Hats off
There’s at least one real Republican left out there:
Sen. Jim Bunning, formerly of the Philadelphia Phillies and now of Kentucky, receives special attention around here because he was the first U.S. senator to find fault with the housing bill that is dominated by tax breaks for home-builders. Today Bunning explained his objections to the bill in detail. Excerpts:
“This is an unusually bad bill, and I have opposed it from the start. The course it has followed almost guarantees that it will be filled with the worst kind of gimmickry. And it is. The Senate may be the world’s greatest deliberative body, but this bill is anything but the product of deliberation. It is a jumble of disjointed ideas, unlikely to solve the crisis at hand, and it’s unpopular.
“It turns out that the American people don’t like the idea of bailing out banks and their neighbors who gambled on home prices. The voters understand what is going on in Washington, better than we do…”
Anybody who doesn’t see this scam by now for the usual raw cash-and-power grab it so patently is is either blind, stupid, or lying.
One Repub vote against in the Senate, 25 in the House. I think we can safely say that the Statist Party is now firmly and fully in charge.
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Has been, off and on, since 1913. Only thing left to do is laugh at the sheer absurdity of it all.