We here at R-Cubed read the spin and digest it so you don’t have to.
Take this op-ed by Republican consultant and Gubernatorial confidant Chuck Coughlin. To sum up his take on the budget fiasco: it is the system’s fault (I’m trying to imagine Coughlin, Che Guevara t-shirt and birkenstocks, with his fist in the air stickin’ it to THE MAN) and the fault of Democratic members (who are of course, obliged to help the governor out with her budget plans because…well…because!).
Oh yeah, it’s also the fault of Lyndon Johnson for pushing the Voting Rights Act. I don’t know, it’s in there.
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What a tool.
Your pals broke the budget, they should be obligated to fix it.
Good old, rational Chuck. This is the guy who was Gov. Fife Symington’s personal hatchet man. He is personally responsible for helping to create the financial mess that we are now in. He conveniently forgets to mention that.
As usual, he speaks out of both sides of his mouth. He blasts clean elections and minority districts for the election of extremist members of the legislature and then blasts Moderate Republican Sen. Allen who stands firmly in the middle. I guess it’s easy to get confused when you’re a hired gun who can’t keep track of all the special interests you represent. It must be easy to lose track of what side hired you to fling the BS.
Dick:
He is personally responsible for helping to create the financial mess that we are now in.
As I will never get done reminding people, the other person very responsible for it is Jan Brewer, who as the majority whip in the Senate helped shepherd through the Symington tax cuts in the mid-1990′s.
I guess we should count ourselves lucky that the recently-resigned majority whip is such an isolated, ineffective ideologue, who can only be counted on to deliver one vote, her own.
The more things change the more they remain the same.