The Tax and Spend Republicans are at it again.

I see last week state Republicans in the State Senate voted for an enormous gas tax to help repair crumbling roads. Why do the Republicans enjoy the reputation of being the "anti-taxes" party when all they do is tax us to death? This could mean more than thirty cents a gallon. Okay, so gas prices have fallen recently. Convenient time to run this crap through. But when it goes back to $4 a gallon, now it's gonna be $4.30. How many times have you run to the station across the street because their gas was 5 cents less?

The Republicans have put a tax on my retirement. They have raised fees at the Secretary of State's Office. Call it what you want but that's a tax. Everywhere you go there is a new Republican tax, and then they have the gall to call Democrats the "Tax and Spend" party.

The fiscal conservative President Reagan left us a $200 Billion deficit. The fiscal conservative Bush 41 in one term left us with a $300 Billion deficit. The "Tax and Spend Liberal" President Clinton left us with a $200+ Billion SURPLUS, and then fiscal conservative President G. W. Bush left us with a $482 Billion deficit. Will the day ever come the voting public starts thinking straight?

So now were going to get hammered at the pumps even more. Wouldn't have to be if the Washington Republicans would just sign the President's Jobs bill, that has been on their desk so long it's gathering dust. But no, no way. (He's half-black, don't you know). Instead they are gearing up, in exchange for a few summer jobs, to run an ugly nuisance through our back yard for us to trip over forever. And of course all the oil will go to Europe, South America, and China. But the Republicans will be their chest and feel all triumphant.

Will Rogers said it best: "Don't be to hard on Congress. They're the best men money can buy."