What's the deal with the Republican Party?

Since Obama has been elected he has not been able work effectively with Wall St. and the stock market has continued to tumble. Also, Timothy Geithner is not helping the case, what with his extremely vague opening speech about how we're going to fix the economy; a speech which contained no definitive points on how we're actually going to fix the economy.

And I think that many conservatives are correct in their assumption that Obama's using "clever politics" in getting all of this spending provisioned in this bill for things like Healthcare and Education.

But I happen to agree with Obama's agenda and if this is how he can get the money needed to fix this country then so be it. And don't tell me that if the Republicans were in power they wouldn't be taking advantage of this economic situation to make the Bush tax cuts permanent and continue to stuff the pockets of the wealthiest Americans and purport that "trickle down economics" will continue to rule the day and fix the economy. The major difference here is the old trickle down economics vs. the Keynesian view of economics. I think we've seen how trickle down economics has worked for the past eight years.

I also think it is great that we are investing in the sciences, "going green", universal healthcare, and education, but Peggy Noonan made a great point on Morning Joe this morning. In a nutshell she said that we need to stabilize the economy first, and Obama should be focused primarily on stabilizing the economy, even in his speeches, and then he can roll out his agenda and go on tangents about why we need universal healthcare and education for everyone. I happen to agree with Ms. Noonan on this point.

The Obama administration has done well in most areas thus far, with the exception of getting the stock market to turn around and bring us out of this recession/depression. There are roughly 13 opening in Treasury that nobody wants, and the Obama administration is having a difficult time filling them. Hopefully we all realize that getting us out of this recession is going to take time and a lot of MONEY, but I think that the Obama administration could be doing a better job of getting us, and Wall St., some definitive answers on how they're going to start cleaning up this mess.

Now that being said, am I the only person who thinks the Republican party is a joke today? The minute Obama was elected, who becomes the face of the RNC? A black guy, Michael Steele, and an Indian, Bobby Jindal. This is why I really can't stand the Republican party; they must really think we're a bunch of mindless lemmings. It's almost as if they said, "Oh so you want a black guy? We'll give you a black guy!" As if race is all that matters here.

Am I alone on this? Does anyone else see through this? As much of a joke as this whole debacle between the RNC and Rush Limbaugh is, which is brilliant politics on the part of the Obama administartion I might add, I happen to think that Rush speaks for a vast majority of conservatives; as sad as that is.

OK, I'm getting off my soapbox.