When right wing Nutjobs like Jindal and Sanford stick to their "small
government' principles and refuse some federal aid (and the
accompanying ball and chain) they're partaking in "Ideological
warfare" and "political posturing".
But when liberal democrats stick to their socialistic big government
principles and create the world's largest spending bill (of which most
is pork and will actually hurt the economy long-term) they're heralded
as angels intent on "helping constituents feed and house their famiies".
Gotta love the impartiality of the NYT, but I shouldn't be surprised,
they did Endorse Obama for President.
"A democracy will continue to exist up
until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves
generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the
majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits
from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will
finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy ..."
- Alexander Tyler, 1787
Jarrad
On Feb 25, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Lance McCulley wrote:
> Imagine yourself jobless and struggling to feed your family while
> the governor of your state threatens to reject tens of millions of
> dollars in federal aid earmarked for the unemployed. That is
> precisely what is happening in poverty-ridden states like Louisiana
> and Mississippi where Republican governors are threatening to turn
> away federal aid rather than expand access to unemployment insurance
> programs in ways that many other states did a long time ago.
>
> What makes these bad decisions worse is that they are little more
> than political posturing by rising Republican stars, like Gov. Bobby
> Jindal of Louisiana and Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina. This
> behavior reinforces the disturbing conclusion that the Republican
> Party seems more interested in ideological warfare than in working
> on policies that get the country back on track.
>
> Fortunately, as President Obama prepares for his first address to
> Congress on Tuesday evening, voters of both parties have noticed.
> About three-quarters of those polled in a recent New York Times/CBS
> News survey — including more than 60 percent of Republicans — said
> Mr. Obama has been trying to work with Republicans. And 63 percent
> said Republicans in Congress opposed the stimulus package primarily
> for political reasons, not because they thought it would be bad for
> the economy. It should be sobering news for Republicans that about 8
> in 10 said the party should be working in a bipartisan way.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/opinion/24tue1.html?_r=1
>
> -Lance
>
> >
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