Congressional Election - Why the GOP Will Lose

The Republicans will soon be dusting off the jingles hoping they can win the upcoming election on slogans and catchy phrases. It may not work so well this time. Phrases like “Don’t cut and run,” and “They were wrong” won’t play when voiced by a party that has been so wrong in its congressional leadership so often now.

The November elections may be a point at which the Democrats regain control of both the House and the Senate. American voters are angry at the GOP controlled Congress and here are a few reasons why:

• They played along with creating another Viet Nam in Iraq
  
• They have refused to insist on some plan for victory/exit in Afghanistan
  
• They have rubber stamped the President (and at least 55% of Americans think he is pretty much whacko)
  
• They have failed to enact health care reform
  
• They have allowed one of the most corrupt periods in the body’s history
  
• They have pissed away hundreds of millions of dollars to “faith based” groups with no financial accountability for any results
  
• They have allowed a deepening media monopoly to take hold in the country
  
• They have failed to protect Americans in disaster recovery
  
• They have dropped the ball on tax reform and given all significant breaks only to the very rich
  
• They have a failed energy policy
  
• They have allowed the country’s businesses to operate without proper trust and monopoly control
  
• They have allowed greedy CEOs to rob their companies and ride gleefully into the sunset witn no government-imposed consequences
  
• They have encouraged a huge migration of American jobs overseas
  
• They have paralyzed stem cell research and deprived Americans of the potentials it could provide
  
• They have failed the American veteran
  
• They have failed to address the impending Social Security disaster
  
• They have allowed our diplomatic ties with South America to sink to their lowest point in decades
  
• They have allowed our good relations with Europe to decline dramatically
  
• They have allowed the Legislative branch to be systematically robbed of power by a power obsessed Presidency
  
• They have tried to strip the Judiciary of power and leave Americans more defenseless against big business and oppressive government
  
• They have dropped the ball on meaningful immigration legislation
  

It is time to take power away from those who have so definitively abused it for so long. For all of the reasons above and more, in November Americans may show their outrage by surprising the Gop with a big boot from office.