The elections are over. Republicans have taken over the House but not the Senate.

The fighting is about to get worse; nothing will get done. It’s business as usual. Maybe that is a good thing, since the Republicans will have to start sharing the blame for all that keeps going wrong.

I am a strong supporter of President Obama. He has made the tough decisions. Many of them were not popular. He is looking at the long term, while many cannot see beyond their nose.

The nation tends to forget the decisions that were made in the eight years prior to President Obama being elected. From the day President Obama took office, all of the blame started shifting toward the new President. If a Republican had been elected president, he or she would have continued the policies Bush had put in place and set the scene for any president trying to correct this terrible situation this country is in. No president could get the United States out of this situation. It will take four years to stop this downslide and another four to see an upward sustainable trend.

Ex-President Bush messed this country up. Let us put the blame where it should be. Most of the United States must think this, if not, President Obama would not have won election by the margin he did.

Ex-President Bush will go down in history as one of the worst presidents in the history of the United States, if not the worst.

We need to give President Obama a chance to start cleaning this mess up. He said from the beginning it will not be an easy or overnight task. Now it will be even harder because of the new House.

I know I will receive many comments because of my next few statements. Remember this is my opinion.

I am a Vietnam veteran and fought to maintain the rights to my opinion.

People of the Republican party care about one thing, money. Their main objective is to make and keep money by any means necessary. That includes lying, cheating, stealing and more.

Democrats have always been about the working man. Helping the unfortunate, improving wages, affordable health care, decent housing, etc. Republicans couldn’t care less about any of that unless you are working for them, going to their clinics, living in their run down housing, etc.

Anybody that is not rich should be a Democrat. I see so many low- to middle-class working people bragging and proud to call themselves Republicans. You have to be uneducated.

When in college, I did a history paper as to why each article was put in the United States Constitution. I learned each article had a monetary basis.

Visit the local library or surf the web.

Johnny Franklin

Natchez resident