The marginilzation of the faithfull

This past 4th of July,there was a tea-bag party in Austin Texas. The protest was headlined by speeches from Gov. Rick Perry and Congressman John Cornyn of Texas. They were both booed resoundingly by Republican faithfulls. They were chastised for various positions. Toll roads, stimulas bill support, etc.

I am beginning to see a trend here. Regular people who supported the GOP are starting to blame their leaders for their failures. They are starting to realize that the reason they are out of power and have lost their voice in govornment is because they have been led poorly.

Barack Obama was elected President because the "vast" majority of Americans recognized the failure in leadership of the GOP over the last 8-12 years since they controlled Congress or the presidency. The GOP's policys and positions led to the shrinking of support for ther party.
The GOP faithfull will never support the Dem's agenda but they are starting to realize that Barack Obama did not margialize their voice in govornment, their own elected officials did.

My sincere hope is that supportes of the GOP will decide to elect officials that will see to the real needs of Americans and start to offer real solutions to the problems that we face as a nation.

For example, The health care industry is spending 1.4 million dollars a day to lobby Congress to defeat health care reform. I wonder how this will translate into higher premiums next year for those who are fortunate enough to have heath insurance. Someone has to pay these lobbyist. The shareholders wont. Get out your checkbook.

P.S. Tim the statistic I gave you about Alaska's federal tax benefit was before the stim package. This fact was widely talked about during the election. I'm not bitching about where the money is going. I was pointing out that Alaska's balanced budget can to a large degree be attributed to the fact that the feds have taken the burden in a lot of vital services for Alaska. They are also one of the most impoverished states in the Union. The oil and pipeline companys seem to be doing pretty good though. I can see why she turned down heat assistance. It's so warm up there.