So Easy Cavemen Can't Even Do It

Republicans make it so easy sometimes that it's not even fun. The so-called fiscally conservative Republicans (yes the same people who gave this country a $1.3 trillion debt) claim to be against the $410 billion omnibus spending bill because it contains earmarks pork. Yet 6 of the top 10 porkers are Republicans. And here we have pretty eyes Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina saying that the president should veto the bill and that earmarks are fine as long as they are for federal purposes and transparent. But Graham seems to double talk when asked about his very own $950,000 pork request for a convention center in Myrtle Beach, a request that has nothing to do with federal purposes. The very fiscally conservative Graham insists the convention center is necessary to stimulate the local economy. In other words his pork request is fine because it's for his state. Republicans are no more against pork than they are against big government.

That brings us to the GOP's next Big Idea when it comes to solving our current financial crisis. Their plan is to freeze all federal spending. Way to think like it's 1929. If you'll recall John McCain actually ran his campaign on the promise of freezing all federal spending once in office. It was a philosophy the American people widely rejected and here we have House Minority Leader John Boehner calling for a complete freeze on government spending. It's all they know. They are cavemen rubbing two sticks together hoping to invent the wheel. The worst thing the government could do right now is to freeze spending. That's Hoovernomics, but it's the philosophy of the Republican Party. And they're proud of it. They flaunt publicly their ideas of spending freezes while lobbying for money for a convention center. Next thing you know they're going to be telling us that we should amend the Constitution to fit the Bible.