they have fought Obama on every single “good” issue he has come forth with to a final “death.” They fought the healthcare plan from day one, until it became so “watered” down as to be basically nothing and the thinking is that the bill will be improved upon.  We can only hope and pray.

Now, the latest, again with the nastiest of Repugs, leading the way, the planned attack on OUR FICA monies, Social Security and Medicare.  What?  To continue to the Bush tax cuts?  The wars?  Yeh, $3 trillion is REAL attractive to the immoral, greedy, and unconscionable bastards that they are!!!!

Anyone who feels that the Republicans will be better:

1) Just think about all they’ve done to tear down the structure of our so-called democracy!

2) Think about the absolute assault to our Constitution!  

3) Think about the plight we find ourselves in after the Bush Adm., when they started off with a surplus budget.

4) Think about your losses, 401-k’s, IRA’s, etc., while tax benefits were afforded the wealthy!

5) Think about loss of jobs, income, savings, homes, everything, for so many Americans.  There are over 4,000,000 million unemployed Americans and not short-term unemployment either.

This is just a “short” list of the circumstances we find ourselves in because of the Bush Administration’s rule!  

When you think about all of this, there is a huge message here.  Are people so mind-numb that they don’t care that these Republicans are the most corrupt, illegal, deficit spending “marketers, liars, thieves that we’ve ever encountered and that we find this country in the most indebted, citizen-impoverished citizen ever in our history?  

And, dare anyone say, they want more?  

Are people’s memories that GD short?

Please forgive the length of this — never meant it to be!