Diary: Should We Really Reward Republicans like John McCain and Norm Coleman?

John McCain, Norm Coleman and the Republican Party do not deserve to be rewarded this year. I don't care how much of a Maverick they claim to be. Why would anyone elect essentially the same party officials that got us into this mess and expect a different outcome this time? This only works for Bill Murray in the movie "Groundhog Day".

George Bush, Norm Coleman and the Republican party invaded the wrong country and created a royal mess in Iraq. They completely dropped the ball during the Katrina hurricane resulting in over a thousand deaths in Louisiana. The have actively allowed for the first time in our history the torturing of prisoners resulting in a number of torture scandals like the one at our prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. We condemn countries like Cuba and other dictatorships for their human rights abuses and torture and yet we now openly condone it on our on military base in Cuba. How is that for the ultimate in hypocrisy?

George Bush, Norm Coleman and the Republican party gave tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans with the expectation that it would trickle down to us and create more jobs. It didn't work and instead 800,000 jobs have been LOST by the failed economic policies of the Republican party in 2008 alone.

George Bush, Norm Coleman and the Republican party has jumped in bed with the Oil companies resulting in the redistribution of billions of dollars from our pockets to the pockets of Oil executives in the form of taxpayer funded tax breaks. And for this the Oil companies thank us by tripling the price of our gas over the past 8 years.

George Bush, Norm Coleman and the Republican party facilitated Wall Street greed and rampant lack of regulation lead to massive profits on Wall Street until the house of cards caved in and now they want us to socialize their losses and again redistribute billions of dollars out of our pockets and into the pockets of Wall Street millionaires. George Bush, Norm Coleman, and the Republican party attempted to privatize social security a few years back until they had to drop the attempt because of the backlash from the American public and Democrats. What a complete disaster that would have been for our senior citizens on top of everything else that is happening to the economy right now.

Voting Norm Coleman and a McCain / Palin ticket into office sends the wrong message. It says, hey it is okay that your party is destroying the middle class and our country. It is okay that the economy is in the worst shape it has been in 22 years. It is okay that unemployment rates are at the highest point in the past 14 years. It is okay that wages for middle class Americans have fallen by an average of $2000.00 over the last 8 years and expenses have risen $4-6 thousand dollars at the same time. It is okay that the national debt is the largest it has ever been in our history, now over 10 trillion dollars. It is okay to redistribute wealth from the middle class to the richest 5% in the country. Is it okay to run attack ads for the sole purpose of polarization and that have dynamited all hope of any civil discourse that used to be the bedrock of this great country. It is okay that patriotism is no longer measured by actions but rather by what color of shirt you wear. It is okay that honest bipartisan debate has now gone the way of the dinosaur.

For this we should reward the Republican party by voting them back into office?? Are you kidding me??