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February 17, 2009 08:22 PM UTC

Mesa GOP abandon 'principles'--Everyone else is doing it.

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  • by: ClubTwitty

(We don’t not want the money – promoted by redstateblues)

In what it admits was a futile publicity stunt to further highlight its irrelevancy in the changing political dynamics of the state, this past Saturday Mesa County Republicans rallied against the stimulus bill.

Local Republicans rallied on the steps of the old county courthouse Saturday morning, in an admittedly futile gesture, to ask that President Barack Obama veto his own economic stimulus package.

Mesa County Commissioner Janet Rowland said whatever little amount the bill will help the Western Slope, it pales in comparison to the debt future generations will have to bear.

“I’m offended that anyone in Congress would say we as Americans are fine, (that) we don’t have no problems with the pork,” she told a crowd of more than 60 local Republicans.

Leaving aside for a moment Commissioner Rowland’s confusing use of the double negative (is she really saying she supports the stimulus…?), sixty republicans at a rally in Mesa County…that’s like any day at the pudding bar at the Golden Corral, not too impressive.

Commissioners Rowland and Meis are two G-O-Peas in a pod when it comes to standing up for certain principles. Such as demanding that the Commission pray to Jesus (and Jesus only) at the start of each public meeting.  

But when it comes to the difference of taking a government hand-out versus political grandstanding, well here they gladly take it both ways.

Local Republicans vehemently have opposed the president’s stimulus plan, however, county leaders who have vocally protested the plan said they still plan to accept Mesa County’s slice of the billions in stimulus package funds that will flow to Colorado.

Mesa County Commissioner Craig Meis said prior to Bennet’s speech he wishes he could stand on principle and eschew the federal money, but that would not be good for the county.

“I’d love to make a stand on behalf of Mesa County citizens … but it would hurt them in the process from a financial standpoint,” Meis said, adding, “If we don’t get (the stimulus dollars) they just give them to someone else.”

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20 thoughts on “Mesa GOP abandon ‘principles’–Everyone else is doing it.”

  1. Sixty republicans at a rally in Mesa County…that’s like any day at the pudding bar at the Golden Corral

    I also don’t understand how these officials can accept this money if they’re so opposed to it.

    “I’d love to make a stand on behalf of Mesa County citizens … but it would hurt them in the process from a financial standpoint,”

    Uh, you mean sort of like not passing the stimulus would hurt us financially? Thanks for playing.

        3. The pragmatic City Council (not liked at all by the local Republican leadership) was trying to solve problems when it put forward its stimulus request.

          Look at the history of Colorado Springs and you will find very few Council members who go on to higher political office – pragmatic governing does not sit well with ideological neocons.

  2. And when you say this:

    But when it comes to the difference of taking a government hand-out versus political grandstanding, well here they gladly take it both ways.

    Are you saying something about the Mesa County Commissioners taking it both ways?  Does the base know this?

  4. and we all know it’s ridiculous.

    But I wonder, did any of us turn down the Bush tax cuts of 2001?  Dems in the House and Senate railed against the package, 33 in the Senate voted against it, 154 in the House, but when April 15th rolled around I’m guessing none of them turned down the benefits.  They called it unfair, irresponsible, a waste, even just plain dumb…kind of like repubs are doing now…but did anyone send a check to the IRS for the taxes they would have owed if the $1.6T package hadn’t passed?

    No, it’s not exactly the same thing…but while we have fun making fun of hypocrites this time around, let’s not act like hypocrisy is a republican-only  pastime.  

    1. I’m trying to come up with the appropriate analogy. How about this one?

      Suppose you work at a restaurant. They deduct $2 everyday from your paycheck to pay for a lunch. It’s a nice lunch, well worth the $2 (they charge customers $4 for the same lunch), but you’d rather bring your own sack lunch, which would cost you $1 to make. You complain to mgt, to no avail.

      Wouldn’t you eat the lunch that you’re already paying for?

      2. The Mesa County Commissioners will accept any handout that comes their way.

        They might try to bullshit the local paper, whose reporter on the County beat is easy to bullshit, but they’ll take the money.

        And they’ll bitch about it all the way to the bank.

        Call it hypocrisy if you must.  I call it “predictable.”

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