THE GOP IN 2011: NO JOBS BILL AND TRYING TO SOLVE PROBLEMS THAT DO NOT EXIST

Rochester, N.Y. -- Never has this nation seen one of its two major parties so utterly bankrupt of any positive vision-- so devoid of any concept of how to make a better America. Instead, their consistent dedication is to blocking the efforts that others make to provide solutions to the nation's biggest problems-- even when the ideas used to be their own. The GOP is systematically dismantling what America has already achieved to make a more whole and just society, like gutting the Clean Air Act, supporting anti-equality legislation, abolishing the EPA and assaulting Social Security.

And, it seems the list of 2011 policy initiatives launched by Republicans to address problems that don't exist keeps growing. House GOP officials are passing measures to combat voter fraud, without instances of actual voter fraud. House Republicans voted to eliminate a proposed EPA farm-dust regulation, despite the fact that the EPA has no proposed farm-dust regulation. GOP officials recently passed a resolution to affirm "In God We Trust" as the national motto, but "In God We Trust" was already the national motto.

Now they're tackling restoration of tax benefits for millionaires. So, the party that shows its true nature by its complete lack of any positive vision, attempts to hide its moral bankruptcy by making a phony show of solving imaginary problems. In retrospect, how can they go back to their home districts and say they were fighting on behalf of their constituency? It’s laugh out loud funny that the only thing they have attempted to accomplish in the first year of the 112th Congressional Session is solve problems that don’t really exist.

It’s reprehensible. In 2010, they campaigned on jobs and have not delivered one jobs bill through the House of Representatives. That is just pathetic. Let us hope the American people see through this thinly disguised ploy to protect the 1 percent while putting the rest of America’s working class in jeopardy. Even though this sounds like an oversimplification of our complex world, it seems as if the GOP is crying out, “Every Man for Himself.” Heaven help us all.