Republicans admit it: We really are big hypocrites
Republicans are contorting themselves to accept Trump’s non-Republican ideas.
Click here for reuse options!Trump cheerfully urinated all over an idea that tea partyers have long held aloft as one of their most sacred founding principles. “Sometimes you have to prime the pump,” Trump told Time Magazine, explaining why he wants a big infrastructure spending package — the sort of Keynesian economic spending policy that tea partyers regularly denounced as a dire threat to the republic throughout the Obama years.
As Time put it, Trump “has little patience for the organizing principle of the Tea Party: the idea that the federal government must live within its means and lower its debts.”
Today Politico reports that some congressional Republicans are suddenly deciding that this alleged organizing principle isn’t so hallowed, after all. Politico quotes multiple Republicans either embracing Trump’s infrastructure spending idea in principle or going through laughable contortions to avoid directly denouncing it. One comes out squarely for a “federal commitment” to spending on “world-class infrastructure.” Another actually uses the dreaded s-word — stimulus — arguing that it would “make sense” to “examine” how to do some projects “through a stimulus and infrastructure package.”
…It should be noted that many Republicans did support a highway spending package at the end of last year. But now, Republicans are privately conceding that the underlying Keynesian principle that they may well accept under Trump is basically the same one many condemned under Obama — as a dire threat to transform the country into something no longer recognizably American.
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6 responses to Republicans admit it: We really are big hypocrites
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mea_mark December 9th, 2016 at 11:32
They just want credit for making things better. Can’t let the other party get all the credit, they must be sabotaged. Politics in America is about hurting Americans on the other side now. Time to get rid of both parties if they are going to put themselves first, over the people.
Larry Schmitt December 9th, 2016 at 11:53
His infrastructure package doesn’t involve government spending. It involves corporations building projects they can make a profit from. That means toll roads, toll bridges, for profit schools, etc. That doesn’t help the country, it helps shareholders of those companies. It doesn’t build new water and sewage treatment plants, which a lot of cities desperately need. Because there’s no profit to be made from those.
cogitoergodavesum December 10th, 2016 at 14:37
If he stiffs those corporations the way he stiffed his own contractors, it’s a win!
Larry Schmitt December 10th, 2016 at 14:42
The builders will pay for the projects, but since they’re toll roads, etc., they get their money, plus profits, over time. There are no public facilities involved. No public schools, water treatment plants, things like that.
Red Mann December 9th, 2016 at 17:24
At the same time the Repubs were dissing Obama’s plans, they had their hands out for the money. Can you say f*cking hypocrites?
amersham1046 December 9th, 2016 at 17:36
Obama’s last command should be–
Jade Helm 15, this is not a drill