The gamble the Repukes are willing to take on the United States

The Republicans set up this magnificently bad current financial scenario for us by pushing for and getting deregulation of the banking industry.

Now we have to pay for it, the United States and the whole world.

We took this collapse of the financial system to them by selling all these damnable, crappy, formerly illegal home loans which were then sold as "assets" to other institutions here and around the world--'cuz, hey, the United States plays clean, right?--and now we all get to wallow in horrible bank assets as we watch the world's economy come down around us.

So now, the Democratic President is scrambling with his--our--government and those same financial institutions in order to both clean up the mess and get us all back on solid footing again so we can make a living, feed our families and go about the day-to-day job of living and what do those same Republicans do?

Why, they vote against the plan because 1)they don't think it will work and 2)they honestly--but privately (with the exception of Rush Limbaugh) don't want it to work so the American voters can get desperate again and vote the only other political party back into power.

The selfish gits.

That's exactly what's happening.

If President Obama and his administration are successful in cleaning up this financial toxic waste dump and/or turning around this economy, they can kiss their chances of being back in power away for a generation or more.

And the Republicans know it and know it well.

So if you figure they're going to do the right thing, the statesmanlike thing, for the country--as they should, God knows--fuhgedaoudit.

Ain't gonna happen.

No way.

The Republicans figure it's a huge mess and they don't want their fingerprints on the next 4 years.

They want this President to hang in the wind with this financial crisis.

In order to support their own, selfish, self-centered Republican interests, they're only too happy to risk taking down the United States.

If you don't think the stakes are that high in this crisis, check out the front page of The New York Times yesterday, Friday, February 13. See the article about how there are still many big banks that are in trouble and that they may collapse.

Then it starts looking and sounding a great deal more like 1929, folks.

But the Republicans are all too eager to take that bet on the future of the United States and your and my future.