Of course, we can all agree with Mahoney that it is widely hypocritical of Republicans to disparage anyone over spending after they have jetted across the country and lived the high life, all while slapping their donors in the face:
"The scandal represents a pattern of unaccountable and irresponsible mishaps that ought to unnerve every fiscal conservative," Mahoney wrote in his resignation letter, which was released to the Union Leader newspaper. "Overspending on private planes, limousines, remodeling, catered parties and high-priced junkets demonstrates a complete lack of respect for RNC donors; a lack of respect that spelled out all too clearly in a leaked Power Point presentation that mocked our Committee's own donors."
"Not only has the out-of-touch, free-spending culture of Washington come to completely dominate the United States Congress, but I have watched with growing unease as the same mentality has seeped into our own national party," Mahoney wrote.
"Today our party leaders point fingers and lament out of control spending -- the billions in additional bailouts, a trillion in so-called stimulus spending, a trillion in ObamaCare spending, but they fail to acknowledge that Republicans are part of the problem," Mahoney added. "Republicans got this ball rolling."
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"Seeped" into your own party Mr. Mahoney?? That flood gate was opened long ago with the robber-barons that Progressives first began to unite against at the turn of the last century. There has been no "seeping" of corruption and hypocrisy into the Republican Party it has been a tsunami that has wrought destruction and disaster upon the America we all share. You must give credit where it is due though, finally a Republican tells the truth about something. "Republicans got this ball rolling".
Indeed they did. Whether running up deficits with tax cuts for the rich, or raping American workers for a nickel they indeed did get this ball rolling and the whole last century was filled with Democratic Presidents trying desperately to clean up the messes of failed Republican administrations. That trend has "seeped" into the brave new world of the 21st century with history repeating itself.
After the failed Bush wars that cost over a trillion dollars as well as thousands of American lives, American prestige and American morale and the massive de-regulation brought about by a culture of uncaring corruption and economics that refused to trickle down we find ourselves cleaning up after the only group of "patriots" that ever got a tax cut during "wartime". We find ourselves fighting against those very people to not only clean up the mess they made, but haggling over every red cent spent to invest in our own people because the greediest and least patriotic could care less about their country as long as they can whip up the mindless tea-bag masses to protect those very tax cuts at the behest of 98% of America.
Ah, but alas Mr. Mahoney may not be such a caped crusader in the dark for the rescue of the Republican soul. Yes, as always with these modern Republicans there seems to be something else involved in this decision. You see, Mr. Mahoney may very well just be trying to yet again trick those tea-bag masses into thinking he is taking some kind of stand for fiscal responsibility. Why?? Well, just read on:
Mahoney, publisher of a business magazine in New Hampshire, may have an ulterior motive for resigning. He is seen as a likely candidate to challenge Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D) in New Hampshire's 1st congressional district. In order to run for office, Mahoney would have to resign from the RNC. But he told the Union Leader's John DiStaso that any talk of a candidacy is "premature right now" and that his resignation from the RNC should be viewed only as a protest of the RNC's spending practices.
So for now lets just all agree that the corrupt Republican plot thickens.
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