Oh my, the flags are flyin' upside down, and the Obama effigies once again are hangin' high in the trees. Yes sir, the Republican brotherhood of Idaho's most eloquent idiots are teaching by example on how to be a poor loser.

Assassination threats are in full swing, and many are in church praying that it happens. They know who they are, and so does history. They long for the good ol' days of crucifixions, lynchings, and the dark ages when heretics were burned at the stake. Good God, that damned word "change!" Can you imagine how they felt when they discovered that the Earth was round, and not flat like their heads?

The Nov. 16 Cd'A Press's Republican Opinions were real doozies. Basically, the same garbage we heard four years ago, recycled, and served once again to the Idaho brand of Republicans for their daily bread.

Basically, the re-election of President Obama to them is the seventh sign of the Apocalypse, Armageddon, and the affirmation of Obama the Anti-Christ. To them, the president is a Kenyan Communist, Socialist, Marxist, and a Muslim-loving terrorist. Satan has apparently sent him to take away your guns, your rights, your money, and then give it away to those pesky takers. Did I miss anything? Maybe I better call the Republicans' Archbishop Limbaugh to make sure?

So once upon a time when President Obama won the first time, he climbed into the car previously driven by George W. Bush. It was in a ditch, engine fried, and the transmission blown to pieces. Georgey gave him the keys, and said: If you try to spend any money to fix this baby, we will obstruct you in Congress like a blood clot. He wanted this car to be preserved as the crown jewel of eight years of GOP trickle down economics and deregulation that entitled Corporate America to take it all to bank (overseas), and our jobs as well (to China). And oh yes, a few more presents for you Mr. Obama; I started a war and didn't finish it, I didn't get Bin Ladin, and I never found the WMDs. Enjoy the recession, and know that the hammerheads that voted me in still love me and my policies. Go figure, and have a nice day!

Four years later, we all still have our guns, the car is out of the ditch and at least moving in the right direction, Bin Ladin is dead, GM is alive, and the troops are coming home. Obviously the work of a Communist traitor, huh?

This was despite the unanimous GOP opposition that turned the United States Congress into a rendering plant where all good legislation went to rot and die. What the Republicans did accomplish is start several new wars: The war on women, the war on illegal immigrants, the war on minorities, the war on teachers, the war on police, the war on firefighters, the war on Labor Unions, the war on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and on and on. Anything that benefited the middle class and poor was attacked as an entitlement, while everything benefiting the rich and corporate America was idolized and worshipped by Fox and friends.

Now, once again, the GOP is scrambling in defeat, and trying to figure out what happened. And they have found their same answer yet again: It's not their fault, it's all yours.

They're smart, and all the rest of the nation is communist dummies. Watch how that brilliance works out for them in the next elections.

President Obama apparently did not clean up their eight-year mess fast enough in four years. However, he has done most of what he said he would do, and he has been CONSISTENT and honest all the way. Then there is Romney, who has contorted himself into a pretzel on every single issue, lied his living carcass off, and refused to show us his back taxes. He refused to answer specific questions, sent our jobs to China, sent his money to Switzerland and the Cayman Islands, and then tried to add the White House to his list of mansions. After destroying him in the primaries, the Republicans then rationalized his behavior of serial lies and flip-flopping as "evolution," and then served up this four-time draft dodger for the highest seat in the nation as Commander In Chief of our Military. Inspiring, eh?

So Republican children: When you get in trouble for telling Mommy you got an A, but you really got a D, just explain that you are "evolving." Or better yet, refuse to show them your report card since they thought it was OK for Romney not to show us his taxes.

And when you don't get your way, or you get mad at school, just come home and hang your school books in a tree and burn them, or simply hang them upside down on your porch like your parents did to their American flag. Mommy and Daddy will be proud!

And when you get old enough, try to explain to them that one big difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans are still trying to find a clever way to persuade minorities to trust them with their words, while their hands are signing legislation against them. In contrast, the Democrats provide them a ladder of opportunity to earn the honor of joining them at a table in Congress as equals.

Now that, my friends, is evolution, whether you like it or not.

Jimmy Pappas is a Coeur d'Alene resident.