All this time we've been thinking we're watching losers and their party being destroyed. Yet they've always said they wanted to reduce government. Ronald Reagan said government is the problem. On the Thom Hartman show yesterday a caller and Thom talked about a 'conspiracy theory' they themselves believe in about the Republicans nominating McCain as their candidate in order to lose. That they added Palin onto the ticket to make sure they lost. They spent a fraction of what Obama did and that's from the party that raises more money.

This was so they weren't stuck with the problem they had created. The very thing we're going through now. The economic disaster of the financial meltdown that started a few months before the election. But the thing I'm thinking about is that they've wanted to destroy the social programs that FDR and the Democrats have put in place over the years.

So when Obama throws out money to create jobs some Republican governors try to refuse it. Why? We're thinking it's because they're stupid or just trying to be obstructive and be the party of no, but maybe they're refusing because they want to see the country fail in anything that could help the population. They've already told us they don't believe in government that actually governs for the benefit of its citizens. They believe in the huge gap between the haves and the have nots. Like The Family on C Street they want God's favored to rule over those that God obviously doesn't give a shit about. If you aren't rich or successful (by their standards) then obviously God isn't interested in you. So it's really about finishing God's work of stripping the have nots of even more.

The fact is that what's happening in California (for example) is probably making the Republicans quite happy. The social programs they hate so much are being slashed and cut and even eliminated altogether and they only have to refuse to cooperate now. It's exactly what they've said they want. They don't have to actively find a way of destroying each social program at a time, the way Bush was doing. I'm not surprised they show absolutely no remorse because they have none because their wildest dreams are coming to pass. Social programs are failing all over the country. People are being set free to be homeless and jobless. All they have to do is pretend to care. Meantime they are the rich and the haves and have mores at the expense of the rest of us, and to top it off, they are becoming more wealthy through government. They're the recipients of the benefits of Bush's tax cuts and the corporations are the recipients of government bailouts and they're growing fatter and richer while the rest of us are falling without a safety net.

Watch what is happening in California. The Republican governor categorically refuses to raise taxes because he and the haves and the corporations benefit while he cuts and slashes all the social programs to the most needy. Anyone with half a brain can see that the consequences are going to be disastrous for those involved. That doing what he's doing is going to wreak havoc for many years to come. Maybe forever. The fact is, when the programs that help society are cut chances are they'll never recover. In other words, it's like shrinking them until they can be drowned in a bathtub. This is exactly what the Republicans have been working for since Ronald Reagan became President and they've wanted this since FDR was President. Only this time it's happening under a Democratic President and they won't be getting the blame. Their wildest dreams are happening. No wonder they don't look a bit unhappy. No wonder Rush is working so hard get the Republican base pissed off. He knows that pissing them off just adds to the demise of any semblance of financial or social equality for all Americans. That's anathema to the Republicans.