GOP: How Low Can They Go?

I can’t think of a more odious statement in political life than that uttered by Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said Monday that if Congress passes an emergency spending bill to help Missouri’s tornado victims, the extra money will have to be cut from somewhere else.

“If there is support for a supplemental, it would be accompanied by support for having pay-fors to that supplemental,” Mr. Cantor, Virginia Republican, told reporters at the Capitol. The term “pay-fors” is used by lawmakers to signal cuts or tax increases used to pay for new spending.  thinkprogress.org/2011/05/24/cantor-disaster-relief

You shouldn’t have to think about this for more than a second to realize how cold, callous, greedy and manipulative this statement is. Down in Joplin, Missouri, people have been devastated and Mr. Cantor is right there on Monday morning ready to score points with the Republican wealthy donor class making sure they will not pay one more cent in taxes.

This is the same Cantor who helped hold unemployment insurance hostage last December to get unpaid for tax cuts for the donor class. Now it is people devastated by natural disaster. And of course next month he will be heading the group that will hold the whole economy of the United States and possibly the world hostage over the debt ceiling.

It is long past time to say “ENOUGH” to these tactics.

I can’t imagine anyone could get any lower than this. One of the roles our government plays is to step in during the time of natural disaster to help put things back in order. This is done for many reasons, not the least of which is to keep things like disease from spreading.
 
Let us not forget that Republicans bankrupted the country under Reagan, Bush I and especially George W. Bush’s insane fiscal policies.
 
It is time for sanity and responsibility to be restored to our government. This government was not established to make rich people richer as it does under Republican rule.
 
As for me, I will be going to Eric Cantor’s website and let him know what I think and will also contact my congressman to let him know.

Republicans are on a roll, aren’t they? Cutting aid in time of disaster, trying to end Medicare, trying to end Social Security, union busting, denigrating public workers, standing in the way of meaningful legislation to avoid another economic collapse, using the unemployed as pawns, and of course the insane trickle-down economics that has turned our economy upside down. This is only a very partial list.

What a hell of a record to run on. If I was them, I would lie every time I opened my mouth too.