Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, and Maine Sens. Olympia J. Snowe and Susan M. Collins are the reason we have a stimulus bill - and thank God for them. While the National Republican Trust PAC has put them on their “hit” list for serving the country before the GOP, I suspect in the long run these three will outlast the spineless many that have become our Republican representatives.

Or, as John Ridley of Huffington Post wrote:

Oh, sure, they talk up the swellness of President Obama every chance they get. And will continue to do so as long as his approval numbers are above fifty percent. But most GOPers tend to become like children who dance hysterically in a sandbox when it comes time to play with others.

Obama will rise out of this mess a more respected man, and I believe that while most bills that pass through our government are poorly managed and not exactly what the doctor ordered, there will be some recovery from this.

But what is most disappointing is the depth to which most Republican lawmakers obviously hate their country, or are simply indifferent to it. From the ground, we’re having a bad one here. We’ve gone from the point of knowing people who were laid off to knowing family members who have been. When you have the best healthcare in the country, limos taking you everywhere, money lining your pockets from the scores of people who want your attention and influence, and a future of sitting back and profiting from those connections, sometimes for questionable lobbies, you are not always in a position to understand what is really going on in your country. At that point, it comes down to your philosophy. Democrats, at the very least, have a philosophy that favors the individuals over the corporations. Republicans favor the opposite and, when push comes to shove, that’s not the type of philosophy that will help out the bulk of us, for if we go down, there will be no audience for the corporations to sell their wares to.

And the sad irony is that today we have the “new” Republicans - who fleeced us for 6 of the last 8 years by porking up every bill they rammed through the Congress and Senate (courtesy of a Democratic minority that could barely challenge a fillibuster and a President who, at the time, was allergic to the veto pen) - and suddenly - out of nowhere - become conservatives again.

This time it’s their philosophy stepping on our necks. And they will not change. They will continue to obstruct because it’s the only way a spoiled child knows how to play. If they don’t get their way, they destroy it all for everyone else. Sure, now and again they’ll fein bipartisanship to vote for something that in the fine print isn’t going to be risky for them, but people like Boehner will never, ever be anything but immature nasty assholes who can’t for the life of them put their politics aside and TRY to help govern for the masses.

Politics Arlen Spector, George W. Bush, john boehner, Olympia Snowe, republican lies, republican majority, stimulus bill, Susan Collins