{"id":350744,"date":"2010-02-22T18:45:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T23:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011156502_shoutstowallstreetfrommonroesmainstreet.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-02-22T18:45:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T23:45:52","slug":"shouts-to-wall-street-from-monroes-main-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/350744","title":{"rendered":"Shouts to Wall Street from Monroe’s Main Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blame Republicans, not Democrats<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hey, from Seattle to Monroe: Wise up to who is doing what to you \u2014 hint, it\u2019s not the Democrats [\u201cMonroe to D.C.: wake up!\u201d page one, Feb. 19].<\/p>\n

These Obama haters and uninformed whiners from Monroe are getting just what they deserve. Do they think they\u2019re special and the laws of economics don\u2019t affect them? I know \u2014 as well as I can sitting here \u2014 that they voted for George Bush twice and then wanted McCain and Palin to win in 2008. That\u2019s moronic. It was the Bush administration\u2019s economic decisions that are causing our present recession problems.<\/p>\n

It was the Republicans who caused these problems, yet these people still want to blame Democrats and then elect Republicans to solve these same problems that were caused initially by Republicans. It\u2019s a circular firing squad.<\/p>\n

Republicans don\u2019t ever really deal in reality, so they just blame liberals and Democrats instinctively \u2014 no questions asked. It\u2019s a mindset caused by listening to right-wing hate radio, Fox News and their own self-indoctrinated hatred of liberals and the \u201cliberal agenda.\u201d They can\u2019t stop because, after 50 years of propaganda and mind bending, they are conditioned and programmed to believe that liberals are inherently wrong on everything.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, some [Republicans] are starting to see that it\u2019s their own beliefs that are causing their own downfall. It\u2019s so much harder to look at both sides than it is to see just one side \u2014 hating liberals. I\u2019m betting that liberals and our understanding will win against any more hollow rhetoric from Republicans who don\u2019t even know how to study history.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Doug Morrison, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n

What are they whining about?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Seattle Times staff reporters report that Monroe in Snohomish County has a message for the other Washington: \u201cQuit your whining and get it done.\u201d The question is: Get what done? What do the teabaggers want done except to somehow move the Obama family out of the White House?<\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t that what their protests are all about? Obama has been trying for a year to \u201cget it done\u201d but he has been opposed by the Republicans in the Congress at virtually every turn. They have voted en bloc to stymie Obama\u2019s every attempt to turn this economy around from the disastrous course set for it by George Bush and his Republican accomplices in Congress.<\/p>\n

His health-care initiative, as modest as it is, has been the bete noire for the Republicans. He has received no help form them at all, just die-hard opposition. If Obama recited the \u201cLord\u2019s Prayer,\u201d he would be met with screams of protest by congressional Republicans and a million teabaggers.<\/p>\n

What do they want? Naturally, even after voting against the stimulus and badmouthing it at every opportunity, Republicans in Congress have been calling the administration and begging for their share of the money and then taking credit for it in their respective states by cutting ribbons, etc. It\u2019s sheer hypocrisy!<\/p>\n

\u2014 Gary Nelson, Bellingham<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blame Republicans, not Democrats Hey, from Seattle to Monroe: Wise up to who is doing what to you \u2014 hint, it\u2019s not the Democrats [\u201cMonroe to D.C.: wake up!\u201d page one, Feb. 19]. These Obama haters and uninformed whiners from Monroe are getting just what they deserve. Do they think they\u2019re special and the laws […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}