After reading the predictable Republican comments toward my letter recently, it seems that some local conservatives are in denial about their plight in today’s political wilderness. After eight years of total failure in governing both at the executive and legislative level they can’t even admit their countless errors. I sit and listen to Republican leaders like Rudolf Giuliani and Dick Cheney lie with impunity about there being no terrorist attacks during their eight years in charge, yet they ignore the fact that they were responsible for the worst terrorist attack in American history on 911, and numerous terrorist killings from doctor murders to anthrax poisonings and shoe bombers on U.S. planes and soil. This doesn’t even include the endless bombings of Americans worldwide by terrorists over the last eight years. Neo-Cons orchestrated the collapse of our capitalistic economic system by blowing the Clinton surplus, conducting two wars on credit cards, spending needlessly with borrowed money for bridges to nowhere and refusing to regulate or offer any oversight of our banks and financial institutions. This has resulted in the worst economic decline in the last century yet they now whine constantly about the Obama team’s effort to correct these problems and get people back to work. Right-wingers would apparently prefer that Obama do nothing in response to the problems they inherited and just allow the economy to tank into a full-blown depression so they can use it in their political attacks as a means of getting elected.

To listen to my critics’ complaints, their aloof, pompous and erudite attitudes show they are detached from reality when it comes to those citizens who have no jobs or medical coverage. Could it be that is why less than 20% of our population identify themselves as Republicans? Is it any surprise that Republicans have done nothing constructive during Obama’s first year in office? They have not cooperated in any way with the new president and have voted in lock step against everything he has proposed. They are the epitome of obstructionism and seek only to gain partisan political power rather than do anything that will help Americans in their time of need. They only represent corporate and moneyed interests yet claim to be common populists. They claim not to be racists but have no black Congressmen and always vote against any minority helping bills. They walk in lock step to Fox and Rush propaganda but don’t even blush when they claim “Fair and balanced reporting.” They try to savage Senator Harry Reid and claim his recent comments were much worst than Trent Lott’s wish that the famous racist, Strom Thurman would have been elected president. That’s just a pathetically ridiculous comparison. I think most African Americans care more about what a politician does for them than any misspoken comments and on that count Republicans are very much lacking. If hypocrisy were a disease they would have a terminal malignancy.