The Inmates Have Seized Control of the Asylum

Jan. 20th, the anniversary of the inauguration of President Obama was marked by a
significant milestone, the election of a Republican Senator from Massachusetts. That event can be seen as a culmination of the Republican strategy to destroy this presidency.
From the moment of his election the Republicans and their media toadies decided Obama was an illegitimate president who had to be destroyed, without regard to the
damage a failed presidency, of any party, inflicts on the nation. When reminded of this consequence their response was "the lesser of two evils", and that when the Republicans returned to power they could repair the damage.
The party whose policies over eight years brought about the greatest decline in the standard of living of the middle class was, by virtue of control of fear mongering media, able to enlist the victims of its folly in the destruction of the President
the victims had chosen only a year ago, to rescue them.
What will they now offer the American public? Solutions to the perennial problem
of a failing health care system? Not if the insurance/pharma industry can pay off.
Cleaning up the criminally dishonest bankers and Wall Street giants? Not if the money-bags can pay off. Getting people back to work? Not if reducing taxes produces greater campaign contributions. Ending our misbegotten wars in the Middle East? Not
if the military contractors and industries will pay off.
America is a unique country. The normal laws of economics don't apply to us. What
works in the other developed nations won't work in this bastion of free enterprise
entrepeneurship. We'll go our way by ourselves----to where?