Cruzification of the GOP
By Dana Milbank, WashPost, Friday, October 11, 7:00 PM
When a poll came out this week showing that the government shutdown was putting Republican Mike Coffman in danger of losing his Colorado congressional seat, the lawmaker responded with the serenity of martyrs through the ages.
“Whatever the consequences of doing what’s right,” he told a Denver TV station, “I’m willing to take those consequences.”
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
Skeptics warned from the start that it was a suicide mission for Republicans to shut down the federal government in a long-shot attempt to defund Obamacare. Now that such dire predictions have come to pass, the lawmakers who engineered the shutdown are getting the conflagration — and the martyrdom — they sought.
Call it the Cruzifiction of the GOP.
(More here.)
When a poll came out this week showing that the government shutdown was putting Republican Mike Coffman in danger of losing his Colorado congressional seat, the lawmaker responded with the serenity of martyrs through the ages.
“Whatever the consequences of doing what’s right,” he told a Denver TV station, “I’m willing to take those consequences.”
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
Skeptics warned from the start that it was a suicide mission for Republicans to shut down the federal government in a long-shot attempt to defund Obamacare. Now that such dire predictions have come to pass, the lawmakers who engineered the shutdown are getting the conflagration — and the martyrdom — they sought.
Call it the Cruzifiction of the GOP.
(More here.)
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So Michigan's Third District primary voters will have a choice ... libertarian Justin Amash who questions military spending, opposes NSA blanket data collection program, and embraces the rare concept that politicians should tell the truth ... not be trying to score points ... like when the House found it necessary to reaffirm the motto "In God We Trust", Justin Amash said :
The fear that unless “In God We Trust” is displayed throughout the government, Americans will somehow lose their faith in God, is a dim view of the profound religious convictions many citizens have. The faith that inspired many of the Founders of this country—the faith I practice—is stronger than that. Trying to score political points with unnecessary resolutions should not be Congress’s priority.
Worse yet, Representative Amash had the gall to complain about Republican bills like the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2011, saying This bill, which should be called the Debt Creation Act, will substantially add to America’s unsustainable debt problem.
Versus Brian Ellis ... the president of Brooktree Capital Management.
The "sin" that Justin Amash committed ... failing to join the other Republicans in pushing the expansion of the Keystone pipeline.
Ellis wrote an OpEd advocating for Keystone without mentioning that Representative Amash's vote had no effect on the outcome. Representative Amash's objection was not in the concept of the project but that it was essentially an "earmark" as it only benefited one company - TransCanada.
Give me the honesty of Justin Amash rather than the blather of Corporate spokesmen.
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