Nationally, Republicans are a Joke

I'm a bit of a news junkie, so I've been following the politcal scene somewhat closely, and I have to vent about something that bothers me with Republicans right now. Flip-flopping. When Bush and the Republicans were in power, they spent money like drunken sailors. The national debt inflated higher than it's ever been, the size and invasiveness of the government increased to unprecedented levels, and yet they continued to slash taxes to keep people complacent. Now that they've been given a good drubbing in the last election, suddenly they're all reformed and talking about how Obama is spending too much money and how raising taxes is going to kill the economy.

First it was with the stimulus bill. After all the years of deficit spending that Bush did, you'd think that they'd be fine with more of the same thing, especially since it makes sense to do it during a recession. Instead they whined and dug in their heels and acted like children. They gutted the bill and now there's concern that it won't be large enough. If the stimulus package doesn't work as intended, don't blame Obama, blame the Republicans in congress.

Now the new fun thing to complain about is health care reform. It's hard to deny that we need a serious overhaul of the health care system, but many Republicans are again making it difficult to get things done. Admittedly, the Democrats' plan isn't perfect, and I'm not saying that we should let the Dems have free reign over policy, especially with Nancy Pelosi pushing an agenda that leans extremely far to the left, but I'd much rather see some unity on a plan that's not perfect, than see puerile Republican congressmen feeding America these lies that they're concerned about spending too much money under a guise of being "loyal opposition."

In short, "Tax and Spend" Democrats are better than "Cut and Spend" Republicans.