It’s frightening to me that polling shows the Republican Party picking up significant power in the midterns. I just do not understand how people’s memories could possibly be so short. Don’t they remember the huge mess that George W. Bush left us with in January of 2009?

And it’s not just that the Republican President Bush left us a huge mess, it’s that the Republican Party has made a calculated decision to obstruct everything President Obama and the Democratic members of the House and Senate have tried to do in order to clean up the mess.

The Republican Party have put their own political fortunes ahead of the needs of the United States over and over again over the last two years. They’ve continually obstructed all positive movement while also spreading many lies about President Obama. And now American voters want to reward them for it? It’s unthinkable!

When will people turn off the noise of the right wing lie machine and begin taking a close look at what the Republicans want for the future of the United States.

I would love to say that it is simply a return to the failed policies of George W. Bush since that would be bad enough. But it’s actually far worse than that. By the standards of the Republican Tea Party of 2010, President is a “liberal.”

The GOP agenda for next year when they hope to control both the Senate and the House include the following:

1. Turn Social Security over to Wall Street. They want the fat cats on Wall Street to have access to your Social Security money.

2. Dismantle Medicare. The GOP hated Medicare when it got started in the ’60s and they still hate it today.

3. Extend the George W. Bush tax cuts for the rich that helped destroy the US economy and greatly increased the deficit.

4. Get rid of the 17th amendment of the US Constitution. Yes, for some bizarre reason they think that citizens should not have a right to vote for their own Senators, instead party politicians should get to choose them.

5. Begin ridiculous “investigations” into the Obama administration. I’m not joking, they’ve already said that they plan on starting investigations on anything and everything as soon as they get a majority. And this after the Democrats never did any investigations of the real crimes committed by the Bush admin?

It’s because of this frightening agenda that I must endorse every Democratic candidate running for congress in 2010. Whether it be Congressman Boucher in the 9th district of Virginia or any other Democratic Congressman or Senator running against the Republican Tea Party. It’s certainly not that the Democrats are perfect; they are not. It’s that the Republican Party of 2010 is clearly very dangerous to the future prospects of America. We are in too precarious of a position to let these far right wing politicians get any sort of real power.

It’s already clear that President Barack Obama will be the right choice in 2012 against any of the truly sorry GOP possibilities.