It should have taken everyone less than 2 days after the election to realize that the GOP learned nothing from the results Tuesday night. And it took the GOP exactly 1 hour to begin to show their contempt for President Obama and the truth. After winning the presidency, late Tuesday night or early Wednesday, President Obama called Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader, and John Boehner, Speaker of the House. What did they talk about? Well, they didn't talk about anything, as the President was told both McConnell and Boehner were asleep (2 separate calls). So the President calls the Senate Minority Leader and the Speaker of the House and they either lied and had aides tell President Obama that they were asleep, or they told their aides that the President wasn't important enough to be woken up I'm not sure which is actually worse.
Later Wednesday, McConnell made a statement that said that President Obama hadn't won a mandate, and that the GOP House had been voted back to reign in runaway spending by the Democrats. So, President Obama wins the election by over 3 million votes and got over 300 votes in the Electoral College , but that's not a mandate? And yes, the House is still in GOP hands, but you lost over a dozen seats even after holding a majority of the state houses and redistricting the state to maximize your vote. And, in total, more people voted for the Democratic House members then for the GOP House members. Later Wednesday, Boehner gave what though of by most pundits as a more conciliatory stance when he said he wanted to work with the President. But The Speaker also said that the President need to come to the table with a plan that lowered tax rates while closing loopholes. Sound familiar? It should, since that's just what Romney ran on and lost. In other words, The House Speaker thinks what is needed is what the American people just voted down?
Then Thursday, the GOP PACS and pundits started to jump in. Karl Rove said that in truth, Romney lost because the Democrats suppressed the vote of the GOP by painting Romney as a rich businessman. So, GOP governors making voting harder by limiting early voting and putting strict ID laws in place isn't trying to restrict the vote, but telling the truth is? And later Thursday, GOP pundits form Bill O'Reilly to Ann Coulter to Rush Limbaugh said that the reason the GOP lost is that the demographics aren't what it used to be. No, to them, the problems of the GOP isn't policy, but what America looks like now.
So, it's should be apparent to everyone that this GOP isn't the same GOP from 20 years ago, or even from 8 years ago. So now, GOP, you are The Tea Party, and since facts and the truth doesn't matter to you, your mascot is an ostrich. Go stick your head in the sand, GOP, because your transformation is complete.
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