What's in the heart of the GOP?

  The GOP is a very serious political party that is all about budget discipline, they tell you.  The current fight in the Congress is a war over spending because our country is broke, they lead you to believe.  Any you might believe the GOP if your attention span is no longer then your finger nail.

   If you’re actually paying attention you know the GOP is not serious about this.  The GOP that is controlled by moneyed interests like the Koch brothers and the Chamber of Commerce is out to destroy the social safety net that was built as our nation prospered through the industrial revolution.  You see, the GOP does not subscribe to the notion that it takes a village.  They align to the every man for himself motto.  This is, after all, the way a business is run, and the GOP wants the government run like a business.  This motto holds in their minds whether that man is 21 or 81, employed or unemployed, healthy or sick.   Their fight against the true middle class can be seen in their move to privatize social security that they have been against since its inception, and took new life under President Bush.  It continues today when the GOP talks about the need for entitlement reform and groups Social Security into it.  It is seen in their efforts in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, and New Jersey to destroy worker’s unions.   Their bidding for the corporations and the wealthy elite was thrown into wide open view in their proposed 2012 budget that eliminates Medicare to retired senior citizens.  

  The biggest clue to what the GOP is all about is in broad daylight today as the budget talks are at the end-game.  There are agreements between the political parties about the dollar level of the budget, but no agreement seems likely.  This is because the GOP, the very serious political party that is all about budget discipline is actually all about social issues.  An agreement on a budget to keep soldiers paid, social security checks going out in the mail, and endless numbers of needed services functioning, is being held up because the GOP is now demanding that the EPA not enforce clean air laws, and women not have access to reproductive health care.  The true colors of the very serious people of GOP shinning through!