If you’re puzzled over Republicans’ apparent inability to offer timely, creative and effective solutions to help dig America out of this economic black hole — one into which their own failed policies have sucked us lightyears from where we began — you’re not alone. Fresh ideas nowhere to be found, GOP leaders still seem pre-programmed to try bamboozling the citizens of this land using the very same stale gimmicks — more tax cuts for corporations and the affluent — that helped get us into this mess.

DILLON’S NOTE TO READERS: Due to the unexpectedly considerable time demands — both in closely following the 2008 U.S. elections as well as in handling the ongoing considerable technical needs of this site — I have decided to take a temporary blogging break until the start of the incoming Obama administration in January.