By Jim Hoover

Barack, I know you have been busy. I followed your schedule last week.

While House Republicans were trying to reinvent the truth about their House voting against Medicare, you were producing your long-form birth certificate to shame Trump, who has none; comforting disaster victims in the South; visiting Gabby Gifford in Florida; were doing standup at the Correspondent’s dinner; and then took out bin Laden in Pakistan.

The latter was the culmination of the painstaking research and a flawless 8 month plan to accomplish what the past swaggering, braggadocio Republican president could never do.

With your announcement, Fox News faltered and Republican demagogues – all – tried to hide their dismay.

Then they looked for cracks in the announcement and where they found none, they ripped them.

Incessant masters of vilification and insult (got to be good at something), Republicans gulped and groped for more of their “He’s-not-one-of-us” in their din of dirt.

I know, you are not patient about progressive criticism, especially after your present accomplishments.

But could you formulate a foolproof (and I don’t necessarily speak of Republicans but they are most of the fools making it hard) to do something about the more than 6 million Americans who have been out of work for six months or longer, and the more than 4 million who have been jobless for more than a year.

It doesn’t seem like anybody in Washington cares about the middle class. I must say this, because it is true: You have done a lot for rich Wall Street principals of all kinds but not as much for Main Street.

Do you really have any concept what the rich are doing to our country? They want all of the power and money. In their plan all workers are chattels, not people. Don’t you see that their patsies in government, Republicans, have conspired with the corporate elite to accomplish this?

And this was after they belly-whomped all men and women by attacking funds for family planning.

Time and again, Republicans have demonstrated their distaste for the people. Their repulsion and disrespect of the people is out in the open. The Ryan budget plan that almost all Republicans approved in the House was a slap in the face of all Americans who are not rich, Republicans thinking average Americans are too stupid to even know what they are doing.

Their utter lack of empathy is only in contrast to their words that seduced angry voters – jobs, jobs they said.

Hidden behind this lie were plans to end Medicare, attack family planning, and end all abortions. Their Republican brothers at the state level were part of the attack on the middle class: end worker and union rights and redistribute income and wealth from the middle class and the poor to the rich.

For the life of me, I find it hard to understand what emotion could prompt any non-wealthy American to vote for Republicans with lying eyes, campaign coffers full of plutocratic money, a used-car salesman spiel, and a hollow heart.

Bill Maher on his last show said that 30% of Americans will always vote Republican because of paranoia, greed or racism. That got laughs, but it doesn’t produce jobs.

First, we must realize that we need Democrats in majorities in Washington and in the various states. Republicans have proven to be enemies of the middle class and the poor.

Mr. President, you did not bargain with Osama bin Laden. Why should you bargain with these terrorists that are running Capitol Hill?

Republicans have proven themselves capable of the same willingness to use life and freedom as  chattels as bin Laden  – attacking the wrong nation after 9/11, screwing the people for the gain of a few, threatening to shut down government, and holding our credit hostage for their own gain.

Right and the people are on your side.

Please act like it.