Jim Crow lives on in the GOP

Once, the GOP called it The Southern Strategy. Nixon pushed the Southern Strategy and Reagan made it Republican mantra:

The black man is the number one enemy of America.

Yes, I know the topic of southern racism turns off my readers. But, 75 percent of the Ninth District voted for Bush in 2000 and in 2004. In 2008 the Ninth District again voted 75 percent Republican.

Why?

In five national elections, the North Georgia electorate has denied reality. Reality hit the rest of the country in 2006 with the mid-term elections.

Republican policies do not work. That's reality.

With a national debt of $10.6 trillion dollars, North Georgia wasn't voting for a tax cut. The George Bush / GOP tax cuts increased the national debt $5 trillion dollars in eight years. In twenty years, according to OMB, the interest will be more than all taxes combined. Meaning, our taxes won't pay the interest and have anything left. Nothing left. Not even enough to buy a bullet for our troops, where ever they might be.

With the highest reported unemployment in 25 years, North Georgia wasn't voting to cut government work place regulations. Regulations don't cause unemployment. Bad management causes unemployment. Ask anyone that owns a foreign made car. Ask them. "Is GM, Chrysler, or Ford management team better than the team leading Nissan, Toyota, or BMW?"

Who's going to answer that question "Yes!" after the Big Three flew in private, corporate jets into Washington, D.C., where CEO's begged Congress for financial salvation?

No rational person would hire a limo, a driver, and a female escort for a bankruptcy hearing. Beggars can't be choosers.

North Georgia wasn't choosing the GOP to chop down government waste. What could be more wasteful than the Iraq War, a $3.1 trillion dollar budget, and a $700 billion dollar Wall Street bailout?

We fought the Iraq War over WMD that didn't exist. All we got was a dead dictator, over 4,000 American dead, and record profits for oil companies.

Clinton ran the government in 1998 with a budget of $1.7 trillion dollars. Ten years later, Bush and the GOP nearly doubled the budget. If we add back into the budget, the "emergency appropriations" and actual increases in the debt, Bush spends nearly $4 trillion dollars a year.

Here's the math on that.

A $5 trillion dollar increase in the debt in eight years. That's $625 billion a year as an average. This year, the debt increased over $1 trillion dollars in less than a ninety day period, August 15 to October 30. If we add the $1 trillion dollars of debt to the spending of $3.1 trillion, we just used up $4.1 trillion dollars (plus interest of $425 billion).

Compare that to Clinton's final budget of $1.9 trillion and a surplus to pay off debt of over $100 billion dollars.

If you ask me, Clinton took $1.8 trillion out of the private banking system in his last year. In his last year, Bush is taking $4.1 trillion out of the banking system.

So North Georgia wasn't voting for the GOP promises of less government regulation, less taxes, less debt, less spending, a ban on abortion, or an amendment to the Constitution to ban flag burning.

North Georgia was voting for the new theme song of the GOP, "Barack the Magic Negro" by Rush Limbaugh.

Why do I call it the GOP theme song?

Chip Saltsman distributed a CD containing “Barack the Magic Negro” as part of his campaign to be elected chairman of the Republican National Committee next month.

Read the "mainstream media piece" on the CD at this link.

If that song earns votes among the national leaders of the GOP, then racism motivates the average voter in North Georgia.