It Is Finished

In 1994 the moral majority voted to accept the Republican’s promises embedded within the Contract with America. Republicans promised to restore accountability to congress, then gave us Tom Delay. They promised to end the cycle of scandal and disgrace, then gave us Jack Abranoff, and Tom Foley. They said, “we’ll make all of you proud of the way free people govern themselves”, then gave us President Bush, who governs by overriding congressional legislation with unconstitutional signing statements. They promised to restore fiscal responsibility, then gave us trade deficits, budget deficits, and Social Security trust fund IOUs now totaling more than $2 trillion. They promised to take back our streets, and now have a plan to give our streets to 12 million illegals. They promised to restore personal responsibility, then said, “don’t blame us, it was bad intelligence”. They promised to reinforce the family, then broke down a Florida family’s door, while they were making decisions on very private matters. They promised to restore the American dream, now millions of Americans are living a nightmare, 3 jobs, $3 gas, and 3 weeks to eviction. They said, we’ll restore senior citizen fairness, then created a Medicare doughnut hole. They said, we’ll restore national security, then gave us Iraq, Dick, Donald, Condi, and Halliburton. They promised wage enhancement legislation, then raised their own wages by $35,000, the Presidents by $200,000, and left the poorest of us, that is minimum wage earners dangling in the wind. They promised to pass legal reform legislation, then emboldened K-street by making it a haven for lobbyists and their financial terrorists tactics. They promised to promote citizen legislature, then put big Government in our schools, our homes, our e-mails, and our bank accounts. They said, Governments too big, too intrusive, and too easy with the public's money, now Governments bigger, more intrusive, and Rodney Dangerfield got more respect than the public’s money gets.
They engineered and built one hell of a “flip-floppin” swift boat, validated by Jerry Farwell and his ilk breaking a vintage bottle of “family values” over her bow, christening her the good ship Moral Majority and hanging the mission accomplished banner. Fortunately, the 2006 elections grounded this boat and replaced the mission accomplished banner with an “IT IS FINISHED” sign. So Bon Voyage Republicans, you built it, now have fun rowing it.