Heck No I Am Not Proud Of Republicans!

A Liberty Reborn Exclusive

Upon the news that Republicans in the House of Representatives stood firm against Porkapolooza 2009 (aka the Obama Stimulus Plan) I immediately got the question, “Are you proud of Republicans now?” from someone that has been very upset at my harsh tones levied at the GOP over the past couple years. My answer? In short, no.

When the vote in the House came up, all Republicans voted against the bill and were joined by several Democrats denying President Obama a victory he would be able to point to and claim his bipartisan credentials. Certainly I was amazed that not a single House Republican was able to be picked off by the Messiah and his lead disciple, Nancy Pelosi. But I also realize that it does not take a political genius to realize that even a single Republican, no matter how liberal, voting for this bill would have been touted as a “bipartisan” success for the President. And with three wanna-bes in the Senate named Specter, Snowe and Collins siding with Obama on the plan you will now have the bill proclaimed as such anyway.

Recognizing that, any House Republican that voted for it would have been an idiot.

Why am I not proud of Republicans? I am not proud of Republicans because all I have heard from them is that the bill as it was proposed contained too much pork and not enough real stimulus. What this means is that if there had been enough real stimulus included along with even some unconstitutional pork, they probably could have been cajoled to vote for it. In other words, they would have accepted usurpations of the limited powers granted to them by we the people if they would have gotten more of their way than they did.

That is not something to be proud of and no true conservative would be.

I cannot be proud of a party that I do not trust to do the right things when nobody is looking. Had the nation’s eyes not been focused like a laser beam on them and watching their every move I dare say that many of the Republicans in the House may well have voted for a bad bill. How can I say that? How can I be certain? Isn’t that just conjecture on my part? HA! Surely you jest! We have years upon years of unconstitutional pork spending to which Republicans have attached their names as evidence of this. Recently we had many Republicans blindly jumping off the cliff along with the rest of the lemmings with the Paulson bailout. Currently we have an omnibus spending bill filled with Republican pork as well.

So do not play dumb with me and do not feign surprise when I tell you that one stand by a group of politicians scared out of their wits does not impress me or make proud. Do not insinuate that I should start heaping more praise than is due for one of only a few instances where Republicans in Washington have stood up to liberals while on most other occasions they have been all too eager to bend the citizens of this nation over a barrel and have their way with us without even the courtesy to lube us up first.

You want me to be proud of the Republicans? Give me another twenty years of taking stands like this against pork and I will reconsider my position.

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