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.”