GOOPER of The Week: Entire Republican Congress
Stan Grimes
April 02, 2009
I have been seriously thinking about who should win this week´s GOOPER award. It´s been a tough decision. So many potential winners, Eric Cantor, Mitch McConnell, John McCain, and of course John Boehner. I just couldn´t come up with a winner. Instead, I have chosen the entire Republican Party as this week´s GOOPER winners. Wow, how generous of me. I´m scaring myself.
Having only read those parts publicized by the media, the Republican´s budget proposal made me gasp at their inability to grasp. Among some of their ideas, cutting education spending by twenty-plus billion dollars, severely disabling the Medicare program, reducing Social Security benefits, and placing a freeze on domestic spending. Gee, that will certainly help the future of our elderly and seniors. The entire proposal is going in the opposite direction of our country. What´s new?
The Republicans have lost their footing in D.C. In fact, I think they are on the cusp of losing their entire organization. With the likes of Michael Steele at the party´s helm, it is difficult to make sense of their purpose. I´m not sure they have one. It´s the same old tax relief for the rich and the faint whisper of trickle-down fiscal ideology. It has never worked. It didn´t work for Reagan, Bush I, or Bush II. The same old failed policies are not going to solve our country´s healthcare program or our educational programs. With their policies in ten years we will have less educated and sicker citizens. But, of course, the rich will continue to get richer (and of course be able to pay for their healthcare).
The Party of No just is not in touch with reality or with their nation. They have decided to say No to anything proposed by Democrats, a decision that will haunt them in 2012 and beyond. Poor people are tired of the Gestapo´s leather boots tearing down their doors and forcing them into foreclosure and joblessness. If President Obama miraculously floated down out of the clouds and turned the U.S. into a utopian society, the Republicans would complain about the fit of his robe or that socialism has finally arrived.
Can I say anything good about the Grand Old Obstructionist Party? Sure, someday they won´t be around. Since their base consists mostly of middle-aged white men and women, they will disappear through attrition. You think I´m kidding? Anyone with a partial nerve stem in their brain and are under twenty-five surely would prefer a democracy for all the people and not just the wealthiest of people.
My congratulations to the GOOPER winners, there are just too many to mention one by one. So a grand hooray to all of you and may the redness in your necks dissipate with the wet weather we´ve been having lately. Perhaps a "whiter shade of pale" is possible. I´ll ask Joe Cocker the next time I see him.
Having only read those parts publicized by the media, the Republican´s budget proposal made me gasp at their inability to grasp. Among some of their ideas, cutting education spending by twenty-plus billion dollars, severely disabling the Medicare program, reducing Social Security benefits, and placing a freeze on domestic spending. Gee, that will certainly help the future of our elderly and seniors. The entire proposal is going in the opposite direction of our country. What´s new?
The Republicans have lost their footing in D.C. In fact, I think they are on the cusp of losing their entire organization. With the likes of Michael Steele at the party´s helm, it is difficult to make sense of their purpose. I´m not sure they have one. It´s the same old tax relief for the rich and the faint whisper of trickle-down fiscal ideology. It has never worked. It didn´t work for Reagan, Bush I, or Bush II. The same old failed policies are not going to solve our country´s healthcare program or our educational programs. With their policies in ten years we will have less educated and sicker citizens. But, of course, the rich will continue to get richer (and of course be able to pay for their healthcare).
The Party of No just is not in touch with reality or with their nation. They have decided to say No to anything proposed by Democrats, a decision that will haunt them in 2012 and beyond. Poor people are tired of the Gestapo´s leather boots tearing down their doors and forcing them into foreclosure and joblessness. If President Obama miraculously floated down out of the clouds and turned the U.S. into a utopian society, the Republicans would complain about the fit of his robe or that socialism has finally arrived.
Can I say anything good about the Grand Old Obstructionist Party? Sure, someday they won´t be around. Since their base consists mostly of middle-aged white men and women, they will disappear through attrition. You think I´m kidding? Anyone with a partial nerve stem in their brain and are under twenty-five surely would prefer a democracy for all the people and not just the wealthiest of people.
My congratulations to the GOOPER winners, there are just too many to mention one by one. So a grand hooray to all of you and may the redness in your necks dissipate with the wet weather we´ve been having lately. Perhaps a "whiter shade of pale" is possible. I´ll ask Joe Cocker the next time I see him.
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