Why keep wishing failure on Obama?

I find it disheartening to hear Republicans heavyweights like Dick Cheney, Bobby Jindal and Fred Thompson wish failure on President Obama's plans to resurrect our economy. We are in the midst of the greatest financial disaster in a nearly a century. Instead of putting forth ideas and trying to work toward solutions, Republicans seem more content to let our economy implode. Their failure to constructively engage in finding solutions is tantamount to negligence, and their desire to see Obama's plans fail is near-treason. What makes this worse is that the Republican party led the charge that resulted in our economy's collapse. They worked aggressively to end regulation that might have prevented our financial system from running amok. Presidents Regan, Bush I, and Bush II run up the federal deficit and created the gaping budget deficit that Obama inherited. (Their concern for budget deficits rings hollow when history sheds light on their own fiscal irresponsibility.)

Republican leadership has failed to give us energy independence, making us dependent on despotic oil-producing regimes and despoiling our environment. And the Republican party took us into war in Iraq under false pretenses resulting in the deaths of thousands of Americans and countless Iraqis. Finally, Republican "leadership" created the greatest wealth disparity in the history of our nation and sowed the seeds for the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression. Obama has been in office for only 60 days. And in those 60 days he's had to address countless problems that threaten the lives of every American. He deserves our help in dragging our country out of this economic debacle with constructive ideas coming from all sides of the political spectrum. He does not deserve his fellow Americans to wish failure on our nation. Those who wish failure upon his plans wish failure on all of us.

Robert M. Sargis

Aurora