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Republicans are so entertaining. They seem to have no ideas and no creativity unless they're attacking our new president or someone who supports his agenda.

They seem to be everywhere, waiting to pounce on a pro-Obama comment online, surfing the web and planting nasty, often blatant lies about dems every time there's some new news to report.

And their response is always the same. Never- wow, America, we really screwed up voting for George Bush twice, what we're going to do now instead of bashing everything the new president tries to do, is come up with some creative ideas to help get this country out of this mess.

You don't hear that, instead they go into elaborate explanations about how the dems did it or why the current guy on the job is the reason we are so currently screwed.

I guess that is to be expected. They get it from their leaders. When Bill Clinton was running a smooth ship and roaring economy they were told, “Oh he just inherited the genius policies of Ronald Reagan. This surplus and booming economy has nothing to do with that godless heathen.”

I always wanted to ask and finally got my chance one day, if it's true that Bill Clinton's prosperous years were the byproduct of Reagan's political and financial super powers, doesn't that mean that Reagan's boom years were really the great and tremendous results of the highly ridiculed Jimmy Carter?

Of course, the Republican laughed. Oh no, that scenario didn't apply.

For years, while Bush was driving us into what Jon Stewart calls the Closterf*** to the Poorhouse, his followers were being told that the president doesn't employ people, the president doesn't control the economy, business does.

But now that our new president is installed all we hear about is how Republicans are catching conniptions about the escalating deficit, the unpaid for programs, and the skyrocketing unemployment. Oh- the stimulus to help the struggling, investment in public education, reforming the decrepit health care system and stopping the foreclosure- all that won't work, it's no good, it's draining us.

As though the CEO and Commander and chief of this country were responsible for that.

I recently went online to leave a message and let the public know about The 5 Dollar Revolution, a way to pay for health care without raising taxes. Before I could even finish typing two very nasty comments lit up my inbox.

Who criticizes a plan that doesn't penalize people who already love and have insurance and won't cost them anything? Only a person who uses their time and energy to tear down others so much the reflex to condemn shoots out like pus.

I have a tip for my republican brethren. Instead of sucking up the venom that is Rush and Sean, why don't you come up with a way to get us out of this mess? So you think everything the president has to offer is just poo-poo. So where's your idea?

Where's your plan? How do we fix health care? How do we improve education? How do we cut the deficit?

I'm still waiting.

And that, my friends, is the problem. When we- republicans- or anyone else, are so concerned about what someone else is doing we can't focus on what we can and should do.

Republicans are perfectly capable of blasting some woman who doesn't want to bring another child into the world (I'm not for abortion but I see why in some cases it looks like the best option), and they're capable of telling people to snap out of their whining and pull themselves up by the bootstraps.

So hear ye, hear ye, downtrodden and heavy hearted republicans: Get some balls and take your own advice. If you really love this country like you say you do, get some ideas and help get us out of this mess. After all, you started it.