Just When I Thought the News Cycle was Slow

along comes some Republican actions that deserve comment.

1st, to Mitt Romney's credit he tried to hire a foreign policy advisor that worked in the Bush II administration and happened to be gay.  Now that person has had to resign because the social conservatives could not stand a gay individual having a prominent position in the GOP campaign because they might advance gay rights.  Are "All people created equal" or not?  Apparently, social conservatives in the GOP do not believe in The Declaration of Independence.

2nd, the GOP PAC's are trying to SWIFT Boat President Obama by saying he is overstating his case on the killing of Osama Bin Ladan.  Fortunately, it has been well documented that the President overruled both the Secretary of Defense and the VP to order the raid.  If the raid had been a disaster for the U.S., there is no doubt that failure would have been a call by the GOP to take over national defense in this election because the President was directly responsible for the failure of the mission.  The GOP cannot have it both ways.  Democratic success must be buried and only failure promoted.

Then I found a commentary saying the President's policies have not improved the economy.  Wait, the stock market is near 2007 levels.  Interest rates are low.  Something like 50% of the fiscal stimulus was in the form of tax cuts.  What would the GOP have done?  Spend 100% of the fiscal stimulus on tax cuts.  That would not have been as effective because I know I would have simply saved more money (and not spent it) because that is what I did with the tax cut I did get.  Every other high earner would have done likewise.  Fiscal stimulus requires spending.

Of course, these are the guys that have so successfully ruined John Kerry's military record that a Google search cannot give you any sign of what is true.  These are also the people who believe that you can balance the budget by cutting entitlements and not raising revenue.  These are the people who believe Health Insurance Exchanges amount to a government takeover of health care.  These are the people who believe that CO2 does not raise the earth's temperature.  In fact, these are the people who seem to believe that only they have an ownership of truth and everything else is false.

One can only hope the voters see through this in sufficient numbers.