All over the nation, Republican governors and Republican-controlled legislatures are enacting the Republican agenda, which is the same as the Con agenda, which is the same as the mad Tea Party agenda. It is not a pretty picture.
As Jesus said, by their fruits you shall know them. In Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, Tennessee, Maine and other states, Republicans have attacked teachers, police, firefighters, and health care providers. They have given away huge tax breaks and subsidies to the rich and big corporations, but raised taxes on the poor and middle class, the elderly, small businesses, and the blind. They are planning to seize control of local governments, replacing officials chosen by the people with their cronies.
In short, the Republicans want to turn America into a Third World nation.
Here in Washington state, Attorney General Rob McKenna and Sen. Joe Zarelli, R-Ridgefield, embrace the Republican agenda. U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Camas, has expressed some misgivings, but I believe she does not have the character to reject it.
The Republican agenda is cruel, barbaric, anti-middle class, un-Christian (read the Gospels), and not only un-American, but anti-American. True patriots would not support it.
