July 03, 2009 08:52 PM UTC

Republicans Smear FASTER, Try To Score Political Points

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• by: redstateblues

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Colorado Independent reports:

The spring’s tea party chants are being updated to oppose the state’s new car fees. The expression is important for the emotion and general impressionistic anti-government feelings it conveys. It doesn’t have to make any sense. “Governor Ritter hates my car!” “We won’t pay taxes or fees!” “Down with the nanny state!” “Especially if the state doesn’t employ someone to remind us in advance when our registration is due so we can avoid the nanny state fees!”

This isn’t that hard to understand:

1)The state is in the hole $348 million.

2)Our roads and bridges are falling apart.

3)We were 49th in stimulus spending.

I am not a fan of Governor Ritter, but he came up with a plan that doesn’t suck. If left to decay, our current transportation infrastructure could not only become more expensive to fix, but much worse, could become dangerous to drive on. The Republicans don’t have any ideas other than “cut spending”. They are afraid to make the hard choices–not only with this issue, but with nearly every other controversial issue that our state faces.

That doesn’t mean Republicans aren’t smart to try to use this against Democrats, but will their thinly veiled, illogical, and downright anti-Government rhetoric work on a state that voted overwhelmingly Democratic last year? We’ll see if it ends up working in 2010.