President Obama is a master politician/orator/leader, but he has one thing working for him which can not be underestimated. The ability of the Republican party to destroy their own interests day in and day out.
Jindal's rebuttal last night should lead to his name becoming a catch all definition for ambitious pols who ruin themselves on the national stage. I believe Michael Steel will be forced to give the next rebuttal to Obama, because no other Republican will have the cajones to follow President Obama on the national stage. Why should they Jindal themselves?
Well today brings the latest example of loud mouthed Republican hoo haw, followed by the news of the day proving their shameless hypocrisy on the subject at hand. To wit: Whilst loudly braying for an across the board spending freeze to prove their newfound fiscal conservatism, it turns out that Senate Republicans are directly responsible for a 10% increase in funding for Senate staff!
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Talk about cognitive dissonance! Today's Republican party stands for GOP leadership welfare, while the rest of the nation should have to live by their anti stimulitive initiatves.
The reason that Republicans have for increasing the funding for Senate staff doesn't make much sense either. Prior to the last election the Senate was split nearly 50/50. Now Democrats hold more seats, while Republicans, obviously, hold less... but Republicans somehow think they should be entitled to the same amount of staffing as when the Senate was evenly divided.
No wonder this nation has such a massive deficit following the past eight years of Republican stewardship. Their math is all wrong! Remember in the dark days of the Bush administration when we would be up in arms... How many times did you think to yourself, 'black is white, up is down'? Senate Republicans are bound and determined to carry on this cherished tradition of spendy fantasy thinking when it comes to their own interests, while insisting the rest of the nation take a hair cut to pay for it.
We can only thank our lucky stars that President Obama has been blessed with such inept opposition.