Money and Morals - NYTimes.com

The real issues, unfortunately, will have to be force fed to the Republican Party in the 2012 election. They will divert to moral issues at every opportunity to try to hide the fact that they really are the party of NO, no ideas, proposals or legislation connected with resolving real issues. It is also a useful tactic to fixate Teapublicans on issues where they go into the self righteous rant zone. When they do that, they vote against their own best interest and don't recognize the fact that their Party of Lincoln of, by and for the people has become the party of the Koch brothers, Big Oil, Wall Street and Military contractors of, by and for multi billionaires and huge corporations.

My big issue with the Republicans right now is that they suddenly became concerned with deficits after Boehner, McConnell, Cantor, Ryan and others eagerly voted for the entire Bush spending binge that nearly doubled the national debt. They voted 7 times in the House and 7 times in the Senate to raise the debt ceiling with no major issues expressed. And now we seem to be at an impasse in trying to pay down the national debt because Republicans will not give up their tax cuts for the rich, tax loopholes for corporations, and over the top and out of control military spending.

In short, grossly overindulge the super rich and austerity for everyone else.

They are once again promoting voodoo trickle down Reaganomics. And that's how we got here. Reagan and the two Bushes account for $9.2 trillion of the national debt, over $11 trillion with interest added in. How did they do that? Tax cuts for the rich, tax loopholes for corporations and excessive military spending. So they are currently advocating the same old, same old supply side economics that has never worked because of trickle down that has never happened.

That's why they want to divert attention onto social issues. The party of NO has NO track record to run on.