It Took Less Than A Week

In less than a week, the joy and enthusiasm of the Obama inauguration is gone. As evidenced by the appearance of John Boehner on ‘Meet the Press’, it is clear that the so-called loyal opposition is much more opposed, and much less than loyal.

Boehner spoke of how the President’s plan for movement forward  on the economy won’t work. That said after mouthing words about wishing for the administration to succeed. I suppose that the phrase ‘on our terms’ is what was not voiced. With nothing substantial to add to the conversation, he merely gave some vague references to the way that the Republican party will look out for the taxpayers of the nation. Earlier in the interview he had spoken about how tax relief would make things better, as if the Bush tax cuts were not kept in place, small business would be stifled.

It seems that the man either hasn’t been paying attention, or lives in a world so filtered by his own notions that he hasn’t seen the devastation of the last eight years. Or saving that, perhaps the man has not seen how the shambles started in the Reagan administration, and ‘trickle-down economics’ is a theory that has been flushed down the toilet of history, as pure, unadulterated waste. Unbiased reviews of this notion have shown that the revenue spurred by the lessened taxes never catches up with the original revenue under the original tax plans.

Now, John McCain has decided that he must also oppose the plans of the current administration, citing the idea that less than the appropriate number of jobs will be created.

What about simply thinking about jobs renewed? Why shouldn’t the people laid off from jobs in the downturn be the very first to get jobs back? If some of the state and local projects that are ’shovel ready’ are begun, the number of people put to work will far outstrip the number of ’shovels’ put to work. Or don’t the Republicans seem to see this?

I haven’t done it yet, but I am considering looking to see if constantly negative Republicans, such as Boehner and Shelby, have ever voted ‘yea’ for anything other than tax cuts.  It seems that the logical extension of their philosophy on saving the taxpayers money would extend to their own salaries, but I have not explicitly seen that these Congresspersons voted against the last round of pay raises for themselves.

Boehner, McCain, and others seem to be quick to say no, but are slow to put forth any ideas other than the said refrain about reducing taxes.

I am fully willing to hear anything that Republicans have to say, but we have been shown that merely reducing taxes is not a panacea. Far from it, it leads down the path to destruction. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a poster boy for the Republican party, has given in to the idea that services can only be paid for by taxation. Why can’t his fellow Republicans grasp this?

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Quote of the Day:Houses should be more like ovens. Self-insulating and self-cleaning!
–rdude

(while cleaning room)