Tuesday's victories by the Republican Party tell me that my fellow Americans' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter.
It was only 10 months ago that we were talking about the country going into the worst depression in our history. And who put us there? The Republicans.
When Barack Obama took office, he told us it would take at least two years before our economy would "normalize." First we'd have to stabilize the banking system so they could once again start loaning money to small businesses, followed by bringing down our high unemployment numbers. According to the latest factual information, he is right on schedule.
In the past 10 months, Obama and the Democratic Party (with a few exceptions) attacked global warming, our dysfunctional healthcare system, two unpopular wars and almost everything Americans are supposed to care about.
During those same 10 months, the Republican Party's only purpose was to say no to everything that would improve our lives and do everything to help bring down our government. It took eight years plus to get rid of all our laws that would have prevented corporations from getting us into this mess in the first place, thanks to the Republicans.
Is our attention span that short that we no longer remember what our country was like before the Democrats got into office? According to the latest polls, independents are actually voting to put Republicans back in office again. For the sake of our children and grandchildren, couldn't they at least wait another year and two months?
-- Steve Binder, Oxnard