So I have been delaying posting on here for a while now. I have about a dozen articles saved in “my favorites” but I have kept on waiting for the perfect topic or the perfect idea. I have since realized that the perfect commentary will not just happen out of nowhere especially since this is my first one. I did however find this commentary by CNN’s Jack Cafferty to be entertaining and laughable all at the same time.
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And so as Cafferty put it “Where to start?"
"Bobby Jindal: "I'm certainly not nearly as good of a speaker as Obama." Good OF a speaker? How about not as good at eighth-grade grammar either. It's embarrassing.
Sarah Palin? Billing the taxpayers for her kids to travel to official events the children weren't even invited to? She finally agreed to pay back the state for that money she took.
Her per diem charges to the state in the amount of $17,000 while she was living at home instead of in the governor's mansion? She has now agreed to pay the taxes owed on that money. Another tawdry grab at a few dollars that didn't belong to her.”
Is this a joke Mr. Cafferty. Are you seriously trying to point out which parties participants look more stupid? This is a complete dead end and is completely pointless. I could name several tax evaders who are friends of our dear President if you really want to go down that route. But the broader more important aspect of this is that all Mr. Cafferty has done is prove he can’t look beyond the farce that our politicians set up for the American people to banter about which party is right or wrong. While we all sit here arguing about Sarah Palin’s per diem issues and Timothy Gietner’s inability to use Turbo Tax our government officials continue to rob our country blind and laugh at us the entire time their doing it.
But let’s continue shall we…..
Cafferty.......
“Michael Steele, the newly elected chairman of the Republican National Committee, down on his knees apologizing to the helium-filled poster boy of the conservative right? Pathetic.
If the Republicans are ever to emerge from the long dark night they have created for themselves it will have to be without pandering to the right wing nuts that comprise Rush Limbaugh's radio audience. Didn't they learn anything in the last election?”
Now I’ll be the first to admit Rush Limbaugh is not my favorite radio show host but he is exactly that, a radio show host. When an individual listens to his show there is no question who he is and what he represents. There is no pretending to be some unbiased news commentator he clearly presents himself as a conservative talk show host. “helium filled poster boy of the conservative right?” You might be right Mr. Cafferty but to categorize the millions of people who listen to him as “right wing nuts” only demonstrates your own intolerance and ignorance. There are reasons why conservative talk radio is successful and liberal talk radio is not.
Cafferty continues...
“All of which is to say the GOP is blowing it big time. They were handed a golden opportunity to redeem themselves with the election of Barack Obama -- a chance to line up and in unison condemn the evil their party put in the White House the previous eight years.
The country had had a bellyful of George Bush, Dick Cheney, and the rest of the messengers of darkness in Washington who had sold out the principles of the Republican Party in favor of huge deficits, a doubling of the national debt, and a growing intrusion of the federal government into people's private lives.
But instead of getting on board the change train and recognizing the incredible amount of damage their people had done to the country, Republicans go blithely along as though nothing has happened. They're busy obstructing Obama's programs and criticizing the Democrats' spending plans that are aimed at trying to bring the country out of a horrible recession.
I hate to break it to them, but a lot has happened. And they're not going to like any of it.”
Let me see if I understand that last part correctly. Republicans were supposed to line up behind President Obama as an opportunity for redemption? Redemption from what? As Mr. Cafferty clearly points out the Bush administration sold out on their principles which is true. Now the Republican Party is supposed to follow their lead and sell out their principles by blindly following “the change train”? Thankfully there are still politicians in Washington willing to stand up when things are not going as they should be. That is our democratic systems Mr. Cafferty, debating and standing up for issues that are believed to be wrong for whatever reason and from whatever side. To suggest otherwise in my opinion is completely un-American. Mr. Cafferty is right on one thing though, a lot has happened and there is very little to like about it.
And now the grand finale
“And while all this is going on, the GOP ran a straw poll on who the party's nominee should be for president in 2012. Ready?
Mitt Romney finished first followed by Bobby Jindal, Ron Paul and Sarah Palin.
The Republican Party is marching double-time down the road to irrelevance and they don't even know it.”
Here is a news flash for you Mr. Cafferty. In case you have missed the last couple of years of economic news our economy is in the toilet. Actually let me re-phrase that, the toilet has been flushed and the economy is now in the septic tank. Of all of the candidates in the last presidential election the one candidate who was best equipped to handle economic issues was and is Mitt Romney. In my personal opinion if the economic issues had occurred earlier in the campaign we would have had a different Republican nominee and probably a different President. The economy was McCain’s downfall and unfortunately the Republican party is seeing the mistake too late. I can probably with some surety make one more statement also; Romney, at the very least, would have been able to handle Turbo Tax.
