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Amidst the usual Obama bashing by the Republican Party, on Monday RNC Chairman Michael Steele answered a question, and in doing so summed up why the members of Republican Party are threatening themselves into extinction faster that the global warming they deny is threatening polar bears.

Speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Steele was asked several times about the Republican Party’s health care policy proposals to stand up against President Obama’s health care plan. He was asked why the GOP hadn’t laid out a plan yet and he stumbled and stuttered his way around a non-answer. When asked if he could name any specific GOP policies, he gave the answer that most people would expect from the top man of the party of “No!”, "Look I don't do policy," he said. "I'm not a legislator. My point in coming here was to establish a tone."

The only “tone” Michael Steele and the Republican Party are establishing, is the fact that they “tone deaf” to the needs of this country, and totally deaf to the wishes of the voters. The only “tones” they seem to be hearing are the same old song and dance from big insurance and the other special interests, who are afraid of any change in the status quo. But that’s only natural because conservatism dictates that they be afraid of and suspicious of even the slightest change.

Big insurance is afraid, not because they will be put out of business by Obama’s plan, because he is not by any means proposing a government run health care system that would put private insurance companies out of business. Health insurance lobbyists are willing to sacrifice the health and well-being of millions of Americans who either have no health insurance, or would lose it if they got really sick, and why? The answer is market share.

In order to avoid a possible drop in market share, they have been spending millions of dollars in lobbying money to prop up the candidacies of any politician who will show even the slightest favor towards stopping health care reform in its tracks just like they did in the 1990’s during the Clinton Administration. Opponents will call it “socialism”, or a “dangerous experiment”, and will try to convince you that we have the greatest health care system in the world, but don’t let them fool you. Sure it’s a great system if you can afford it, but tens of millions of us can’t. Health care costs are destroying families at an alarming rate, and will continue to do so until the system can be changed.

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The “Tea Bagging parties” that were supposed to demonstrate this massive movement of America’s unhappiness with the Obama economic and tax policies in a weak correlation to the Boston Tea Party, did prove one thing, the Republicans, and other conservatives who took part in these protests are sorely out of touch with modern day America. They were whipped into a mindless frenzy by Fox News and conservative talk show hosts, who used millions of dollars worth of air time, had they had to pay for it, to try and once again focus their aim on Obama and the liberals as “The Enemy”.

Forget the fact that most people didn’t even really know what they were protesting, only that the Right-Wing Talking-Heads told them to do it, so they did it. And though it was touted by that same bunch of liars as “grass roots” there is nothing grass roots about a movement that was pushed and promoted so much by all the top names in the Right-Wing media.

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The images that are coming out of Europe are no less than shocking. An American president being treated with enthusiasm abroad is something we have come to expect to be a thing of the past. Europe is treating the President and the First Lady like rock stars, sort of like the British Invasion of the 1960’s in reverse.

Yet while the rest of the world seems to be embracing a new America and its new president, back at home, it seems that little has changed. Yesterday while President Obama was building bridges with the leaders of the top 20 economic nations, including our so-called enemies China and Russia, the United States House of Representatives passed Obama’s budget strictly along party lines.

Each day the opposing party, the Republican Party, defines itself not only as the party of opposition but also the party of “No”. While Obama exudes positive energy, the Republicans search for a leader and exude nothing but negativity.

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On Friday, when John McCain announced Sarah Palin as his running-mate at a political rally in Dayton, Ohio, he made a curious statement:

"She's exactly who I need, she's exactly who this country needs to help me fight the same old Washington politics of me first and country second."

On the surface this looks like a well-written political statement, designed to convince Americans of why he chose her. But the fact that it was made by John McCain, and the way the statement was constructed makes it hugely hypocritical. Let’s break it down.

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