Weeks ago Senator Jon Kyl said no Republican would vote for the economic stimulus bill, so that in six months when it fails the Republicans can say they had no input. Not one Republican House vote was cast on this legislation and only three Senators voted to push the bill through. It’s as if the Republicans are digging in their heels just to be on the opposing side. After the stimulus bill was passed Republican House leader John Boehner said “you can’t blame us” (meaning the Republicans). They really can’t say anything about the spending on this bill when under their watch trucks full of cash and weapons vanished in Iraq.
Senator Judd Gregg from New Hampshire withdrew his willingness to be the Commerce Secretary because he couldn’t be true to his Republican fiscal conservatism in an administration controlled by Democrats. Why didn’t he announce this before the wheels for his appointment had been greased by the governor of New Hampshire pledging to appoint a Republican Senator to replace Senator Gregg? His actions are striking in that they put party ideology before country.
When the Federalist party dissolved, members who had also been founders said that it was good so then they could put country above party.
Today’s politicians use party loyalty to trick us with the illusion of being a self governing nation, their arguments over spending are all for show. After all, the Republicans take your money and keep it, the Democrats take your money and give it away, otherwise they’re interchangeable, beholden to the same large campaign contributors.
JFK said the “common enemies of all mankind are tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself”. The one thing we all hold in common irregardless of party, is that we are all in hot water, the world is roiling over oil, globalization, concentration of wealth and wars.
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