On Nov 5th, 2008...

... I asked the question: Should the GOP play opposition politics in the same manner than the Dems did for the last two years of the Bush Administration? My answer was NO.

I advocated they should stand by their platform, principles and purposes... but to hold up nominations and block legislation the way they did would gain them nothing in the long run, and would give Pelosi, Reid and Obama someone to point at and say "See? THEY are holding up progress and change!" Better to stick to your guns, and wait for Obama-Pelosi-Reid to self-destruct.

We are just over 60 days into the "Obama era", and without any assistance from the GOP, "Obama & Co." is cracking at the base. I actually got to watch Gietner (sp?) give his litany of praise to a professed, card-carrying Communist governor of the Chinese Central Bank, and in less than 80 minutes, the dollar had lost 14% of its value on the global market. Two hours after that, the CBO came out with another updated report saying that the Obama omnibus budget would put the over-all US deficit over ten years at more than $9 billion dollars... which, by my meager math skills, comes to an average tax bill for the American tax payer (all 148 million of us) over ten years of just over $60,800... and that is PER TAXPAYER, not per household. That means we can expect to see just over $130,000 go out of our household in taxes between now and 2019 (more, if the two oldest stay home after high school)... just to balance what we have SPENT in the first 60 days of Obama's Presidency.

Some Democratic Senators are questioning the size and scope of the budget (mostly "blue dog", but Dems, nonetheless) and many Democratic Governors are balking at the scope of the changes that the new 10-year plans will force on State legislatures and their tax structures. Both the House and Senate budget bills have excluded the President's "middle-class tax cut" from their proposals... which even the wildly-biased mainstream media can't ignore. I can't wait to see Olbermann spin the omission of "Making Work Pay" from BOTH bills! How does THAT not Constitute another broken campaign promise?

I'm no longer waiting to see how much damage is done... the damage has already been done! Now, I just want to watch the Administration and this Congress implode all over itself.