Will these Republican obstructionists ever shut the hell up?
Courtesy CNN
From CNN:
Though they support some federal action to help their states recover from the recession, several Republican governors said Sunday they plan to turn down a portion of what’s offered in the stimulus bill that President Obama signed last week.
“If we were to take the unemployment reform package that they have, it would cause us to raise taxes on employment when the money runs out — and the money will run out in a couple of years,” Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.
At issue is a portion of the unemployment assistance stipulated by the stimulus bill, which provides federal dollars to expand unemployment insurance in the states. In exchange for accepting that, states would have to expand the number of people who are given jobless benefits.
Once again, we have Republicans playing politics with our lives in the worst economy imaginable. Do they have any sense of proportion - at all? Are their petty, failed principles worth sacrificing the livelihood and survival of the people they’ve been hired to represent? I guess so.
I suppose their republican ideals - those ideals they were so quick to put aside when George Bush rolled his pork barrel into their states and let them pile on - are worth destroying lives for now that democrats are in office. Sure, they’ll try to make it seem like this is about more than their need to control the conversation and the legislation, but it’s not. It’s a temper tantrum - one that will cost many of us a great deal.
It cannot be emphasised enough that these people have squandered our futures with their dismal decisions. No one seems to realize that bad decisions have consequences. These people should learn this, but somehow it seems beyond that capability. Instead, they’ll spend their time (on your tax dollars) souring the conversation with partisan garbage that is largely opinion with nothing of fact to back it up. Besides, ask yourself this - when have these people been right about anything in the last decade? Any answers? Didn’t think so.
What they will do is turn down the unemployment provision and, when their state has more unemployed than employed, they will claim it’s due to the failure of the stimulus. Always blaming someone, this lot. Pathetic and unworthy of the offices they hold.
