I have to send some well deserved respect to my friend Neil Cavuto for hammering the point home like few can. We may disagree far more than we agree, but on Fox News' Your World, Cavuto reduced Republican representatives Jean Schmidt of Ohio and Jason Chaffetz of Utah to stammering wrecks with evidence they protested against the stimulus to the national media as being wasteful and ineffective in creating jobs, then bragged to their constituents about how they maneuvered for large chunks of stimulus money to use in the effort to create lots of jobs in their districts. To my readers who might be angry at the idea that I am lauding the actions of someone from Fox News, if you can attack people when they do things you don't like, it's only fair (and balanced?) to note when they do the right thing.
By the way, it was revealed that dozens of Republican congresspeople and senators did and said much the same thing as Schmidt and Chaffetz with regard to the stimulus. When a tv camera was around, they criticized it, but then took credit for using it to help create jobs in the manner intended by the Obama administration in letters to their constituents.
About that Socialism word that Republicans like to throw around so much. Between elected Democrats and Republicans, there is only one elected official at the level of Senator or higher who has called for an entire industry to be nationalized (the very definition of a Socialist act) and that is none other than Republican Senator from South Carolina Lindsey Graham who in a February 2009 ABC interview said "To me, banking and housing are the root cause of this problem. I'm very much afraid any program to salvage the banks is going to require the government... I would not take off [the table] the idea of nationalizing the banks."
Before Republicans attempt to apply the word to President Obama, shouldn't they deal with Lindsey Graham, a member of their own caucus?
People are catching on to this, and more examples of Republican hypocrisy are being unearthed faster than new Tiger Woods paramours were coming out of the woodwork in the days following his little car accident. Republicans elected officials have completely shed their principles and become purely political animals who stand for only one thing and that is hurting Barack Obama's Presidency. While that may be fine for Republican Party bigwigs and their strategies, I doubt that that their constituents will see that as fulfilling their obligations as good representatives. Republicans are worse than merely a party of no (which would be bad enough), they are a hatchet job masquerading as a party. Nothing that they say means anything or should be taken seriously. It's high time they paid the price for behaving this way.
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