Please name me ONE thing republicans have authored or done, in the last 8 years, that was aimed at helping an average american. I don't think that porkbarrel spending or throwing money at Katrina/emergencies should count. I mean legislative, I mean policy directives. Even the consumer economy energizer stimulus package was a high interest loan to ourselves, while huge corporations and fatcats get massive payouts of OUR money as tax breaks and subsidies. No interest.

I don't think you'll find one. So let's go back 30 years or so. Anything? Anyone? Bueller?

My opinion is the repubs, now openly in league with the corporate media (tell me again why GE, NBC, Viacom, Murdoch, etc. would ever be espousing leftist agendas - oh you mouthers of liberal-media bias) are not good at anything else, other than manipulation of media and it's soft-brained targets (Us!).

It is the only thing they do. Their ideas are empty and sugar-coated and only serve to give our wealth and liberty to Corporations, without the avg. american catching on.
Their behavior and ethics are abominable...yet they are the party of trust and sobre judgement. Yeah, Like the Maverick and the Milf. Their only campaign tactic, aside from smearing and spinning and smearing and spinning, is to never stop campaigning.

They use EVERYTHING for political purpose. Nothing more shameless and empty than the hand-wringing over the gulf states (all republican governors who invited ONLY Johnny McPOW) it was a terribly transparent and overtly political move. The war was a campaign tactic, bin-token was a campaign and political exploitation move. Everything that happens on earth is always twisted to prove that they were right, and the lefties are wrong. Palin's pregnancy problems are vicious leftwing attacks, and according to Doocy and many others, if the vicious rabid left would only leave these poor people alone, we could concentrate on the real problems that we all face blah blah blah

So I again challenge ANYONE ANYWHERE to provide ANYTHING that even remotely shows the republican party EVER concentrating on real problems we all face.
Have they ever made education better? Made roads safer? Air? Water? College cheaper? Equitable taxes? Balanced a budget? Maintain a surplus? Keep us OUT OF A WAR?

The only thing these guys can do is lie. Spin. Manipulate the soft-brains using the most potent instrument ever devised by man....all encompassing 24/7 media. And the only reason they ever win is because they OWN the media. Literally OWN it. How did fine americans, going back to Carter, get turned into raving panty-waists EVERY SINGLE TIME, even if in real life they outshone their opponent with class, education, charisma, valour, medals, etc? Nothing is more effective than 24/7 bombardment of the populace with messages that the Dem is a limpwristed, kneejerking, pantswetting appeaser. When a person is ridiculed and derided so unfairly, so insistently, so often, and so completely....they cannot overcome it. Superman could not overcome it. And it is the model going back at least to Carter. And it never ends. The only thing allowed to be said about Carter, on national airwaves for 30 years, has been "Worst President Ever". End of discussion, no other viewpoints allowed. No other viewpoints were sought. Dukakis = Fag. Gore = spineless effeminate weak-kneed bloviator. Kerry = inveterate flip flopper and war criminal. Obama = lily livered appeaser and closet muzzlim.

Meanwhile, slimy, corrupt, deserter chickenhawks get elected. Clinton was the only one to somehow come out the other side. Regardless of his (in comparison) awesome governance.....he left in disgrace severely wounded with a 24/7 ongoing hackjob in perpetual progress. And as usual, beating him in effigy nearly every day since. But But But Clinton did it too....Clinton's fault....not a single minute of Love on-air for Clinton since. No retrospectives, no glowing on the list of accomplishments, yet we have been the recipients of hourlong specials on the wonderfulness of LeChimp and he isn't even out of office yet.

If I could make one plea.....gentle reader.....disabuse yourself of the notion that the Media or Corporate Press or the Titans of todays world who hold the reins on our national addiction/brainwashing machine....TV....

Disabuse yourself of the notion that TV and CorpMedia are in any way rational actors. They are not neutral. They never have been. Their news dept. used to be fairly neutral. But that ended over 30 years ago.
They are the machine that runs our country. They impart our knowledge and news to us. They make the corporate takeover of america possible. They cover for themselves. They do not scrutinize themselves. They do not make plain how they benefit from a material, consumeristic world. They will not show you ANYTHING that might jeapardize their control of the Gizmo. They do not want to talk about how lesser corporations are their clients and YOU are their targets. They do not get paid when you buy something. They get paid to talk you into it.

Please stop thinking we will ever get a fair shake, or that the problems with media are just some unfair shenanigans and that some White Knight is going to ride in and put things right. Who needs Big Brother with loudspeakers in the stairwells? We all sit in front of the glowing machine and take our orders quite niceley with this Gizmo, thank you.

The one thing the media cannot do, is make something real where it does not exist.....and that brings us back to Republican accomplishments. For the People. They cannot make them appear, where they do not exist. At least we can with some surety, make a list of the things the republicans have done for us all. In retrospect, the spinning is over, the sugar coating has worn off....what have they done for us?

A small sidenote....since the snide rightwinger will say that in the last 30 years, liberals have ruined all the good things the rightwing wanted to do....well:
With the last 8 years, the republicans have got everything they wanted, everything they told us would be achieved if only we had more rightwing supreme court judges. If only we had more evangelicals running things. If only we gave away more to companies and stopped paying shiftless welfare moms...blah blah blah.
Well they got all those things. Almost 8 unfettered years of complete control, complete Congressional acquiescence. Did it make any of our lives ONE JOT better? Are we any safer? More moral? Has God blessed us? Gas cheaper? Medical costs coming down? Terrrrrsts trembling in abject fear? Other than cronyism, has anything flourished? Even rightwingers lives are not better.
How do the republicans ever even get 10,000 votes in this country? Well, the answer is the TV and Rightwing Radio. Corporate Media.