Republicans have decided you don’t deserve any apologies.
From CNN:
“The era of apologizing for Republican mistakes of the past is now officially over,” Steele will say in a speech to the RNC’s 2009 State Chairmen’s Meeting, according to excerpts obtained by CNN. “It is done. We have turned the page, we have turned the corner. No more looking in the review mirror. From this point forward, we will focus all of our energies on winning the future.”
Really? So, the lies, manipulations and failures of the past eight years are beneath you to respond to? The neglect and bumbling evident through Hurricane Katrina doesn’t warrant an acknowledgement to some who died, those who suffered at the sports arena or rebuilding, let alone an apology? Destroying the economy, American’s futures and the elderly’s retirement through aggressive trickle down economics and a failure of any kind of gatekeeping is…what…not worthy of your attention?
And how about the thousands of lives lost, from 9/11 through a mishandled Afghanistan and a corrupt Iraq war? The widows, fatherless and motherless children do not deserve even one iota of your attention as you look to future ELECTIONS? Is this REALLY your response? And you expect to set the time when you can change the conversation? No. You won’t stop apologizing until WE decide.
And WHEN we decide is when your party makes some changes within. When there’s a party platorm that caters to more than rich, white men and corporations. A party that feels squandering a generations wealth is a tragedy worth amends. When being a republican means more than simply living in a bubble, knowing little about the outside world and having a huge set of balls about telling US how the world should work.
Maybe it’s time for you and your fellow republican politicians and industry leaders to reflect on what it really means to be an American and then tell us what you’ve come up with? My suspicion is being an American to you means telling your fellow citizens to go fuck themselves if they don’t have the proper connections to succeed in every aspect of society from birth to death. It means patting yourselves on the back for finding loopholes for your company that includes overseas laborers and Bermuda bank accounts that the rest of the citizenry suffers for. It’s telling us it’s all about survival of the fittest when all the chips are stacked on your side behind an electric chain link fence built by your lobbyists.
I don’t know. Maybe I’m just being too optimistic in expecting change from a party that believes winning is everything and “doing” is a hassle. Maybe I expect people who have fleeced the greater masses for so many years to grow some kind of conscience, or at the very least follow the religious values they’re so intent to force on us (maybe they should actually READ the bible rather than use it when it’s politically expedient).
Maybe believing the party of nasty, arrogant pricks like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Tom Delay, Newt Gingrich and others are more than the shallow, mean, indifferent, unapologetic bastards they present themselves to be.
Well, in any case, the apologies you’ve offered have been unheard or non-existent - and since actions speak louder than words, you better start acting like a party that gives a shit, because right now none of us give a shit about you.
