Gregg and Republican principles

According to E. Thomas McCalanahan at the Kansas City Star, via McClatchy, the Repugnican nogoodnik senator, Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, commented to the Wall Street Journal that the Republican Party is "rediscovering its principles," and "is beginning to speak in one voice on its traditional issues," and "a Republican comeback might come sooner than many expect."


Dream on, Gregg.

What "principles"? What "issues"? Aha! Want a good laugh? Listen to this: Republican principles include "fiscal responsibility"? Yup. That's what he said. Oh, and the Repugnicans want the American people to "go out and create a better life for themselves," and his one other issue was that Republicans don't think we should apologize for our nation.


Jesus H. Christ! This guy's a senator. This is the asshat Obama tried to use in a bipartisan maneuver by putting him in the cabinet.

First of all, we know the Repugnicans want nothing to do with fiscal responsibility! That's code for allowing their corporate bosses to make as much money as possible while keeping the hoi polloi in their place. It's code for lowering the tax rate on the top one percent of our population. It's code for spending gazillions on the military and not one penny on health care! It's crabbing about a bailout but never bothering to mention it was their lousy Repugnican Party that tossed over a trillion bucks away on an illegal and nonsensical war in Iraq.

Secondly, we know the Repugnicans, no longer how loudly they proclaim their faith, do not really believe in limited government. That's also a code word for allowing them to impose their will on all of the American people, while denying the rights of the minorities in our land.

So, it's perfectly OK for a Republican "big" government to ban abortion and same-sex marriage, to establish faith-based offices in contravention of the Constitution, to turn the military into a Christian evangelical missionary organization, to appoint crusty old farts to our federal courts because they will uphold "traditional values," to be racist so long as you're quiet about it, to allow developers and corporations to have full access to the national resources which belong to the people, etc., etc.

No, the Repugs aren't against big government at all. So long as they're in control, the bigger government and more oppressive the government, the better!


And don't you love the bit about not apologizing for our nation? To the contrary! As a nation, we should put on sackcloth and ashes and beg the forgiveness of the world for electing the two stooges, Bush and Cheney, to our highest offices. Who the hell does Gregg think we are as a nation - some special place, created and blessed by his deity that can do no wrong?

We have a lot to apologize for. We need to apologize first of all to the American people for electing assholes made a mess of the vision for our country as set out in our founding documents. And, as noted, we need to apologize to the world for our bizarre, jingoistic and imperialistic behavior.

To apologize is not, Mr. Gregg, a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength. That's something the Repugnican Party as a whole has never understood!


Go back to New Hampshire, Mr. Gregg. Serve out your time with your mouth shut. Because when you open it and speak, you sound stupid.

Fortunately a slight majority of the American people are smart enough to see through your so-called "principles," and gave you a big thumbs down in November. The only thing that has changed since then is that the Repugnican Party has become even more entrenched in stupidity, racism, hatred, idiocy, fiscal irresponsibility, and is draped in the flag of failure.

That isn't going to change anytime soon because you're marching in the wrong direction to the wrong drummer, Mr. Gregg.